Posted in Arts, Events, Fashion, Uncategorized, Vintage, tagged 1960s fashions, Beat poetry, Beat poets, City Lights Bookstore, fashionable poetry, fashionable quotes, hats, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco History, San Francisco North Beach on March 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Time wears down the pencil.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), American Beat Poet, publisher, owner of City Lights Bookstore, SF icon.
Mr. Ferlinghetti liked to don a hat. From his Navy cover to a fedora, beret to beanie, bowler to Greek fisherman’s cap, over the years he wore them all with unbeatable flair.
RIP.
Posted in Arts, Events, Fashion, tagged fashionable poetry, Silvi Alcivar, The Poetry Store on August 7, 2013| 2 Comments »
At the recent Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco my sis-in-law and I came upon Silvi Alcivar and The Poetry Store. Looking both literary and stylish in black and red, Ms. Alcivar sat nicely at her vintage typewriter creating poems. For a donation of 5 dollars or more (sliding scale) Ms. Alcivar wrote poems in three minutes or less on whatever one asked for. We decided – what fun – and placed our donations on the table.
I asked for a poem about this very blog and handed Ms. Alcivar an OverDressed for Life card. Then from the stack of lovely printed paper I chose an image of blue and yellow bicycles with baskets. She took the paper, wound it up on the typewriter roll zip, zip, zip and clickety clack she tapped away …
In a mere few minutes I think she really captured the spirit of OverDressed for Life.
By the way, Ms. Alcivar is available to write poems for parties, weddings, art/ literary events, and celebrations of all kinds.
OverDressed for Life 