Awards and Honors
- 2012 — The Thom Gunn Award for Poetry for Touch, Publishing Triangle
- 2012 — The Jackson Poetry Prize for Touch, Poets & Writers
- 2011 — Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa poet
- 2011 — Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry for Pierce the Skin (Selected Poems 1982-2007)
- 2010 — American Academy of Arts & Sciences, elected member
- 2009 — Sara Teasdale Award in Poetry, Wellesley College
- 2009 — National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
- 2008 — Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Blackbird and Wolf, Academy of American Poets
- 2008 — Ambassador Book Award in Poetry for Blackbird and Wolf, English-Speaking Union of the United States
- 2008 — Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry for Blackbird and Wolf
- 2008 — Lambda Literary Award in Poetry for Blackbird and Wolf
- 2007 — United States Artists USA Hildreth/Williams Fellow, Literature
- 2004 — Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Middle Earth
- 2004 — John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2004 — Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2004 — Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Middle Earth
- 2004 — Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry for Middle Earth
- 2004 — Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry for Middle Earth
- 2001 — Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Artist Fellowship
- 2000 — Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
- 1995 — Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1993 — National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
- 1989 — Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
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