Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 1919 - 2021
Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti ignites in me a reminder that poets typically lead cultural change, serve as pioneering voices that might awaken an emerging zeitgeist, Rex Weyler writes. Photo by Cmichel67 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) On Monday, Feb. 22, American poet, publisher and innovative bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti died from lung disease at the age of 101. In the summer of 1977, Ferlinghetti joined the crew of the Greenpeace ship during the whale campaign, and he wrote a historic poem in the ship's dreambook. Ferlinghetti was born in New York in 1919, earned a B.A. in jou...
Source: nationalobserver.com