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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.

City Lights Publishers

United States
2024
2024 Longlisted
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 Shortlisted
2018
Invocation to Daughters
Barbara Jane Reyes
2017
Mephistos and Other Poems
Michael McClure
2017
Save Twilight: Selected Poems
Stephen Kessler, Julio Cortazar
2015
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books
Gillian Conoley, Henri Michaux
2013
Time of Angels
George McWhirter, Homero Aridjis
2009
State of Exile
Marilyn Buck, Cristina Peri Rossi
2005
The Book of Jon
Eleni Sikelianos
2004
Nine Alexandrias
Ammiel Alcalay, Semezdin Mehmedinović
2004
where river meets ocean
Devorah Major

City Lit Press

United States
2012
Famous
Bruce Sager

CLASH Books

USA
2024
War is Not My Mother
Vi Khi Nao

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, Dimitri Psurtsev, 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

Cloudbank Books

USA
2024
Constellation
H. L. Hix
2023
The Scarecrow Alibis
Denver Butson

Clouds of Magellan Publishing

Australia
2009
Now We Are Four
Petrina Barson
2009
The Mystery of Rosa Morland
Diane Fahey

Clutag Press

United Kingdom
2014
Revenants
Alan Jenkins
2013
Odi Barbare
Geoffrey Hill

Co-conspirator Press

United States
2021
the monumental misrememberings
Mimi Tempestt

co•im•press

United States
2021
america, MINE
Sasha Banks
2021
from a red barn
Katherine M. Hadeen, Victor Rodriguez Nunex
2019
Of Death. Minimal Odes
Laura Cesarco Eglin, Hilda Hilst
2019
Vision of the Children of Evil
Lucina Schell, Miguel Angel Bustos
2016
Oxen Rage
Lisa Rose Bradford, Juan Gelman

