<human>:  When did the Beat poets start?
<bot>: The Beat poets started in the 1950s, but the movement didn’t really take off until the 1960s. The Beats were a group of writers who were interested in a new kind of writing that was more experimental and less traditional. They wrote in a style called “free verse” which is not bound by traditional rules of grammar or punctuation. They were inspired by the works of William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg.