A selective bibliography of open access articles, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
"A Far Rockaway of the Heart." Lawrence Ferlinghetti's speech as poet laureate of San Francisco. Whole Earth, Summer, 1999
Issues and questions for readers of Ferlinghetti's's poetry, from Heath guides
The web site for Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore contains a Ferlinghetti page, which includes a biography and his "Poetry as News" column from The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
San Francisco has changed a lot in the last 50 years, but Lawrence Ferlinghetti's corner bookstore is still the coolest room in town, Mother Jones, July-August, 2003 by Dennis McNally
The Disappearing Underground, In Dissent, Winter 2004 by Bromwich, David
Article on the 50th Anniversary of Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore, from the San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 2003
A list of primary and selected secondary works for Ferlinghetti, from Professor Paul Reuben's bibliography web site
A very brief introduction to Lawrence Ferlinghetti from the Academy of American Poets
The history of Circle magazine, an experimental San Francisco publication started in 1944
A site from the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics contains audio files of lectures given at Naropa by Beat writers. The Naropa Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 3500 recordings made at Naropa since 1974
Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)
Details on the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Professor Larry Smith's timeline for the Beats which puts Beat events in the context of cultural history
Book Collecting: Beat Literature, article by a book collector, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at The New York Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period. Courtesy of Granary Books (now blocked)
"A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980." Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The NY Public Library, featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by writers and artists of the period. Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NYPL (removed)
1998-2008 by Donna Jan Pridmore