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1Started in the 1940s on the East coast and transplanted to the West coast in the 1950s

San Francisco became the heart of the Beat Movement

The Beat Movement2a group of writers interested in changing consciousness and defying conventional writingThe battle against social conformity and literary tradition was central to the work of the Beats.The Meaning Behind the Writing3The BeatniksAllen Ginsberg Gary SnyderLawrence Ferlinghetti Gregory Corso Diane di Prima Neal Cassady Anne Waldman Michael McClure William S. Burroughs Jack Kerouac4Two All Time InfluentialsAllen GinsbergLawrence Ferlinghetti

5GinzyBorn in Newark, New Jersey, on June 3, 1926

Jewish

Best friends with Jack Kerouac

Author of Howl

6Howl was written in 1956http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50

7FerlinghettiBorn in Yonkers, New York, in 1919B.A. from the University of North Carolina, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin began to publish City Lights magazineopened the City Lights Books Shop in San Francisco to help support the magazineIn 1955, they launched City Light Publishing8A Coney Island of the Mind was written in 1958http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyx6Xa0JSs&feature=related9Allen Ginsberghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8ay-WUhXshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkMi3lsVYA&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZvzdzwPVZU&NR=110Lawrence Ferlinghettihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyx6Xa0JSs&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCblAJtzgEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34-QN9qnEQ&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrc96uGWyrE&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHv6IASWQ4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViPVtijys2c11Works Cited"City Lights Books." City Lights Books. City Lights, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.