This is a list of Surrealist poets, known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.

Surrealist poets

Will Alexander (born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright
Louis Aragon (1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review Littérature^[1]
Braulio Arenas (1913–1988) - Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the "Theatre of Cruelty"
André Breton (1896–1966) - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism
Jorge Cáceres (1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member of La Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group
Jibanananda Das (1899–1954) - Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder of the Negritude movement
Andrei Codrescu (born 1946) - Romanian-American poet, novelist, screenwriter, NPR commentator
Garrett Caples (born 1972) - American poet and former music and arts journalist
Teofilo Cid (1914–1964) - Chilean poet, member of La Mandrágora surrealist group
René Crevel (1900–1935) - French writer
René Daumal (1908–1944) - French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet
Robert Desnos (1900–1945) - French poet and member of the French resistance against the Nazis
Paul Éluard (1895–1952) - French poet
Andreas Embirikos (1901–1975) - Greek poet and psychoanalyst
Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) - Greek poet and painter
David Gascoyne (1916–2001) - English poet and translator
Enrique Gómez Correa (1915–1995) - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat
Janet Hamill (born 1945) - American poet and novelist
Helen Ivory (born 1969) - English poet, artist and editor
Andrew Joron – American poet, three-time winner of the Rhysling Award
George Kalamaras - American poet and professor, former poet laureate of Indiana
Noelle Kocot (born 1969) - American poet
Philip Lamantia (1927–2005) - American poet and educator
Michel Leiris (1901–1990) - French writer
Joyce Mansour (1928–1986) - Egyptian-French author and poet
Ciaran O'Driscoll (born 1943) - Irish surrealist poet
John Olson (born 1947) - American Surrealist poet and novelist
Valentine Penrose (1898–1978) - French surrealist poet, author, and collagist
Benjamin Péret (1899–1959) - French poet and a founder of the French Surrealist movement
Gisèle Prassinos (1920–2015) - French writer
Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009) - American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
Penelope Rosemont (born 1942) - American visual artists, writer, publisher, and social activist
Stuart Ross (born 1959) - Canadian surrealist poet and publisher
Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) - Slovenian surrealist poet
Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) - French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist
James Tate (1943–2015) - American Surrealist poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) - Romanian French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
César Vallejo (1892–1938) - Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist
Ocean Vuong (born 1988) - Vietnamese-American poet, novelist, and educator
John Yau (born 1950) - American poet and critic
Dean Young (1955–2022) - American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014

References

^ Martin Travers (2001). European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice. A&C Black. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-0-8264-4748-7.

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