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Black Mountain College

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Black Mountain College, experimental liberal arts institution, near Asheville, N.C., founded (1933) by dissident faculty and students of Rollins College (Florida) for innovative and improvisory learning. Although it foundered (1956), its teachers, including Josef Albers, and its journal, The Black Mountain Review (1954–57), had a great effect far beyond its campus. The major figure was Charles Olson, for a time the chancellor, whose important students include Creeley, Duncan, Levertov, and John Wieners. Creeley edited the Review, concentrating on the college's poets but including also Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Zukofsky.

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