Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Literary legacy===
Among the emerging novelists of the 1960s and 1970s, a few were closely connected with Beat writers, most notably [[Ken Kesey]] (''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''). Though they had no direct connection, other writers considered the Beats to be a major influence, including [[Thomas Pynchon]] (''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'')<ref>Pynchon, Thomas. ''Slow Learner.'' Vintage Classics, 2007. {{ISBN|0-09-953251-4}}.</ref> and [[Tom Robbins]] (''[[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)|Even Cowgirls Get the Blues]]'').

[[William S. Burroughs]] is considered a forefather of [[postmodern literature]]; he also inspired the [[cyberpunk]] genre.<ref>"Sterling also identifies [in ''Mirroshades'' (1986)] postmodernist authors Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs as forerunners of cyberpunk." Keith Booker, Anne-Marie Thomas, ''The Science Fiction Handbook'', 2009, p. 111, {{ISBN|1-4051-6205-8}}, {{ISBN|978-1-4051-6205-0}}.</ref><ref>"... it should hardly be surprising that to discover that the work of William S Burroughs had a profound impact on both punk music and cyberpunk science fiction." Larry McCaffery, ''Storming the reality studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction'', 1991, p. 305.</ref><ref>"Cyberpunk writers acknowledge their literary debt to Burroughs and Pynchon, as well as to New Wave writers from the 1960s and 1970s such as J. G. Ballard and Samuel Delany.", Jenny Wolmark, ''Aliens and others: science fiction, feminism, and postmodernism'', 1994, {{ISBN|0-87745-447-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-87745-447-2}}.</ref>

One-time Beat writer [[Amiri Baraka|LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka]] helped initiate the [[Black Arts Movement]].<ref>"(LeRoi Jones) ... is best known as a major cultural leader, one of the African American writers who galvanized a second Black Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s ..." – page xi, "Preface", Komozi Woodard, ''A nation within a nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics'' (1999, UNC Press), {{ISBN|0-8078-4761-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8078-4761-9}}.</ref>

As there was a focus on live performance among the Beats, many [[poetry slam|slam]] poets have claimed to be influenced by the Beats. [[Saul Williams]], for example, cites Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and [[Bob Kaufman]] as major influences.<ref>Williams, Saul. ''Said the Shotgun to the Head.'' MTV, 2003, p.184, {{ISBN|0-7434-7079-6}}.</ref>

The Postbeat Poets are direct descendants of the Beat Generation. Their association with or tutelage under Ginsberg at The Naropa University's [[Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics]]<ref>"During the eighties, Ginsberg used his position as director of the writing department at Naropa, introduced his classes to the wide range of literature of the Beat Generation. Many of his students became poets and educators and are grouped under an entirely new category that has been labeled Postbeat Poets." Bill Morgan, William Morgan, ''The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation'', 2010, p. 245, {{ISBN|1-4165-9242-3}}, {{ISBN|978-1-4165-9242-6}}.</ref> and later at [[Brooklyn College]] stressed the social-activist legacy of the Beats and created its own body of literature. Known authors are [[Anne Waldman]], [[Antler (poet)|Antler]], Andy Clausen, David Cope, [[Eileen Myles]], Eliot Katz, [[Paul Beatty]], [[Sapphire (author)|Sapphire]], [[Lesléa Newman]], [[Jim Cohn]], Thomas R. Peters Jr. (poet and owner of beat book shop), [[Sharon Mesmer]], Randy Roark, Josh Smith, and David Evans.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}