Organization Associated Writing Programs

Poetry Society of America

American Literary Review (editor-in-chief)

International PEN

Modern Language Association of America

University of Missouri (professor, director of the Creative Writing Program and the Center for Literary Arts)

University of North Texas (assistant professor)

Old Dominion University (associate professor, director of creative writing)

Kansas State University (instructor)

Westminster College (assistant professor)

National Book Critics Circle

American Association of University Professors

Modern Language Association

Poetry Society of America

Poetry Society of Virginia

PEN

Writers in Virginia

Academy of American Poets

Fellowship of Southern Writers

Phi Delta Theta

United States Air Force

The Southern Review (editor-in-chief)

American Poetry Review (columnist)

Rocky Mountain Review (editor)

Back Door (editor ∙ founder ∙ publisher)

Sou'wester (editor)

Louisiana State University (professor)

Virginia Commonwealth University (professor)

University of Utah (professor ∙ director of creative writing program)

Johns Hopkins University (professor)

Louisiana State University Press (series editor)

Sewanee Writers' Conference

University of Utah Press (poetry editor)

National Book Critics Circle

Modern Language Association of America

Wheaton College

Fellowship of Southern Writers

University of the South

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Bread Loaf School of English

Sewanee Writers' Conference (founding director)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Modern Language Association of America

College English Association

English Institute

South Atlantic Modern Language Association

United States Navy ( [1969])

Johns Hopkins University

Washington and Lee University

Sewanee Theological Review (poetry editor)

Sewanee Writers’ Series (general editor)