Ferlinghetti

American  

[fur-ling-get-ee] / ˌfɜr lɪŋˈgɛt i /

noun

1. Lawrence, 1919–2021, U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.

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Ferlinghetti British  

/ fɜːlɪŋˈɡɛtɪ /

noun

1. Lawrence . born 1919, US poet of the Beat Generation. His poetry includes the collections Pictures of the Gone World (1955) and When I Look at Pictures (1990)

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Example Sentences

It reminds me most of a Ferlinghetti line from a poem: “We have despair to spare.”

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025

But it received a caustic review in The San Francisco Chronicle by Lawrence Ferling — better known afterward by his family’s original name, Ferlinghetti, which he resumed in the mid-1950s.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

You go to City Lights bookstore in San Francisco and see the legacy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet who co-founded the place in 1953 and lived to be 101.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2022

Mirikitani, a third-generation Japanese American, was named San Francisco’s poet laureate in 2000, succeeding Beat legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who became the city’s first poet laureate in 1998.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

“The person Gary and I looked up to most was Lawrence Ferlinghetti. When we opened this bookshop, we fancied ourselves like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin when they started City Lights.”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman