List of performance poets

The following is a partial list of performance poets.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Africa

Nigeria

• Eva Alordiah

South Africa

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

North America

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
• Darius Simpson
• 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

Europe

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