Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti - City Lights that Are Never Dimmed, Tbilisi International Festival of Literature, 2021

Recording session with Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading poems from Pictures of the Gone World with American composer and musician David Amram - courtesy of Bob Holman.

A video by Gvantsa Nadibaidze and Nuka Gambashidze, and also featuring Patta Shamuglia.

Watch here (19:54): Link to Facebook

ვიდეო მომზადდა საქართველოში აშშ-ის საელჩოს მხარდაჭერით.

This video was created with the support of the US Embassy Tbilisi, Georgia, with Neeli Cherkovski and Bob Holman.

Reading at Page Hall, Albany, NY, 1997

Recording courtesy of Chris Funkhouser

Complete recording (1:06:37): MP3

1. Introduction (8:08): MP3
2. A Buddha in the woodpile (4:15): MP3
3. Away above a harborful (2:13): MP3
4. The world is a beautiful place (3:50): MP3
5. Richard Yates' tombstone inscription (2:05): MP3
6. In Goya's great scenes we seem to see (1:57): MP3
7. Sometime during eternity (3:11): MP3
8. Coney Island of the mind 9 (0:54): MP3
9. Don't let that horse (0:52): MP3
10. The pennycandy store beyond the el (1:09): MP3
11. Dove sta amore (0:44): MP3
12. Come lie with me and be my love (0:54): MP3
13. Wild dreams of a new beginning (3:05): MP3
14. Lost parents (2:47): MP3
15. Two scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a mercedes (2:13): MP3
16. San Jose symphony reception (1:50): MP3
17. Over all the obscene boundaries (5:18): MP3
18. Late impressionist dream (2:07): MP3
19. Poems from a far rockaway of the heart (4:22): MP3

Word of Mouth Series, Chicago, April 4, 1986

• Produced by and courtesy of George Drury and Lois Baum for WFMT, Loyola University
• Complete Reading (39:50): MP3

1. Retired ballerinas, Central Park west(1:35): MP3
2. Ferlinghetti discusses Camille Pissarro (1:41): MP3
3. Returning to Paris with Pissarro (1:31): MP3
4. He with the beating wings (2:20): MP3
5. At the Gare Bruxelles-Midi(2:44): MP3
6. Two Amsterdams (2:43): MP3
7. The living theater (2:21): MP3
8. A photo of Emily (4:48): MP3
9. John Lennon in the Porto Santo Stefano (1:48): MP3
10. Mouth of truth (4:20): MP3
11. Canti Romani
• Canti Romani, 1 (1:38): MP3
• Canti Romani, 2 (2:12): MP3
• Canti Romani, 3 (0:52): MP3
• Canti Romani, 4 (1:19): MP3
• Canti Romani, 5-8 (2:26): MP3
• Canti Romani, 9 (0:57): MP3
• Canti Romani, 10 (0:48): MP3
• Canti Romani, 11 (0:32): MP3
• Canti Romani, 12 (2:03): MP3

Reading Selections from his Poetry, AI of Chicago, April 4, 1986

Complete Recording (39:50): MP3

Watershed Tape - Into the Deeper Pools

Side 1: Bethesda, MD, Febuary 1984, Side 2: Baltimore, MD, April 1983

Side One

1. Introduction, a dedication (1:15): MP3
2. Tall Tale of the Tall Cowboy (3:54): MP3
3. The world is a beautiful place... (2:03): MP3
4. In a Time of Revolution for Instance (3:37): MP3
5. Lost Parents (2:00): MP3
6. Two Scavengers In a Truck, Two Beautifual People in a Mercedes (1:50): MP3
7. San Jose Symphony Reception (1:19): MP3
8. See it was like this when... (0:42): MP3
9. Underwear (3:32): MP3
10. Into the Deeper Pools... (3:05): MP3
11. A Meeting of Eyes in Mexico (1:09): MP3
12. Come Lie with Me and Be My Love (0:37): MP3
13. Returning to Paris with Pissarro (1:45): MP3
14. Florence, A Lifetime Later (1:02): MP3

Side Two

15. Baseball Canto (2:37): MP3
16. Pound at Spoleto (3:25): MP3
17. Dog (2:24): MP3
18. The Billboard Painters (2:10): MP3
19. In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see... (1:31): MP3
20. How Clear Your Voice from Belgrade (1:52): MP3
21. Ristorante Victoria, Milano (1:47): MP3
22. Paris, Looking Back (2:52): MP3
23. The Ethics and Semiotics of Poetry: An Unfinished Essay (9:01): MP3

• Both Sides (55:39): MP3
• Contents list from Cassette: PDF

No Escape Except Peace, published 1981 by S-Press as tape #72

Side A:
Taken from Kenneth Rexroth / Lawrence Ferlinghetti With The Cellar Jazz Quintet Poetry Readings In The Cellar (Fantasy Record 7002) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tentative Description Of A Dinner To Promote The Impeachment Of President Eisenhower And Other Poems (Fantasy Record 7004)

1. Autobiography (10:40): MP3
2. Dog (3:08): MP3
3. Junkman's Obligato (8:10): MP3
4. Love Comes Harder To The Aged (1:30): MP3
5. Overpopulation (5:28): MP3
6. Tentative Description Of A Dinner Given To Promote The Impeachment Of President Eisenhower (7:45): MP3

Complete Recording: (36:41) MP3

Side B:
Recorded on October 9th/10th 1981, at Düsseldorf (GER)

7. Populist Manifesto (transl. to German by W. Mohrhenn)
8. The Gunfather. Tall Tale Of The Tall Cowboy
9. Expressionist History Of German Expressionism
10. White On White
11. The World Is A Beautiful Place (Read by Walter Höllerer, transl. to German by A. Schmitz

Complete Recording: (28:37) MP3

Recording from Tyrannus Nix?, 1970

Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow (8:04): MP3

Readings, 1969

• Digitized by Joel Kuszai / The Factory School
• Assassination Raga (11:32): MP3
• Big Sur Sun Sutra (4:16): MP3
• Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow (7:78): MP3
• Tyrannus Nix (27:33): MP3

Richard Moore USA: Poetry Documentary with Allen Ginsberg, 1966

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Berkeley Poetry Conference Reading, July 1965

Complete Recording (4:28): MP3

Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with The Cellar Jazz Quintet — Poetry Readings In The Cellar, Fantasy Records, 1957

1. Autobiography (11:29): MP3
2. Statue of St. Francis (2:10): MP3

S Press Recordings (lower quality)

1. Autobiography (10:40): MP3
2. Statue of St. Francis (02:02): MP3
3. Junkman's Obligato (08:10): MP3

From the Herschel Baron Collection, dates unknown

• With Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg (40:43): MP3
• Solo Recording (54:55): MP3

Other Recordings, Date(s) Unknown

• Baseball Canto (2:32): MP3
• From the Berkson Tapes: San Francisco Poets, Evergreen Review: Ferlinghetti, Miles, Duncan, and Spicer (25:22): MP3

© 2018 Lawrence Ferlinghetti. These sound recordings available for non-commercial and educational use only. Distributed with permission by PennSound.