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.
University of Illinois Press
United States
2009
A Map of the Night
David Wagoner
2008
Expectation Days
Sandra McPherson
2008
Sleeping with the Moon
Colleen J. McElroy
2008
Visiting Picasso
Jim Barnes
2003
Guide to the Blue Tongue
Virgil Suarez
2003
The House of Song
David Wagoner
2003
Theory of Devolution
David Groff
2003
X=
Stephen Berg
2002
On a Wing of the Sun
Jim Barnes
2001
Pursuit of a Wound
Sydney Lea
2001
Songlines in Michaeltree:
Michael S. Harper
2001
The Pebble: Old and New Poems
Mairi MacINNES
University of Iowa Press
United States
2023
Disbound: Poems
Hajar Hussaini
2022
fretwork
Michele Glazer
2021
The Book of Jane
Jennifer Habel
2019
High Ground Coward
Alicia Mountain
2019
The Fix
Lisa Wells
2017
bodys
Vanessa Roveto
2017
Playful Song Called Beautiful
John Blair
2017
Take Nothing With You
Sarah V. Schweig
2016
Rank
Aaron McCollough
2013
meme
Susan Wheeler
2013
Must a Violence
Oni Buchanan
2009
Revolver
Robyn Schiff
2005
Matter
Bin Ramke
2002
Airs, Waters, Places
Bin Ramke
2002
Such Rich Hour
2002
The Penultimate Suitor
Mary Leader
2001
A Point Is That Which Has No Part
Liz Waldner
2001
Isolato
Larissa Szporluk
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
United States
2014
Mega's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie
Darrell Bourque
University of Massachusetts Press
United States
2023
Dogged
Stacy Gnall
2019
Transmission Loss
Chelsea Jennings
2017
The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising)
Mark Wagenaar
2016
Violin Playing Herself in the Mirror: Poems
David Kutz-Marks
2015
The Theme of Tonite's Party Has Been Changed
Dana Roeser
2003
Dance and Disappear
Laura Kasischke
2002
Song of the Cicadas
Mong-Lan
2001
Heartwall
Richard Jackson
University of Nebraska Press
United States
2024
Butterfly Nebula
Laura Reece Hogan
2024
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
Jared Harél
2024
The Gathering of Bastards
Romeo Oriogun
2024
Two Open Doors in a Field
Sophie Klahr
2023
There Where It's So Bright in Me
Todd Fredson,
Tanella Boni
2022
Dear Diaspora
Susan Nguyen
2022
The Rinehart Frames
Cheswayo Mphanza
2022
Your Crib, My Qibla
Saddiq Dzukogi
2021
Sacrament of Bodies
Romeo Oriogun
2020
Hard Damage
Aria Aber
2020
Nebraska: Poems
Kwame Dawes
2019
Stray
Bernard Farai Matambo
2018
In a Language That You Know
Len Verwey
2017
Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair
2015
Reliquaria
R. A. Villanueva
2014
Fetish: Poems
Orlando Ricardo Menes
2006
Adonis Garage
Rynn Williams
2005
Leopold's Maneuvres
Cortney Davis
University of New Mexico Press
United States
2022
The Blood Poems
Jessica Helen Lopez
2019
Rain Scald
Tacey M. Atsitty
2018
Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project
John Canaday
2018
MEAN/TIME
Grace Bauer
2016
Crossing Over
Priscilla Long
2016
Heresies
Orlando Ricardo Menes
2016
Report to the Department of the Interior
Diane Glancy
2016
The Arranged Marriage
Jehanne Dubrow
2003
Miracles of Sainted Earth
Victoria Edwards Tester
University of New Orleans Press
United States
2024
Black Creole Chronicles
Mona Lisa Saloy
2013
Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of Jose Maria Hinojosa
Mark Statman,
Jose Maria Hinojosa
2013
Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre: Selected Works
Guillermo Parra,
Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre
2013
Makebelieve
Caitlin Scholl
2013
Narcisia
Ana Valverde Osan,
Juano Castro
2012
Only More So
Tony Lopez
2010
Gravestones
Donald Wellman,
Antonio Gamoneda
University of North Texas Press
United States
2018
Ornament
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
2011
Stray Home
Amy M. Clark
University of Notre Dame Press
United States
2024
The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes
Victoria Maria Castells
2023
Stepmotherland
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
2020
The Inheritance of Haunting
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
2008
Falling Through the Music
Mark Halperin
University of Oklahoma Press
United States
2016
Memories of the Cultural Revolution
Denis Mair,
Luo Ying
2016
Poems from the Rio Grande
Rudolfo Anaya
2015
Rhapsody in Black: Poems
Denis Mair,
Jidi Maji
2013
Winter Sun
Jonathan Stalling,
Shi Zhi
University of Pennsylvania Press
United States
2015
Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria
Len Krisak,
Ovid
2012
Beowulf
Craig Williamson
2011
Virgil's Eclogues
Len Krisak,
Virgil
University of Pittsburgh Press
United States
2024
As Is
Julia Spicher Kasdorf
2024
Auction
Quan Barry
2024
Octobers
Sahar Muradi
2024
Stop Lying
Aaron Smith
2024
Take Me to Stavanger
Andrew Wachtel,
Anzhelina Polonskaya
2024
The Anxiety Workbook
Christina Olson
2024
The Rock That Is Not a Rabbit
Corey Marks
2024
Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing
Lynn Emanuel
2023
Banana []
Paul Hlava Ceballos
2023
Casualty Reports
Martha Collins
2023
Endurable Infinity
Tony Kitt
2023
Imperfect Present
2023
Territorial
2022
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Tracy Fuad
2022
Holoholo
Barbara Hamby
2022
The Blues of Heaven
Barbara Ras
2021
Earnest, Earnest?
