Editing List of Surrealist poets

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This is a '''list of [[Surrealism|Surrealist]] [[poet]]s''', known for writing material within the Surrealist [[cultural movement]] that began in the early 1920s.
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== Surrealist poets ==
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* [[Will Alexander (poet)|Will Alexander]] (born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright
* [[Louis Aragon]] (1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review ''[[Littérature (magazine)|Littérature]]''<ref name="Travers2001">{{cite book|author=Martin Travers|title=European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlcnxCx1ZM4C&pg=PA176|year=2001|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-4748-7|pages=176–}}</ref>
* [[Braulio Arenas]] (1913–1988) - [[Chile]]an 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 (poet)|Jorge Cáceres]] (1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member of [[La Mandrágora]], a Chilean Surrealist group
* [[Aimé Césaire]] (1913–2008) - French and [[Martinica]]n 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 (poet and writer)|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 (writer)|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 (poet)|Dean Young]] (1955–2022) -  American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014

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== See also ==
*[[:Category:Surrealist poets]]
*[[:Category:Surrealist writers]]

== References ==
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