Honors and Awards

Excellence in Teaching Award, Alfred University, 1998

NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, 1993-1994

Fred H. Gertz Chair in Writing, Alfred University, 1996-1999

Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, Southern Humanities Review, 1995

Milton Dorfman Prize in Poetry, 1992

Hagar Chair in the Humanities, Alfred University

Alan Collins Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 1982

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1966-1967

Books

Humane Letters: Selected Essays and Reviews. Forthcoming, Story Line Press

Dark Pool (poems).  Salmon Publishing (Ireland), 2004

Midcentury, a verse novella. Salmon Publishing (Ireland), 1997.

The Pressed Melodeon: Essays on Modern Irish Writing. Story Line Press, 1996.

Lenten Anniversaries: Poems 1982-1989. Cummington Press, 1990.

Northern Interior: Poems 1975-1982. Cummington Press, 1986.

Father of Waters: Poems 1965-1975. Abattoir Editions (University of Nebraska at Omaha), 1979.

Chapbooks

Lute Music. State Street Press, 1990.

The Other Shore. Passim Editions (Ann Arbor), 1991.

Stone on Stone. Tangram Editions (Berkeley, California), 1993.

The Mother Tongue. Tangram, 1993.

Spitting Forgiven. Tangram, 1994.

The Center of Attention. Tangram, 1995.

Across the Water. Tangram, 1996.

The Word from Dublin, 1944. Tangram, 1996.

Lines for the Makers. Tangram, 1998.

Publications

Approximately 300 essays, poems, articles, and reviews in national and international literary journals, including Poetry, Sewanee Review, Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Chelsea, The Amicus Journal, The Formalist, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, New Hibernia Review, and Prairie Schooner.

Poetry Reading (audio files): The Cortland Review, Issue Six (February 1999).

Inclusion in Anthologies

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. Ed. Billy Collins. Random House, 2005.

The POETRY Anthology 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine. Ed. Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young. Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: Poetry from The Amicus Journal. Ed. