Poet Adam Dickinson from Canada, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort and Jamaican American poet Claudia Rankine will be judging the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize.

The Griffin Poetry Prize annually recognizes the best in Canadian and international poetry. Each prize is worth $65,000, making it one of the biggest poetry prizes in the world.

Dickinson is a poet and author born in Bracebridge, Ont. His 2013 poetry collection, The Polymers, was a finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry, the 2014 ReLit Award and the 2014 Trillium Book Award. His other poetry collections include Cartography and Walking, Kingdom, Phylum and Anatomic. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Brock University.

Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections. Her latest, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, won the 2020 international Griffin Poetry Prize. Mort teaches at Cornell University.

Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric. She is the co-editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary. In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute. She will also join New York University's creative writing program in fall 2021. Rankine lives in New Haven, Conn.

Last year's Canadian winner was Canisia Lubrin for The Dyzgraphxst.

Other past Canadian winners include Anne Carson, Roo Borson, Dionne Brand, Billy-Ray Belcourt and Jordan Abel.

Submissions for the Griffin Poetry Prize are currently open until Dec. 31, 2021. The finalists will be announced in spring 2022.