Previous Submissions
The Griffin Poetry Prize receives hundreds of entries from publishers around the world and the information is available in this database, which is updated in April annually.
Coffee House Press
United States
2021
Gold Cure
Ted Mathys
2021
The Malevolent Volume
Justin Phillip Reed
2021
Things to do In Hell
Chris Martin
2021
Thresholes
Lara Mimosa Montes
2020
Big Cabin
Ron Padgett
2020
Exiles of Eden
Ladan Osman
2020
Mitochondrial Night
Ed Bok Lee
2020
Safe Houses I Have Known
Steve Healey
2020
The Intangibles
2020
Without Protection
Gala Mukomolova
2019
Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed
2019
Not Here
Hieu Minh Nguyen
2019
Perennial
Kelly Forsythe
2019
Spectra
Ashley Toliver
2019
The Body Ghost
Joseph Lease
2019
The Cataracts
Raymond McDaniel
2018
Beneath the Spanish
2018
Fugitive, in Full View
Jack Marshall
2018
Good Stock Strange Blood
Dawn Lundy Martin
2018
Make Yourself Happy
Eleni Sikelianos
2018
Thousand Star Hotel
Bao Phi
2018
Thousands
Lightsey Darst
2017
Blindsight
Greg Hewett
2017
So What So That
Marjorie Welish
2017
Songs from a Mountain
Amanda Nadelberg
2017
They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This
Anna Moschovakis
2017
Unbearable Splendor
Sun Yung Shin
2017
Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born
Anne Waldman
2015
Expect Delays
Bill Berkson
2015
Prelude to Bruise
Saeed Jones
2015
Streaming
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
2014
Dance
Lightsey Darst
2014
Psychedelic Norway
John Colburn
2014
Sing This One Back to Me
Bob Holman
2014
Special Powers and Abilities
Raymond McDaniel
2014
Spiral Trace
Jack Marshall
2014
The First Flag
Sarah Fox
2014
The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead
Eleni Sikelianos
2013
Bright Brave Phenomena
Amanda Nadelberg
2013
Errancities
Quincy Troupe
2013
Green is for World
Juliana Leslie
2013
In The Futurity Lounge
Marjorie Welish
2013
Rough, and Savage
Shin Sun Yung
2013
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Patricia Smith
2012
Becoming Weather
Chris Martin
2012
Click and Clone
2012
How Long
Ron Padgett
2012
In the Shadow of Al-Andalus
2012
Testify
Joseph Lease
2012
The Iovis Trilogy
Anne Waldman
2012
Whorled
Ed Bok Lee
2012
You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
Anna Moschovakis
2011
10 Mississippi
Steve Healey
2011
darkacre
Greg Hewett
2011
Entrep
Mark McMorris
2011
Find the Girl
Lightsey Darst
2011
Sarah - Of Fragments and Lines
Julie Carr
2011
Shoulder Season
Ange Mlinko
2010
A Toast in the House of Friends
Akilah Oliver
2010
Catch Light
Sarah O’Brien
2010
Coal Mountain Elementary
Mark Nowak
2010
Handling Destiny
Adrian Castro
2010
The Spoils
Ted Mathys
2009
Blood Dazzler
Patricia Smith
2009
Body Clock
Eleni Sikelianos
2009
Isle of the Signatories
Marjorie Welish
2009
Jealous Witness
Andrei Codrescu
2009
Rounding the Human Corners
Linda Hogan
2009
Saltwater Empire
Raymond McDaniel
2009
Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu
Matthew Zapruder,
Radn Ioanid,
Eugen Jebeleanu
2009
The Cosmopolitan
Donna Stonecipher
2009
The Romance of Happy Workers
Anne Boyer
2009
The Steel Veil
Jack Marshall
2009
Things I Must Have Known
A. B. Spellman
2008
Broken World
Joseph Lease
2008
Guests of Space
Anselm Hollo
2008
How to Be Perfect
Ron Padgett
2008
Skirt Full of Black
Sun Yung Shin
2008
The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations
Brenda Coultas
2008
Vertigo
Martha Ronk
2007
Erosion's Pull
Maureen Owen
2007
Light & Shade: New & Selected Poems
Tom Clark
2007
Teahouse of the Almighty
Patricia Smith
2007
The Architecture of Language
Quincy Troupe
2007
The Mountain in the Sea
2006
Forge
Ted Mathys
2006
Off-Season City Pipe
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
2006
Somewhere Else
Matthew Shenoda
2006
Starred Wire
Ange Mlinko
2006
Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time
Adrian Castro
2004
A Handmade Museum
Brenda Coultas
2004
In The Room of Never Grieve: New & Selected Poems 1985-2003
Anne Waldeman
2004
it was today
Andrei Codrescu
2004
The Cloud of Knowable Things
2004
The Magic Whip
Wang Ping
2002
Earliest Worlds
Eleni Sikelianos
2002
Notes on the Possibilities & Attractions of Existence
