Mexican poets

Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet and playwright whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos, published in 1953.

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Eliseo Alberto de Diego García Marruz (September 10, 1951 – July 31, 2011) was a Cuban-born Mexican writer, novelist, essayist and journalist.

Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat.

Sabina Berman Goldberg is a playwright, storyteller, essayist, and film and theater director.

Jaime Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974) was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico.

Salvador Novo López (30 July 1904 – 13 January 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City.

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (December 22, 1859 - February 3, 1895) was a Mexican writer and political figure.

Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist and diplomat known for his originality and independence.

Genaro Estrada (June 2, 1887 – September 29, 1937) was a Mexican statesman, academic, and writer.

José Gorostiza Alcalá (10 November 1901 – 16 March 1973) was a Mexican poet, educator, and diplomat.

Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet.

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

Esther Seligson (25 October 1941 – 8 February 2010) was a Mexican writer, poet, translator, and historian.

Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí (January 10, 1975) is a Mexican writer and poet.

Renato Leduc (November 16, 1897 – August 2, 1986) was a Mexican poet and journalist.

Bernardo de Balbuena (c. Valdepeñas (Spain) 1561 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1627) was a Spanish poet.

Rodrigo González, (December 25, 1950 – September 19, 1985), better known as Rockdrigo or El profeta del nopal ("The Nopal Prophet"), was a Mexican musician and singer-songwriter.

Elvira Catalina Quintana Molina (7 November 1935 – 8 August 1968) was a Spanish-born Mexican actress, singer, and poet.

Salvador Díaz Mirón (December 14, 1853 – June 12, 1928) was a Mexican poet.

Manuel Elogio Carpio Hernández (March 1, 1791 – February 11, 1860), known as Manuel Carpio, was a Mexican poet.

Natalio Hernández Hernández (born 27 July 1947), 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.

Altaír Tejeda de Tamez (Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico; October 23, 1922) is a Mexican short story writer, poet, playwright and journalist.

José Luis Montalvo (September 9, 1946 - August 15, 1994) was a Chicano writer, poet, and community activist.

Francisco González Bocanegra (January 8, 1824 – April 11, 1861) was a Mexican poet who wrote the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem in 1853.

Manuel Maples Arce (May 1, 1900 - June 26, 1981) was a Mexican poet, writer, art critic, lawyer and diplomat, especially known as the founder of the Stridentism movement.

Enrique Márquez Jaramillo (San Luis Potosí, March 4, 1950), known in Mexico and abroad as Enrique Márquez, is a poet, historian and Mexican politician.

Félix Suárez (born in State of Mexico) in 1961) is a Mexican poet, essayist and editor.

Aldo Villegas (born 12 July 1978), better known by his stage name Bocafloja, is a rapper, poet, spoken word artist, and outspoken social communicator from Mexico City, Mexico.

Nandino was born in Cocula, Jalisco.

Marcos E. Becerra (April 25, 1870 – January 7, 1940) was a prolific Mexican writer, poet, and politician.

Fabio Morábito (born February 21, 1955 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a Mexican writer and poet.

Xhevdet Bajraj (Serbo-Croat: Dževdet Bajraj) (born in 1960, in Kosovo, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is an ethnic Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriter now residing in Mexico.

José Rosas Moreno (August 14, 1838 – July 13, 1883) was a Mexican writer of fables of the 19th century, son of Don Ignacio Rosas and Doña Olaya Moreno.

Julio Torri Maynes (June 27, 1889 in Saltillo, Coahuila – May 11, 1970 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and teacher who formed part of the Ateneo de la Juventud (1909–1914).

Bonnevilla is a Chilean-Mexican hip hop duo from Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, that consists of Khoriantor and Enuar.

Alí Chumacero Lora (9 July 1918 – 22 October 2010) was a Mexican poet.

Gregorio López y Fuentes (November 17, 1897 – December 10, 1966) was a Mexican novelist, poet, and journalist.

