PoetryPreviews

Genre(s): African-American, Beats

Period: 1960s to the present

Lines: (from “Western Front”)

My intentions are colors. I’m filled with
color, every tint you think of lends to mine
my mind is full of color, hard muscle streaks,
or soft glow round exactness registration. All earth
heaven things, hell things, in colors circulate
a wild blood train, turn litmus like a bible coat, … Read more »

The term Beats or Beatniks refers to a group of American lyrical poets who emerged from the mid to late 1950s with the publication the magazine Evergreen Review, and who denounced academic intellectualism, politics, and the status quo as fervently as they embraced freedom of thought, unconventional romance (homosexuality and free love - ironically, in the era of wholesome family values preceding the 1960s), spirituality, and creativity. Read more »