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Read our Art of Poetry interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti in our current issue.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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City Lights Bookstore<\/p><\/div>\n

I hear the party at City Lights Books before I see it. The Beats, and their twenty-first-century torchbearers, are neither quiet nor sober. The bookstore is celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u2019s hundredth birthday in an event open to all of San Francisco. A man with shoulder-length gray hair sits cross-legged on Columbus Avenue drinking Squirt and reading Mark Twain to himself. People step around him. Men with glasses sport boots that will never be polished. The air is thick with a blend of smoke from cigarettes and joints\u2014there are no e-cigarettes, no vape pens in sight.<\/p>\n

Poet Guillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a tells the assembled crowd that the hijos y nietos<\/em> de<\/em> Ferlinghetti<\/em> have gathered to celebrate his century-old cumplea\u00f1os<\/em>. The artist recounts first meeting Ferlinghetti, who was wearing huaraches and a bolo tie, in Mexico City. \u201cIt was 1975, mas o menos<\/em>, and it was Mexico City, capital of the continental crisis,\u201d G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a says. In the following speeches we learn that Lawrence Ferlinghetti was everywhere: Nagasaki in \u201845, Havana in \u201859, Paris in May \u201868, and San Francisco before, during, and after. He stayed home on the first annual Ferlinghetti Day in San Francisco, but the streets filled in his honor.<\/p>\n

Tucked between the stacks in the fiction section a graying gentleman in round glasses drinks from a flask. A layer of dust covers his fedora and a thin book of poems peeks out from the pocket of his army-green jacket. He snaps his fingers as G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a reads: \u201cPoetry is news \/ from the frontiers of consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a rare crisp and sunny San Francisco afternoon and City Lights has brought the Beats back to North Beach. The celebration meanders. Inside, the audience crowds together as poets read favorite Ferlinghetti poems. The PA system crackles. The poets stand on the mezzanine level; the people wind among the stacks. The crowd bends their necks trying to see the poets\u2019 mouths move. The microphone fries Ishmael Reed\u2019s baritone as he reads from \u201cTentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower.\u201d <\/p>\n

News alerts buzz on phones: Mueller\u2019s report did not provide evidence of collusion between the Trump administration and Russia. The audience cheers and claps as Reed reads out the last lines of the poem. The spirit of the crowd is unwavering. These are not the types to accept a verdict from on high, or to renounce hope.<\/p>\n

Outside John Paul Carrabis II blows bubbles into the crowd gathered in Jack Kerouac Alley. He, too, has shoulder-length gray hair, and wears a Hawaiian-print shirt. One woman twirls among the bubbles, which pop on the back of my neck. The bubbles float out over a theater group midperformance. They play three selections from Ferlinghetti\u2019s \u201cRoutines,\u201d thirteen experimental plays written in 1955.<\/p>\n

I spot a few teenagers watching the performance. They are dressed head to toe in black, and as they watch the old folks hoot and howl, they try not to smile. The performance ends when the Greek-style chorus pelts the lead actor with balloons filled with fake blood. He keeps singing, holding a golden frame in front of his body. They exit through the crowd in twelve-tone chant. No one seeks harmony. Red liquid runs between the paving stones in the alleyway.<\/p>\n

Later, I find Richard Talavera, the man who organized the performance. The fake blood has dried hot pink on his button-down shirt. He tells me he wanted to perform all of the \u201cRoutines\u201d but time was short and money nonexistent. He had called around and put together a troupe of actors and musicians willing to work for free. In the spirit of Ferlinghetti, there was no audition. He points to a circle of women beside us, one by one. \u201cThat\u2019s my ex … That\u2019s my ex \u2026 That\u2019s my ex \u2026 That\u2019s my ex \u2026 and that\u2019s my sister,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Up Columbus, Carrabis blows bubbles at a Big B Bus driving by. \u201cHey, we have poetry here!\u201d The tourists on the upper deck don\u2019t wave back, but I imagine the weirdos of San Francisco make it onto someone\u2019s Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Lawrence] created the structure for poets to howl,\u201d Carrabis says to me. He performs the last word more than he says it: he tosses his head back and bellows as if imitating the call of a wolf to a full moon. He tells me how people would drink, write poems, and vomit with Charles Bukowski at Vesuvio Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

At two in the afternoon, the waitress at Vesuvio Caf\u00e9 balances cosmos and martinis on a plastic tray. The caf\u00e9 is a time capsule. Glasses break and poets shout from the balcony. Younger folks in stiff clothes peek out at the activity below. Cosmic Ronnie gives me his business card: an eight-and-a-half-by-eleven sheet of paper that advertises one-of-a-kind guided tours of Manhattan. Ronnie considers himself from Greenwich Village even though he grew up in Long Island. His whole family does transcendental meditation. \u201cTwice a day,\u201d he says and taps his wrist. \u201cWe never miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti has described today\u2019s San Francisco as \u201can artists\u2019 theme park without the artists,\u201d and I\u2019d wondered if this event would feel as manufactured as a theme-park ride. I thought his birthday party might spiral into a set of curated attractions designed to provoke nostalgia. Instead, I met the kooks who remembered North Beach before the kids and the dogs took over. They treated the streets with the same wild abandon they had before their hair turned gray.<\/p>\n

Read our Art of Poetry interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti in our current issue.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Nina Sparling is a writer and audio producer based in California. She\u2019s a master\u2019s candidate at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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