April is National Poetry Month, and CCS wants your help in honoring Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Submit video or audio of yourself reading a Ferlinghetti poem or one of the works he published, translated or inspired. CCS Professor Dr. Gioia Woods is one of the coordinators of the project. Learn more here.
Call for Participants
On February 22, 2021, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at age 101. As a public intellectual of enormous influence, Ferlinghetti’s impact on freedom of expression, avant garde poetry, critical literacy, and the politics of dissent cannot be overstated. He founded the iconic City Lights Bookstore and Press in the 1950s which continues to embody his resplendent radicalism. Ferlinghetti was a prolific writer, editor, and translator.
To honor his life and legacy and to celebrate what he loved most-the spoken word-the College of Arts & Letters and Cline Library have launched The Ferlinghetti Project, a public collection of community members reading from his work and the work he edited, published, and inspired.
For more information on Ferlinghetti’s life and work and to get access to his extensive body of poetry, go to Cline Library’s Lawrence Ferlinghetti site.
Questions? Contact project coordinators Gioia.Woods@nau.edu, John.Doherty@nau.edu, Kevin.Ketchner@nau.edu
