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.
Tin House Books
United States
2021
Anodyne
Khadijah Queen
2021
Good Boys
Megan Fernandes
2021
My Baby First Birthday
Jenny Zhang
2021
Negotiations
Destiny O. Birdsong
2020
A Fortune for your Disaster
Hanif Abdurraqib
2020
A Sand Book
Ariana Reines
2020
Feed
Tommy Pico
Trio House Press
United States
2021
You Do Not Have To Be Good
Madeleine Barnes
2020
My Afmerica
Artress Bethany White
2020
Threed, This Road Not Damascus
Tamara J. Madison
2020
Waiting for the Wreck to Burn
Michele Battiste
2018
The Short Drive Home
Joe Osterhaus
TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press
United States
2016
Delinquent Palaces
Danielle Chapman
2016
Forest Primeval
Vievee Francis
2016
Hemisphere
Ellen Hagan
2016
It Seems Like A Mightly Long Time
Angela Jackson
2016
Olympic Butter Gold
Jonathan Moody
2015
between my eye and the light
Paul Breslin
2015
Designed for Flight
Gregory Fraser
2015
Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues
Samuel Hazo
2015
Tahrir Suite
Matthew Shenoda
2015
The Last Incantations
David Mura
2013
Fowling Piece
Heidy Steidlmayer
2013
Olives
A. E. Stallings
2013
Red Army Red
Jehanne Dubrow
2013
The Abundance of Nothing
Bruce Weigl
2013
The Golden Road
Rachel Hadas
2012
Freedom Hill: A Poem
L. S. Asekoff
2012
Gust: Poems
Greg Alan Brownderville
2012
Head Off & Split: Poems
Nikky Finney
2012
Sand Theory: Poems
William Olsen
2012
The Garbage Eater: Poems
Brett Foster
Truman State University Press
United States
2016
Each Perfected Name
Richard St. John
2016
The Different War
Michael Miller
2016
Warp
Laura Bylenok
2015
The Bus Driver's Threnody
Michael Spence
2014
Happy is an Ordinary Thing
John Ridland
2012
Beautiful Words: Kasuundze Kenaege, The Complete Ahtna Poems
John Elvis Smelcer
2007
The Miniature Room
Rebecca Dunham
2005
The Empty Boat
Michael Sowder
2004
Without Reservation
John E. Smelcer
2003
Sure as Birds Fly
H. L. Hix
2001
Rational Numbers
H. L. Hix
TSAR Publications
Canada
2015
Firesmoke
Sheniz Janmohamed
2015
Love in a Time of Technology
Sasenarine Persaud
2015
The Game of 100 Ghosts
Terry Watada
2015
travelogue of the bereaved
Charles C. Smith
2014
Message Sticks
Phyllis Aronoff,
Josephine Bacon
2014
Uncivil War
Indran Amirthanayagam
2013
Subversive Sonnets
Pamela Mordecai
2013
The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit
Irene Marques
2013
The Space That Connects Us
Mansa Trotman
2013
Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter
Sonia Saikaley
2012
Lantana Strangling Ixora
Sasenarine Persaud
2012
Love Cake
Leah Lakshmi Piepena-Samarasinha
2012
Redemption Rain
Jennifer Rahim
2012
You Cannot Turn Away
Chelva Kanaganayakam,
Cheran
2010
Nuff Said
Michelle Muir
2010
Winter, the Unwelcome Visitor
Shaista Justin
2009
Caribbean Blues & Love's Genealogy
Dannabang Kuwabong
2009
In a Boston Night
Sasenarine Persaud
2008
Wearing Glasses of Water
Irene Marqus
2007
Consensual Genocide
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
2007
Red Lacquered Chopsticks
Betty Warrington-Kearsley
2007
The Matuschka Case
Fraser Sutherland
2006
Alphabet Zen
Bing He
2006
breathing for breath
Salimah Valiani
2006
You Don't Know Me
Orville Lloyd Douglas
2003
A Writer Like You
Sasenarine Persaud
2003
Wanting In Arabic
Trish Salah
2001
The Hungry Sailor
Sasenarine Persaud
Tupelo Press
United States
2021
And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey
Amy Beeder
2021
Arrows
Dan Beachy-Quick
2021
Blood Feather
Karla Kelsey
2021
Exclusions
Noah Falck
2021
Fablesque
Anna Maria Hong
2021
Shahr-e-Jaanaan: The City of the Beloved
Adeeba Shahid Talukder
2021
Took House
Lauren Camp
2020
America that island off the coast of France
Jesse Lee Kercheval
2020
diurne
Kristin George Bagdanov
2020
Epistle, Osprey
Geri Doran
2020
Franciscan Notes
Alan Williamson
2020
Kill Class
Nomi Stone
2020
The Book of LIFE
Joseph Campana
2019
Fire Season
Patrick Coleman
2019
Republic of Mercy
Sharon Wang
2018
Almost Human
Thomas Centolella
2018
Good Bones
Maggie Smith
2018
Marvels of the Invisible
Jenny Molberg
2018
Personal Science
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
2018
Service
Grant Souders
2018
The Cowherd's Son
Rajiv Mohabir
2018
The Life Beside This One
Lawrence Raab
2018
The Voice of That Singing
