The Ferlinghetti Collection Opening Exhibit Celebration

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is known the world over as a poet, publisher, painter, activist, bookstore proprietor, and cultural icon. The San Francisco Historical Society is proud to announce a new exhibit in celebration of our local legend. Ferlinghetti | An exhibit in 6 vignettes, focuses on different aspects of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s life, shown from a new perspective—his own. The exhibit draws all of its material from his personal effects, his personal library, his paintings, and other unique artifacts from his life and times.

Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into “Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day.”