Awards

  • American Book Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

  • Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Poetry, 2013

  • PEN Center Literary Award in Poetry, 2012

  • Fellow, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, winter 2007

  • Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, 2002

  • Civitella Ranieri Center Fellow, 2001

  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant Recipient, 2001

  • Vermont Studio School Residency, 2001

  • The Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, 1996

  • National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1979-80

  • The National Literary Anthology Award, 1970

  • The Poets Foundation Award, 1969

  • The Dylan Thomas Memorial Award, 1967

  • Two-time winner of the International Poetry Championship Bout in Taos, New Mexico.