Juliet Rodeman
2017
Canto General
Mariela Griffor,
Pablo Neruda
2017
Hammer with No Master
Nancy Naomi Carlson,
Rene Char
2017
The Ladder
Alan Michael Parker
2017
Walking Backwards
Lee Sharkey
2017
Wintering
Megan Snyder-Camp
2017
Words on the Street
Anna Rabinowitz
2017
Yes Thorn
Amy Munson
2016
Calazaza's Delicious Dereliction
Nancy Naomi Carlson,
Suzanne Dracius
2016
gentlessness
Dan Beachy-Quick
2016
Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
Lawrence Raab
2016
The Good Dark
Annie Guthrie
2015
Ay
Joan Houlihan
2015
Entwined
Carol Frost
2015
Into Daylight
Jeffrey Harrison
2015
Moonbook and Sunbook
Willis Barnstone
2015
Vivarium
Natasha Saje
2014
Boat
Christopher Merrill
2014
Body Thesaurus
Jennifer Militello
2014
Darktown Follies
Amaud Jamaul Johnson
2013
After Urgency
Rusty Morrison
2013
Long Division
Alan Michael Parker
2013
Phyla of Joy
Karen An-hwei Lee
2012
Circle's Apprentice
Dan Beachy-Quick
2012
Lucky Fish
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2012
Severance Songs
Joshua Corey
2011
Dogged Hearts
Ellen Dore Watson
2011
Human Nature
Gary Soto
2011
Monkey Lightning
Martha Zweig
2011
Poor-Mouth Jubilee
Michael Chitwood
2011
Stone Lyre
Nancy Naomi Carlson,
Rene Char
2011
This Lamentable City
Ilya Kaminsky,
Polina Barskova
2010
Archicembalo
G. C. Waldrep
2009
Keep This Forever
Mark Halliday
2009
Modern History
Christopher Buckley
2007
The Wanton Sublime
Anna Rabinowitz
2006
Approximately Paradise
Floyd Skloot
2006
Duties of the Spirit
Patricia Fargnoli
2005
Bend
Natasha Saje
2005
Dancing in Odessa
Ilya Kaminsky
2005
Gathering Eye
Tina Barr
2005
Longing Distance
Sarah Hannah
2004
Calendars
Annie Finch
2004
Miracle Fruit
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2003
American Linden
Matthew Zapruder
2002
Darkling
Anna Rabinowitz
2002
Every Bird is One Bird
Francine Sterle
2002
I Want This World
Margaret Szumowski
2002
The Flute Ship Castrium""""
Amy England
2002
The Next Ancient World
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Turas Press
Ireland
2021
Alchemy
Fiona Perry
2021
Gold Friend
Chris Murray
2021
Quarantena
Nina Karacosta
2020
Exposure
Julie-ann Rowell
2018
How to Sleep with Strangers
Ross Hattaway
Turnstone Press
Canada
2021
cold press moon
Dennis Cooley
2021
Endlings
Joanna Lilley
2021
The Bestiary
Dennis Cooley
2021
The Tree of Life
Sarah Klassen
2021
The World Is Mostly Sky
Sarah Ens
2020
Cold Metal Stairs
Su Croll
2020
Following Sea
Lauren Carter
2020
Mercy
Shirley Camia
2019
Glitter & fall: Laozi Dao De Jing, Transinhalations
2017
departures
Dennis Cooley
2017
Gloryland
Carla Funk
2017
Never Mind
Katherine Lawrence
2016
Eigenheim
Joanne Epp
2016
Exquisite Monsters
K. I. Press
2016
The Significance of Moths
Shirley Camia
2015
Cutthroats and other poems
Ted Dyck
2015
Magpie Days
Brenda Sciberras
2015
What Lies Behind
Luann Hiebert
2014
sinuous
Lydia Kwa
2014
Six Weeks
Richard Scarsbrook
2014
the stones
Dennis Cooley
2014
Where Calling Birds Gather
John Weier
2013
Firewalk
Katherine Bitney
2013
Monstrance
Sarah Klassen
2013
Sonar
Kristian Enright
2012
Alert to Glory
Sally Ho
2012
Fluttertongue 5
Steven Ross Smith
2011
apologetic
Carla Funk
2011
Gimp Crow
Ken Kowal
2011
Walking to Mojacar
Charles Leblanc,
Ari Belathar,
Di Brandt
2010
From Out of Nowhere
John Toone
2010
Mama Dada: Songs of the Baroness's Dog
Jan Horner
2009
Fear Not
Maurice Mierau
2009
Rue the Day
Tanis MacDonald
2009
She Walks For Days Inside a Thousand Eyes
Sharron Proulx-Turner
2008
in Cars
Kimmy Beach
2007
Headframe: 2
Birk Sproxton
2007
Pas de Deux
Nina Berkhout
2007
The Sewing Room
Carla Funk
2006
Fake Paul
Kimmy Beach
2006
Fluttertongue 3: Disarray
Steven Ross Smith
2006
Glass Psalms
Jonathan Garfinkel
2005
King's(mere)
Nathan Dueck
2005
Loving Gertrude Stein
Deborah Schnitzer
2005
Stone Boat
Kristen Wittman
2005
The Burden of Snow
Heather MacLeod
2004
Alarum Within: Theatre Poems
Kimmy Beach
2004
Fortune
Tanis MacDonald
2004
Rapture Red & Smoke Grey
Sarah Gordon
2004
seeing red
Dennis Cooley
2001
Irene
Dennis Cooley
2001
Waking Bood
Deborah Keahey
Turtle Point Press
United States
2018
Nomadologies
2018
Taliban Beach Party
Eric Howard
2011
In This House
Howard Altmann
2009
Sources
Devin Johnston
2009
Without Saying
Richard Howard
2001
Plasticville
David Trinidad