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Ferlinghetti paints well, too - The San Francisco Examiner

Ferlinghetti paints well, too
The San Francisco Examiner
SAN FRANCISCO — His preference for the language of poetic imagery over literal description gives Lawrence Ferlinghetti's writings the power to take readers ...


Kerouac & friends on the road again - True/Slant

Kerouac & friends on the road again
True/Slant
Friends and fans of Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Waits, Michael McClure — plus all the rest of you Beat Generation buffs — will be glad to know ...


Vesuvio mixes history with the drinks and coffee - The San Francisco Examiner

Vesuvio mixes history with the drinks and coffee
The San Francisco Examiner
... starts his shift at this famous bar, which has seen the likes of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums at its stools. ...


Dave Eggers has outgrown his critics - guardian.co.uk

guardian.co.uk

Dave Eggers has outgrown his critics
guardian.co.uk
The inaugural award went to the then-octogenarian poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who co-founded the San Francisco bookstore City Lights and won a ...

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The End of Kerouac's Road - The Portland Mercury

The Portland Mercury

The End of Kerouac's Road
The Portland Mercury
In 1960, he escaped New York to hide out at Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon on the California coast; there, he wrote Big Sur, his darkest, ...


On Poetry: Readers of poetry could be losers in retailers' price war - Norwich Bulletin

On Poetry: Readers of poetry could be losers in retailers' price war
Norwich Bulletin
City Lights Books of San Francisco, the company started by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and James Laughlin's New Directions, two of the most dedicated poetry ...


'The Beat Goes On' hits Charleston - Daily Eastern News

'The Beat Goes On' hits Charleston
Daily Eastern News
The literary selections include works by Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman; and the combo will ...


The Beats celebrate the 50th anniversary of BEATITUDE - Examiner.com

Examiner.com

The Beats celebrate the 50th anniversary of BEATITUDE
Examiner.com
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski, ruth weiss, and many others are ...


The Moth storytelling series comes to Chicago - Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Moth storytelling series comes to Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Moth began in New York City 12 years ago, a kind of campfire-granny-frames-Ira-Glass-Lawrence-Ferlinghetti-ish literary answer to open-mic nights, ...

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Exploratorium activates awe at 40 - San Francisco Chronicle

Exploratorium activates awe at 40
San Francisco Chronicle
The list sounds like a who's who of cutting-edge art making: Philip Glass, Muriel Rukeyser, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, Pamela Z. The ...

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