<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 Beat poets were a group of writers who had a strong influence on the hippie counterculture movement of the 1960s. The Beat poets included Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder.