Black Mountain poets

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group of American poets literary movement poetry movement

The Black Mountain poets were a mid-20th-century group of experimental American writers associated with Black Mountain College, known for their open-form verse, emphasis on process and breath, and major figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan.

Aliases (1)

Berkeley Renaissance poets ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	group of American poets → literary movement → poetry movement →
activeInPeriod	mid-20th century →
associatedInstitution	Black Mountain College →
associatedWith	Black Mountain College →
associatedWithPlace	Black Mountain, North Carolina →
country	United States →
emphasizes	composition by field → line as a unit of breath → process over finished product → spontaneity in composition →
genre	modernist poetry → postmodern poetry →
hasKeyFigure	Charles Olson → Robert Creeley → Robert Duncan →
hasMember	Charles Olson → Denise Levertov → Ed Dorn → Fielding Dawson → Hilda Morley → Joel Oppenheimer → John Wieners → Jonathan Williams → Larry Eigner → Paul Blackburn → Robert Creeley → Robert Duncan →
influenced	Beat Generation poets → Language poets → contemporary American poetry →
influencedBy	Ezra Pound → Objectivist poets → William Carlos Williams → modernism →
knownFor	emphasis on breath in poetry → emphasis on process → experimental poetry → open-form verse → projective verse →
language	English →
movementDecline	1960s →
movementPeak	1950s →
movementStart	1940s →
relatedMovement	Beat Generation → New American Poetry → San Francisco Renaissance →
theoreticalText	Projective Verse →
theoreticalTextAuthor	Charles Olson →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
San Francisco Renaissance →	contemporaryWith
San Francisco Renaissance ("Berkeley Renaissance poets") →	hasParticipant
Beat Generation →	relatedConcept