Roger Reeves: 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Acceptance Speech
“There’s no way I ever could have imagined that looking at those bookshelves would bring me here.” Watch this moving acceptance speech by Roger Reeves, …
Roger Reeves: 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Acceptance Speech
“There’s no way I ever could have imagined that looking at those bookshelves would bring me here.” Watch this moving acceptance speech by Roger Reeves, winner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize for his outstanding collection, Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton). Reeves expresses his deep gratitude to his grandmother, who encouraged … Read more
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2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings
Watch the unforgettable 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings at Koerner Hall, featuring readings by the six finalists—Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal, Ada Limón, Susan Musgrave, …
Ian Williams interviews Susan Musgrave
“It’s almost as if she died and she took the words away.” —Susan Musgrave In this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams, 2023 Griffin Poetry …
Susan Musgrave reads from Exculpatory Lilies
Listen to Susan Musgrave read “Exculpatory Lilies” from her 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted collection Exculpatory Lilies, (McClelland & Stewart)! For a chance to hear …
Sarah Howe Interviews Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal
“Iman’s poetry was completely unlike anything that I had been reading in Arabic, and the impression that I got was that all of a sudden …
2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners Announcement Film
This film features our 2022 finalists reading poems from each of their shortlisted collections. At the end of the film, we reveal the 2022 Griffin …
Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal read from The Threshold
Listen to translator Robyn Creswell and poet Iman Mersal read “A Grave I’m About to Dig” (مقبرة سأحفرها) from their 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize collection, …
Ada Limón reads from The Hurting Kind
Listen to Ada Limón read “Privacy” from her 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted collection, The Hurting Kind (Corsair Poetry). For a chance to hear Ada …
Reflecting on the First 12 Years of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2000-2012)
We’re not just translating a poem into our own language; we are translating our own language into another poem. We’re making something new in English …