Copies of the great #AllenGinsberg poem #Howl were seized by #UnitedStatesCustoms on #ThisDayInHistory in 1957, and #LawrenceFerlinghetti and #ShigeyoshiMurao of #CityLightsBooks were charged with obscenity. They were later acquitted and continued publishing #BeatGeneration work.
Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti (source) - AbeBooks.com entry (jpg). Cropped and minor color correction in PhotoShop, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80296195
Today in #LaborHistory 3/25/1957: US #Customs seized copies of #AllenGinsberg #poem #Howl for #obscenity for explicit references to #homosexuality. #LawrenceFerlinghetti, publisher, also arrested.
#lgbtq #citylights #censorship #bannedbooks #books #writer #author #poet
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Happy birthday to one of the great beat poets and #indiebookstore owners of our time, #LawrenceFerlinghetti, born on this day (March 24) in 1919.
Ferlinghetti in 1965, with graying beard and mustache, balding, smiling. By Elsa Dorfman - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100259368
Today in #LaborHistory 3/24/1919: #Poet #LawrenceFerlinghetti was born. Wrote “A Coney Island of the Mind” (1958). Cofounded #CityLights #bookstore, #SanFrancisco. Arrested for publishing Howl, by #AllenGinsberg. Supported #anarchism & #IWW.
"Your life is your poetry. If you have no heart, you'll write heartless poetry."
#LawrenceFerlinghetti was #BOTD in 1919 in Yonkers, NY. Influential American poet, painter, and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore. A central figure in the Beat movement. #Poetry
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lawren...
✒ Remembering American Beat Generation poet and publisher #LawrenceFerlinghetti, #BOTD 24 March 1919. #Poetry
#OTD #TDIH #March24, 1919: #HBD #LawrenceFerlinghetti! #Poets #Painters #Activists #Translators #ArtCritics #Narrators #Bookshopkeepers #PoetrySky
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#OTD #TDIH #March24, 1919: #HBD #LawrenceFerlinghetti! #Poets #Painters #Activists #Translators #ArtCritics #Narrators #Bookshopkeepers #PoetrySky
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#OTD #TDIH #March24, 1919: #HBD #LawrenceFerlinghetti! #Poets #Painters #Activists #Translators #ArtCritics #Narrators #Bookshopkeepers #PoetrySky
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poema 26
[de «Un Coney Island mental» 1958]
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#LawrenceFerlinghetti #EscritoresMalditos
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), American poet, painter and social activist
Died #otd Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), American poet, painter and social activist, 5 years ago today #LawrenceFerlinghetti life story...
"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lawren...
✒️ Remembering #LawrenceFerlinghetti, American Beat poet ("Coney Island of the Mind"), painter, and publisher, who passed away #OTD 22 February 2021, aged 101. #Poetry #Literature
A top-down, high-angle shot shows a broadside poem titled "A WORLD AWASH WITH FASCISM & FEAR" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, dated San Francisco, 19 January 1971. The poem is printed in black ink on a large, rectangular sheet of off-white paper, which has horizontal and vertical fold lines. The title is printed in a large, red, all-caps serif font at the top. The poem’s text is arranged in four columns. The author's name and the date are printed in the lower right corner. The broadside is centered on a medium-toned red oak table with a visible grain. Above the poem, a small, shallow ceramic bowl filled with dried, dark red flower petals sits on the table. The lighting is even, casting soft shadows.
📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026)
Faded Blooms and Living Fears
My spouse ran across this 1971 Ferlinghetti broadside she'd saved for posterity. There’s a haunting weight to seeing it. The years pass, but the warnings stay the same.
#PoetrySky #LawrenceFerlinghetti #History #Ephemera
Thoughts on the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in conversation with Marin Sorescu
Read an interview with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-beat-generation
#writingcommunity #interviews #AllenGinsberg #LawrenceFerlinghetti #MarinSorescu
This poem, Pity the Nation, I think captures this nation, the USA, very well.
#Poetry #LawrenceFerlinghetti
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"Pity the Nation" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Kahlil Gibran) Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced. and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with force and by torture. Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own and no other culture but its own. Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed. Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away. My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty. Copyright © 2007: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Pity the Nation" #LawrenceFerlinghetti 2007
City Lights books San Francisco
Pity the nation Lawrence Ferlinghetti
City Lights bookstore with the poem “Pity The Nation” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and its warning against tyranny displayed for all to see.
#LawrenceFerlinghetti
#PityTheNation
#CityLights
#Poetry
#Poem
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#Bookstore
#Bookshop
#Books
#SanFrancisco
#California
City Lights gets ready for the coming invasion with banners and protest #poetry by their founder #lawrenceferlinghetti
Love Portland inflatables, Boston’s crowds, and LA and Chicago’s conviction, but one thing I know for sure is that #SanFrancisco can put on a show and knows how to protest
Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti (source) - AbeBooks.com entry (jpg). Cropped and minor color correction in PhotoShop, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80296195
Today in #LaborHistory 10/3/1957: #California Superior Court ruled that Howl and Other Poems, by #AllenGinsberg, was not obscene. References to drugs & homosexuality provoked #obscenity charges. City Lights bookstore owner #LawrenceFerlinghetti & manager Shig Murao, were arrested for obscenity
"To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist – if you say you are, you probably aren’t."
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Ferlinghetti #LawrenceFerlinghetti
70th Anniversary 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 10 August 1955, the legendary #SanFrancisco independent bookseller and publisher #CityLights published its first book: the #poetry collection "Pictures of the Gone World" by co-founder and poet #LawrenceFerlinghetti.
"...and I am awaiting perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder."
#poetrysky #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylightsbookstore #beatpoetry
PITY THE NATION
By #LawrenceFerlinghetti
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airways
.
I am waiting for my case to come up / and I am waiting / for a rebirth of wonder
― #LawrenceFerlinghetti
#poetry #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #handcut #cutandpaste #papercollage #collagework #collagegallery #assemblageart #hummingbirds #blueskycollage #surrealcollage
CONSTANTLY RISKING ABSURDITY (#15)
By #LawrenceFerlinghetti
Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
- #LawrenceFerlinghetti, 'I Am Waiting'
