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.
Wesleyan University Press
United States
2024
Fierce Elegy
Peter Gizzi
2024
Icelight
Ranjit Hoskote
2024
In Springtime
Sarah Blake
2024
mahogany
erica lewis
2024
suddendly we
Evie Shockley
2024
The Ruins of Nostalgia
Donna Stonecipher
2024
The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire
Trevor Ketner
2023
Belly to the Brutal
Jennifer Givhan
2023
Finalists
Rae Armantrout
2023
In a Few Minutes Before Later
2023
In the Current Where Drowning is Beautiful
2023
Lapis
Kerri Webster
2023
The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos
Alexander Dickow,
Sylvie Kandé
2022
magnified
Minnie Bruce Pratt
2022
The Blue Split Compartments
Andrea Brady
2022
The Past
Wendy Xu
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
2024
The Abduction
Hélène Cardona,
Maram al-Masri
2022
the beginning of water
Bruce Weigl,
Tran Le Khanh
2022
The Book of Mirrors
Yun Wang
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
Hélène 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
Wild Ocean Press
United States
2018
Naked to the Earth
Sharon Doubiago
2016
out of the bones of earth
Devreaux Baker
2016
The Visit
Sharon Doubiago
2016
Twin Extra
Doren Robbins
Wilfred Laurier University Press
Canada
2008
By Word of Mouth: The Poetry of Dennis Cooley
Dennis Cooley
2008
Children of the Outer Dark: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney
Christopher Dewdney
2008
Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski
Don Domanski
2006
Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier