What was the title of Donald Allen’s 1960 anthology of postwar American experimental poets?

Donald Allen’s 1960 anthology was titled The New American Poetry 1945–1960.

Published by Grove Press, the anthology gathered work by poets associated with several postwar avant-garde communities, including the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the New York School. Allen organized the book around living poetic movements rather than presenting a conventional chronological literary history.

Its contributors included Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan. The volume helped introduce readers to poetry that emphasized spoken language, improvisation, open forms, and literary experimentation.

The anthology is sometimes casually described as a “Beat anthology,” but that is too narrow. The Beat poets formed only one of the book’s several groupings, and Allen’s broader aim was to document the diversity of innovative American poetry after World War II.