Avant Garde: Authors, Playwrights, Actors, Directors (theater) and Poets
- JoAnne Akalaitis (writer/director/ Mabou Mines)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (writer)
- Antonin Artaud (French actor, director and theorist)
- Hugo Ball (German writer, dadaist)
- J. G. Ballard (British author)
- Georges Bataille (French writer and essayist)
- Julian Beck (actor/director/ The Living Theater)
- Samuel Beckett (Irish playwright)
- Maurice Blanchot (French writer and essayist)
- Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine short story writer)
- André Breton (French author)
- William S. Burroughs (author, poet, essayist)
- Jim Carroll (avant-garde poet)
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine (author)
- Gregory Corso (experimental Beat poet)
- Jayne Cortez (American poet and spoken-word artist)
- E. E. Cummings (poet)
- Jeffrey Daniels (American Poet)
- Guy Debord (French author, and philosopher)
- Richard Foreman (American Director/designer/playwright/compositional theater maker)
- Akasegawa Genpei (Japanese artist and novelist)
- Allen Ginsberg (poet)
- Witold Gombrowicz (writer)
- Jerzy Grotowski (director)
- Stewart Home (writer)
- Alfred Jarry (writer)
- James Joyce (writer)
- Franz Kafka (writer)
- Tadeusz Kantor (director)
- Lajos Kassák (1887–1967, Hungarian avant-garde poet and painter)
- Srečko Kosovel (Slovene poet)
- Jackson Mac Low, American poet
- Mina Loy (British painter/poet)
- Judith Malina (actor/director/ The Living Theater)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (founder of Italian futurism)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian futurist writer and poet)
- Vsevolod Meyerhold (director)
- Henry Miller (author)
- Yukio Mishima (writer, playwright, poet)
- Vladimir Nabokov (Russian author)
- Anaïs Nin (French diarist, author, poet)
- John Dos Passos (American writer)
- Ezra Pound (American poet)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French author, playwright, filmmaker)
- Raymond Roussel (writer)
- Bruno Schulz (writer)
- Gertrude Stein (author, essayist)
- Ellen Stewart (theater director/ La MaMa)
- Tristan Tzara (Romanian poet)
- William Carlos Williams (American poet)
- Miroslav Wanek (Czech composer, poet, singer)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (writer)
- Robert Wilson (director)
- Virginia Woolf (English author)
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“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)