beat poets

plural noun

1. numerous U.S. poets concentrated in California in the 1950s and noted chiefly for their rejection of poetic as well as social conventions, exemplified through experimental, often informal phrasing and diction and formless verse that attempts to capture spontaneity of thought and feeling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beat poets¹

Beat Generation

Example Sentences

Freedman, whose previous books include “Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius,” writes in a sort of modified hipster patter that fits in well with the Beat poets Dylan once idolized, and whom the author cites as another big influence on the young singer-songwriter.

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The non-narrative libretto is by one of our few remaining Beat poets and a treasure of that era, Anne Waldman.

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Future exhibition subjects might include gang injunctions, Chicano community histories and Venice Beat poets, he said.

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Her father was the head of Berkeley’s Buddhist temple, where the beat poets loved to hang out in the 1950s and 1960s.

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But Thompson never doubted his talent and had a voracious appetite for culture in many forms: He consorted with New York’s Beat poets and its free jazz musicians as well as a broad range of artists.

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