poetry

Ferlinghetti Day: Readers honor famous SF poet with annual walk
More than five years after Lawrence Ferlinghetti's death, readers and admirers gathered across San Francisco to honor the author, poet and founder of City Lights Books, who was long known as a defender of free speech.
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Poet Amanda Gorman says she was tailed by guard who thought of her as 'threat'
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