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.
Africa World Press
United States
2022
I Come From A Country
Tijan M. Sallah
2018
If only the Road Could Talk
Niyi Osundare
2006
The Oil Lamp
Ogaga Ifowodo
2001
Invoking The Warrior Spirit
Tanure Ojaide
Agio Publishing House/New Pen League
Canada
2013
So That Poem Remains
Ghada Alatrash (Tr.),
Youssef Abdul Samad
Ahsahta Press
United States
2018
The End of Something
Kate Greenstreet
2017
After We All Died
Allison Cobb
2006
Fence Above the Sea
Brigitte Byrd
2006
Oriflamme
Sandra Miller
2006
The Violence
Ethan Paquin
Airlie Press
United States
2023
Animal Afterlife
Jaya Stenquist
2023
Keske
Jennifer Reimer
2022
Daughters
Brittney Corrigan
2022
Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland
David J. S. Pickering
2021
Again
Jennifer Perrine
2021
Learning to Love a Western Sky
Amelia Diaz Ettinger
2021
The Animal at Your Side
Megan Alpert
2020
Savagery
J. C. Mehta
2018
Born
Jon Boisvert
2018
Riddle Fish Hook Thorn Key
Kelly Terwilliger
2017
The Catalog of Broken Things
A. Molotkov
2017
Wish Meal
Tim Whitsel
Akashic Books
United States
2022
Ima and Coli are the Tree that Was Never a Seed
Sean Manning (Tr.),
Alejandro Pérez-Cortés
2016
Nine Coins
Hilary Vaughn Dobel (Tr.),
Carlos Pintado
2016
Providential
Colin Channer
Akashic Books/Black Goat
United States
2008
Auto Mechanic's Daughter
Karen Harryman
2008
eel on reef
Uche Nduka
2008
Gomer's Song
Kwame Dawes
Al Haderoun Publishing House
Canada
2023
My life is a memory and writing is the way to forget
Kefah Jahjah (Tr.),
Maha al Autoom
Alba Publishing
United Kingdom
2019
The Loneliness of the Sasquatch
Amanda Bell (Tr.),
Gabriel Rosenstock
Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books
United States
2014
Fallow Field
Scott Edward Anderson
2014
Gods of Waer and Air
Rachel Dacus
Alfred A. Knopf
United States
2024
The Ferguson Report: An Erassure
Nicole Sealey
2023
Song of the Closing Doors
Patrick Phillips
2023
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis
2023
Woman Without Shame
Sandra Cisneros
2022
Cry Back My Sea
Sarah Arvio
2022
Machete
Tomas Q. Morin
2022
Mister Toebones
Brooks Haxton
2022
Stereo(TYPE)
Jonah Mixon-Webster
2021
Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
Jill Bialosky
2021
Ledger
Jane Hirshfield
2021
On the Way Out, Turn off the Light
Marge Piercy
2021
Stranger By Night
Edward Hirsch
2021
The Math Campers
Dan Chiasson
2021
What He Did in Solitary
Amit Majmudar
2020
Days & Days
Michael Dickman
2020
The Octopus Museum
2017
Float
2017
Odes
2016
Elegy for a Broken Machine
Patrick Phillips
2016
Made in Detroit
Marge Piercy
2016
The Beauty
Jane Hirshfield
2016
The Players
Jill Bialosky
2016
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis
2015
Gabriel
Edward Hirsch
2012
Ardency
Kevin Young
2012
Come, Thief
Jane Hirshfield
2012
Coral Road Poems
Garrett Hongo
2012
I Love a Broad Margin to My Live
Maxine Hong Kingston
2012
Kindertotenwald
Franz Wright
2011
If There is Something to Desire
Steven Seymour (Tr.),
Vera Pavlova
2011
The Ada Poems
Cynthia Zarin
2010
Easy
Marie Ponsot
2010
News of the World
Philip Levine
2010
The Dance Most of All
Jack Gilbert
2010
They Carry a Promise
Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough (Tr.),
Janusz Szuber
2010
Wheeling Motel
Franz Wright
2009
Dear Darkness
Kevin Young
2009
In Praise of the Unfinished
John Carpenter (Tr.),
Bogdana (Tr.),
Julia Hartwig
2009
One Secret Thing
2009
Special Orders
Edward Hirsch
2008
For the Confederate Dead
Kevin Young
2008
New Selected Poems
Mark Strand
2007
Black Lab
David Young
2007
Curves and Angles
Brad Leithauser
2007
Man and Camel
Mark Strand
2007
Sono
Sarah Arvio
2007
The Crooked Inheritance
Marge Piercy
2006
Black Maria
Kevin Young
2006
Decreation
2006
Decreation
2006
Natural History
Dan Chiaason
2006
Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert
2005
Breath
Philip Levine
2005
Brother Fire
W. S. Di Piero
2005
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002
2005
Trapeze
Deborah Digges
2005
Trouble in Mind
Lucie Brock-Broido
2005
Uproar
Brooks Haxton
2004
Collected Later Poems
Anthony Hecht
2004
Colors Passing Through Time
Marge Piercy
2004
Drift
Mary Kinzie
2004
Lay Back the Darkness
Edward Hirsh
2004
Open Shutters
Mary Jo Salter
2004
Picture Window
John Hollander
2004
Selected Poems
Mona Van Duyn
2004
Springing
Marie Ponsot
2003
If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho
2002
subterranean
Jill Bialosky
2001
Breathing Room
Peter Davison
2001
New Addresses
Kenneth Koch