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.
Random House
United States
2021
Whale Day
Billy Collins
2017
The Rain in Portugal
Billy Collins
2012
Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins
2009
Ballistics
Billy Collins
2008
The Second Child: Poems
Deborah Garrison
2006
The Trouble with Poetry
Billy Collins
2004
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
Alice Walker
2004
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
Alice Walker
2004
Innercourse
Toni Blackman
2004
Sparrow
Carol Muske-Dukes
2001
Living on Fire
Virginia Hamilton Adair
Random House New Zealand
New Zealand
2006
Her Body Rises
Tracey Slaughter
2004
Red Shoes
Elizabeth Smither
Ravenna Press
United States
2011
Twin Tan Dogs, Obedience & Discipline
Lynn Strongin
2006
Ages of Chaos and Fury
Oswald LeWinter
Reconstruction Books Publishing LLC
United States
2007
Relationship Related and Other Poetry
Anthony B. Ashe
Red Heifer Press
United States
2004
Professor Gansa's Dream or Science as a Naked Lightbulb
Peter Gimpel
2004
Rumours of Bees
Alexander Forbes
Red Hen Press
United States
2021
Rift Zone
Tess Taylor
2020
Bright Stain
Francesca Bell
2020
Exuberance
Dolores Hayden
2020
Peripheral Vision
Susan Kinsolving
2020
Wayward
Katharine Coles
2019
A History of Too Much
Adrianne Kalfopoulou
2019
Another Phase
Eloise Klein Healy
2019
Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
Allison Joseph
2019
Dante in China
John Barr
2019
Olympusville
Ron Koertge
2019
Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining
Mark Wagenaar
2018
As Burning Leaves
Gabriel Jesiolowski
2018
Beasts Behave in Foreign Land
Ruth Irupe Sanabria
2018
Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision
Sebastian Matthews
2018
Dreadful Wind and Rain
Diane Gilliam
2018
how to get over
T’ai Freedom Ford
2018
In June the Labyrinth
Cynthia Hogue
2018
Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On
Gary Soto
2018
Run Away to the Yard
Lisa Krueger
2018
Testify
Douglas Manuel
2018
The Nightlife
Elise Paschen
2018
Vanishing Point
William Trowbridge
2018
Water and Salt
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
2018
Weight of Light
Gary Lemons
2017
a slice from the cake made of air
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
2017
Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors
Leslie Heywood
2017
Basic Vocabulary
Amy Uyematsu
2017
Becoming Lyla Dore
Teri Youmans Grimm
2017
Blue Etiquette
Kathleen Driskell
2017
Dementia, My Darling
Brendan Constantine
2017
Dia de los Muertos
Gary Lemons
2017
Flight
Katherine Coles
2017
Last Train to the Missing Planet
Kim Dower
2017
Lessons from Summer Camp
Jim Tilley
2017
Let the Voices
Kevin Goodan
2017
Power Made Us Swoon
Brynn Saito
2017
Primary Source
Jason Schneiderman
2017
Six
Julie Marie Wade
2017
Snake: Second Wind
Gary Lemons
2017
Still the Animals Enter
Jane Hilberry
2017
Suicide Hotline Hold Music
Jessy Randall
2017
The Corpse Pose
Erik Campbell
2017
The Red Bowl
Holaday Mason
2017
The Walled Wife
Nicelle Davis
2017
What the willow said as it fell
Andrea Scarpino
2017
Work & Days
Tess Taylor
2016
Torn from the Sun
Gregory Donovan
2016
Torn from the Sun
Gregory Donovan
2014
All of You on the Good Earth
Ernest Hilbert
2014
Interrobang
Jessica Piazza
2014
The Adventures of Ibn Opcit
John Barr
2014
The Forage House
Tess Taylor
2013
Steam Laundry
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell
2013
Tremolo
Alice Derry
2012
In Confidence
Jim Tilley
2011
Suck on the Marrow
Camille T. Dungy
2010
Bestiary
Elise Paschen
2009
Rooftops of Tehran
Sholeh Wolpe
2008
Otherwise Obedient
Carol Potter
2008
The Highwayman's Wife
Lynnell Edwards
2008
We Generous
Sebastian Matthews
2007
Amplified Dog
Charles Harper Webb
2007
Fever
Ron Koertge
2007
The Astonished Universe
Helene Cardona
2007
Waking Bodies
Rex Wilder
2007
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
Camille T. Dungy
2005
Glacier Lily
Chungmi Kim
2005
Rebloom
Lisa Krueger
2005
The Scar Saloon
Sholeh Wolpe
2004
Daphnes Lot
Chris Abani
2004
Embers
Terry Wolverton
2004
Human Crying Daisies
Ray Gonzalez
2004
Orioling
Ann Silsbee
2004
The Making of a Matriot
Frances Payne Adler
2003
Underground Rivers
Peggy Shumaker
2003
Wild Greens
Adrianne Kalfopoulou
2001
Fishers of Men
Kate Gale
2001
The Owning Stone
Jim Peterson
Red Hen Press/Boreal Books
United States
2020
Toward Antarctica
Elizabeth Bradfield
2019
Bone Willows
James Engelhardt
2019
Every Atom
Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Redbeck Press
2001
Outstripping Gravity
Michael Tolkien
Reflection Pubishing
United States
2015
Seraphim - Bird's Exchange
Procopie Contea,
Florian Siolisteanu