20th Cent  Poetry: 1950s-2000

–The Formalists:

Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill,

Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Wright

–The Confessionals/the Autobiographical poets: 1950s-80s

Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton,

Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Louise Glück,

Sharon Olds, John Haines, Robert Pinsky, Dave Smith

–New Surrealism/ “Deep Image”: 1960s-70s

Robert Bly, James Wright, W. S. Merwin,

–The Black Mountain poets: 1950s

Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, A. R. Ammons

–The Beats/San Francisco Poetry Renaissance: 1950s-60s

Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder

–The New York School: 1950s-60s

Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch

–The Language Poetry: 1980s-90s, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian

–Performance poetry/“Spoken Word”: 1980s-1990s

David Antin, Cid Corman,

Cyber-poetry/digital poetry/new media poetry: now

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