Award Kansas Quarterly Prize

Academy-Institute Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1979)

Prairie Schooner Reader's Award (1995)

Virginia Prize in Poetry (1988)

Lyndhurst fellowship (1987-89)

Guggenheim fellowship (1981)

Prairie Schooner poetry prize (1980)

Portland Review poetry prize (1979)

David P. Gardner Award (1979)

National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

Borestone Mountain award (1976)

Poetry prize, Sou'wester (1973)

Breadloaf Writers' Conference scholarship