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  • Beat Poets refers to a literary cluster of poets and writers who achieved notoriety during the years after World War II through the early 1960s. The literary movement, which also included novelists and essayists, was located primarily in New York City and San Francisco. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Beat Poets]

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