List of anarchist poets

This is a list of anarchists poets, 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.

A

B

• Hugo Ball
• Fanya Baron
• Toma Bebić
• Julian Beck (1925â€"1985): American actor and founder of The Living Theatre.
• Jens Bjørneboe
• Tony Blackplait
• Luther Blissett (nom de plume)
• Balsa Brkovic
• Raegan Butcher

C

• John Cage (1912â€"1992): American composer. Collections of poetry include Anarchy (1988).
• Monty Cantsin
• Lev Chernyi
• Voltairine de Cleyre (1866â€"1912): American activist and one of the earliest anarchists without adjectives. Works include the poem Bastard Born, and The Worm Turns (1900), a collection of poetry.
• Arthur Cravan
• cris cheek
• MiloÅ¡ Crnjanski

D

• Joseph Déjacque
• Jas H. Duke
• Robert Duncan

E

• David Edelstadt (1866â€"1892): Russian anarchist poet of the Yiddish language. Works include Albert Parsons and Louis Lingg.
• Jon Elia

F

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Léo Ferré (August 24, 1916 - July 14, 1993). One of France's most well-known and influential singers, poets and musicians. He was a self-proclaimed anarchist and all his lifelong sang irreverent and highly confrontational songs. Aside his discography, work of poetry include Poète... vos papiers ! (1956), Testament phonographe (1980), Les Chants de la fureur (2013).
• Ian Fraser (columnist)

G

• Paul Goodman (writer)
• Pietro Gori
• Gilda Antonia Guillen

H

• Edith Harper
• Sadakichi Hartmann
• Joe Hill
• Harry Hooton

I

• Isidore Isou

K

• Seyhan Kurt (France, b.1971) poet of Speechlessness of Sadness.
• Tuli Kupferberg

L

• Joseph Labadie
• Philip Lamantia
• Philip Levine

M

• Jackson MacLow
• John Henry Mackay(1864â€"1933): German individualist anarchist, philosopher, writer, homosexual, and exponent of Max Stirner. Works of poetry include Anarchy.
• Nestor Makhno (1888â€"1934): Ukrainian anarcho-communist, military strategist, and commander of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. Works of poetry include Summons.
• Erich Mühsam

N

• Renzo Novatore
• Jeff Nuttall

P

• Kenneth Patchen
• Benjamin Péret
• Utah Phillips
• Pi O (П О)
• Eugène Edine Pottier
• Manuel González Prada
• Diane di Prima

R

• Dachine Rainer
• Herbert Read (1893â€"1968): English poet and critic of literature and art. Works include "A Song for the Spanish Anarchists, The Death of Kropotkin, and Poetry & Anarchism (1938)
• Kenneth Rexroth
• Lola Ridge
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Penny Rimbaud

S

• Lucía Sánchez Saornil
• Louis Scutenaire
• Karl Shapiro
• Percy Bisshe Shelley
• Monica Sjöö
• Mikey Smith
• Gary Snyder

T

• Laurent Terzieff
• Ernst Toller
• Leo Tolstoy

W

• Peter Lamborn Wilson
• Allyssa Wolf
• George Woodcock
• Phyllis Webb

See also

• Anarchism and the arts
• Fraye Arbeter Shtime

Footnotes and citations

External links

• Poetry by Voltairine de Cleyre