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 Chicago Press/Phoenix Poets Series
United States
2025
Shortlisted
2006
Classic Rough News
Kenneth Fields
2006
Human Love
Doreen Gildroy
2006
Other People
Peter Campion
2006
Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994-2001
John Peck
2006
Songs for Two Voices
Bruce Smith
2006
Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems
Gail Mazur
2004
Columbarium
Susan Stewart
2004
Fleet River
James Longenbach
2004
Potential Stranger
Killarney Clary
2004
Spiritual Sonnets
Melanie E. Gregg (Tr.),
Gabrielle de Coignard
2004
Swoon
Victoria Redel
2004
The Sleep of Reason
David Gewanter
University of Georgia Press
United States
2025
The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket
Kinsale Drake
2024
Soft Apocalypse
Leah Nieboer
2024
Tripas
Brandon Som
2022
Divine Fire
David Woo
2022
Hysterical Water
Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
2020
Chouteau's Chalk
Rosa Lane
2020
Valuing
Christopher Kondrich
2018
Thaw
Chelsea Dingman
2016
Honest Engine: Poems
Kyle G. Dargan
2016
Monograph
Simeon Berry
2013
Exit, Civilian
Idra Novey
2011
Logorrhea Dementia: A Self Diagnosis
Kyle Dargan
2010
Free Union
John Casteen
2010
If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
Anna Journey
2010
Quiver
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
2009
Boy: Poems
Patrick Phillips
2009
Salvinia Molesta
2009
The History of Ananymity
Jennifer Chang
2009
Winners Have Yet To Be Announced
Ed Pavlic
2008
Bouquet of Hungers
Kyle Dargan
2008
Crossing to Sunlight Revisited
Paul Zimmer
2007
Depth Theology
Peter O’Leary
2007
Knot
Stacy Doris
2006
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
Judith Ortiz Cofer
2004
The Blaze of the Poui
Mark McMorris
2004
The Book of Motion
Tung-Hui Hu
2004
Vertical Elegies 5
Sam Truitt
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
2025
Children In Tactical Gear
Peter Mishler
2025
Salms
Aaron McCollough
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
2025
Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive
Jennifer Tseng
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
USA
2025
Dear Wallace
Julie Choffel
2025
Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body
Lory Bedikian
2025
Leaked Footages
Abu Bakr Sadiq
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Jose Maria Hinojosa
2013
Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre: Selected Works
Guillermo Parra (Tr.),
Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre
2013
Makebelieve
Caitlin Scholl
2013
Narcisia
Ana Valverde Osan (Tr.),
Juano Castro
2012
Only More So
Tony Lopez
2010
Gravestones
Donald Wellman (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Luo Ying
2016
Poems from the Rio Grande
Rudolfo Anaya
2015
Rhapsody in Black: Poems
Denis Mair (Tr.),
Jidi Maji
2013
Winter Sun
Jonathan Stalling (Tr.),
Shi Zhi