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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies.…
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culture · American poet (1919–2021) · military officer · poet · translator · publisher · painter · journalist · peace activist · writer · activist shareholder · playwright · also Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Feilingedi, Lawrence Ferling, L. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, Lawence Monsanto Ferling
Born 24 March 1919 · Died 22 February 2021 · Q314269
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2025· 1 entry
The New York Times: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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2021· 9 entries
CNN: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, celebrated Beat poet and publisher, dies aged 101
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People: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrated Poet, Dies at 101: 'Our Poet and Hero'
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UPI: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and publisher, dies at 101
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New York Daily News: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat poet charged with obscenity for printing Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl,’ dies at 101
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Yahoo: Poet and Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Has Died. Here Are 7 Essential Books He Wrote or Published.
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Yahoo: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights founder and champion of the Beat Generation, dead at 101
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The New York Times: The Last Word: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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At his home in San Francisco, a month before his 102nd birthday
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Died 2021-02-22.
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2020· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Painter and Poet
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2017· 1 entry
At the XIV edition of the Premio di Arti Letterarie Metropoli di Torino in Turin
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize (2012).
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Ferlinghetti was awarded the inaugural Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian PEN Club
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Ferlinghetti collaborated with lithographer and abstract artist James Claussen
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2011· 1 entry
Ferlinghetti contributed two of his poems to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, Song of the Third World War and Old Italians Dying inspired by the artists of the exhibition Lawrence Ferlingh
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2008· 1 entry
Ferlinghetti was awarded the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry
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2007· 1 entry
Was named Commandeur, French Order of Arts and Letters
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2003· 2 entries
Won Robert Frost Medal (2003).
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Was awarded the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal, the Author's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded James Madison Freedom of Information Award (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
In his inaugural address as Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Ferlinghetti urged San Franciscans to vote to remove a portion of the earthquake-damaged Central Freeway and replace it with a boulevard: "What destroys the poe
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1987· 1 entry
Was the initiator of the transformation of Jack Kerouac Alley, located at the side of his shop
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1973· 1 entry
And thereafter was awarded the Premio Camaiore, the Premio Flaiano, the Premio Cavour, among other honors in Italy
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1968· 1 entry
Ferlinghetti signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay his Federal income tax as a protest against the Vietnam War
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1967· 1 entry
Was a featured presenter at the Gathering of the tribes "Human Be-In", which drew tens of thousands of people and launched what would become known as San Francisco's "Summer of Love"
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1957· 1 entry
Where Ferlinghetti was charged with publishing an obscene work—and acquitted
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1955· 1 entry
Ferlinghetti bought Martin's share and established a publishing house with the same name
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1951· 2 entries
Ferlinghetti met the poet Kenneth Rexroth, whose concepts of philosophical anarchism influenced his political development
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And founded City Lights in North Beach in 1953, in partnership with Peter D
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1937· 2 entries
Studied at Northfield Mount Hermon School (1937).
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Then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a B
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-03-24.
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