Eleanor Boudreau
2020
Because What Else Could I Do
Martha Collins
2020
Life in a Country Album
Nathalie Handal
2020
Ringer
Rebecca Lehman
2020
The Book of Daniel
Aaron Smith
2019
Autobiography of a Wound
Brynne Rebele-Henry
2019
Bird Odyssey
Barbara Hamby
2019
Blood Pages
George Bilgere
2019
Cape Verdean Blues
Shauna Barbosa
2019
Cease
Beth Bachmann
2019
I Can't Talk About The Trees Without The Blood
Tiana Clark
2019
Refuse
Julian Randall
2019
The Black Bear Inside Me
Robin Becker
2019
The Dean of Discipline
Michael Waters
2019
The Wall
Ilan Stavans
2019
What We Did While We Made More Guns
Dorothy Barresi
2018
Albatross
Dore Kiesselbach
2018
Darwin's Mother
Sarah Rose Nordgren
2018
For the Scribe
David Wojahn
2018
Let's All Die Happy
Erin Adair-Hodges
2018
Milk Black Carbon
Joan Naviyuk Kane
2018
Music for a Wedding
Lauren Clark
2018
No Way Out But Through
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
2018
On the Surface of Silence
Rachel Tzvia Back,
Lea Goldberg
2018
Ornaments
David Daniel
2018
Scald
Denise Duhamel
2018
Spirit Boxing
Afaa Michael Weaver
2018
Talking Pillow
Angela Ball
2018
The Thin Wall
Martha Rhodes
2018
Waiting for the Light
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
2017
Admit One: An American Scrapbook
Martha Collins
2017
Blood Memory
Colleen McElroy
2017
Dear Sincerely
David Hernandez
2017
Energy Corridor
Glenn Shaheen
2017
Eternity and Oranges
Christopher Bakken
2017
Hour of the Ox
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
2017
Manual for Living
2017
Orbit
Arthur Vogelsang
2017
Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes
Cheryl Dumesnil
2016
Boy with Thorn
Rickey Laurentiis
2016
Brain Camp
Charles Harper Webb
2016
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
2016
Do Not Rise
Beth Bachmann
2016
For Dear Life
Ronald Wallace
2016
Immigrant Model
Mihaela Moscaluc
2016
Interstate
Chard de Niord
2016
Karankawa
Iliana Rocha
2016
More Money than God
Richard Michelson
2016
The Invisible Bridge/El Puente Invisible
Jesse Lee Kercheval,
Circe Maia
2016
The Republics
Nathalie Handal
2016
Wild Hundreds
Nate Marshall
2015
Best Bones
Sarah Rose Nordgren
2015
Bloom in Reverse
Teresa Leo
2015
City of Eternal Spring
Afaa Michael Weaver
2015
Imperial
George Bilgere
2015
Lucky Bones
Peter Meinke
2015
Mimi's Trapeze
J. Allyn Rosser
2015
Nude Descending an Empire
Sam Taylor
2015
The Americans
David Roderick
2015
The Dottery
Kirsten Kaschock
2015
The Old Woman, The Tulip, and the Dog
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
2015
Tiger Heron
Robin Becker
2014
Blowout
Denise Duhamel
2014
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
Jeffrey McDaniel
2014
Hyperboreal
Joan Naviyuk Kane
2014
Keeper
Kasey Jueds
2014
Kimonos in the Closet
David Shumate
2014
Listening Long and Late
Peter Everwine
2014
Now, Now
Jennifer Maier
2014
The Government of Nature
Afaa Michael Weaver
2014
The Switching/Yard
Jan Beatty
2014
Translations from the Flesh
Elton Glaser
2014
What Things Are Made Of
Charles Harper Webb
2014
Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
Daisy Fried
2013
Animal Eye
Paisley Rekdal
2013
Here I Throw Down My Heart
Colleen J. McElroy
2013
Looking for The Gulf Motel
Richard Blanco
2013
Poet in Andalucia
Nathalie Handal
2013
Salt Pier
Dore Kiesselbach
2013
White Papers
Martha Collins
2012
Bringing The Shovel Down
Ross Gay
2012
Poetry in America
Julia Spicher Kasdorf
2012
Predatory
Glenn Shaheen
2012
The Double Truth
Chard deNiord
2012
The Undertaker's Daughter
Toi Derricotte
2012
The World Falls Away
Wanda Coleman
2012
Water Puppets
Quan Barry
2012
World Tree
David Wojahn
2011
American Fanatics
Dorothy Barresi
2011
Heaven & Earth Holding Company
John Hodgen
2011
Love and Strange Horses
Nathalie Handal
2011
Noose and Hook
Lynn Emanuel
2011
Paper Anniversary
Bobby C. Rogers
2011
The Animals All Are Gathering
Bradley Paul
2011
View From A Temporary Window
Joanie Mackowski
2011
Words for Empty and Words for Full
Bob Hicok
2010
]Open Interval[
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
2010
All-Night Lingo Tango
Barbara Hamby
2010
In Praise of Falling
Cheryl Dumesnil
2010
Ka-Ching!
Denise Duhamel
2010
See Jack
Russell Edson
2010
Temper
Beth Bachmann
2010
The Book of Seventy
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
2009
Burn and Dodge
2009
Dismantling the Hills
Michael McGriff
2009
Domestic Interior
Stephanie Brown
2009
For A Limited Time Only
Ronald Wallace
2009
Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man
Ronaldo V. Wilson
2009
Red Sugar
Jan Beatty
2009
The Endarkenment
Jeffrey McDaniel
2009
The Floating Bridge
David Shumate
2008
After The Fall
Edward Field
2008
Cloud Moving Hands
Cathy Song
2008
Fata Morgana: Poems
Reginald Shepherd
2008
Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
Angela Ball
2008
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope
Paisley Rekdal
2008
The Last Person to Hear Your Voice
Richard Shelton
2008
The Plum Flower Dance
Afaa Michael Weaver
2008
This Clumsy Living
Bob Hicok
2008
Velocity
Nancy Krygowski
2007
Astoria
M.
2007
Brother Salvage
Rick Hilles
2007
Domain of Perfect Affection
Robin Becker
2007
Grace
John Hodgen
2007
Interrogation Palace
David Wojahn
2007
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again
Daisy Fried
2007
The Contracted World
Peter Meinke
2006
Eye of Water
Amber Flora Thomas
2006
Night Mowing
Chard deNiord
2006
No Heaven
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
2006
The Improbable Swervings of Atoms
Christopher Bursk
2006
Two and Two: Poems
Denise Duhamel
2005
Babel
Barbara Hamby
2005
Insomnia Diary
Bob Hicok
2005
Natural Causes
Mark Cox
2004
Long for This World
Ron Wallace
2004
Ostinato Vamps: Poems
Wanda Coleman
2004
Song of Thieves
Shara McCallum
2004
The Starry Messenger
George Keithley
2003
On Foot, in Flames
Robert McDowell
2002
Asylum
Quan Barry
2002
Journey: New & Selected Poems 1969-1999
Kathleen Norris
2002
Queen for a Day: Selected & New Poems
Denise Duhamel
2002
The Cave: Selected and New Poems
C. G. Hanzlicek
2002
The Land of Bliss
Cathy Song
2002
The Tormented Mirror
Russell Edson
University of Pittsburgh Press/Pitt Poetry Series
United States
2017
A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy
Daniel Grandbois
2017
In The Volcano's Mouth
Miriam Bird Greenberg
2017
Primer
Aaron Smith