Awards and Honors
John Hay Whitney Fellow, 1965-66
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Grant, 1968
Indiana University Writers Conference Award, 1970
First Annual Poetry Award, Black Academy of Arts and Letters, 1970
Copeland Fellow, Amherst College, 1980
National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1981-82
Photo put on Ugandan postage stamp, 1997
Nominated for a Grammy Award for the liner notes she wrote for The Long Road Back To Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, 2002 African American Legacy Project of Northwest Ohio Legend Honoree 2007
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