beat poets

• Ginsberg"Howl" writer, beatnik
• KerouacBeat Generation novelist
• howlProlonged mournful cry
• jazzImprovisational American music genre
• bebopFast, complex jazz style

Burroughs · coffeehouse · Greenwich Village · San Francisco · dharma · spontaneous · typewriter · road · hitchhike · marijuana · madness · verse · rebellion · counterculture · hipster · bongo · smoke · City Lights

• poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
• poetry movementswar poets, romantic poets, Harlem Renaissance
• writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
• spoken wordspoken word, spoken word poetry, slam poetry, slam poets, poetry slam