Readings by Saundra Mathews-Deacon
from the poetry series "Earbook"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Mar. 24, 1919 - Feb. 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies. He has received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times’ Robert Kirsch Award, the BABRA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the ACLU’s Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award.
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Executive producer: Christine Miller;
directed by Warren J. Deacon; edited by Paul Jarvis.
