Six Gallery poets

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The Six Gallery poets were a group of Beat and avant-garde writers whose landmark 1955 reading at San Francisco’s Six Gallery helped ignite the San Francisco Renaissance and transform postwar American poetry.

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instanceOf Beat Generation group
literary movement
poetry collective
activityPlace North Beach, San Francisco
artisticStyle avant-garde
experimental poetry
associatedWith Six Gallery
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContext post–World War II United States
dateOfActivity 1955
genre poetry
hasCentralFigure Allen Ginsberg
Kenneth Rexroth
hasMember Allen Ginsberg
Gary Snyder
Kenneth Rexroth
Michael McClure
Philip Lamantia
Philip Whalen
historicalSignificance bridge between West Coast and East Coast Beat scenes
catalyst for wider recognition of Beat poetry
influenced American poetry
counterculture of the 1960s
influencedBy Romanticism
Zen
surface form: Zen Buddhism

jazz
modernism
knownFor helping ignite the San Francisco Renaissance
landmark 1955 poetry reading at Six Gallery
transforming postwar American poetry
language English
literaryPeriod postwar American poetry
location San Francisco
movement Beat Generation
San Francisco Renaissance
notableEvent Six Gallery reading
notableWorkPresented Howl
relatedEvent San Francisco Renaissance poetry readings
theme personal liberation
social critique
spiritual quest
urban experience

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San Francisco Renaissance hasParticipant Six Gallery poets