Awards and Honors
- 2006: Appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut (term ended in 2011)
- 2006: Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
- 2002: Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement
- 1990: MacArthur Fellowship
- 1983: Bollingen Prize for Powers of Thirteen.
- 1979: elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature
- 1958: Yale Series of Younger Poets for his first book of poems, A Crackling of Thorns, chosen by W. H. Auden.
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