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This is a list of anarchist poets, including examples of their published work, and the source material in which their poetry is found. This list is biased in favor of poets who have self-identified as anarchists. Poets who are popularly considered "anarchic", but have not specifically self-identified as anarchists, are not included.
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[edit]- Hugo Ball (1886–1927)
- Fanya Baron (1887–1921)
- Toma Bebić (1935–1990)
- Julian Beck (1925–1985): American actor and founder of The Living Theatre[1]
- L. S. Bevington (1845–1895): English essayist and poet
- Jens Bjørneboe (1920–1976)
- Tony Blackplait (Tõnu Trubetsky, born 1963)
- Luther Blissett (born 1958)
- Giannina Braschi (born 1953)
- Balsa Brkovic (born 1966)
- Raegan Butcher (born 1969)
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[edit]- John Cage (1912–1992): American composer; poetry: Anarchy (1988)[2]
- Monty Cantsin (multiple pseudonym coined in 1978)
- cris cheek (born 1955)
- Lev Chernyi (died 1921)
- Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912): American activist and an early anarchist without adjectives; poetry: Bastard Born, The Worm Turns (1900)[3]
- Alex Comfort (1920–2000)[4]
- Arthur Cravan (born 1887, probably died 1918)
- Miloš Crnjanski (1893–1977)
- Sándor Csizmadia (1871–1929), poet and political writer
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[edit]- Joseph Déjacque (1821–1864)
- Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont, 1846–1870)
- Jas H. Duke (1939–1992)
- Robert Duncan (1919–1988)[4]
E
[edit]- David Edelstadt (1866–1892): Russian anarchist poet writing in Yiddish;[5] Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg
- Jon Elia (1931–2002)
F
[edit]- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919)
- Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993), French singer, poet and musician; self-proclaimed anarchist; Poète... vos papiers ! (1956), Testament phonographe (1980), Les Chants de la fureur (2013)
- Ian Fraser (born 1962)
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[edit]- Jesse Glass (born 1954)
- Paul Goodman (1911–1972)
- Pietro Gori (1865–1911)
- Gilda Antonia Guillen (1959–2006)
H
[edit]- Edith Harper (Anna Wickham, 1883–1947)
- Sadakichi Hartmann (1867–1944)
- Joe Hill (Joseph Hillström, 1879–1915)
- Harry Hooton (1908–1961)
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[edit]- Isidore Isou (1925–2007)
K
[edit]- Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010)
- Seyhan Kurt (born 1971), French poet, Speechlessness of Sadness
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[edit]- Joseph Labadie (1850–1933)
- Philip Lamantia (1927–2005)
- George Leite (1920–1985)[4]
- Philip Levine (1928–2015)
M
[edit]- John Henry Mackay (1864–1933): German individualist anarchist, philosopher, writer, homosexual, and exponent of Max Stirner; Anarchy:[6]
- Jackson MacLow (1922–2004)
- Nestor Makhno (1888–1934): Ukrainian anarcho-communist, military strategist, and commander of Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine;[7] Summons[8]
- Erich Mühsam (1878–1934)
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[edit]- Renzo Novatore (Abele Rizieri Ferrari, 1890–1922)
- Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004)
P
[edit]- Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)
- Benjamin Péret (1899–1959)
- Utah Phillips (1935–2008)
- Pi O (П О, born 1950)
- Eugène Edine Pottier (1816–1887)
- Manuel González Prada (1844–1918)
- Diane di Prima (born 1934)
R
[edit]- Dachine Rainer (1921–2000)
- Herbert Read (1893–1968): English poet, and literary and art critic]]; A Song for the Spanish Anarchists,[9] The Death of Kropotkin, Poetry & Anarchism (1938).[10]
- Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
- Lola Ridge (1873–1941)
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
- Penny Rimbaud (Jeremy John Ratter, born 1943)
S
[edit]- Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895–1970)
- Louis Scutenaire (1905–1987)
- Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
- Monica Sjöö (1938–2005)
- Mikey Smith (1954–1983)
- Gary Snyder (born 1930)
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[edit]- Laurent Terzieff (1935–2010)
- Ernst Toller (1893–1939)
- Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828–1910)
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[edit]- Phyllis Webb (born 1927)
- Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey, born 1945)
- George Woodcock (1912–1995)[4]
See also
[edit]Footnotes and citations
[edit]- ^ Beck, Julian, "Preface to The Brig", A Spotlight Dramabook.
- ^ Cage in a 1985 interview: "I'm an anarchist. I don't know whether the adjective is pure and simple, or philosophical, or what, but I don't like government! And I don't like institutions! And I don't have any confidence in even good institutions." John Cage at Seventy: An Interview by Stephen Montague. American Music, Summer 1985. Ubu.com. Accessed May 24, 2007.
- ^ de Cleyre, Voltairine (1914), "The Making of an Anarchist", Selected Writings of Voltairine de Cleyre, Mother Earth Publishing.
- ^ a b c d Lawrence Durrell (2015). From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings. University of Alberta Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-77212-059-2.
- ^ "A great poet and one of the finest types of Anarchist that ever lived." – Emma Goldman, Edelstadt, David, 1866-1892
- ^ "I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will; Not rule, & also ruled I will not be!" John Henry Mackay Retrieved October 6, 2007 Archived January 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "As a revolutionary anarchist, I shared the life of the Ukrainian people during the revolution." Makhno, Nestor "The ABC of The Revolutionary Anarchist", The Struggle Against the State and other essays. Translated Paul Sharkey.
- ^ Summons Makhno, Nestor. libcom.org Retrieved October 11, 2007.
- ^ Thirty-Five Poems (1940)
- ^ Read's anarchist philosophy expressed in Anarchy & Order (1938), The Philosophy of Anarchism (1940), and My Anarchism (1966).
External links
[edit]Poetry by Voltairine de Cleyre