List of Mexican poets
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This is a list of notable Mexican
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The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
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A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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- Manuel AcuñaManuel AcuñaManuel Acuña Narro was a 19th-century Mexican writer. He focused on poetry, but also wrote some novels and plays. Even though he was famous at an early time of his life, he decided to commit suicide...
- Ignacio Manuel AltamiranoIgnacio Manuel AltamiranoIgnacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio was a Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician.Altamirano was born in Tixtla, Guerrero, of pure indigenous Nahua heritage. His father was the mayor of Tixtla, this allowed Ignacio to attend school there...
- Pita AmorPita AmorGuadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein , who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet. She was born in Mexico City, the youngest child of a family with seven children, of mixed French, German and Spanish ancestry, a member of the Mexican aristocracy...
- Eduardo Arellano ElíasEduardo Arellano ElíasEduardo Arellano Elías was a Mexican poet.-Personal life:Elías graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and has lived in Baja California since 1988...
- Homero AridjisHomero AridjisHomero Aridjis is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist and diplomat known for his independence.-Family and Early Life:...
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- Xhevdet BajrajXhevdet BajrajXhevdet Bajraj is an ethnic Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriter now residing in Mexico.Bajraj was granted residency in Mexico as a refugee thanks to the International Parliament of Writers that offered him the options of France, Italy or Mexico...
- Marcos E. BecerraMarcos E. BecerraMarcos E. Becerra was a prolific Mexican writer, poet, and politician. He produced pioneering historical, linguistic, philological, and ethnographic studies relating to his country's pre-Columbian and early colonial past. He held important posts in the Mexican Federal Government as well as in the...
- Hermann BellinghausenHermann BellinghausenHermann Bellinghausen is a Mexican physician, poet, writer, and editor.-Career:Bellinghausen was born in Mexico City in 1953. He obtained his MD from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has served as collaborator on the Mexican weekly magazines En Solidaridad and Mundo Médico and as an...
- Alberto Blanco (poet)Alberto Blanco (poet)Alberto Blanco is considered one of Mexico's most important poets. Born in Mexico City on February 18, 1951, he spent his childhood and adolescence in that city, and he studied chemistry at the Universidad Iberoamericana and philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México...
- Minerva BloomMinerva BloomMinerva Bloom is a bilingual poet and nature photographer born in Tinguindin, Michoacan a small town nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. She has been living and is a citizen of the USA, since 1983 and writes poetry both in English and her native Spanish language...
- Rubén Bonifaz NuñoRubén Bonifaz NuñoRubén Bonifaz Nuño is a Mexican poet and classical scholar.Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he began lecturing in Latin at the UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and received a doctorate in Classics in...
- Coral BrachoCoral BrachoCoral Bracho is a Mexican poet, translator, and doctor of Literature.Bracho is winner of the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000...
- Gabriela BrimmerGabriela BrimmerGabriela "Gaby" Brimmer , a writer and activist for persons with disabilities, was born in Mexico as a daughter of Austrian Jewish immigrants. Gaby was born with cerebral palsy and since childhood learned to act in a world that has difficulty accepting diversity...
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- Manuel CarpioManuel CarpioManuel Elogio Carpio Hernández , known as Manuel Carpio, was a Mexican poet.Manuel Carpio was a relevant writer, theologian, philosopher and doctor of the nineteenth century, and former member of the Mexican Romanticism...
- Rosario CastellanosRosario CastellanosRosario Castellanos was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 , she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century...
- Roberto Castillo UdiarteRoberto Castillo UdiarteRoberto Castillo Udiarte is a Mexican poet, fiction writer and translator, most notably of Charles Bukowski.Born in Tecate in 1951, he has spent the last 25 years in Tijuana...
- Alí ChumaceroAli ChumaceroAlí Chumacero Lora was a Mexican poet.-Career:Chumacero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit. He was the joint editor of Tierra Nueva magazine from 1940-42. He edited Letras de México and El Hijo Pródigo....
- Elsa CrossElsa CrossElsa Cross, , is a contemporary Spanish-language Mexican writer perhaps best known for her poetry. She has also published translations, philosophical essays and is known as an authority on Indian philosophy....
