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.
McSweeney’s
United States
2017
Remains
Jesus Castillo
2017
The Abridged History of Rainfall
Jay Hopler
2017
Whosoever has let a Minotaur Enter Them, or a Sonnet
Emily Carr
2016
Tradition
Daniel Khazastchi
2014
The Boss
2013
The Emily Dickinson Reader
Paul Legault
Melange Magazine Publications
Canada
2021
Shunned: How Love of Self Became My Redemption
Patricia C. Daway
Melange Publishing
United States
2013
Fire and Earth Poems and Reflections on the Nature of Desire
Gavriel Navarro
Mellen Poetry Press
United States
2003
Serpent Humanized
Warren Stevenson
2003
Wormwood Wine: Poems
Flavia Cosma
Merrijig Word and Sound Company
2012
A Leopard's Kiss
Marisa Fazio
Miami University Press
United States
2021
Rumi: Poems from the Divan-E Shams
Geoffrey Squires,
Rumi
2020
Odious Horizons: Some Versions of Horace
Martin Corless-Smith,
Horace
2019
Scorpio
Katy Bohinc
Michigan State University Press
United States
2019
Taking Care of Time
Cortney Davis
2015
Malaria, Poems
Cameron Conaway
2014
In the Kingdom of the Ditch
Todd Davis
2009
National Monuments
Heid Erdrich
2008
Some Heaven
Todd Davis
2006
My Father on a Bicycle
Patricia Clark
2002
Bread Upon the Waters
Lorene Erickson
2002
The Art of Loss
Myrna Stone
2002
The Urban Stampede and Other Poems
F. D. Reeve
Mid-List Press
United States
2012
(T)ravel/Un(t)ravel: Poems
Neil Shepard
2012
Things to Pray to in Vermont: Poems
Tony Whedon
2010
Hand Work: Poems
Mary Logue
2006
History
Stephen C. Behrendt
2004
How To: Poems
William Reichard
2004
Not So the Chairs: Selected and New Poems
Donald Finkel
2001
Jonah?s Promise: Poems
Adam Sol
Milkweed Editions
United States
2021
Blood Moon
Patricia Kirkpatrick
2021
In Accelerated Silence
Brooke Matson
2021
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
Kathryn Cowles
2021
Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition
Dan Beachy-Quick
2021
The Century
2021
The Clearing
Allison Adair
2021
The Galleons
Rick Barot
2021
Thrown in the Throat
Benjamin Garcia
2021
Thrown in the Throat
Benjamin Garcia
2021
To Make Room for the Sea
Adam Clay
2021
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Torrin A. Greathouse
2020
Another Last Day
Alex Lemon
2020
Bodega
Su Hwang
2020
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Jake Skeets
2020
Immediate Song
Dan Bogen
2020
Owl of Minerva
Eric Pankey
2020
Scared Violent Like Horses
John McCarthy
2020
The Milk Hours
John James
2020
Tsunami vs. the Fukishima 50
Lee Ann Roripaugh
2019
Another City
David Keplinger
2019
Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance
2019
Night Unto Night
Martha Collins
2019
North American Stadiums
Grady Chambers
2019
The Popul Vuh
Michael Bazzett
2019
Virgin
Analicia Sotelo
2018
Augury
Eric Pankey
2018
Cold Pastoral
Rebecca Dunham
2018
I Know Your Kind
William Brewer
2018
Love's Last Number
Christopher Howell
2018
Solve for Desire
Caitlin Bailey
2018
Sycamore
Kathy Fagan
2018
The Art of Topiary
David Keplinger,
Jan Wagner
2018
The Interrogation
Michael Bazzett
2017
Post -
Wayne Miller
2017
Receipt
Karen Leona Anderson
2017
Stranger
Adam Clay
2016
Beautiful Zoo
Jennifer Willoughby
2016
Bright Dead Things
2016
Crow-Work
Eric Pankey
2016
Double Jinx
Nancy Reddy
2016
River House
Sally Keith
2016
Sea Summit
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
2016
The Stuntman
Brian Laidlaw
2016
Vessel
Parneshia Jones
2015
Bone Map
Sara Eliza Johnson
2015
Dandarians
Lee Ann Roripaugh
2015
Day Unto Day
Martha Collins
2015
The Wish Book
Alex Lemon
2015
Translations from Bark Beetle
Jody Gladding
2015
You Must Remember This
Michael Bazzett
2014
Black Stars
Martha Collins,
Ngo Tu Lap
2014
Glass Armonica
Rebecca Dunham
2014
Her book
Eireann Lorsung
2014
The Hundred Grasses
Leila Wilson
2014
Trace
Eric Pankey
2014
Visiting Hours at the Color Line
Ed Pavlic
2013
A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World
Adam Clay
2013
Blood of the Sun
Alexis Levitin,
Salgado Maranhao
2013
Gaze
Christopher Howell
2013
Odessa
Patricia Kirkpatrick
2013
The Alphabet Not Unlike the World
Katrina Vandenberg
2013
The Fact of the Matter
Sally Keith
2012
The City, Our City
Wayne Miller
2012
The Nine Senses
Melissa Kwasny
2012
What have you done to our ears to make us hear echos?
Arlene Kim
2011
Fancy Beasts
Alex Lemon
2004
Good Heart
Deborah Keenan
2002
Song of the World Becoming: New & Collected Poems
Pattiann Rogers
2001
Turning Over The Earth
Ralph Black
Milner & Co.
2001
The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin
Minerva Press
India
2002
Simantini (Boundless)
Priyasi
2001
A Portrait Of Emotions
Euma Fernandes
2001
Immigrant To Iberia, An Irishman?s Odyssey
Dermot C. Miller