1. Rosario Castellanos (1925)

Mexican Poet

Mexican poet who is considered a key voice in twentieth century Mexican literature for her works dealing with issues of feminism and oppression. Some of her best known works include...

2. Amparo Dávila (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

Amparo Davila born 1928 in Zacatecas Mexico is a Mexican author. Dávila was the sole surviving child of her parents. The oldest son died at childbirth. The next son died...

3. Carlos Méndez Villalobos (1954)

Mexican Poet

Carlos 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.

4. Carmen Boullosa (1954)

Mexican Poet

Carmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican poet novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles...

5. Sergio Witz (1962)

Mexican Poet

Sergio Witz Rodríguez is a Mexican poet. His literary work has been recognized by Mexico's National Fund for Culture and Arts a government agency that promotes the arts and culture...

6. Fabio Morábito (1955)

Mexican Poet

bio Morábito is a Mexican writer and poet. Born in Egypt to Italian parents he spent his childhood in Milan.

7. David Huerta (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

David Huerta born in Mexico City in 1949 is a Mexican poet and the son of well-known poet Efraín Huerta.

8. Natalio Hernández (1947)

Mexican Poet

Natalio Hernández Hernández also known as Natalio Hernández Xocoyotzin and by the pseudonym José Antonio Xokoyotsij is a Mexican Nahua intellectual and poet from the state of Veracruz.

9. Carlos Pellicer (1897)

Mexican Poet

Carlos 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. An...

10. Alejandro Aura (1944)

Mexican Poet

Alejandro Aura was a Mexican writer essayist poet playwright and actor as well as a culture promoter and television host.

11. Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853)

Mexican Poet

Salvador Díaz Mirón was a Mexican poet. He was born in the port city of Veracruz. His early verse written in a passionate romantic style was influenced by Lord Byron...

12. Germán List Arzubide (1898)

Mexican Poet

Germán 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...

13. Roberto Cabral del Hoyo (1913)

Mexican Poet

Roberto Cabral del Hoyo was a Mexican historian and writer.

14. José Gorostiza (1901)

Mexican Poet

José Gorostiza Alcalá was a Mexican poet educator and diplomat. For his achievements in the poetic arts he was made a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.

15. Salvador Novo (1904)

Mexican Poet

Salvador Novo López was a Mexican writer poet playwright translator television presenter entrepreneur and the official chronicler of Mexico City his birthplace and home. As a noted intellectual he influenced...

16. Francisco González Bocanegra (1824)

Mexican Poet

sco González Bocanegra was a Mexican poet who wrote the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem in 1853. He was born in San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí to Spanish...

17. Pita Amor (1918)

Mexican Poet

Guadalupe 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...

18. Hermann Bellinghausen (1953)

Mexican Poet

Hermann Bellinghausen is a Mexican physician poet writer and editor.

19. Jorge Fernández Granados (1965)

Mexican Poet

Jorge Fernández Granados is a Mexican poet. He is a recipient of the Carlos Pellicer Iberoamerican Poetry Award and the Jaime Sabines International Prize.

20. Roberto Castillo Udiarte (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

Roberto 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....

21. José Carlos Becerra (1936)

Mexican Poet

José Carlos Becerra was a Mexican poet.

22. Estrella del Valle (1971)

Mexican Poet

Estrella del Valle is a Mexican poet. She was born in Córdoba Veracruz in 1971 and studied creative writing at the Writer's General Society of Mexico. In 2000 she won...

23. Eduardo Lizalde (1929)

Mexican Poet

Eduardo Lizalde Chávez is a Mexican poet academic and administrator. Lizalde is known as El Tigre for recurring themes in his work which stem from his childhood fondness for the...

24. Malva Flores (1961)

Mexican Poet

Malva Flores is a contemporary Mexican poet. She has also published short stories and essays. In 1991 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven “Elías Nandino” for her...

25. Minerva Bloom (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

Minerva Bloom is a bilingual poet and nature photographer born in 1959 in Tinguindin Michoacán a small town nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. She has been living...

26. Margarita Michelena (1917)

Mexican Poet

Margarita Michelena was a Mexican poet literary critic translator and journalist.

27. Elías Nandino (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

Elías Nandino was a Mexican poet.

28. Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera was a Mexican writer and political figure.

29. Eduardo Arellano Elías (Unknow)

Mexican Poet

Eduardo Arellano Elías was a Mexican poet.

30. Jaime Sabines (1926)

Mexican Poet

Jaime 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...

31. Elsa Cross (1946)

Mexican Poet

Elsa 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....

32. Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923)

Mexican Poet

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño was 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...

33. Manuel Carpio (1791)

Mexican Poet

Manuel 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...

34. Manuel José Othón (1858)

Mexican Poet

Manuel José Othón was a poet playwright and Mexican politician. One of his most famous works is Idilio salvaje considered one of the most representative poems of Mexico.

35. Gregorio López (writer) (1895)

Mexican Poet

Gregorio López y Fuentes was a Mexican novelist poet and journalist. He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution. López y Fuentes was born in a ranch...

36. Efraín Huerta (1914)

Mexican Poet

Efraín Huerta was a Mexican poet. Huerta began studying law at the UNAM in Mexico City but abandoned his studies in favour of journalism and literature.

37. Ramón López Velarde (1888)

Mexican Poet

Ramón López Velarde was a Mexican poet. His work is generally considered to be postmodern but it is unique for its subject matter. He achieved great fame in his native...

38. Alberto Blanco (poet) (Unknow)

Mexican 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...

39. José Montalvo (1953)

Mexican Poet

José Luis Montalvo was a Chicano writer poet and community activist.