Dec 18, 2024 · Kenneth Rexroth was an American painter, essayist, poet, and translator, an early champion of the Beat movement. Largely self-educated, Rexroth spent much of his youth …

Jan 8, 2025 · Bob Kaufman was an innovative African-American poet who became an important figure of the Beat movement. With a Roman Catholic mother, a German-Jewish father, and a …

Black Mountain poet, any of a loosely associated group of poets that formed an important part of the avant-garde of American poetry in the 1950s, publishing innovative yet disciplined verse in …

Jan 3, 2025 · Robert Duncan was an American poet, a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets in the 1950s. Duncan attended the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936–38 and …

Jan 13, 2025 · Gregory Corso was an American poet, a leading member in the mid-1950s of the Beat movement. Corso lived in an orphanage and with foster parents until he was 11, when his …

Later poets known for their interest in combining the two forms included Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Amiri Baraka, and Christopher Logue, as well as many of the poets of the …

Nov 27, 2024 · Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, one of the founders of the Beat movement in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. His City Lights bookshop was an early gathering place of …

Silent Generation, generation of people sandwiched between the “Greatest Generation,” which fought World War II, and the “baby boomers,” the generation born during the surge in births in …

As the transistor generation evidenced its interest in music, rock ’n’ roll bands sprang up. Folk musicians, jazz musicians, and others banded together to prove they, like Bob Dylan and the …

Jan 2, 2025 · Xennials (1977–83), bridging the gap between Generation X and millennials. Although their lives were marked by the rise of the Internet and the various technologies that …

Nov 27, 2024 · Hippies were largely a white, middle-class group of teenagers and twentysomethings who belonged to what demographers call the baby-boom generation. They …

beat, in music, the basic rhythmic unit of a measure, or bar, not to be confused with rhythm as such; nor is the beat necessarily identical with the underlying pulse of a given piece of music, …

Dec 9, 2024 · Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to …

4 days ago · Gen Z is the first true digital native generation. As opposed to millennials, the generation that lived through the rise of the Internet while still growing up with cable television …

6 days ago · Millennials are the cohort between Generation X (Gen X; defined as those born between 1965 and 1980) and Generation Z (Gen Z; defined as those born from about 1997 to …