beat poet
Fifties counterculture writer
A beat poet is a writer associated with the Beat Generation, a literary movement of the 1950s and early 1960s centered on spontaneous expression, rejection of mainstream values, and spiritual exploration.
Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti embraced jazz rhythms, Eastern philosophy, and countercultural themes.
The term now loosely describes anyone affecting that bohemian style: He stood up at the open mic like some beat poet.
- Ginsberg"Howl" writer, beatnik
- KerouacBeat Generation novelist
- howlProlonged mournful cry
- on the roadJourneying by vehicle
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
Burroughs · bongo · finger snapping · coffeehouse · spoken word · Greenwich Village · San Francisco · bebop · jazz club · spontaneous · typewriter · dharma · marijuana · hipster · counterculture · verse · recitation · free verse
- poetsHomer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
- spoken word artistrapper, MC, griot
- poetrypoem, poems, verse, verses, rhyme
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
beat poetorganization man
Loyal corporate conformist
square · conformist · company man · suburbanite · bourgeois
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