In spring of 1997, Nancy Peters the remarkable publisher at City Lights Books, called with the sad news that Allen Ginsberg had died. It was hard to imagine the world without him. Allen and I were allied as poets and pacifists over decades of reasons to rally. The world knew…

Fortune has its cookies to give out………….A Coney Island of the Mind — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Lawrence Ferlinghetti My ongoing push and pull of art and money had me brainstorming business ideas over Chinese food. At Hong Fat’ sometime in…

Revenge Killings 50 Years Apart On October 16 2020, the BBC warned listeners the next story depicts gore and shame. As he was leaving school a junior high teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded by a teenage Islamist terrorist. On February 1, 1971, the city of Philadelphia went into…