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 Pennsylvania Press
United States
2015
Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria
Len Krisak (Tr.),
Ovid
2012
Beowulf
Craig Williamson (Tr.)
2011
Virgil's Eclogues
Len Krisak (Tr.),
Virgil
University of Pittsburgh Press
United States
2025
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye
V. Penelope Pelizzon
2025
Climbing A Burning Rope
John Paul Davis
2025
Dragstripping
Jan Beatty
2025
Purchase
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
2025
Querida
Nathan Xavier Osorio
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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
University of Queensland Press
Australia
2024
Non-Essential Work
Omar Sakr
2024
Reliefs
Jared Bruinstroop
2024
The Exclusion Zone
Shastra Deo
2024
The Flirtation of Girls
Sara Saleh
2023
At the Altar of Touch
Gavin Yuan Gao
2022
A Thousand Crimson Blooms
Eileen Chong
2022
Dropbear
Evelyn Araluen
2022
how to make a basket
Jazz Money
2022
Trigger Warning
Maria Takolander
2021
A Kinder Sea
Felicity Plunkett
2021
Ask Me About the Future
Rebecca Jessen
2021
Change Machine
Jaya Savige
2021
Throat
Ellen van Neerven
2019
Interval
Judith Bishop
2018
On the Outskirts
John Kinsella
2017
Comfort Food
Ellen van Neerven
2017
Glasshouses
Stuart Barnes
2017
Jack & Mollie (& Her)
Jordie Albiston
2016
Eating My Grandmother: a grief cycle
Krissy Kneen
2016
Open House
David Brooks
2016
The Hazards
2015
Earth Hour
David Malouf
2015
Night Writing
Kathryn Lomer
2014
1953
Geoff Page
2014
Free Logic
Rachael Briggs
2013
The World Last Night
M. T. C. Cronin
2013
Water Mirrors
Nicholas Powell
2012
Another Babylon
Vladislav (Vlanes) Nekliaev
2012
Ashes in the Air
Ali Alizadeh
2012
Surface to Air
Jaya Savige
2011
Parts of Us
Thomas Shapcott
2011
Starlight: 150 Poems
John Tranter
2010
Apples with Human Skin
Nathan Shepherdson
2010
Vanishing Point
Felicity Plunkett
2009
Bark
Anthony Lawrence
2009
The Balcony
David Brooks
2008
Helen of Troy
Dimitris Tsaloumas
2008
Old/New World
Peter Skrzynecki
2008
Parts of Speech
Angela Gardner
2008
Two Kinds of Silence
Kathryn Lomer
2008
Typewriter Music
David Malouf
2007
Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror
Nathan Shepherdson
2007
The Flower, The Thing
M. T. C. Cronin
2007
The Passenger
Laurie Duggan
2007
Urban Myths: 210 Poems
John Tranter
2003
Itinerant Blues
Samuel Wagan Watson
2003
My Lover's Back
M. T. C. Cronin
2003
Skinned by Light
Anthony Lawrence
2002
Flight Animals
Bronwyn Lea
2002
The Gotterdammerung Caf
Andrew Taylor
2001
Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
S. Wagan watson
2001
Scar Country
Rebecca Edwards
2001
The Simple Gift
Steven Herrick
University of Regina Press
Canada
2025
The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle
Harold Rhenisch
2024
Wrack Line
Michael Jaeggle
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2023
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
Aaron Kreuter
2023
Synaptic
Alison Calder
2023
The History Forest
Michael Trussler
2021
Burden
Douglas Burnet Smith
2021
Field Notes for the Self
Randy Lundy
2020
Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language and Wilderness
2019
Blackbird Song
Randy Lundy
2019
The House of Charlemagne
Tim Lilburn
2018
Cloud Physics
Karen Enns
2017
The Long Walk
Janine Louise Zwicky
University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
Philippines
2012
Alien to Any Skin
Jim Pascual Agustin
2012
Tales of the Spiderwoman
Merlie M. Alunan
2011
Everyday Things
Fidelito C. Cortes
University of Tampa Press
United States
2018
Light into Bodies
Nancy Chen Long
2017
Among the Gorgans
Michele Boisseau
2017
Black Anthem
Bruce Bond
2006
In All their Animal Brilliance
Lance Larsen
University of Utah Press
United States
2024
B/RDS
Béatrice Szymkowiak
2023
Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble
Carolyn Oliver
2022
West Portal
Benjamin Gucciardi
2021
gone bird in the glass hours: a poem at play
Zachary Asher
2020
Catechesis: A Postpastoral
Lindsay Lusby
2019
Her Mouth as Souvenir
Heather June Gibbons
2018
Bad Summon
Philip Schaefer
2017
lore
Davis McCombs
2016
The Rival
Sara Wallace
2008
Dear Blackbird
Jane Springer
2007
The Gods We Worship Live Next Door
Bino A. Reayluyo
University of Washington Press
United States
2020
Republic Café
David Biespiel
2016
The Holding Hours
Christianne Balk
2014
Charming Gardeners
David Biespiel
2010
The Book of Men and Women: Poems
David Biespiel
2008
No Starling: Poems
Nance Van Winckel
2008
The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems
Bruce Beasley
2006
The Quick
Katrina Roberts
University of Wisconsin Press
United States
2025
Host
Lisa Fay Coutley
2025
How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters
Saúl Hernández
2025
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
Daniel Khalastchi
2024
Grace Engine
Joshua Burton
2023
Girl's Guide to Leaving
Laura Villareal
2022
Ameican Parables
Daniel Khalastchi
2021
Fractures
Carlos Andrés Gómez
2021
No Day at the Beach
John Brehm
2021
Perigee
Diane Kerr
2020
The Grief of A Happy Life
Christopher Howell
2019
How the End First Showed
D. M. Aderibiybe
2015
Otherwise Unseeable
Betsy Sholl
2008
New Jersey
Betsy Andrews
2006
Funny
Jennifer Michael Hecht
2001
Ejo
Derick Burleson
University Press of New England/Northeastern U Press
United States
2007
Nest of Thistles
Annie Boutelle
University Press of SHSU/Texas Review Press
USA
2025
The Book of Drought
Rob Carney
2025
Unmoored
Elizabeth Burk
2025
What Good is Heaven
Raye Hendrix
2024
Ghost :: Seeds
Sebastian Merrill
2024
Landlock X
Sarah Audsley
2024
Lotería
Esteban Rodríquez
2024
Quiver
Luke Johnson
2024
Scrap Bones
Collier Brown
2024
Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers
Kelly McQuain
2023
As the Den Burns
Forrest Rapier
2023
Flare Stacks in Full Bloom
Katherine Hoerth
2023
Heaven's Burning Porch
James Dunlap
2023
Where Are the Snows
Kathleen Rooney
2022
Before I Had the Word
Brooke Sahni
2022
Her Read, a graphic poem
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
2022
Politics of the Minotaur
Karla K. Morton
2022
Sawgrass Sky
Andrew Hemmert
2020
A Wake with Nine Shades
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
2020
Gulf
Cody Smith
2020
The World Pushes Back
Garret Keizer
2019
Enter Water, Swimmer
Mary Morris
2019
Heiress
Elisabeth Murawski
2019
The Geometry of Wishes
Randall Watson
2018
Wooden Lions
Karla K. Morton
2010
Basic Heart
Renee Ashley
Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.
United States
2016
Become a Message: Poems
Agnes Walder (Tr.),
Lajos Walder
2014
Mortal Diamond: Poems
Michael (Durs Grunbein) Eskin
URJ Press
2011
Finding Words
Merle Feld