Ferlinghetti, the Beat Generation, and City Lights

Tiff Reagan
6 min readJan 25, 2019

When most people hear Beat Generation, a few big names rise to the surface of their brains. Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso.

But one name sometimes gets buried behind the scenes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

If you ask him, Ferlinghetti says that he was never a Beat poet. Yet that was the world in which he immersed himself, as a publisher, a writer, a performer…

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Tiff Reagan

Author of Be Happy, B*tch. Tiff is a storyteller, a poet and a public servant. She loves summer in Oregon, her dog Roosevelt and the smell of old books.