https://mrqe.com Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:08:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/ferlinghetti-a-city-light-m100083376/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/ferlinghetti-a-city-light-m100083376/ The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world’s living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti’s quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-coney-island-of-lawrence-ferlinghetti-m100092495/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-coney-island-of-lawrence-ferlinghetti-m100092495/ Christopher Felver’s enormously engaging documentary is a serious and powerful portrait of San Francisco’s legendary poet, painter and City Lights publisher. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been a vital creative force in the American literary scene since the 1950’s when he arrived in San Francisco and began to write his infamous poems, including A Coney Island of the Mind.

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