Jenny Kander reads poems from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's book These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems 1955 - 1993. Ferlinghetti is the co-founder of City Lights (magazine, publishing company, and book store in San Francisco), which is considered the heart of the Beat movement. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including most recently being named Commandeur by the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2007.