Highlights from DIVA: City Lights Books

Check out this KPIX news clip of City Lights Books from the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive on DIVA. Founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the 1950s, City Lights Books is an independent bookstore in San Francisco. The bookstore regularly organizes book releases, poetry readings, and community events. The clip features founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti organizing copies of Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg in front of the bookstore. Howl and Other Poems is part of the bookstore's Pocket Poet Series, featuring poets from the Beat Generation.

For more information about City Lights Books, follow this link.