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.