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Career

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Poet, playwright, editor, and painter; worked for Time, New York, NY, post-World War II; taught French in an adult education program, San Francisco, CA, 1951-52; City Lights Pocket Bookshop (now City Lights Books), San Francisco, co-owner, 1953—, founder, publisher, and editor of City Lights Books, 1955—. Participant in literary conferences, art exhibitions, and poetry readings.