1941-1970

A constellation of writers and artists active in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of World War II, including Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, and Michael McClure.

A group of poets aligned with the New York School of painting in the 1950s and ’60s.

A cultural movement conceived of and promoted by Amiri Baraka in the mid-1960s that included Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Madhubuti, Etheridge Knight, and Sonia Sanchez.

Language, or LANGUAGE, poetry is an avant garde poetry movement that emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that tends to draw the reader’s attention to the uses of language in a poem that contribute to the creation of meaning.

A group of progressive poets who, in the 1940s and 1950s, were associated with the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, including Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.

A national group of poets who emerged from San Francisco’s literary counterculture in the 1950s, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and Gary Snyder.