Coach House Books

Canada
2024
Continuity Errors
Catriona Wright
2024
Love Language
Nasser Hussain
2024
Slows: Twice
T. Liem
2024
The Animal in the Room
Meghan Kemp-Gee
2024
The King of Terrors
Jim Johnstone
2024
Tumbling for Amateurs
Matthew Gwathmey
2023
After Beowulf
Nicole Markotić
2023
Boat
Lisa Robertson
2023
Fire Cider Rain
Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin
2023
Heady Bloom
Andrew Faulkner
2023
Surface Tension
Derek Beaulieu
2023
Test Piece
Sheryda Warrener
2023
Whitemud Walking
Matthew James Weigel
2022
ink earl
Susan Holbrook
2022
Masses on Radar
David O’Meara
2021
Entering Sappho
Sarah Dowling
2021
Swivelmount
2021
The Tower
Paul Legault
2020
The National Gallery
Jonathan Ball
2020
This is the Emergency Present
Vincent Pagé
2020
Unsun
Andrew Zawacki
2020
Vulgar Mechanics
K. B. Thors
2019
Anatomic
Adam Dickinson
2019
Lances All Alike
Suzanne Zelazo
2019
Midday at the Super-Kamiokande
Matthew Tierney
2019
Night Became Years
Jason Stefanik
2019
Obits
Tess Liem
2019
Sky Wri Tei Ngs
Nasser Hussain
2018
Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie
Jay Ritchie
2018
Common Place
Sarah Pinder
2018
Dead White Men
Shane Rhodes
2018
DrakkarNoir
2018
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
Linda Besner
2018
My Ariel
Sina Queyras
2017
3 Summers
Lisa Robertson
2017
In On The Great Joke
Laura Broadbent
2017
Magyarazni
Helen Hajnoczky
2017
Night + Ox
Jordan Scott
2017
Throaty Wipes
Susan Holbrook
2017
Whelmed
Nicole Markotić
2016
Ardour
Angela Carr, Nicole Brossard
2016
Asbestos Heights
David McGimpsey
2016
Country Club
Andy McGuire
2016
Dear Leader
Damian Rogers
2016
Mission Creep
Joshua Trotter
2016
Otter
Ben Ladouceur
2016
The Xenotext: Book 1
2015
Broom Broom
Brecken Hancock
2015
Cinema of the Present
Lisa Robertson
2015
DOWN
Sarah Dowling
2015
Janey's Arcadia
Rachel Zolf
2015
M x T
Sina Queyras
2015
On Malice
2015
School
Jen Currin
2015
The Poetic Edda
Jeramy Dodds, Anonymous
2014
A Pretty Sight
David O’Meara
2014
For Display Purposes Only
David Seymour
2014
Multitudes
Margaret Christakos
2014
Need Machine
Andrew Faulkner
2014
Needs Improvement
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2014
2013
Cutting Room
Sarah Pinder
2013
Divide and Rule
Walid Bitar
2013
New Theatre
Susan Stendel
2013
Probably Inevitable
Matthew Tierney
2013
The Lease
Mathew Henderson
2013
The Politics of Knives
Jonathan Ball
2012
A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
Gabe Foreman
2012
Croak
Jenny Sampirisi
2012
Hypotheticals
Leigh Kotsilidis
2012
Li'l Bastard
David McGimpsey
2012
Match
Helen Guri
2010
Expressway
Sina Queyras
2010
Joy Is So Exhausting
Susan Holbrook
2010
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
Lisa Robertson
2010 Shortlisted
2010
The Hayflick Limit
Matthew Tierney
2009
Blert
Jordan Scott
2009 Shortlisted
2009
Hagiography
Jen Currin
2009
The Laundromat Essay
Kyle Buckley
2009
Troubled
R. M. Vaughan
2009
What Stirs
Margaret Christakos
2008
Human Resources
Rachel Zolf
2008 Shortlisted
2008
Sitcom
David McKimpsey
2008
The Work of Days
Sarah Lang
2007
Lemon Hound
Sina Queyras
2007
The Theory of the Loser Class
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2007
Touch To Affliction
Nathalie Stephens
2007
Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Angela Rawlings
2006
American Standard/Canada Dry
Stephen Cain
2006 Winner
2006
Portable Altamont
Brian Joseph Davis
2006
Sooner
Margaret Christakos
2006
The Refrigerator Memory
Shannon Bramer
2006
The World is a Heartbreaker
Sherwin Tjia
2005
Hello Serotonin
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2005
Said Like Reeds or Things
Mark Truscott
2005
The Sink House
Julia Williams
2005
The Ubiquitous Big
Ian Samuels
2004
A Painted Elephant
Jill Hartman
2004
Dislocations in Crystal
Michael Boughn
2004 Shortlisted
2004
Paper City
Nathalie Stephens
2004
Parlance
Suzanne Zelazo
2004
with wax
Derek Beaulieu
2003
Disturbances of Progress
Lise Downe
2003
Excessive Love Prostheses
Margaret Christakos
2003
Metropolis 16-29
Robert Fitterman
2003
Mycological Studies
Jay MillAr
2003
Seven Pages Missing Volume Two
Steve McCaffery
2003
The Mood Embosser
Louis Cabri
2002
At Issue
Karen MacCormack
2002
Busted
Catriona Shaw
2002 Winner
2002
Lip Service
Bruce Andrews
2002
Seven Pages Missing: Volume One
Steve McCaffery
2001
A House of White Rooms
Helen Tsiriotakis
2001
A More Tender Ocean
Natalee Caple
2001
Fidget
Kenneth Goldsmith
2001
Spiral Agitator
Steve Venright

Codhill Press

United States
2023
The Devil's Fools
Mary Gilliland
2009
The Apple in the Monkey Tree
Rich Murphy

Coffee House Press

United States
2023
Alive at the End of the World
Saeed Jones
2023
Dot
Ron Padgett
2023
Fighting Is Like a Wife
Eloisa Amezcua
2023
Look at This Blue
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
2023
The Wet Hex
Sun Yung Shin
2022
A Complex Sentence
Marjorie Welish
2022
HOMES
Moheb Soliman
2022
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018
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 Shortlisted
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 Shortlisted
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

Columbo & Company

Canada
2001
Strange Attraction
Frank Zingrone

Comma Press

United Kingdom
2014
Lifting the Piano with One Hand
Gaia Holmes

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

Conduit Books & Ephemera

USA
2024
Autoblivion
Trey Moody
2022
The World to Come
David Keplinger

Connecticut River Press

United States
2007
Lost and Found, Rhyming Verse Honoring African American Heroes
Jennifer Smith Turner

Context/Westland Books

India
2023
Extinctions
Sharmistha Mohanty

Contra Mundum Press

United States
2024
Bleedings - Incipit Tragoedia
David Graham, Gabriele Tinti
2017
Ladder of Oaths
Dominic Siracusa, Maura Del Serra