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  2. Jack Gilbert - Wikipedia

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    Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself as a "serious romantic." [1] [2] Over his five-decade-long career, he published five full collections of ...

  3. Hettie Jones, publisher, educator and award-winning poet and ...

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    Hettie Jones, an award-winning author, publisher and educator who was the first wife and early muse of the author-poet-activist Amiri Baraka and one of the few women in the Beat literary community ...

  4. Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern ... - AOL

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    Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...

  5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Helped Launch the Beat ... - AOL

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and political activist who helped launch the Beat movement, died from interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco on Monday, his daughter Julie Sasse ...

  6. Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern ...

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    TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher ...

  7. Gregory Corso - Wikipedia

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    Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. [1] He was one of the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg , and William S. Burroughs ).

  8. Hettie Jones - Wikipedia

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    Hettie Jones (née Cohen;15 June 1934 – August 13, 2024) was an American poet.She wrote 23 books that include a memoir of the Beat Generation, three volumes of poetry, and publications for children and young adults, including The Trees Stand Shining and Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music.

  9. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat poet charged with obscenity for ...

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who owned the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101.