From Shelf-Awareness:
“To help Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder and co-owner of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, San Francisco, Calif., celebrate his 90th birthday on March 24, the store is asking customers and fans to share birthday greetings and wishes. Send them to this e-mail; the store will pass them on to the birthday boy and share some of them.”
Maybe something in verse?
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, dear Sir, or should I say Signor? I heard the BBC Radio 4 programme about you recently and was so proud to be a British San Franciscan!
Happy Birthday Ferlinghetti
“Coney Island…” changed my Life and my poetry.
Back in 1965, as a freshman in college, I was constantly in trouble for staying out late, reading your work aloud with my boyfriend, Dennis Frusciano. My brain still flashes and chirps whenever I read your words. Thanks for 24 years of neon.
Carole Herzog Johnston