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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrated Poet, Dies at 101: 'Our Poet and Hero'

Lawrence Ferlinghetti died of interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco, according to his children Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...
SFGate

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's indelible image

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was in his early 30s when he wrote a poem of hope and innocence about a penny candy store in New York and the magic to be found in jellybeans and licorice sticks, about the ...
The Washington Post

Ferlinghetti's City Lights, Still A Beacon at 50

SAN -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti is sitting in the back of one of the old hangouts, Caffe Trieste, when he is cornered by a waifish young man with a British accent who cannot believe his luck. The tourist ...
Los Angeles Times

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco. Unlike Beat novelist Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg, he ...
KQED

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Lesser-Known Identity as a Painter on Display at Triton Museum

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Ferlinghetti speaks out at 99, his voice as vital as ever

Lawrence Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights 65 years ago, in 1953. “I’m there in spirit all the time,” he says of the beloved, world-famous bookstore on Columbus Avenue in North Beach. How about in ...
Rolling Stone

‘I Never Was a Beat Poet’: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Musical Vision

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died last month just 30 days shy of his 102nd birthday, lived a life of fascinating contradictions. From a Dickensian childhood — his father died before he was born, and his ...
The New York Times

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101

An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights. By Jesse McKinley Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a poet, ...
Yahoo

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrated Poet, Dies at 101: 'Our Poet and Hero'

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the famed poet who was placed on trial in the 1950s for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl, died Monday evening at age 101. City Lights Booksellers, the bookstore Ferlinghetti ...
Yahoo

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet and Publisher, Dies at 101

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and bookseller whose San Francisco store City Light Books was the nexus of the Beat movement in the 1950s and ’60s, died Monday at age 101. Ferlinghetti died of lung ...