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Jorge CuestaJorge CuestaJorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit was a Mexican chemist, writer and editor.- Biography :...
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- Jesús GardeaJesús GardeaJesús Gardea Rocha was a Mexican writer of fiction and short fiction.-Biography:Jesús Gardea Rocha was born on July 2, 1939, in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Vicente Gardea V. and Francisca Rocha. He studied at the Elementary School No. 306 in Delicias, and later went to study his secondary...
- Pedro GarfiasPedro GarfiasPedro Garfias was a Spanish poet.Garfias was born in Salamanca, Spain, but spent his childhood and youth in the Andalusian cities of Seville and Córdoba. In 1918 he moved to Madrid in order to study Law at University; however, he did not finish these studies. That year, Pedro Garfias, along with...
- Francesca GargalloFrancesca GargalloFrancesca Gargallo is a Mexican writer and poet. She studied philosophy in her native country at the Universitá delgi Studi di Roma and then in the National Autonomous University of Mexico...
- Francisco González BocanegraFrancisco González BocanegraFrancisco González Bocanegra was a Mexican poet who wrote the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem in 1853....
- Enrique González MartínezEnrique González MartínezEnrique González Martínez was a Mexican poet, diplomat, surgeon and obstetrician. His poetry is considered to be primarily Modernist in nature, with elements of French symbolism....
- Rodrigo GonzálezRodrigo GonzálezRodrigo González, better known as Rockdrigo or El profeta del nopal , was a Mexican musician and songwriter. He founded the Movimiento Rupestre , a voice-and-guitar folk music scene that strongly influenced Mexican rock...
- José GorostizaJosé Gorostiza' was a Mexican poet, educator, and diplomat. For his achievements in the poetic arts, he was made a member of the .-Biography: was born in the riverine city of , then known as , to and . His younger brother would also become an important artist. He moved to Mexico City to attend the National...
- Carlos GrahamCarlos GrahamCarlos Aganza Graham - born in Hermosillo, Sonora Mexican actor, screenwriter, broadcaster and poet of Spanish and Scottish descent was known as the Mexican Errol Flynn during Mexico's Época Dorada del Cine...
- Rosario María Gutiérrez EskildsenRosario María Gutiérrez EskildsenMaría del Rosario Gutiérrez Eskildsen was a Mexican lexicographer, linguist, educator, and poet who is remembered for her studies on the regional peculiarities of speech in her home state of Tabasco as well as for her pioneering work as a teacher and pedagogue in Tabasco and Mexico in general...
- Manuel Gutiérrez NájeraManuel Gutiérrez NájeraManuel Gutiérrez Nájera was a Mexican writer and political figure.-Background:He was born in Mexico City on December 22, 1859, and in his youth worked as a journalist and was elected as a Deputy....
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- Germán List ArzubideGermán List ArzubideGermán List Arzubide was a Mexican poet and revolutionary.Born in Puebla, he was an active participant in the Revolution, fighting alongside Emiliano Zapata as well as extolling him and other revolutionary leaders in his poetry...
- Ricardo López MéndezRicardo López MéndezRicardo López Méndez was a Mexican poet and song lyricist. He was born in Izamal, Yucatán. He became director of the Public Library and an advisor to Felipe Carrillo Puerto, governor of Yucatán from 1922 to 1924. In 1927 he moved to Mexico City as a representative of the government of Yucatán...
- Ramón López VelardeRamón López VelardeRamón López Velarde was aMexican poet. His work is generally considered to be postmodern, but is unique for its subject matter. He achieved great fame in his native land, to the point of being considered Mexico's national poet....
- Gregorio López
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- Manuel Maples ArceManuel Maples ArceManuel Maples Arce was a Mexican poet, lawyer, diplomat and writer, founder of the Stridentism movement in 1921....
- Luis María MartínezLuis María MartínezLuis María Martínez y Rodríguez was the Catholic archbishop of Mexico and a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua ....