Anselm Hollo
2002
Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things
Dick Gallup
Cold River Press
United States
2017
IN CHAPARRAL
Wendy Patrice Williams
2017
Spider Season
Susan Kelly-DeWitt
2017
Uplift
Taylor Graham
Commune Editions/AK Press
United States
2016
Red Epic
Joshua Clover
2016
the Winter the Wolf Came
Juliana Spahr
2016
We are Nothnig and So Can You
Jasper Bernes
Connecticut River Press
United States
2007
Lost and Found, Rhyming Verse Honoring African American Heroes
Jennifer Smith Turner
Copper Canyon Press
United States
2024
Shortlisted
2021
Shortlisted
2020
Shortlisted
2018
Shortlisted
2016
Winner
2013
Shortlisted
2009
Winner
2003
Shortlisted
2021
13th Balloon
Mark Bibbins
2021
44 Poems for You
Sarah Ruhl
2021
A Nail the Evening Hangs On
Monica Sok
2021
Cardinal
Tyree Daye
2021
Come the Sumberless to the Land of Nod
Traci Brimhall
2021
Crushing It
Jennifer L. Knox
2021
Deluge
Leila Chatti
2021
For Now
James Richardson
2021
Indigo
Ellen Bass
2021
Muddy Matterhorn
2021
Not Go Away Is My Name
Alberto Rios
2021
Red Stilts
Ted Kooser
2021
Shrapnel Maps
Philip Metres
2021
The Park
John Freeman
2021
Travelers Leaving for the City
Ed Skoog
2020
Dissolve
Sherwin Bitsui
2020
Empires
John Balaban
2020
Everything That Rises
Joseph Stroud
2020
Father's Day
Matthew Zapruder
2020
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
Keith S. Wilson
2020
Hold
Bob Hicok
2020
Library of Small Catastrophes
Alison C. Rollins
2020
Nightingale
Paisley Rekdal
2020
Railsplitter
Maurice Manning
2020
Sight Lines
Arthur Sze
2020
Soft Targets
Deborah Landau
2020
Solar Perplexus
2020
The Anti-Grief
Marianne Boruch
2020
The Hardy Tree
Linda Bierds
2020
Tradition, The
Jericho Brown
2020
Written in Exile: The Poems of Liu Tsung-yuan
Red Pine (Bill Porfer),
Liu Tsung-yuan
2019
A Distant Center
Ha Jin
2019
Dangerous Household Items
David Orr
2019
Dissolve
Sherwin Bitsui
2019
Hold
Bob Hickock
2019
Oceanic
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2019
Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch
David Bottoms
2019
Stranger on Earth
Richard Jones
2019
Terrible Blooms
Melissa Stein
2019
The Dream of Reason
Jenny George
2019
Things As It Is
Chase Twichell
2019
Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions
Jane Miller
2018
Barbie Chang
2018
blud
Rachel McKibbens
2018
Book of Twilight
William O’Daly,
Pablo Neruda
2018
Early Hour
Michael McGriff
2018
Late Empire
Lisa Olstein
2018
Maps
John Freeman
2018
One Man's Dark
Maurice Manning
2018
Patient Zero
2018
Saudade
Traci Brimhall
2018
Self-Portrait As Wikipedia Entry
Dean Rader
2018
The Silence that Remains
2018
Together and By Ourselves
Alex Dimitrov
2018
Unaccompanied
Javier Zamora
2017
Alamo Theory
Josh Bell
2017
Banana Palace
Dana Levin
2017
During
James Richardson
2017
Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing
Marianne Boruch
2017
Everything We Always Knew Was True
James Galvin
2017
Garden Time
W. S. Merwin
2017
Imaginary Vessels
Paisley Rekdal
2017
Incorrect Merciful Impulses
Camille Rankine
2017
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
2017
Run the Red Lights
Ed Skoog
2017
Sex & Love &
Bob Hicok
2017
So Much Synth
2017
Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda
Forrest Gander,
Pablo Neruda
2017
Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones
Lucia Perillo
2016
A Small Story About the Sky
Alberto Rios
2016
Green Migraine
Michael Dickman
2016
Shirt in Heaven
Jean Valentine
2016
Shock by Shock
2016
The News: Poems
Jeffrey Brown
2016
The Uses of the Body
Deborah Landau
2016
War of the Foxes
Richard Siken
2015
Cadaver, Speak
Marianne Boruch
2015
Compass Rose
Arthur Sze
2015
Like a Beggar
Ellen Bass
2015
Slant Six
Erin Belieu
2015
Splitting an Order
Ted Kooser
2015
StormToward Morning
Malachi Black
2015
Sun Bear
Matthew Zapruder
2015
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Tomas Q. Morin,
Pablo Neruda
2015
The Infinitesimals
Laura Kasischke
2015
The Moon Before Morning
W. S. Merwin
2015
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
Red Pine,
Stonehouse
2015
The New Testament
Jericho Brown
2015
The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems
Olena Kalytiak Davis
2015
