William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II ( ; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and artist.
 Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature.
 Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
 Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences.
 He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.
 He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee.
 Burroughs created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual art works, including his celebrated 'Gunshot Paintings'.
Francis Ponge
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (] ; 27 March 1899 – 6 August 1988) was a French essayist and poet.
 Influenced by surrealism, he developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects.
 He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.
Rhymed prose
Rhymed prose is a literary form and literary genre, written in unmetrical rhymes.
 This form has been known in many different cultures.
 In some cases the rhymed prose is a distinctive, well-defined style of writing.
 In modern literary traditions the boundaries of poetry are very broad (free verse, prose poetry, etc.), and some works may be described both as prose and poetry.
Mitchell S. Buck
Mitchell Starrett Buck (February 10, 1887 – May 12, 1959) was an American poet, translator and classical scholar.
 His volumes of verse and prose poetry were deeply influenced by 1890s aestheticism as well as classical Greek and Roman Literature.
 His work "Syrinx: Pastels of Hellas", which was published by his friend Donald Evans on his Claire Marie Press in 1914, was praised by H.L. Mencken who remarked that "Syrinx" contained "a series of Grecian rhapsodies in rhythmic prose, many of them of considerable beauty."
 Buck also published prose works and a biography of Casanova.
Amy Newman
Amy Newman is an American poet, critic and professor.
 She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently "On This Day in Poetry History" (Persea Books).
 Her other books include "Dear Editor", winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, "fall", "Camera Lyrica," winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and her first book, "Order, or Disorder," which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize.
 Newman has received fellowships in poetry from the MacDowell Colony and the Ohio and Illinois Arts Councils.
 Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including "The Kenyon Review", "The Missouri Review", "Hotel Amerika", "The Ohio Review", "Colorado Review", "Denver Quarterly", "The Gettysburg Review", "Hayden's Ferry Review", "Willow Springs", "Indiana Review", "The Carolina Quarterly", and "The Connecticut Poetry Review", and in anthologies, including "The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries", "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets In Discussion and Practice", "An Introduction To The Prose Poem", "Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books", and "The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry".
 Her poetry has been translated and published in Italy and Romania.
Le parti pris des choses
Le parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by French poet and essayist Francis Ponge first published in 1942 (see 1942 in poetry).
 The title is often translated into English as The Voice of Things, The Way Things Are, or The Nature of Things (perhaps to echo Lucretius, though the book's philosophical underpinnings are more often associated with phenomenology).
Fuyuhiko Kitagawa
Fuyuhiko Kitagawa (北川 冬彦 , Kitagawa Fuyuhiko ) (3 July 1900 - 12 June 1990) was a Japanese poet and film critic.
 His real name was Tadahiko Taguro.
 While born in Shiga Prefecture, he was raised in Manchukuo in China due to his father's work on the South Manchurian Railway, and then graduated from Tokyo University.
 He began publishing his own poetry in Manchukuo in 1924 and his work was influenced by that colonial context.
 His work was praised by Riichi Yokomitsu, and he became a prominent figure in modernist poetry in Japan, pursuing especially prose poetry.
 Kitagawa was also a well-known film critic, one who especially praised the work of Mansaku Itami (the father of Juzo Itami), calling it a new, realistic "prose cinema" ("sanbun eiga") in opposition to the old "poetic cinema" ("inbun eiga") of Sadao Yamanaka, Daisuke Itō, and others.
 He was a champion of neorealism in the postwar era.
Beverley Bie Brahic
Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area.
 Her poetry collection, "White Sheets", was a finalist for the Forward Prize  and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
 Her translations include "Guillaume Apollinaire:The Little Auto", winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize; "Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud", a finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation; "Yves Bonnefoy: The Present Hour"; and books by Hélène Cixous, including "Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint", "Manhattan", and "Hyperdream," Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva.
John Olson (poet and writer)
John Olson (born August 23, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American poet and novelist.
 Olson has lived for many years in Seattle, Washington.
 He has published nine collections of poetry and three novels, including "Souls of Wind", nominated for the 2008 Believer Book Award.
 In 2004, Seattle’s weekly newspaper, "The Stranger", for whom he has written occasional essays, gave Olson one of its annual "genius awards."
 His writing notebooks have been exhibited at the University of Washington.
 Olson's prose poetry has been reviewed in print and online poetry magazines.
 The poet Philip Lamantia said that Olson was "extraordinary...the greatest prose poetry [i've] ever read."
 and Clayton Eshleman said "he is writing the most outlandish, strange, and inventive prose poetry ever in the history of the prose poem."
Nappy edges
nappy edges is a collection of poetry and prose poetry written by Ntozake Shange and first published by St. Martin's Press in 1978.
 The poems, which vary in voice and style, explore themes of love, racism, sexism, and loneliness.
 Shange's third book of poetry, "nappy edges," was met with positive reviews and praise from critics, like Holly Prado of the "Los Angeles Times" who said of it that "this collection of poems, prose poems and poetic essays merges personal passion and heightened language."

Question: Which of the following was influenced by surrealism and developed his own form of prose poetry examining everyday objects: Francis Ponge or William S. Burroughs?
Answer: Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge