Joel Oppenheimer
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Joel Lester Oppenheimer was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York School. He was the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project. Though a poet, Oppenheime
Beauty and the Beast, Oppenheimer with Francine du Plessix Gray at Black Mountain College, 1951. Photograph by Jonathan Williams.
A scene from a 1968 Seattle production of The Great American Desert.
Ed Dorn
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Edward Merton Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is Gunslinger.
Joel Oppenheimer
…Mountain College in North Carolina. At Black Mountain, he studied with Paul Goodman and poet Charles Olson, became friends with Fielding Dawson and Ed Dorn, and worked in the school's print shop. In his earliest poetry, Oppenheimer shows clearly the influence of William Carlos Williams, but he soon developed…
Ed Dorn