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.
Agio Publishing House/New Pen League
Canada
2013
So That Poem Remains
Ghada Alatrash,
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
2023
Keske
Jennifer Reimer
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
2016
Nine Coins
Hilary Vaughn Dobel,
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,
Maha al Autoom
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
2023
Longlisted
2020
Shortlisted
2001
Winner
2023
Song of the Closing Doors
Patrick Phillips
2023
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis
2023
Woman Without Shame
Sandra Cisneros
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,
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,
Janusz Szuber
2010
Wheeling Motel
Franz Wright
2009
Dear Darkness
Kevin Young
2009
In Praise of the Unfinished
John Carpenter,
Bogdana,
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
Alice James Books
United States
2024
Burling Like Her Own Planet
Vandana Khanna
2024
Decade of the Brain
Janine Joseph
2024
Feast
Ina Cariño
2024
I Am the Most Dangerous Thing
Candace Williams
2024
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
Katie Farris
2023
American Treasure
Jill McDonough
2023
Constellation Route
Matthew Olzmann
2023
Museum of Objects burned by the Souls in Purgatory
Jeffrey Thomson
2023
Sugar Work
Katie Marya
2023
We Borrowed Gentleness
Estanislao J. Lopez
2021
Arrow
Sumita Chakraborty
2021
Hot with the Bad Things
Lucia LoTempio
2021
Inheritance
Taylor Johnson
2021
Little Envelope of Earth Conditions
Cori A. Winrock
2021
Neck of the Woods
Amy Woolard
2021
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Kazim Ali
2021
Witch
Philip Matthews
2020
Aviva-No
Shimon Adaf,
Yael Segalovitz
2020
Bicycle in a ransacked city: an elegy
Andrés Cerpa
2020
Here All Night
Jill McDonough
2020
Monsters I Have Been
Kenji C. Liu
2020
Odes to Lithium
Shira Erlichman
2020
Soft Science
Franny Choi
2019
Anaphora
Kevin Goodan
2019
Ghost, like a Place
Iain Haley Pollock
2019
Isako Isako
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
2019
Of Marriage
Nicole Cooley
2019
pray me stay eager
Ellen Dore Watson
2019
The English Boat
Donald Revell
2019
We, the Almighty Fires
Anna Rose Welch
2018
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Kaveh Akbar
2018
Daylily Called It A Dangerous Moment
Alessandra Lynch
2018
Madwoman
Shara McCallum
2018
Reaper
Jill McDonough
2018
Some Say the Lark
Jennifer Chang
2018
Surgical Wing
Kristin Robertson
2018
The Blessing of Dark Water
Elizabeth Lyons
2017
Contradictions in the Design
Matthew Olzmann
2017
Driving Without a License
Janine Joseph
2017
House of Water
Matthew Nienow
2017
play dead
Francine J. Harris
2017
The Big Book of Exit Strategies
Jamaal May
2017
Thief in the Interior
Phillip B. Williams
2016
Drought-AdaptedVine
Donald Revell
2016
O'Nights
Cecily Parks
2016
Refuge/es
Michael Broek
2016
Sand Opera
Philip Metres
2016
Second Empire
Richie Hofmann
2016
Yearling
Lo Kwa Mei-en
2015
Devil, Dear
Mary Ann McFadden
2015
Money Money Money|Water Water Water
2015
Orphan
Jan Heller Levi
2014
Black Crow Dress
Roxane Beth Johnson
2014
Hum
Jamaal May
2014
Mezzanines
Matthew Olzmann
2014
Obscenely Yours
Angelo Nikolopoulos
2014
Viral
Suzanne Parker
2014
We Come Elemental
Tamiko Beyer
2013
Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Ilya Kaminsky,
Jean Valentine,
Marina Tsvetaeva
2013
me and Nina
Monica A. Hand
2013
Murder Ballad
Jane Springer
2013
Tantivy
Donald Revell
2013
Western Practice
Stephen Motika
2012
Hagar Before the Occupation Hagar Afater the Occupation
Rebecca Gayle Howell,
Husam Qaisi,
Amal al-Jubouri
2012
Heart First into the Forest
Stacy Gnall
2012
lie down too
Lesle Lewis
2012
Panic
Laura McCullough
2012
Pier
Janine Oshiro
2012
This Strange Land
Shara McCallum
2011
Father Dirt
Mihaela Moscaliuc
2011
Milk Dress
Nicole Cooley
2011
Parable of Hide and Seek
Chad Sweeney
2011
Phantom Noise
Brian Turner
2010
Rough Cradle
Betsy Sholl
2010
The Bitter Withy
Donald Revell
2009
King Baby
Lia Purpura
2009
The Temple Gate Called Beautiful
2009
The Usable Field
2008
A Thief of Strings
Donald Revell
2008
The Glass Age
2007
Forth A Raven
Christina Davis
2007
Landscapes I & II
Lesle Lewis
2007
Ruin
Cynthia Cruz
2007
The Case Against Happiness
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
2007
The Pitch
Thomas Thompson
2006
Gloryland
Anne Marie Macari
2006
Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems
Donald Revell
2005
Goest
2005
Night of a Thousand Blossoms
Frank X. Gaspar
2004
My Mojave
Donald Revell
2004
The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind
Larissa Szporluk
2003
An Ordinary Day
Keith Waldrop,
Xue Di
2003
Sea Gate
Jocelyn Emerson
Allen & Unwin
Australia
2012
Interferon Psalms
Luke Davies
2005
Totem
Luke Davies
2004
One Night
Margaret Wild