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.
Ward Wood Publishing
United Kingdom
2014
The Anvil's Prayer
James W. Wood
2011
Too Close
Ann Alexander
Waterloo Press
United Kingdom
2020
Broken Voices
David Pollard
2016
Letters to Akhmatova
Patricia McCarthy
2012
the waltz in my blood
Mario Petrucci
2009
The Night Pavilion
Naomi Foyle
2009
The Shirley Valentine Syndrome
Pauline Suett Barbieri
Waterloo Press (Hove)
United Kingdom
2008
About Bloody Time
Simon Jenner
2008
Patricides
David Pollard
2008
Sleeping with Icons
Norman Buller
2008
Speechless
Bernadette Cremin
Waterways/Flipped Eye
United Kingdom
2005
Winterburn
L. K. Robinson
2005
You're not singing anymore
Niall O’Sullivan
Wave Books
United States
2024
Longlisted
2022
Winner
2021
Shortlisted
2017
Shortlisted
2021
DMZ Colony
2021
God's Green Earth
Noelle Kocot
2021
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
Lisa Fishman
2021
Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From
Sawako Nakayasu
2021
The Shore
Chris Nealon
2021
The Sky Contans the Plans
2020
Dunce
Mary Ruefle
2020
Grief Sequence
Prageeta Sharma
2020
Hear Trains
Caroline Knox
2020
SoundMachine
Rachel Zucker
2020
The Problem of the Many
Timothy Donnelly
2020
The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
Magdalena Zurawski
2020
Woods and Clouds Interchangeable
Michael Earl Craig
2019
Baby, I don't care
Chelsey Minnis
2019
Body & Glass
Rodney Koeneke
2019
Experience in Groups
Geoffrey G. O’Brien
2019
Milk
Dorothea Lasky
2019
Orlando
Sandra Simonds
2019
Something for Everybody
Anselm Berrigan
2019
The Lives of the Poems
Joshua Beckman
2019
Three Talks
Joshua Beckman
2019
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
Terrance Hayes
2019
XoeteoX
Edwin Torres
2018
In the Still of the Night
Dara Wier
2018
Of Mongrelitude
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
2018
Royals
Cedar Sigo
2018
The Others
2018
While Standing in Line for Death
C. A. Conrad
2017
Calamities
Renee Gladman
2017
Cities at Dawn
Geoffrey Nutter
2017
Hardly War
2017
My Private Property
Mary Ruefle
2017
Olio
Tyehimba Jess
2017
Power Ballads
Garrett Caples
2016
24 Pages and Other Poems
Lisa Fishman
2016
A Roll of the Dice
Jeff Clark,
Robert Bononno,
Stephane Mallarme
2016
Illocality
Joseph Massey
2016
Of Entirety Say the Sentence
Graham Foust,
Frederick,Samuel,
Ernst Meister
2016
One Morning-
Rebecca Wolff
2016
Surrounded by Friends
2016
To Drink Boiled Snow
Caroline Knox
2016
Touch
Rod Smith
2015
ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
C. A. Conrad
2015
Etruria
Rodney Koeneke
2015
If I Don't Breathe, How Do I Sleep
Joe Wenderoth
2015
Language Arts
Cedar Sigo
2015
Talkativeness
Michael Earl Craig
2015
The Pedestrians
Rachel Zucker
2015
Thing Music
Anthony McCann
2015
Wallless Space
Graham Foust,
Samuel Frederick,
Ernst Meister
2014
Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic
Cole Heinowitz,
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
2014
Flemish
Caroline Knox
2014
People on Sunday
G. O’Brien
2014
Soul in Space
Noelle Kocot
2014
The Inside of an Apple
Joshua Beckman
2014
The Rose of January
Geoffrey Nutter
2014
Trances of the Blast
Mary Ruefle
2014
You Good Thing
Dara Wier
2013
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon
C. A. Conrad
2013
As Long as Trees Last
2013
In Time's Rift
Graham Foust,
Samuel Frederick,
Ernst Meister
2013
Madness, Rack and Honey
Mary Ruefle
2013
Snowflake
Eileen Myles
2013
Thunderbird
Dorothea Lasky
2012
Destroyer and Preserver
2012
I Heart Your Fate
Anthony McCann
2012
Notes from Irrelevance
Anselm Berrigan
2012
The Bigger World
Noelle Kocot
2011
Black Life
Dorothea Lasky
2011
Christopher Sunset
Geoffrey Nutter
2011
The Cloud Corporation
Timothy Donnelly
2011
Thin Kimono
Michael Earl Craig
2010
Museum of Accidents
Rachel Zucker
2010
Poemland
Chelsey Minnis
2010
Sunny Wednesday
Noelle Kocot
2010
Take It
Joshua Beckman
2009
City of Corners
John Godfrey
2009
New Exercises
Charles Borkhuis,
Franck Andre Jamme
2009
Quaker Guns
Caroline Knox
2008
Awe
Dorothea Lasky
2008
Citizen Of
Christian Hawkey
2008
No Real Light
Joe Wenderoth
2008
Rise Up
2008
Scented Fox
Laynie Browne
2008
Sorry, Tree
Eileen Myles
2007
Moon Garden
Anthony McCann
2007
Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems
Noelle Kocot
2007
Rain
Jon Woodward
2007
Remnants of Hannah
Dara Wier
2007
Shake
Joshua Beckman
2007
Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar
Richard Meier
2007
Three, Breathing
S. A. Stepanek
Wayne State University Press
United States
2018
Rowing Inland
Jim Daniels
2018
The Bird-While
Keith Taylor
2018
The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory
Rae Paris
2016
That That
Ken Mikolowski
Weldon Publications, Inc.
