Posts Tagged ‘poets’

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021

February 26, 2021

I Am Waiting” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958. Read by Abu B. Rafique.

“Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an acclaimed poet and longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame and helped establish the city as a center of literary and cultural revolution, died Feb. 22 at his home in San Francisco. He was 101.”

— “Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101,” Emma Brown, Washington Post

More:

“Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small Press Publisher, Dies At 101,” Tom Virtale, NPR

“Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101,” Jesse McKinley, New York Times

City Lights Booksellers and Publishers website

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Philip Levine, 1928 — 2015

February 23, 2015

Philip Levine, then U.S. Poet Laureate, reading “What Work Is” at the AFL-CIO on Nov. 15, 2011.

“Philip Levine, a Poet of Grit, Sweat and Labor, Dies at 87,” Margalit Fox, New York Times

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Sunday: Literary Hill BookFest 2014

May 3, 2014

Sunday: Literary Hill BookFest 2014

Literary Hill BookFest
Sunday, May 4, 2014
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Eastern Market, North Hall
7th Street & North Carolina Avenue SE
Capitol Hill, Washington DC 20003

If you’re in DC and like to read, stop by Eastern Market this Sunday and meet local authors and poets: Brett L. Abrams, Jonathan Bardzik, Louis Bayard, Elizabeth Becker, Simeon BookerMike Canning, Jack Colhoun, Pete Daniel, Christopher Datta, John DeFerrari, Tom Dunkel, Alison Fortier, Frederic J. Frommer, Stephen H. Grant, Mary Z. Gray, Patricia Gray, Lovey Marie Guillory, Lucinda Janke, Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, Anu Keene, Katy Kelly, Tim Krepp, Jonathan Lewis, Myrina McCullough, Diana McLellan, John Muller, Jean Nordhaus, Garrett Peck, Quintin Peterson, Frank Pietrucha, Robert Pohl, Gina Sangster, Canden Schwantes, Paris Singer, Benjamin Soskis, Janine K. Spendlove, Cathy Travis, Bill Walsh, Gene Weingarten, and John R. Wennersten.

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