They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry
Mark Bibbins
2014
Alight
2014
Bangalore
Kerry James Evans
2014
Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower
Sarah Lindsay
2014
Duppy Conqueror
Kwame Dawes
2014
Elegy Owed
Bob Hicok
2014
Everything Begins Elsewhere
Tishani Doshi
2014
fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino
Forrest Gander,
Alfonso D’Aquino
2014
King Me
2014
Little Stranger
Lisa Olstein
2014
Rough Day
Ed Skoog
2014
Thunderbird
Jane Miller
2014
Who Said
Jennifer Michael Hecht
2013
After the Point of No Return
David Wagoner
2013
Charms Against Lighting
James Arthur
2013
Further Adventures in Monochrome
John Yau
2013
Home Burial
Michael McGriff
2013
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
Lucia Perillo
2013
pH Neutral History
Lidija Dimkovska
2013
Sailing through Cassiopeia
Dan Gerber
2013
The Crossed-Out Swastika
Cyrus Cassells
2013
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Natalie Diaz
2012
Collected Body
2012
Fall Higher
2012
Flies
Michael Dickman
2012
Happy Life
David Budbill
2012
Nitro Nights
W. S. Di Piero
2012
Sky Burial
Dana Levin
2012
Songs of Unreason
Jim Harrison
2012
Space, in Chains
Laura Kasischke
2012
The Book of Hours
Marianne Boruch
2012
The Last Usable Hour
Deborah Landau
2012
Vertigo
Marvin Bell
2012
We Almost Disappear
David Bottoms
2011
Break the Glass
Jean Valentine
2011
By The Numbers
James Richardson
2011
Come On All You Ghosts
Matthew Zapruder
2011
In Search of Small Gods
Jim Harrison
2011
Mean Free Path
2011
Preliminary Report
Jon Davis
2011
Sanctificum
Chris Abani
2011
See Me Improving
Travis Nichols
2011
The Book of What Remains
S.
2011
The Correct Spelling & Exact Meaning
Richard Jones
2011
The Volcano
2011
Winter's Journey
Stephen Dobyns
2010
As Is
James Galvin
2010
Before Saying Any of the Great Words
Mark Schafer,
David Huerta
2010
Flood Song
Sherwin Bitsui
2010
How Beautiful the Beloved
Gregory Orr
2010
In Search of Small Gods
Jim Harrison
2010
Inseminating the Elephant
Lucia Perillo
2010
Lost Alphabet
Lisa Olstein
2010
Mister Skylight
Ed Skoog
2010
The Dangerous Shirt
Alberto Rios
2010
The End of the West
Michael Dickman
2010
The Ginkgo Light
Arthur Sze
2010
Upgraded to Serious
2009
A Time in Xanadu
John Irons,
Lars Gustafsson
2009
Human Dark with Sugar
2009
Shadow of Sirius
W. S. Merwin
2009
Twigs & Knucklebones
Sarah Lindsay
2008
A Primer on Parallel Lives
Dan Gerber
2008
A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor
Khaled Mattawa,
Maram al-Massri
2008
American Music
Chris Martin
2008
Mars Being Red
Marvin Bell
2008
The Butterfly's Burden
Fady Joudah,
Mahmoud Darwish
2008
The Human Line
Ellen Bass
2008
The Insomniac Liar of Topo
2008
What's Written on the Body
Peter Pereira
2008
Wild Tongue
Rebecca Seifeerle
2007
Angle of Yaw
2007
Apropos of Nothing
Richard Jones
2007
Black Box
Erin Belieu
2007
Dreaming The End of War
Benjamin Alire Saenz
2007
Path, Crooked Path
John Balaban
2007
Saving Daylight
Jim Harrison
2007
Spectral Waves
Madeline Defrees
2007
The Pajamaist
Matthew Zapruder
2007
The Theater of Night
Alberto Rios
2007
Toward the Distant Islands
Hayden Carruth
2006
A Palace of Pearls
Jane Miller
2006
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
Gregory Orr
2006
Cooling Time
2006
Dog Language
Chase Twichell
2006
Hard Night
Christian Wiman
2006
Migration
W. S. Merwin
2006
Part of the Bargain
Scott Hightower
2006
Present Company
W. S. Merwin
2006
Quipu
Arthur Sze
2006
Stone Bow Prayer
Amy Uyematsu
2006
Wedding Day
Dana Levin
2006
While We've Still Got Feet
David Budbill
2005
Country of Light
Joseph Stroud
2005
In the Dark
Ruth Stone
2005
More tjhan Peace and Cypresses
Cyrus Cassells
2005
Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum
2005
Rampant
Marvin Bell
2005
So Quietly The Earth
David Lee
2005
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
Eleanor Rand Wilner
2005
The Lichtenberg Figures
2005
Waltzing Through the End Time
David Bottoms
2004
Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse
Red Pine (Bill Porfer)
2004
The Lover of God
Tony K. Stewart,
Chase Twichell,
Rabindranath Tagore
2004
Threshold
Shirley Kaufman
2001
Nightworks Poems 1962-2000
Marvin Bell
2001
Spring Essence
H.
