The Christopher Latham Scholes Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers (2012)

The National Poetry Review Prize Book Series Runner-Up (2007).

Sabbatical to write Gilgamesh at the Bellagio (2006).

Posner Book Award Honorable Mention (2006).

The Chad Walsh Award for Poetry (2005).

The Lorine Niedecker Award for Poetry (2005).

Free Verse contest judged by Marilyn Taylor first place.

Named Lakeland College Poet in Residence (2003). Mikrokosmos Prize for Poetry (2002).

Pushcart Prize for Poetry (2001). Lakeland College’s Outstanding Teacher Award (1986).

Sabbatical to write Earth as It Is in Heaven, a novel in manuscript (1986). Illinois Art Council Award for Poetry (1975).

Lucien Stryk Award for Poetry (1974).