Ferlinghetti

[ fur-ling-get-ee ]

noun

1. Lawrence, 1919–2021, U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.

Ferlinghetti

/ fɜːlɪŋˈɡɛtɪ /

noun

1. FerlinghettiLawrence1919MUSWRITING: poet Lawrence . born 1919, US poet of the Beat Generation. His poetry includes the collections Pictures of the Gone World (1955) and When I Look at Pictures (1990)

Example Sentences

Neeli Cherkovski, a prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled the literary ethos of bohemian culture in biographies of Beat Generation writers, including his friends Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, died on March 19 in San Francisco.

From New York Times

At the cafe, and at his nearby apartment, Mr. Cherkovski hung out with Mr. Ferlinghetti, a poet and the owner of City Lights, and with other Beat writers, among them Harold Norse, Bob Kaufman and Gregory Corso — “vagabond souls,” as he once called them.

From New York Times

Poet and City Lights co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died two years ago, received the inaugural Literarian prize in 2005.

From Seattle Times

The activist ethos extends to Ferlinghetti’s hand-painted signs, which hang throughout the store.

From Los Angeles Times

Yamazaki, too, has played a major part in reinvigorating City Lights, building on the mission Ferlinghetti established decades ago to make the store, as Yamazaki said, “a beacon of critical thought and the best of contemporary literature. … What we’re trying to do is bring more people into the full awareness of how deep and rich culture is.”

From Los Angeles Times