Griffin Poetry Prize Poets | Poetry In Voice

Many of our anthology poets have been shortlisted for or have won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. A few have even received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the trustees of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. Browse this list to read poems by some of the best and brightest poets of our time.

2019

Luljeta Lleshanaku

Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in 1968 in Elbasan, Albania, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha’s autocratic communist rule…

Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin, South Korea and was raised by her grandmother. South Korean female poets are traditionally expected to write in a…

Eve Joseph

Eve Joseph grew up on unceded Squamish territory (North Vancouver) and now lives in Victoria on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen people. For 20…

Raymond Antrobus

A veteran of the London, UK, slam and open-mic scene who often includes sign language in his performances, Raymond Antrobus writes of his Jamaican/…

Sarah Tolmie

Sarah Tolmie has loved early English since she was a teenager because of its weirdness. She did degrees in medieval studies at Toronto and Cambridge…

2003

Dionne Brand

Born in Guayaguayare, the southernmost village in Trinidad and Tobago, poet, novelist, and scholar Dionne Brand moved to Canada in the 1970s to…

2018

Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the…

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, and a 2016 Rhodes Scholar who holds a M.St…

Natalie Shapero

Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, poet Natalie Shapero is the author of the books No Object and Hard Child. The Griffin Poetry Prize judges, who…

Donato Mancini

Poet and interdisciplinary artist Donato Mancini is the author of books and chapbooks of poetry and text-based visual art, including same diff,…

Susan Howe

Poet and literary critic Susan Howe has published more than a dozen books and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Bollingen…

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Born in San Francisco, the poet, movement worker, and educator Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the books someone’s dead already and Heaven Is All…