United States
2012
The Wildest Yarn of the West and 'Bedtime' Stories for Grownups
Ray Ward
Wesleyan University Press
United States
2022
Shortlisted
2020
Shortlisted
2014
Winner
2006
Winner
2001
Winner
2021
A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations
Ian Boyden
2021
Conjure
Rae Armantrout
2021
Edges & Fray: on language, prsence, and (invisible) animal architectures
Danielle Vogel
2021
Now It's Dark
Peter Gizzi
2021
Rendang
Will Harris
2021
The Age of Phillis
Honorée Jeffers
2021
Un-American
Hafizah Geter
2020
Atopia
Sandra Simonds
2020
Frayed Light
Yonatan Berg
2019
bury it
Sam Sax
2019
Wobble
Rae Armantrout
2018
Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD
Gina Athena Ulysse
2018
In The Language of My Captor
Shane McCrae
2018
Let's Not Live on Earth
Sarah Blake
2018
semiautomatic
Evie Shockley
2018
The Complete Poetry of Aime Cesaire
Clayton Eshleman,
A. James Arnold,
Aime Cesaire
2018
The Lazarus Poems
2018
Trophic Cascade
Camille Dungy
2017
Archeophonics
Peter Gizzi
2017
Scarecrow
Robert Fernandez
2017
The Age of Reasons
Ted Greenwald
2017
The Book of Landings
Mark McMorris
2016
Azure: Poems and Selections from the "Livre"
Blake Bronson-Bartlett,
Robert Fernandez,
Stephane Mallarme
2016
Fauxhawk
Ben Doller
2016
Heliopause
Heather Christie
2016
Itself
Rae Armantrout
2016
Mr. West
Sarah Blake
2016
The Glory Gets
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
2015
The Little Edges
2015
The Tatters
Brenda Coultas
2014
Just Saying
Rae Armantrout
2014
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
2014
Sky Ward
Kazim Ali
2014
The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
A. James Arnold,
Clayton Eshleman,
Aime Cesaire
2013
Public Figures
Jena Osman
2013
Watchword
Forrest Gander,
Pura Lopez-Colome
2013
What is amazing
Heather Christie
2012
Address
Elizabeth Willis
2012
Money Shot
Rae Armantrout
2012
Solar Throat Slashed
Clayton Eshleman,
A. James Arnold,
Aime Cesaire
2012
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
2012
the new black
Evie Shockley
2012
Things Come On
Joseph Harrington
2012
Threshold Songs
Peter Gizzi
2011
Elegguas
2011
Exposition Park
Roberto Tejada
2011
Rococo and Other Worlds
Musharraf Ali Farooqi,
Afzal Ahmed Syed
2011
Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking.
Tan Lin
2011
To See the Earth Before the End of the World
2010
Bright Felon
Kazim Ali
2010
Live from the Homesick Jamboree
Adrian Blevins
2010
Practical Water
2010
Versed
Rae Armantrout
2009
All Odd and Splendid
Hilda Raz
2009
Grace, Fallen from
Marianne Boruch
2009
Zong!
