Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights

For our first episode, we thought it might be fitting to hear from our founder. Lawrence Ferlinghetti read a series of his thoughts from Poetry As Insurgent Art on October 24, 2007. Enjoy!

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February 12th, 2009 in Beat Generation, Literature, Poetry

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