Awards
- Patterson Prize For Poetry
- Battrick Award For Poetry
- Latino Book Award
- Latin American Book Award (Second Place)
- Denver Book Award (Finalist)
- Pushcart Prize (x2)
- California Arts Council Grant for Poetry (x2)
- Hudson D. Walker Fellowship Award at The Fine Arts Work Center
- Colorado Poet Laureate (Finalist)
- Vassar Visiting Writers Award
- Mexican-American Studies Center Visiting Scholar Award
- The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar Award
- San Jose State University Outstanding Alumnus
- San Jose Community College Outstanding Alumnus
- The White House Third Millennium Evening with Poets Laureate Attendee (invited by President and Hillary Clinton as one of the best 100 poets in The United States)
- Library of Congress Reading (x2)
- American Book Award (1982)
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants for Poetry (1979 and 1989)
- Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award (1995)
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