Rosine Offen Memorial Award, Free Lunch magazine (2008); Best Book of Poetry, Indiana Center for the Book (2007); Distinguished Hoosier Award (2005); Rainmaker Award for Poetry, Zone 3 magazine (2002); The Poets’ Prize (1994); Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Award (1993); New Letters Literary Award for Poetry (1992); Pushcart Prize for Poetry (1986); Indiana Governor’s Arts Award (1985); Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1982); Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry (1982); Literature Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1981, 1991); Margaret Bridgman Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (1981); Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, (1980); Literature Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission (1979); Academy of American Poets Prize, Yale University (1961).