2026 Griffin Poetry Prize

Kevin Young won the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize for Night Watch, published by Alfred A. Knopf; the winner was announced on June 3, 2026. The prize, which considers poetry collections written in English or translated into English from anywhere in the world, named a shortlist of five books on April 22, 2026. Alongside Young, the shortlisted poets were Gbenga Adesina for Death Does Not End at the Sea, Aracelis Girmay for Green of All Heads, Ange Mlinko for Foxglovewise, and Elvira Hernández for Bodies Found in Various Places, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher.