Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the founder of City Lights Publishing Co. and City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. He is a guiding voice of the “Beat Generation.” A few of his many books include Starting from San Francisco, Her, and Coney Island of the Mind. He attended UNC Chapel Hill, loves Wolfe and Sandburg, and now returns to North Carolina in this special issue.
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Welsh Review Michael Harper Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Keith Flynn Eugenio Montale Emmanuel Moses Ron Rash Jack Hirschman Al Maginnes Dede Wilson Bill Knott Lee Ann Brown Jonathan Williams Rene Char Jonathan Greene Robert Creeley Robert Bly Gaylord Brewer Quincy Troupe Hungarian Thomas P. Feeny Russian Spanish Janice Moore Fuller Emöke Z. B’Racz J. W. Bonner Patrick Bizzaro Marilyn Hacker Kathryn Stripling Byer Simon Perchik Sally Buckner Patricia Smith Essay Jeffery Beam R. T. Smith Thomas Rain Crowe Ryan G. Van Cleave Luke Hankins Lyn Lifshin Newton Smith Marilyn Kallet Phebe Davidson William Matthews