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First Annual Jasmines & Poetry Festival
by Brian Dunlap On Friday April 16th, Jessica M. Wilson and the L.A. Poet Society debuted the Jasmines & Poetry Festival, livestreamed and socially distanced, to coincide with National Poetry Month. Wilson kicked things off with a tribute to the late great poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, lost last year at 101. His press, City Lights, and the bookstore of the same name, is where the West Coast Beats first coalesced. Memories of Ferlinghetti were shared by the poets S