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The conference marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of ON THE ROAD and was nearly thirteen years after Jack passed away. #williamsburroughs #kerouacconference #naropauniversity #carlsolomon #jackkerouac #peterorlovsky #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #robertfrank #carlsolomon #ontheroad #lawrenceferlinghetti #gregorycorso #bouldercolorado #ontheroad (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgcw9PdPHYk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) #lawrenceferlinghetti #beatgeneration #poetry #poet #poete #painter #peintre #peinture #socialactivism #socialactivist #usa #newyork #sanfrancisco #citylightsbooksellersandpublishers #aconeyislandofthemind #allenginsberg #jackkerouac #beatpoetry #lawrencemonsantoferlinghetti #yonkers #philosophicalanarchist #philosophicalanarchism #humanbein #fuckartletsdance #writer #ecrivain https://www.instagram.com/p/CLpuHvHhguL/?igshid=u2a66ot4448s

"Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti #LawrenceFerlinghetti #poetry #poem #poet #artist #art #beat #beatpoet #activist #essayist #tension (at Jersey City, New Jersey)

Happy 97 to #lawrenceferlinghetti poet, publisher and activist @citylightsbooks #citylightsbookstore #HOWL #beatgeneration #plaidwasthere #jcrtplaid

George Whitman, Allen Ginsberg , & Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Shakespeare and Co bookstore, Paris, December 1982. George and Lawrence met eachother while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1948, & became lifelong friends. Both opened stores within a few short years. George the Mistral in Paris in 1951 (which became the Shakespeare & CO) and in 1953 Lawrence with City Lights in San Francisco (along with Peter Martin) (Photo: Steven Taylor, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

George Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, & Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Shakespeare and Co bookstore, Paris, December 1982. George and Lawrence met each other while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1948, & became lifelong friends. Both opened stores within a few short years. George the Mistral in Paris in 1951 (which became the Shakespeare & CO) and in 1953 Lawrence with City Lights in San Francisco (along with Peter Martin) (Photo: Steven Taylor, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

The first celebrated reading of “Howl”, Part I only, at 6 Gallery, October 7, 1955, wasn’t taped,  so Prof. Tom Parkinson, member of Rexroth’s old Buddhist anarchist circle, organized another reading at Berkeley’s little Town Hall Theater festooned with Chinese ink brush orgy drawings by Robert LaVigne-- a couple hundred people crowded in, a mixture of artists from San Francisco, poetry aficionados, friends of Robert Duncan, ladies from the Potrero District, North Beach Bohemians, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cassady, Ann charters, and an amazing group of poets on stage including Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, with Kenneth Rexroth as Master of Ceremonies. Five months after the 6 Gallery reading I’d finished Parts II and III of “Howl”. This added a huge dimension, extending the power of the poem into the Moloch section and beyond. And this was the first time I’d read “Howl” all the way through aloud, beginning to end, as well as “Sunflower Sutra”, “A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley” and “America,” further experiments with the long breath’d verse line.

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