• Most all poetry and letters are archived at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley University; also archived at Yale, University of Chicago, University of Ohio

• Curator, milk magazine reading series at Type Books in Toronto (Canada) from 2021-2024

• Curator, Myopic Books Poetry Series in Chicago from 2005-2019

• Co-director, The Chicago School of Poetics

• Editor, lit mag, milkmag.org, which has featured poets such as Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Cid Corman, Frank Lima, Janine Pommy Vega, Clayton Eshleman, Sheila E. Murphy, and Jerome Rothenberg

• Editor Nexus magazine (Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio) 1992-1997

• Named Best Poet by The Chicago Reader in its 2012 & 2013 annual Best of Chicago readers' poll

• Of Unable to Fully California, his first collection, David Shapiro writes: "I fell in love with your 'blue fruit' and 'inescapable tomorrow,' also what seems like renunciation not of sentimentality but of cliché …I like even the quasi-Romantic dislocations here: 'There is a beauty to ice / only a statue understands.' I’m not a statue, so I only partially understand, but that should be more than enough for Sawyer's uncanny picnic on no grass … seemed as real as the Bronx, and I couldn’t stop thinking: I am so lucky that this poetry is so good."

Larry Sawyer died at the age of 54 on February 28, 2025.