Moonstone Presents:
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Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
March 28, 2021 @ 2:00 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09
Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102
Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
On February 22, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. In the 1950s, Ferlinghetti’s San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the center of the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti published many of the writers whose goal was to “write in an authentic, unfettered style.” Ferlinghetti was arrested for obscenity for publishing Howl by Allen Ginsburg in 1956, but Judge Clayton Horn decided that the poem was of “redeeming social importance”.
Join us in remembering Ferlinghetti and the Beat Movement
“I have a personal connection with Ferlinghetti. While I never met him, he influenced my life. A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) was the first poetry book that reached me, at the age of 16 my friends and I sat around reading it aloud to each other. His fight against censorship also influenced me. When Tropic of Cancer was published by Grove Press in 1961, Robin’s Book Store was the test case in Pennsylvania. While Ferlinghetti won his case, we lost. Another Tropic of Cancer case made it to the Supreme Court which permitted sales in the United States.” – Larry Robin
Not All contributors Will Be Reading:
Joseph Bathanti
Joan Bauer
Ken Been
R. Bremner
Maryrose Carroll
Greg Colburn
Terry Dugan
Oliver Egger
Marie-Louise Eyres
Francis Flavin
Joan Huffman
Jones Irwin
Irving Jones
Chris Kaiser
Leonard Kress
Jim LaVilla-Havelin
Jim McDade
Richard Paul
Joan Penn
Kenneth Pobo
John Polier
Larry Robin
Ari Robinson
George Schaefer
Linda Simone
Bob Small
Diana Tenes
Kelley White
Samantha Wright
Robert Zaller
