Awards and Honors
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, 2011
National Book Critics Circle Award, 2010
Finalist, National Book Award, 2010
Griffin International Poetry Prize, 2009
Robert Creeley Award, 2005
Macarthur Foundation Fellowship, 2004
Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, 1994-99
Whiting Award, 1989
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1987