- Carlos Méndez VillalobosCarlos Méndez VillalobosCarlos Méndez Villalobos is a Mexican writer of poetry, short stories and novels. He is also an awarded physician for the Mexican Health Ministry, in the central state of Guanajuato.-Biography:...
- Arturo MezaArturo MezaArturo Meza is a Mexican songwriter, musician, composer, singer, poet and writer. He is a prolific artist and inventor of musical instruments, such as the teclaedro, yeloguerlizet, mezáfono and oglio. The base of his songs is folk music, usually only his own voice and guitar...
- Margarita MichelenaMargarita MichelenaMargarita Michelena was a Mexican poet, literary critic, translator and journalist.-Biography:...
- José MontalvoJosé MontalvoJosé Luis Montalvo was a Chicano writer, poet, and community activist.-Biography:José Luis Montalvo was born September 9, 1946 in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México, and moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1957. A year after graduating from Fox Tech High School in 1966, José Montalvo joined the Air Force...
- Francisco MonterdeFrancisco MonterdeFrancisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years...
- Fabio MorabitoFabio MorabitoFabio Morábito is a Mexican writer and poet.Born in Egypt to Italian parents, he spent his childhood in Milan...
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- José Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio Pacheco Berny is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century....
- Mario Santiago PapasquiaroMario Santiago PapasquiaroMario Santiago Papasquiaro is the pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda . Mexican poet and co-founder of the infrarrealista poetry movement.-Biography:His first reading was in 1973...
- Octavio PazOctavio PazOctavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...
- Carlos PellicerCarlos PellicerCarlos Pellicer Cámara , born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was heavily active in the promotion of Mexican art and literature...
- Guillermo PrietoGuillermo PrietoGuillermo Prieto Pradillo was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet, chronicler, journalist, essayist, patriot and Liberal politician...
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- Jaime SabinesJaime SabinesJaime Sabines Gutiérrez was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages...
- Francisco J. SantamaríaFrancisco J. SantamaríaFrancisco Javier Santamaría was an influential Mexican writer and politician who is best remembered for his contributions to the study of Mexican literature and lexicography; he variously worked or published as a bibliographer, essayist, geographer, journalist, judge, lawyer, lexicographer,...
- Tomás SegoviaTomás SegoviaTomás Segovia was a Mexican author and poet of Spanish origin. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and studied in France and Morocco. He went into exile to Mexico, where he taught at the Colegio de México and other universities...
- Francisco SerranoFrancisco Serrano, poetFRANCISCO SERRANO is a Mexican poet and writer whose multiple works also include opera librettos and publications in collaboration with painters...
- Justo SierraJusto SierraJusto Sierra Méndez , was a prominent Mexican writer, journalist, poet and political figure of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was the son of Mexican novelist Justo Sierra O'Reilly, who is credited with inspiring his son with the spirit of literature...
- Carlos de Sigüenza y GóngoraCarlos de Sigüenza y GóngoraCarlos de Sigüenza y Góngora was one of the first great intellectuals born in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. A polymath and writer, he held many colonial government and academic positions.-Early career:...
- Roberto SolisRoberto SolisRoberto Solis is an armored car robber, convicted murderer and poet. He has more than 30 aliases including Pancho Aguila, a pen name he used in prison while writing poetry....
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- José Juan TabladaJosé Juan TabladaJosé Juan Tablada was a Mexican poet, art critic, and diplomat. Traveled briefly in Japan and later translated and wrote haiku, introducing the poetic form to Spanish language readers.-External links:*-Sources:...
- Altair Tejeda de TamezAltair Tejeda de TamezAltaír Tejeda de Tamez is a Mexican short story writer, poet, playwright and journalist.-Biography:...
- José TlatelpasJose TlatelpasJosé Tlatelpas is a Mexican poet, essayist, visual artist, journalist, publisher, writer and political activist for civil rights...
- Jaime Torres BodetJaime Torres BodetJaime Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico....
- Julio TorriJulio TorriJulio Torri Maynes was a Mexican writer and teacher who formed part of the Ateneo de la Juventud . He wrote principally in the essay form, although his limited production included short stories and scholarly works as well...