Juan Máximo Rojas Proenza, known as Max Rojas (June 4, 1940 - April 24, 2015) was a Mexican poet, essayist, literary critic and culture manager.

Rocío Cerón (born 1972) is a Mexican poet.

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (12 November 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a Mexican poet and classical scholar.

Francisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta (August 9, 1894 in Mexico City – February 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years.

Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta (1937–2014) was a writer born in a community called Tarachi in the municipality of Arivechi, Sonora, Mexico in 1937.

Germán List Arzubide (31 May 1898 – 17 October or 19 October 1998) was a Mexican poet and revolutionary.

Justo Sierra Méndez (Campeche, Republic of Yucatán, January 26, 1848 – Madrid, Spain, September 13, 1912), was a prominent Mexican writer, historian, journalist, poet and political figure of the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Guillermo Prieto Pradillo (10 February 1818 – 2 March 1897) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet, chronicler, journalist, essayist, patriot and Liberal politician.

Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual.

Ramon Xirau Subias (Spanish: [raˈmon ʃiˈɾau], Catalan: [rəˈmoɲ ʃiˈɾaw]) (born in Barcelona, Spain on 20 January 1924) is a Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.

Roberto Castillo Udiarte (1951) is a Mexican poet, fiction writer and translator, most notably of Charles Bukowski.

Roberto Reyes Barreiro (Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico 1877—Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico 1928) was an activist, surgeon, and political leader in the Mexican states of Yucatán and Veracruz.

Rosario Sansores (1889–1972) was a Mexican poet and journalist.

Rossy Evelin Lima-Padilla (born August 18, 1986 in Veracruz, Mexico), is an international award-winning Mexican poet and linguist.

Javier Sicilia (1956, Mexico City) is a mexican poet, essayist, novelist, peace activist and journalist in Mexico.

Tomás Segovia (Spanish pronunciation: [toˈmas seˈɣoβja]; 21 May 1927 – 7 November 2011) was a Mexican author, translator and poet of Spanish origin.

Roberto Cabral del Hoyo (August 7, 1913 – October 4, 1999) was a Mexican historian and writer.

Alberto Blanco is considered one of Mexico's most important poets.

Alejandro Aura (Mexico City, Mexico; March 2, 1944 – Madrid, Spain; July 30, 2008) was a Mexican writer, essayist, poet, playwright and actor, as well as a culture promoter and television host.

Arturo Meza (Tocumbo, Michoacán, December 12, 1956) is a Mexican songwriter, musician, composer, singer, poet and writer.

Carlos Méndez Villalobos (born September 7, 1954) is a Mexican writer of poetry, short stories and novels.

Eduardo Arellano Elías (1959 in Zacatecas – 2004 in Mexicali) was a Mexican poet.

Eduardo Martínez Celis (29 October 1890, Zamora, Michoacán – 5 November 1943, Monterrey, Nuevo León) was a Mexican journalist, author and politician.

Eduardo Milán is a Uruguayan author who has written over twenty books of poetry, several collections of criticism, and two anthologies of Spanish-language poetry.

Efraín Huerta (June 18, 1914 in Silao, Guanajuato – February 3, 1982 in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet and journalist.

Alaíde Foppa (1914 - c. 1980?) was a poet, writer, feminist, art critic, teacher and translator.

Juan Díaz Covarrubias (27 December 1837 – 11 April 1859) was a Mexican writer and poet of liberal ideology.

Luis María Martínez y Rodríguez (June 9, 1881 – February 9, 1956) was the Catholic archbishop of Mexico and a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua ("Mexican Language Academy").

Ricardo López Méndez (7 February 1903 – 28 December 1989)was a Mexican poet and song lyricist.

Marco Antonio Montes de Oca (August 3, 1932 - February 7, 2009) was a Mexican poet and painter.

María Enriqueta Camarillo (also known as María Enriqueta Camarillo y Roa de Pereyra) (1872–1968) was a Mexican poet novelist, short story writer and translator.