# List of Surrealist poets

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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007) - British-Cuban political activist, Trotskyist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
* 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
* 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
* Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (born 1951) - American poet and critic
* 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