M. NourbeSe Philip
2008
Little Boat
Jean Valentine
2008
Next Life
Rae Armantrout
2008
Stèles
Timothy Billings,
Christopher Bush,
Victor Segalen
2008
The Bad Wife Handbook
Rachel Zucker
2008
The Outernationale
Peter Gizzi
2007
Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005
2007
Meteoric Flowers
Elizabeth Willis
2007
The Sights Along the Harbour: New & Collected Poems
Harvey Shapiro
2006
Recumbents
Wilson Baldridge,
Michel Deguy
2006
Sundays on the Phone
Mark Rudman
2006
The Real Enough World
Karen Brennan
2006
The Red Gaze
Barbara Guest
2005
Anabranch
Andrew Zawacki
2005
Collected Poems: 1954-2004
Irving Feldman
2005
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003
Jean Valentine
2005
Fall
Amy Newman
2005
The Last Clear Narrative
Rachel Zucker
2005
The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
Donald Ravell,
Guillaume Apollinaire
2005
Up to Speed
Rae Armantrout
2005
Writing Through: Translations and Variations
Jerome Rothenberg
2004
Alphabet Theater
Meredith Stricker
2004
Altazor
Eliot Weinberger,
Vicente Huidobro
2004
Eating in the Underworld
Rachel Zucker
2004
Echoes of Memory
Anthony Molino,
Lucio Mariani
2004
Eyeshot
2004
Juniper Fuse
2004
Mixed Plate: New & Selected Poems
Faye Kicknosway
2004
Outlandish Blues
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
2004
What Kind
Martha Zweig
2004
Zither & Autobiography
Leslie Scalapino
2003
A Visit to Civilization
Sandra McPherson
2003
Arcady: Poems
Donald Revell
2003
Miniatures
Barbara Guest
2003
Selected Poems: 1950-2000
Nathaniel Tarn
2003
The Couple
Mark Rudman
2003
The White Fire of Time
Ellen Hinsey
2003
Treadwinds: Poems and Intermediate Works
Walter K. Lew
2002
Cascadia
2002
Drafts 1-38, Toll
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
2002
Fuck You - Aloha - I Love You
Juliana Spahr
2002
Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems
2002
Veil: New & Selected Poems
Rae Armantrout
2001
Lunch
D. A. Powell
2001
Signs and Abominations
Bruce Beasley
2001
The Cradle of the Real Life
Jean Valentine
West End Press
United States
2017
Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers
Bryce Milligan
2010
Odes to Anger
Jason L. Yurcic
2005
The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks
Stephen Haven
White Cock Press
Nigeria
2014
On the Wings of Hope
Emeka Egwuda
2007
Song of the Threshing Floor
Anaele C. Ihuoma
White Mountain Publications
Canada
2016
Confessions of a Handyman
Mike Camp
2001
The Ink of Light
Patricia Abram
White Pine Press
United States
2021
Aflame
Gary McDowell
2021
Hatchet/Hamartia
Lawrence Schimel,
Carmen Boullosa
2021
Multiverse
Chantal Wright,
Tzveta Sofronieva
2020
Above the Sky Beneath the Earth
Brian Henry,
Aleš Šteger
2020
Our Age of Anxiety
Henry Israeli
2017
Beyond Elsewhere
Helene Cardona,
Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
2017
Returnings: Poems of Love & Distance
Carolyn Tipton,
Rafael Alberti
2017
The Brighter House
Kim Garcia
2016
The Milk Underground
Hana Inbar,
Robert Manaster,
Ronny Someck
2015
Cloud Pharmacy
Susan Rich
2015
Selected Poems
J. Kates,
Mikhail Yeryomin
2014
Magnolia & Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim
Ian Haight,
T’ae-Yong Ho,
Hyesim
2014
Postage Due
Julie Marie Wade
2013
Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti
Louise Popkin,
Mario Benedetti
2011
Adamantine
Shin Yu Pai
2011
Letters From The Emily Dickinson Room
Kelli Russell Agodin
2011
The Alchemist's Kitchen
Susan Rich
2008
A Mapmaker's Diary
Mary Berg,
Carlota Caulfield
2008
Of Whiskey & Water
Peter Conners
2008
Paper Pavilion
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
2005
10,000 Dawns
Thomas Rain Crowe,
Nan Watkins,
Yvan & Claire Goll
2005
A Handbook for Writers
Vern Rutsala
2005
Barren Harvest
Erica Johnson Debeljak,
Dane Zajc
2005
This Smoke That Carried Us
Susanne Dubroff,
Rene Char
2005
With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba
Pamela Carmell,
David Frye,
Nancy Morejon