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There may be no two personalities more distant and yet more prominent in their own ways in the 20th century world of free speech than conservative talk radioâs Rush Limbaugh and the owner of San Franciscoâs famed City Lights bookstore, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The universe does move in mysterious, and yet connected, ways.
Ferlinghetti, 101, died Feb. 22. Limbaugh, 70, died last week. Each pushed the boundaries of the nationâs social standards in a persistent drive to illuminate, criticize and correct societyâs faults and missteps â and they employed and enjoyed the First Amendmentâs protection of free speech and free press in those efforts.
February 25, 2021
As news and tributes to the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti pour in from across the social media and the internet, NDQ thought it would be appropriate to recognize Ferlinghetti’s influence on our little corner of the world.
A good start would be the contribution by James McKenzie to our 2017 issue celebrating the Thomas McGrath centennial. McKenzie was director of the University of North Dakota’s Writers Conference starting in 1997, and in this article, he recalls the arrival of the Beats on UND’s campus almost 25 years earlier, in 1974, and their interaction with one another and with Tom McGrath. The stories are charming and shows the real camaraderie that existed between Ferlinghetti, McGrath, and the other participants. You can read it here and if you like it, you can download the entire issue (
By John Maher | Feb 23, 2021
“If you would be a poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a man who would know, wrote in 2007, create works capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if it means sounding apocalyptic..”
For nearly the better part of seven decades, Ferlinghetti not only wrote such poems but sold them, from San Francisco s City Lights Booksellers, which he founded with Peter D. Martin in 1953, and published them, at City Lights Publishers, which he started in 1955. Martin left the business that year, but Ferlinghetti remained, mentoring generations of people of letters of all sorts along the way.
Still, even the greatest verses end: Ferlinghetti died on February 22 at his home in the Golden City, his bookstore confirmed; his daughter, Julie Sasser, told the