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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Reading List
Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.
What Is Poetry?: A Non-Lecture
Lawrence Ferlinghetti delivered this ars poetica in 2003, upon receipt of the Frost Medal.
Harshing the Internet Poet’s Mellow
Instagram poet Collin Andrew Yost got trounced online, but his experience offers a lesson in how to cultivate empathy.
Poets Talk to Poets about the Border Wall
In this roundtable, poets from around this world discuss the role borders play in their lives.
The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
The Wandering Years
Thoughts, observations, and reflections from the travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The Wandering Years
Thoughts, observations, and reflections from the travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The College Syllabi That Shaped ‘The Waste Land’
Indeed, the famous eclecticism of “The Waste Land,” which incorporates quotations from multiple languages and literatures, can be seen as a tribute to the educational philosophy that governed Harvard during Eliot’s time there… Yet as Crawford shows in the impressively researched Young Eliot, the “melange of topics” that Eliot explored in college “mightily enriched his poetry.” […]