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. Co-founders with Witt-Diamant (?):
 * 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?
 * Madeline Gleason (to San Fr. in 1934; WPA Writers Project) . Her first book Poems in 1944.
 * Kenneth Rexroth
 * Robert Duncan (poet)
 * Mark Linenthal

Earlier (April 1947): a festival of poetry-reading 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.
 * First Festival of Modern Poetry


 * 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
 * 72 pp. Ronald Bladen (illus), Kenneth Patchen, Alison Boodson, Kenneth Rexroth, James Laughlin, Richard Eberhart, George Woodcock, Robert Duncan, Paul Goodman, William Everson, E. E. Cummings, Ammon A. Hennacy, Sanders Russell, Philip Lamantia, Robert Stock, Christopher Rambo, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Parkinson, Richard Moore.'' [Blue Jay Books, via AntiQBook]


 * Robin Blaser (to Berkeley in 1944)


 * Helen Adam
 * Ginsberg (in Allen's anthology) [but if Ginsberg is a San Franciscan poet, why isn't WSB a Mexican writer?)
 * Lawrence Ferlinghetti


 * Philip Whalen
 * Lew Welch
 * Gary Snyder (those three a separate group?)


 * Brother Antoninus (William Everson)
 * James Broughton
 * Michael McClure (Perloff: Beat)
 * David Meltzer (Beat)
 * Philip Lamantia (surrealism; also from L. A.)


 * Ebbe Borregaard (close to Ginsberg?)
 * Bruce Boyd (Beat?)
 * Kirby Doyle
 * Richard Duerden


 * Ray Bremser


 * 1960s
 * Charles Plymell
 * Claude Pelieu
 * Mary Beach


 * 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"
 * Magazine: Trobar 1961.
 * Jerome Rothenberg
 * Robert Kelly
 * Diane Wakoski
 * Clayton Eshleman

New York School


 * John Ashbery
 * Kenenth Koch
 * Frank O'Hara (those had met at Harvard)


 * Edward Field
 * Barbara Guest
 * James Schuyler

(and more)
 * 1960s
 * Ted Berrigan
 * Ron Padgett

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