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The Black Mountain Review

American literary review
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The Black Mountain Review was an American literary review that served as a leading forum for experimental verse in the 1950s. It was closely associated with the Black Mountain poets, a loosely affiliated group of avant-garde poets who taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.12

The review published innovative poetry and featured works by significant poets of the era, including those associated with the Beat movement. The Black Mountain poets, influenced by figures like William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson, emphasized a freer poetic style and the transfer of energy from the poet to the reader through the poem. The college, known for its experimental approach to education and its focus on the arts, closed in 1957, the same year The Black Mountain Review ceased publication.12

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