Celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, and publisher of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco died on 22 February 2021 at age 101. 

In April 2022 area poets met at Canios Books in Sag Harbor to read from Ferlinghetti’s work. 

The readers were Fred Gardaphe,  Distinguished Professor of English and Italian/American Studies at Queens College and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.

George Wallace,  Writer-in-Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace;

and adjunct professor of English at Pace University.

Mary Mart, bookseller at Good Times Bookshop in Port Jefferson

Bart Malio, Poet, musician and author of the forthcoming poetry collection Out on the Rim of the Now.

Heidi Rain, writer, artist, and community activist

and

Tom Oleszczuk, Poet and community activist

 

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More about Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 

Writing as a spiritual practice

 

We present 4 writers discussing writing as a spiritual practice, a presentation; of Canios Cultural Café.

 

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The complete discussion will be available here 

Celebrating Ireland

East Enders met to celebrate Ireland on March 19 at Canios Cultural Cafe.

 

Songs were sung, poems and stories read and all had a great time. 

Heard was ex New York City bar-keep and singer Peter Walsh.

Sigrid Meinel read Death Transfigured our Separation by John Donahue.

Actor Kate Mueth of the group Neo-Political Cowgirls read from

Rosemary Mahoney’s  "Whoredom in Kimmage The Private Lives of Irish Women”

 Finally Sag Harbor’s Terry Sullivan led the gathering in Gaelic song.

Here are some excerpts as broadcast

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The complete recording is here