Ferlinghetti poems gathered for his hundredth birthday
MAR 19 2019
Optic Nerve assembled a cluster of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems from its archives to mark the poet's hundredth birthday. Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights on Columbus Avenue in 1953 and published Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems as Pocket Poets No. 4. He was still publishing and painting in his tenth decade.
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