Awards
- Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
- writing residencies from the Yaddo, and McDowell colonies.
- 1987-1988 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award.
- Glassworks, awarded the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for best volume of poetry
- Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, was one of three named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library
- In April 2007, Wojahn was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Interrogation Palace.
- 2003 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003
- National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
- Illinois Arts Council award
- the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship
- William Carlos Williams Award
- Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America
- Vermont College’s Crowley/Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching
- George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine
- three Pushcart Prizes.
- 2008 he was named VCU’s Outstanding Faculty Award Winner
- 2008 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize.
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