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City Lights Books & the Pocket Poets series (1953–1970)

City Lights Books & the Pocket Poets series (1953–1970)

  1. Peter D. Martin launches City Lights magazine

    Labels: Peter D, City Lights

  2. City Lights Bookstore opens as paperback-only shop

    Labels: City Lights, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  3. Ferlinghetti becomes sole owner of City Lights

    Labels: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Peter D

  4. Pocket Poets begins with Ferlinghetti’s debut volume

    Labels: Pocket Poets, Pictures of

  5. Six Gallery reading sparks push to publish “Howl”

    Labels: Six Gallery, Allen Ginsberg

  6. Ginsberg’s “Howl” appears as Pocket Poets No. 4

    Labels: Howl and, Pocket Poets

  7. Customs seizure and arrests trigger “Howl” obscenity case

    Labels: Customs seizure, obscenity arrests

  8. Judge rules “Howl” not obscene

    Labels: Judge Clayton, Howl ruling

  9. Pocket Poets expands Beat voices with Corso’s “Gasoline”

    Labels: Gregory Corso, Gasoline

  10. Pocket Poets emphasizes translation and international modernism

    Labels: Translation series, international modernism

  11. Ginsberg returns with “Kaddish and Other Poems”

    Labels: Kaddish and, Pocket Poets

  12. “Lunch Poems” broadens the series beyond Beats

    Labels: Lunch Poems, Frank O'Hara

  13. Bob Kaufman’s “Golden Sardine” enters Pocket Poets

    Labels: Golden Sardine, Bob Kaufman

  14. Lamantia’s selected poems mark a late-1960s Beat legacy

    Labels: Selected Poems, Philip Lamantia

  15. Pocket Poets connects Beat publishing to 1960s protest poetry

    Labels: Planet News, Allen Ginsberg

  16. Bly’s “The Teeth-Mother Naked at Last” closes the 1953–1970 arc

    Labels: The Teeth-Mother, Robert Bly