List of performance poets

The following is a partial list of performance poets.

Nigeria

 * Eva Alordiah

South Africa

 * Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
 * Lebogang Mashile
 * Isabella Motadinyane
 * Lesego Rampolokeng

Canada

 * Lillian Allen
 * Afua Cooper
 * Shane Koyczan
 * Brendan McLeod
 * Susan McMaster
 * Chris Tse
 * Mustafa the Poet
 * Dwayne Morgan
 * Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
 * Sheri-D Wilson
 * Kaie Kellough
 * Boonaa Mohammed

United States
A-E


 * Hanif Abdurraqib
 * Taalam Acey
 * Alurista
 * David Antin
 * Craig Arnold
 * Robert Ashley
 * Amiri Baraka
 * John M. Bennett
 * Buddy Wakefield
 * Big Poppa E
 * Nicole Blackman
 * Brother Dash
 * Ariana Brown
 * Derrick Brown
 * B. Dolan
 * Roger Bonair-Agard
 * Giannina Braschi
 * Clint Catalyst
 * Richard Cambridge
 * Imani Cezanne
 * Staceyann Chin
 * Jim Cohn
 * Allison Hedge Coke
 * Desireé Dallagiacomo
 * Jamie DeWolf
 * Maggie Estep

F-J


 * Karen Finley
 * Shaggy Flores
 * Denice Frohman
 * Kip Fulbeck
 * Andrea Gibson
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * John Giorno
 * Jesse Glass
 * Gary Glazner
 * Guillermo Gómez-Peña
 * Roxy Gordon
 * Hedwig Gorski
 * John S. Hall
 * John Agard
 * Suheir Hammad
 * Matt Harvey
 * Bradley Hathaway
 * M. Ayodele Heath
 * Neil Hilborn
 * Jackie Hill Perry
 * Bob Holman
 * Detrick Hughes
 * J. Ivy
 * David Jewell
 * Javon Johnson

K-P


 * Sarah Kay
 * Kealoha
 * Nomy Lamm
 * Erika Renee Land
 * The Last Poets
 * Bobby LeFebre
 * Al Letson
 * Lydia Lunch
 * Taylor Mali
 * Jeffrey McDaniel
 * Mighty Mike McGee
 * Karyna McGlynn
 * Douglas A. Martin
 * Kevin Max
 * Boonaa Mohammed
 * Lenelle Moïse
 * Anis Mojgani
 * José Montoya
 * Jessica Care Moore
 * Porsha Olayiwola
 * Alix Olson
 * Robert Peters
 * Jason Petty
 * Lynne Procope

R-Z


 * John Rives
 * Ursula Rucker
 * Carl Hancock Rux
 * Michael Salinger
 * Bryan Lewis Saunders
 * Jill Scott
 * Gil Scott-Heron
 * Beau Sia
 * Otep Shamaya
 * Marc Smith
 * Patricia Smith
 * Patti Smith
 * Rod Smith
 * Sekou Sundiata
 * Taco Shop Poets
 * Quincy Troupe
 * George Watsky
 * Buddy Wakefield
 * Anne Waldman
 * Saul Williams

France

 * Léo Ferré

Italy

 * Massimo Volume
 * Offlaga Disco Pax

Germany

 * Kurt Schwitters

Russia

 * Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky

Spain

 * Carlos Oroza
 * El Chojin

United Kingdom

 * Daniel Beaty
 * Attila the Stockbroker
 * Francesca Beard
 * Pete Brown
 * Craig Charles
 * Muslim Belal
 * Paula Claire
 * John Cooper Clarke
 * Jegsy Dodd
 * Salena Godden
 * Matt Harvey
 * John Hegley
 * Adrian Henri
 * Michael Horovitz
 * Linton Kwesi Johnson
 * Anthony Joseph
 * Liverpool Poets
 * Roger McGough
 * Hollie McNish
 * The Medway Poets
 * Ted Milton
 * Andrew Motion
 * Brian Patten
 * Scroobius Pip
 * Jeremy Reed
 * Lemn Sissay
 * Rod Summers
 * Kae Tempest
 * Jim Templeton
 * Nick Toczek
 * Rhys Trimble
 * Byron Vincent
 * Seething Wells
 * Gez Walsh
 * Luke Wright
 * Peter Wyton
 * Murray Lachlan Young
 * Benjamin Zephaniah

Australia

 * Jas H. Duke
 * Jayne Fenton Keane
 * Luka Lesson
 * Chris Mansell
 * Pi O
 * Les Wicks
 * Amanda Stewart
 * Billy Marshall Stoneking
 * Komninos Zervos

New Zealand

 * Tusiata Avia
 * Miriam Barr
 * Ben Fagan
 * Sam Hunt
 * Craig Ireson
 * Michael Rudd
 * Apirana Taylor