Who Were the Beat Poets?
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Jim Morrison
also singer of the Doors. buried in the poets graveyard in France.
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Joyce Johnson
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Carl Solomon
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Wally Hedrick
Organized one of the first beat poetry readings
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Michael McClure
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Gary Snyder
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Gregory Corso
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Kenneth Rexroth
He let the beat poet's use his apartment to showcase their poetry.
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Lew Welch
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Ted Joans
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John Clellon Holmes
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William Carlos Williams
Though not technically a beat poet, he was Allen Ginsburg's mentor.
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Bob Kaufman
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
He owns the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. It is a great place to visit if you get a chance.
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Carolyn Cassady
Neal Cassady's wife
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Lucien Carr
The guy who introduced the three most famous beat poets: Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
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Diane di Prima
A female beat poet
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Neal Cassady
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William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch is a surreal book. Add it to your reading list when you are feeling too cemented in reality.
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Allen Ginsberg
His most famous poem is "Howl," but he had many other great poems.
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Jack Kerouac
He wrote On the Road and many very influential poems.
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