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.
Haymarket Books
United States
2023
All the Blood Involved in Love
Maya Marshall
2023
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow
Noor Hindi
2023
Super Sad Black Girl
Diamond Sharp
2023
The Body Family
Hope Wabuke
2022
I Remember Death By Its Prosimity to What I Love
Mahogany L. Browne
2022
Rifqa
Mohammed El-Kurd
2022
There Are Trans People Here
H. Melt
2021
Text Messages
Yassin Alsalman
2021
Too Much Midnight
Krista Franklin
2020
1919
Eve L. Ewing
2020
Build Yourself a Boat
Camonghne Felix
2020
Can I Kick It?
Idris Goodwin
2020
Crossfire
Staceyann Chin
2020
Everything Must Go
Kevin Coval
2019
Black Queer Hoe
Britteney Black Rose Kapri
2019
Citizen Illegal
José Olivarez
2016
Before the Next Bomb Drops
Remi Konazi
Headmistress Press
United States
2018
Fireworks in the Graveyard
Joy Ladin
2017
The Body's Alphabet
Ann Tweedy
2016
I Carry My Mother
Lesl Newman
Headworx
2001
Talking Pictures
Riemke Ensing
Hearing Eye
United Kingdom
2009
Reckoning
Jack Stanley
2009
The Ram in the Thicket
Adrian Brown
2007
Sahara! Or Except for George
Adrian Brown
Helicon Nine Editions
United States
2010
To Fly Without Wings: Poems
Judy Ray
2002
Lick of Sense
Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
2001
The Air Lost in Breathing
Simone Muench
Henry Holt & Co.
USA
2024
Dark Testament
Crystal Simone Smith
2024
Promises of Gold
David Ruano (Tr.),
José Olivarez
Hidden Brook Press
Canada
2022
The Blue Dragonfly - healing through poetry
Veronica Eley
2010
Driving, Braking and Getting Out to Walk
Diane Dawber
2010
Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea
John B. Lee
Hidden River Press/Hidden River Arts
USA
2024
Mediterranean
Calvin Olsen (Tr.),
João Luis Barreto Guimarães
High Plains Press
United States
2006
Beasts in Snow: Poetry of the American West
Jane Elkington Wohl
2005
Cloud Seeding: Poetry of the American West
Stacy Gillett Coyle
Highland Park Poetry Press
USA
2025
Esemplastic: Many and One
Karian Markos
2024
The Red Queen Hypothesis and other poems
Ann E. Michael
Highridge Books Publishers
Zambia
2008
The Ballad of Rwanda and Other Poems
Stembridge Fredrick Mulapa