I Am Waiting

A fast-paced poem in the vein of the Beat movement, it focuses on change in the United States and the ongoing development and changes in the culture. Originally published in A Coney Island of the Mind

I Am Waiting

A fast-paced poem in the vein of the Beat movement, it focuses on change in the United States and the ongoing development and changes in the culture. Originally published in A Coney Island of the Mind

Reading: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 19, 1974, as part of the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference: “City Lights in North Dakota,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads a selection of his work. Ferlinghetti reads the poems “The World is a Beautiful Place,” “Sarollas Women in Their Picture Hats,” “In Golden Gate Park That Day,” “See It Was Like This When,” “The Pennycandystore Beyond the El,” “Don’t Let That Horse Eat That Violin,” “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See,” “Dove Sta Amore,” “Come Lie With Me and Be My Love,” “True Confessional,” “Mock Confessional,” “The Astonished Heart,” “In a Time of Revolution For Instance,” “Fugitive Configurations,” “Poem for Old Walt,” “Alaska Pipe Dream,” “Las Vegas Tilt,” “Baseball Canto,” “An Elegy on the Death of Kenneth Patchen,” and “Pound at Spoleto.” Ferlinghetti also reads from The Illustrated Wilfred Funk

Friday Open Microphone Session

Audiovisual recording of the Friday Open Microphone Session from the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference, which took place on March 22, 1974. In this footage, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti discuss various topics, including subsistence farming, agri-business, environmental issues, the drug trade and its political impact, as well as strip-mining, particularly in reference to western North Dakota. In addition, Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads Neruda in Spanish