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.
Chelsea Editions
United States
2017
The Rings of the Universe
Adria Bernardi (Tr.),
Ubaldo de Robertis
2016
An Orchid Shining in The Hand
John Taylor (Tr.),
Lorenzo Calogero
2016
Three Stills In The Frame
Steven Grieco (Tr.),
Giorgio Linguaglossa
Cherry Castle Publishing
United States
2022
The Dandelion Speaks of Survival
Quintin Collins
2015
We Didn't Know Any Gangsters
Brian Gilmore
Chicory Blue Press
United States
2006
What if your mother
Judith Arcana
2005
The Love Word
Betty Buchsbaum
Cinco Puntos Press
United States
2020
Letters to Goya: Poems, Titles and Letters to the Dead
James Magee
2018
The Last Cigarette on Earth
Benjamin Alire Saenz
2015
Otherwise, My Life is Ordinary
Bobby Byrd
2010
Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
Ambar Past (Tr.)
2003
Elegies in Blue
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Cinnamon Press
United Kingdom
2007
& the concept of zero
Christopher Brooke
2007
Impossible Objects
Bill Greenwell
Circling Rivers
USA
2023
blue: Poems
Erin Wilson
2023
On The Level: Poems on Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Bryan R. Monte
2022
Wasteland Honey: Poems
Robert Clinton
Cissus World Press
United States
2022
Innocence of Photographs
Benjamin Kwakye
2019
Songs of a Jealous Wind
Benjamin Kwakye
2018
Soul toSong
Benjamin Kwakye
2016
In the Company of The Muse
Dike Okoro
2016
Scrolls of the Living Night
Benjamin Kwakye
City Lights Publishers
United States
2024
Emerald Wounds
2024
Metamorphoses
Evan Kennedy
2024
the delicacy of embracing spirals
Mimi Tempestt
2023
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Mosab Abu Toha
2022
Blood on the Fog
2021
Every Day We Get More Illegal
Juan Felipe Herrera
2021
Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
2021
Little Hill
Ali Warren
2021
Natch
Sophia Dahli
2018
Invocation to Daughters
Barbara Jane Reyes
2017
Mephistos and Other Poems
Michael McClure
2017
Save Twilight: Selected Poems
Stephen Kessler (Tr.),
Julio Cortazar
2015
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books
Gillian Conoley (Tr.),
Henri Michaux
2013
Time of Angels
George McWhirter (Tr.),
Homero Aridjis
2009
State of Exile
Marilyn Buck (Tr.),
Cristina Peri Rossi
2005
The Book of Jon
Eleni Sikelianos
2004
Nine Alexandrias
Ammiel Alcalay (Tr.),
Semezdin Mehmedinović
2004
where river meets ocean
Devorah Major
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
United States
2024
Mechanical Bull
Rennie Amet
2024
Ordinary Entanglement
Melissa Dickey
2024
The Devil's Workshop
Xavier Cavazos
2023
Innocence
Michael Joseph Walsh
2022
outside voices, please
Valerie Hsiung
2021
Arena
Lauren Shapiro
2016
50 Water Dreams
Siwar Masannat
2016
Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles
Lee Upton
2016
Festival
Broc Rossell
2016
I Burned at the Feast: Selected Peoms of Asseny Tarkovsky
Philip Metres (Tr.),
Dimitri Psurtsev (Tr.),
Asseny Tarkovsky
2015
Stop Wanting
Lizzie Harris
2015
The Tulip-Flame
Chloe Honum
2011
Clamor
Elyse Fenton
2011
Mule
Shane McCrae
2011
Say So
Dora Malech
2011
Sum of Every Lost Ship
Allison Titus
2006
A Small Asymmetry
John Donoghue
2006
Metropolis Burning
Karen Kovacick
2005
Buffalo Head Solos
Tim Seibles
2005
Guide to Native Beasts
Mary Quade
2005
The Job of Being Everybody
Douglass Goetsch
Clouds of Magellan Publishing
Australia
2009
Now We Are Four
Petrina Barson
2009
The Mystery of Rosa Morland
Diane Fahey