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...Ginsberg and his poem first vaulted to national attention two months ago when San Francisco police authorities arrested Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometime painter and poet, and bookshop proprietor on the North Beach. Ferlinghetti, who had published Ginsberg’s poem in his Pocket Poet series, was charged with dissemination of “obscene and indecent writings” and brought to trial under California’s newly valid Obscenity...
...Poetry Orgy on WHRB. Orgies are six-plus hour blocks of programming devoted to an artist or a theme, for those of you who don’t know. Frantically combing through the piles of CDs and LPs strewn across the floor, I hit gold: a CD of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and other Beat poets with the Cellar Jazz Quintet. I put on the CD and Kenneth Rexroth came on, angrily spitting out the words to “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Rexroth built up to the furious conclusion, damningly beating...
...Guthrie's notion of the topical folk song and made it his own, creating anthems that were the sound track to the early-'60s Civil Rights movement. Then he smartly ransacked the tropes of every hip lyricist from Bertolt Brecht to the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then adapted his righteous belligerence to the standard love song, upending it into airs of bitter, knowing rejection. When he tired of being the preeminent folkie, and the poster boy for political causes, he plugged himself in, merging the Beats with the beat, and immediately forced a rethinking of nearly...
...former San Francisco poet laureate and beat generation writer attracted an “overwhelming” crowd hoping to attend and hear him read poetry last night. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti received the New England Poetry Club’s (NEPC) annual Golden Rose prize and read his work to a packed Yenching Auditorium audience in an event co-sponsored by the NEPC and Harvard’s Signet Society. NEPC president Diana Der-Hovanessian called Ferlinghetti “a vital voice” and an “American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden...
...diverse works of artistic greats including Chopin, Auden, Euripedes, Dostoevsky, Sandburg, Kushner, Ferlinghetti and Shakespeare, the performers of Aftermath crafted an expressive evening of reflection and healing...