Iconic Beat Generation Bookseller & Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100

[@baebald1842]

You changed my life forever and you have left behind such an important legacy and space. Rest in peace, dear Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

[@HerAeolianHarp]

RIP. He died on the same day that Keats did 200 years ago. Hail poetry and literary freedom!

[@baebald1842]

Oh that is such a beautiful connection

[@angelmossucco]

Thank you for this interview.

[@infinitesand9397]

Ferlinghetti, 100 years of age .... a living relic. Poetry as Insurgent Art was quite a treat, one of my personal favorite pieces of poetry. I liked the minimalistic approach of the book.

[@fellowcitizen]

Happy 100th birthday LF! Happy 500,000 listeners DN!

[@gechunk]

neat, simple, timeless: the greatest poetry ambassador.

[@howardleekilby7390]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the Featured Poet at the Arkansas Celebration of the Arts in Poetry thanks to Suzanne and Dr. Paul Tucker, June and Gary Simmons, Bud Kenny and others. Lucinda and her father Miller Williams, and Shokan Tadashi Kondo illuminated the Festival. Afterwards, I emailed LF and asked how I could find Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He suggested we invite Robert Bly. I was hungry to meet Yevtushenko. Thanks to Dr. Tucker and Suzanne we’ve enjoyed a meeting Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Red Hawk, Rita Dove, and Arkansas poet Laureate Verna Lee Hinegardner. Bud Kenny and the Tucker family formed the Wednesday Night Poetry which is the longest running weekly poetry reading - without missing a single reading since February 1, 1989. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@feralLove]

His closing poem couldn't be more fitting for the times as it was when he wrote it! What a fascinating life he has led and he makes living to 88 look pretty darn good!! Glad he chose staying home and minding store over burning out like a supernova because he is a national treasure like his bookstore. HAPPY 100th my fellow aries!! ♈😁

[@vocopherpractice6789]

incredible and timeless . . .

[@catherinerodriguez4598]

He could be talking about yesterday or today. Wonderful interview. Thank you so much.

[@satpaulgoyal5879]

A genius who lived life from both ends, enshrined compassion he saw in Allen Ginsberg, shook American consciousness as did D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf to the European psyche.

[@lisasez]

HAPPY 101... 💯🧚🏻‍♀️⛈🎆🌠💜📝🎉🎊

[@jamesmullaney5841]

Happy 100th Birthday to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. City Lights Bookstore carried the poetry journal that my poem 'Vista, Queensboro Plaza, 2012' was published in in November 2014. The journal was called 'Out Of Our.'

[@sergiofalcone5783]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, un maestro.

[@shubhoroy8438]

Segments like this is why I subscribe and tune on to democracy now! Voices like Ferlinghetti are totally overlooked by the mainstream media, a legend of american life, american history.

[@ursalaminor8457]

“A hero is an outsider” -quote by Ferlinghetti

[@RichArtLove]

In Remembrance Of Remarkable Men...02/22/21 The Absolute Most. The Hippest, Most Solid Cat Of All. Hey Man, Like Peep That Most Crazy Gone Daddy-O Who's Like All The Way Gonesville, Sweetly Jiving With St.Peter, & Makin' That Fine Angelic Scene... It's Hard To Think Of A More Iconic Or Important San Francisco Cultural Figure Than Our Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This Man Was The Anchor Of All That Was Authentically Cool. Period.

[@RockinRichy]

Extraordinary man. Rest In Peace.

[@jonathansheehan3121]

National Treasure American Hero

[@thetruepoemproject3441]

They tried to silence him and the poets he supported. It what happens when cancel culture acquires the authority of government. This impulse can come from any side of the political spectrum. The struggle to express the truth of life continues because of his influence.

[@pohakumana]

This is kool, 1953 City Lights the year I was born, in San Franscisco. KPFA!!! Hell no we won't go! Yea weaned my anti-war belief from that time and place. Columbus/Broadway. Polo fields, GG Park, Filmore.

[@robanderson1470]

I often wondered as the world turned more sour if it were ever possible for the poets to come back and save it alas it has been the comedians who have done so hope they all write poetic prose one day like the advice of LF.

[@KerryLondon-gp1rz]

Patti Smith Brings Me Here 🇺🇸🚜🔧💥

[@simonrodriguez4685]

44:28 I’m deeply saddened to inform that DN! is actually losing it’s dissident spirit, has been for the last 5 years. But not because it’s no longer needed, but because of losing the beat and the edge... a lot of things have gone wrong, I don’t want to single out Nermeen, though she’s a big part, has Amy become softer?, her biases? We DN!’s friends should call for an intervention.

[@KerryLondon-gp1rz]

Jerry Kamstra Brings 🕊️📡⭐ Me 😎 Here 🗽💬💥

[@ursalaminor8457]

Thank you again impeccable Amy Goodman for your attention to the finest people and things and the worst human conditions. “..contains so many silences about so many horrors” -Ferlinghetti 75,000,000 math/truth/morality challenged U$ Citizen$ voted DRUMPF while Ferlinghetti recoiled to the far reaches of the mortal coil calling the 🦢 birds 🦅 🐦 of immortal words to celebrate his ascension from the bowels of this circumcised commodified corn 🌽 -fused conveyor belt colossus.

[@Johnconno]

Do you have any replacements for all these people dying of old age, from your golden age?

[@simonrodriguez4685]

42:13 Pity the people

[@KerryLondon-gp1rz]

Henri Lenoir Brings 🕊️📡💬 Me 😎 Here

[@fellowcitizen]

36:06

[@DSTH323]

Responsible in no small part for the misery and deaths of millions.