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.
Alice James Books
United States
2025
Autobiomythography of
Ayokunle Falomo
2025
I Don't Want to Be Understood
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
2025
In the Days that Followed
Kevin Goodan
2025
Old Stranger: Poems
Joan Larkin
2025
Song of My Softening
Omotara James
2025
The Holy & Broken Bliss
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
2025
Theophanies
Sarah Ghazal Ali
2025
Wish Ave
Alessandra Lynch
2025
Zombie Vomit Mad Libs
Duy Doàn
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
Brother Sleep
Aldo Amparán
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
J. Estanislao 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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Jean Valentine (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Husam Qaisi (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Xue Di
2003
Sea Gate
Jocelyn Emerson
Allen & Unwin
Australia
2012
Interferon Psalms
Luke Davies
2005
Totem
Luke Davies
2004
One Night
Margaret Wild
An Amzer & Text*ures
2006
Ghazal
Lionel Poiraudeau
Anamcara Press LLC
USA
2025
A Record of Change
Thaddeus Dugan
2025
Canandaigua
Donald Revell
2025
Frog Joy
Beth Gulley
2025
Sunshine in the Weeds
D.A. Irsik
2025
Vishuddha
Ian Cook
2025
Words Left Unspoken
J.A. McGovern
Andrews McMeel Publishing
United States
2024
God Themselves
Jae Nichelle
2021
Dear Girl
Aija Mayrock
2020
Sparks of Phoenix
Najwa Zebian
2019
Mind Platter
Najwa Zebian
2009
Bikeman: An Epic Poem
Thomas F. Flynn
Angelico Press, Ltd.
United States
2025
Venetian Mirrors
Jakob Ziguras
2019
Love's Many Names
Sam Davidson
Anhinga Press
United States
2024
Careful
Katie Fuller
2024
Impossible Belonging
Maya Pindyck
2023
A Sleep that Is Not Our Sleep
E. C. Belli
2022
Theatrix: Poetry Plays
Terese Svoboda
2021
Shimmer
Mark Irwin
2006
With Your Back To Half the Day
Donald Morrill
Antivirus Publication
England
2022
Selected Poems of Malay Roy Choudhury
Tanvir Ratul (Tr.),
Malay Roy Choudhury
2022
Songs of Charyapada
Tanvir Ratul (Tr.),
Various Authors
Antonym Collections
India
2025
How Silkworms Break Their Eggs
Anindita Mukherjee (Tr.),
Mridul Dasgupta