2001
The Blessing
Richard Jones
Cormorant Books
Canada
2020
The Gods of East Wawanosh
Marilyn Gear Pilling
2020
We Were Like Everyone Else
Ken Victor
2019
Building on River
Jean van Loon
2019
Giacometti's Girl
Sandra Davies
2016
Catullus's Soldiers
Daniel Goodwin
2016
Crossover
M. Travis Lane
2015
Light takes
Mia Anderson
2015
Looking east over my shoulder
Jill Jorgenson
2015
When we were old
Peter Unwin
2014
A Bee Garden
Marilyn Gear Pilling
2014
A Rhythm to Stand Beside
Jack Hannan
2014
All the Daylight Hours
Amanda Jernigan
2014
Hungry
Daniel Karasik
2013
Ash Steps
M. Travis Lane
2013
The Port Inventory
Donald McGrath
2013
Tilt
E. Blagrave
2013
Waking in the Tree House
Michael Lithgow
2012
No End in Strangeness
Bruce Taylor
2012
Some Frames
Jack Hannan
2012
The Jonas Variations: A Literary S
George Jonas
2012
The Other Side of Ourselves
Rob Taylor
Coteau Books
Canada
2019
A Calendar of Reckoning
Dave Margoshes
2019
One-Way Ticket
Robert Currie
2019
Sedley
Chelsea Coupal
2018
breathing at dusk
Beth Goobie
2017
Burning in this Midnight Dream
Louise Bernice Halfe
2017
Ceremony of Touching
Karen Shklanka
2016
The Days Run Away
Robert Currie
2015
In the Tiger Park
Alison Calder
2015
The Trouble with Beauty
Bruce Rice
2014
Masham Means Evening
Kanina Dawson
2011
Interruptions in Glass
Tracy Hamon
2010
Sumac's Red Arms
Karen Shklanka
2009
My Human Comedy
Gerald Hill
2009
Prairie Kaddish
Isa Milman
2008
The Crooked Good
Louise Bernice Halfe
2008
Wolf Tree
Alison Calder
2007
Embracing Brings You Back
Pat Clifford
2007
Lying to Our Mothers
Katherine Lawrence
2007
Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
Daniel Scott Tysdal
2007
Running in Darkness
Robert Currie
2007
Stones Call Out
Pamela Porter
2006
Just Living
William Robertson
2005
Blue Marrow
Louise Bernice Halfe
2005
Personal Effects
Michael Bradford
2005
slow curve
Jeanne Marie De Moissac
2005
The Gift of the Hawk
Randy Lundy
2004
The Illustrated Statue of Liberty
Bruce Rice
2004
Trout Stream Creed
David Carpenter
2004
What My Body Knows
Lynda Monahan
2002
At Geronimo's Grave
Armand Garnet Ruffo
2002
Ring Finger, Left Hand
Katherine Lawrence
2002
Silk Routes of the Body
Judith Krause
2002
The Man from Saskatchewan
Gerald Hill
2002
The Names Leave the Stones: Poems New & Selected
Steven Michael Berzensky
2001
A Blue with Blood in it
Elizabeth Philips
Counterpoint Press
United States
2001
Speech! Speech!
Geoffrey Hill
2001
What Was Lost
Herbert Morris