Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943) was co founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Surrealist Movement in the United States was started by the Chicago Surrealist Group as a means of including many of its scattered participants from coast to coast on collective statements and in collective activities. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ...

His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician.[1] Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ...

He edited and wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, and edited Rebel Worker and Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion. With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited The Forecast is Hot!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of Surrealism and of the radical labor movement in America. Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion is a surrealist journal published in Chicago. ... Penelope Rosemont (born 1942 Chicago, Illinois). ... Paul Garon is an author, writer, and editor, noted for his meditations on surrealist works, and also a noted scholar on blues as a musical and cultural movement. ...

He is the author of the poetry collection The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author. and An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers, a book that explores the phenomenon of "wrong numbers" that is inspired by surrealism, which was published by Black Swan Press in 2003. Black Swan Press, Black Swan, is a publisher of surrealist books in Chicago, Illinois. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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