User:Radh/Beat poets. The Canon

Groups of nonconformist, non-formal, at first anti-academic and anti-establishment poetry in the USA after World War Two.

One problem with saying who is a Beat poet nd who not seems to come fom the fact, that the Donald Allen anthology did NOT have a Beat category.

San Francisco Renaissance

    • Literary magazines: The Ark (one-shot, Spring 1947), Ark II after the Howl reading

Poetry Center at San Francisco State University.

  • First director: Ruth Witt-Diamant (taught at SF-State since at least 1931)
    • First reading: W. H. Auden or Theodore Roethke in 1954? Dylan Thomas role in the matter?

Co-founders with Witt-Diamant (?):

Earlier (April 1947): a festival of poetry-reading

    • First Festival of Modern Poetry

at the Lucien Labaudt Gallery, Gough Street. 12 poets (incl. William Everson, Muriel Rukeyser, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Madeline Gleason). Also: Philip Lamantia. The first reader was Richard O. Moore.

  • Richard Owen Moore knew Robert Duncan (also "Black Mountain") through Pauline Kael. They and
  • Jack Spicer (also close to the "Deep Image" poets) were then in the same class at university.

Moore published in the only issue of The Ark

  • Philip Whalen
  • Lew Welch
  • Gary Snyder (those three a separate group?)
  • Ebbe Borregaard (close to Ginsberg?)
  • Bruce Boyd (Beat?)
  • Kirby Doyle
  • Richard Duerden
  • Ray Bremser
Black Mountain
    • Magazines: Origin (Cid Corman); Black Mountain Review
    • Series: Jonathan Williams  ; Robert Creeley (from Mallorca)
  • Charles Olson
  • Robert Duncan (SF)
  • Robert Creeley (later also in San Fr.)
  • Edward Dorn (later in the U.K.)
  • Joel Oppenheimer
  • Jonathan Williams
  • Paul Blackburn
  • Paul Carroll [now unfashionable - Perloff]
  • Larry Eigner
  • Denise Levertov
  • Cid Corman (Donald Allen-reject)
    • Origin
  • John Wieners

"Deep Image"

New York School

  • John Ashbery
  • Kenenth Koch
  • Frank O'Hara (those had met at Harvard)
  • Edward Field
  • Barbara Guest
  • James Schuyler
1960s
  • Ted Berrigan
  • Ron Padgett

(and more)

Beats (proper) From New York

    • Magazines: Yugen, Kulchur, Floating Bear, Umbra (Black Nationalism - LeRoi Jones), end-of-the-60s: Angel Hair
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Neal Cassady
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Herbert Huncke
    • Huncke's Journal. Poets Press (Di Prima), 1965
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Gregory Corso
  • Peter Orlovsky

Perloff adds Snyder and Whalen to the Beats ("are more properly placed here"),also

  • Stuart Perkoff
  • Michael McClure (SF)
  • Ron Loewinsohn
  • Ray Bremser
  • David Meltzer (from L. A.)
  • John Wieners
  • Edward Marshall
  • Gilbert Sorrentino
  • LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
other New York Beat writers, publishers
  • Diana Di Prima
Beat Hotel, Paris
  • Harold Norse
African American Beat poets
  • LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
  • Diane DiPrima
  • Ted Joans
Outside the USA
    • Candy
  • Ted Joans
Women writers
  • Bonnie Bremser (Brenda Frazer)
  • Diane DiPrima
  • Ann Waldman
  • Joanne Kyger
  • Joyce Johnson ("Beat memoirist")
  • Elise Cowen
Young European and Canadian writers
  • Jan Cramer (also painter)
  • Anselm Hollo
  • Irving Layton
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Franco Beltrametti
1960s New York pop-literature and Underground
  • Tuli Kupferberg
  • Ed Sanders
  • Seymore Krim
  • Erje Aydan
  • Bob Dylan
    • Tarantula
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