Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

male, 90 years old
From San Francisco, Beat Generation, CityLightsBookstore, publishing company, beat poet, United States Navy officer…City Lights Books
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and...
Peter Orlovsky

Peter Orlovsky

male, 76 years old
from New York City, Pocket Poets Series, CityLightsBookstore, City Lights Pocket Poets Series, Thank god I have an innocent eye for nature, City Lights
Peter Orlovsky (born July 8 1933 on the Lower East Side, New York City) is an American poet best known for being the lover of Beat Generation poet...
Janine Pommy Vega

Janine Pommy Vega

female, 67 years old
poet, lake titicaca, Beat Generation, Beat writer, American, pen…City Lights, City Lights Pocket Poets Series, CityLightsBookstore
Janine Pommy Vega (born February 5, 1942) is an American poet associated with the Beats. Vega grew up in Union City, New Jersey. At the age of...
Stew Albert

Stew Albert

male, deceased (2006)
Liver cancer death, Chicago Seven, new york stock exchange, pace university, Exorcism, tunisia…CityLightsBookstore
Steward Edward Albert was a co-founder of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War political activist, and an important figure in the New Left movement of...
Dick McBride

Dick McBride

male, 81 years old
poet, Beat Generation, Beat writer, American, CityLightsBookstore, beat poet
Dick McBride (b.1928) is a beat poet and novelist. Born in Indiana he moved to San Francisco where he worked as the store manager at the City...
David Daniels

David Daniels

male, 76 years old
poet, The Gates of Paradise, years, CityLightsBookstore, humans, New
The visual poet David Daniels was born in Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey, on October 11, 1933. He has been making words out of pictures...
Antler

Antler

male, 63 years old
University of Iowa, last words, Iowa Writers' Workshop, environmentalism, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumni, factory…CityLightsBookstore
Antler (born 1946, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA) is an American poet who lives in Wisconsin. His work reflects the influences of Walt Whitman, Allen...

Semezdin Mehmedinović

male, 49 years old
writer, washington post, dani, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina…City Lights, CityLightsBookstore
Semezdin Mehmedinović is Bosnian writer born in Kiseljak, located near Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1960. After studying Librarianship and C...