Honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
- Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
- Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia
- Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa
- Iowa's first Poet Laureate
- Honorary doctorates: Albert University, Union College
- National Book Award finalist
- Los Angeles Times Poetry Award finalist
- Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets
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