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National Book Critics Circle

American Association of University Professors

Modern Language Association

Poetry Society of America

Poetry Society of Virginia

PEN

Associated Writing Programs

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)

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)