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
