Awards
- Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 2001 for The Ledge.
- Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, 2001 for The Ledge.
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1995
- National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1994 and 1984.
- National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1984.
- "Discovery" The Nation Award, 1981.
- Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1981.
- Writing Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1979-80.
- Thomas Watson Traveling Fellowship, 1976
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