Black Swan Press, Black Swan, is a publisher of surrealist books in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1968, the press is the publisher of a group of revolutionary artists, poets and writers who have a passionate risk-taking adventure involving nothing less than the emancipation of language. Surrealism as an organized movement originated in Paris in the last months of World War I. Andre Breton, the movement's principal theorist, published the first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. Black Swan also goes by the name Black Swan Press/Surrealist Editions. The press's editors, Franklin and Penelope Rosement, are also editors of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Chicago, IL.