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
 * 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