Mar 26 2026
“My music is built in—it’s already natural. I don’t play with the meter.” – Gregory Corso Born on March 26, 1930, Gregory Corso emerged from one of the most chaotic childhoods in modern American literary biography to become a central poet of the Beat Generation. He never followed the expected route into literary life. There …
Mar 24 2026
Lawrence Ferlinghetti did more than write poems. He built places where poetry could happen. As a poet, publisher, bookseller, painter, translator, activist, and indefatigable advocate for free expression, he helped transform San Francisco into one of the great literary centers of postwar America. City Lights became simultaneously a bookstore, a publishing house, a gathering place, …
