Mark your calendar! This Thursday, Joseph Kidney (@zacnephron), our 2026 Canadian First Book Prize winner, will be in conversation with Griffin Poetry Trustee and award-winning poet, Karen Solie.

At this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize Readings, Ian Williams read from Gbenga Adesina’s shortlisted collection, 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙀𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 (University of Nebraska Press) 📸: Alyssa K Faoro

"Hernández’s writing is an excavation into collective history and into language itself, and it is from this intervened territory—from its fractures, ruptures, and silences—that the expressive capacity of her language emerges. 📸: Alyssa K Faoro

“In 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨, Aracelis Girmay transforms grief and mourning into a way of seeing, as daughter and mother, quintessential truths. 📸: Alyssa K Faoro

“Playful, layered, and unsentimental: Ange Mlinko’s poems excavate history (including personal history) by means of language — languages, really, for here English is a 'thin crust' on top of a polyglot substrate”. —The 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Judges 📸: Alyssa K Faoro

Joseph Kidney, author of 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨 (gooselane.bsky.social ), is this year’s Canadian First Book Prize winner. Earlier this month, he shared the stage with this year’s finalists and Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Raúl Zurita and read from his debut collection. 📸: Alyssa K Faoro

“In his most experimental volume to date, Kevin Young’s 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 crafts a melancholic and haunting collection of sequence poems that layers multiple literary traditions with a dexterity that amounts to a provocation of sonic and epic proportions". 📸: Alyssa K Faoro

✨ Here are highlights of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Readings when Raúl Zurita was presented with the 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award. Zurita participated in the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings with his translator, Anna Deeny Morales. Photo Credit: Alyssa Faoro

The Trustees of the International Griffin Poetry Prize are pleased to announce that, after reviewing the comments and recommendations of the Canadian poetry community, several changes will be implemented. Please visit our website to read the full press release: griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2026-a...

✨We’re delighted to announce 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 (@aaknopf.bsky.social) by Kevin Young as the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize winner. ✨Young received C$130,000 in prize money, and the other finalists were each awarded C$10,000.

We’re live! ✨ Tune in now for the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings, livestreaming worldwide from Koerner Hall in Toronto. The winner of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize will be announced at the event and awarded $130,000, with each finalist receiving $10,000. youtube.com/live/h6ulfvE...

2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings

Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry!✨The 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings📅 June 3 | 🕢 7:00 PM ETThe Readings will be held at Koerner Hall in T...

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We are just two days away from the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings. Join us for a wonderful evening of international poetry bringing together voices from around the world. 📅 June 3 | 🕖 7:00 PM ET 📍 Koerner Hall, Toronto (@royalconservatoryevents) 💻 YouTube livestream available worldwide

A reminder that the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings will be livestreamed worldwide on YouTube ✨ Join us on June 3 at 7:00 PM ET for an unforgettable evening of poetry! youtube.com/live/AysjdKJ...

2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings

Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry!✨The 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings📅 June 3 | 🕢 7:00 PM ETThe Readings will be held at Koerner Hall in T...

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Guess the #2026GriffinPoetryPrize winner for a chance to win a full set of this year’s shortlisted books and/or the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize anthology! 📚✨ Artwork: Toronto Ink Company

Your ticket to the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings also includes a copy of this year’s Anthology (House of Anansi), edited by Canadian poet and judge Luke Hathaway, and featuring work by shortlisted poets and translators. ✨Tickets: buff.ly/kJzSLz5 📅 June 3 | 🕖 7:00 PM ET 📍 Koerner Hall, Toronto

We are one week away from the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings. Join us for a wonderful evening of international poetry bringing together voices from around the world. 📅 June 3 | 🕖 7:00 PM ET 📍 Koerner Hall, Toronto (@@royalconservatory.bsky.social) 💻 YouTube livestream available worldwide

GRIFFIN PRIZE GIVEAWAY! Win Two Tickets to the 2026 Readings, and a @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social Prize Pack! Full event and prize entry information can be found here. DEADLINE MAY 31! #AmReading #Poetry #GriffinPrize #Contests open-book.ca/News/Griffin...

Griffin Prize Giveaway! Win Two Tickets to the 2026 Readings, and a Poetry Prize Pack!

The Griffin Prize awards ceremony is right around the corner, and lucky poetry fans can hear all of the shortlisted authors at the upcoming Griffin ...

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✨ We are pleased to announce that Joseph Kidney (josephkidney.bsky.social), author of 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨, is the winner of the 2026 Canadian First Book Prize! ✨ Join us in congratulating Joseph and his publisher, icehouse poetry / @gooselane.bsky.social!

✨In less than 24 hours we are announcing the 2026 winner of the Canadian First Book Prize! Join us on all of our channels on May 20 at 10:00am ET.

✨We are one week away from announcing the 2026 winner of the Canadian First Book Prize! ✨The Canadian First Book Prize, valued at $10,000, is for a first-edition first book of poetry written in English by a living Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.

Congratulations to Raúl Zurita, recipient of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award! The Chilean poet's incantatory work has long borne witness to political violence and the resilience of language. Read a new interview with him today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/ra%C...

An interview with Raúl Zurita

Raúl Zurita, recipient of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, talks with The Yale Review about poetry and death.

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✨ We’re delighted to announce Raúl Zurita as the 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award recipient. ✨ ✨ Raúl Zurita will participate in the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings with his translator, Anna Deeny Morales.

We are one day away from announcing this year’s Lifetime Recognition Award recipient! Since 2006, the Griffin Poetry Prize trustees have presented this honour to international artists working in poetry. The 2026 recipient will be announced on Wednesday, May 6 at 10:00am ET.

Guess the #2026GriffinPoetryPrize winner for a chance to win a full set of this year’s shortlisted books and/or the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize anthology! 📚✨ Artwork: Toronto Ink Company

congrats to the five 2026 Griffin Prize nominees: Gbenga Adesina, Elvira Hernández (translated by Daniel Borzutzky & Alec Schumacher), Aracelis Girmay, Ange Mlinko, and Kevin Young

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Announcing our 2026 #GriffinPoetryPrize Shortlist! ✨ Artwork: Toronto Ink Company #2026GriffinPoetryPrize

Announcing our 2026 #GriffinPoetryPrize Shortlist! ✨ Artwork: Toronto Ink Company #2026GriffinPoetryPrize

✨We are one month away from announcing the 2026 winner of the Canadian First Book Prize! The Canadian First Book Prize, valued at $10,000, is for a first-edition first book of poetry written in English by a living Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.

We are three days away from our shortlist announcement! ✨The five shortlisted books will be announced on Wednesday, April 22.

We are one week away from our shortlist announcement! ✨The five shortlisted books will be announced on Wednesday, April 22.

We are two weeks away from our shortlist announcement! ✨The five shortlisted books will be announced on Wednesday, April 22.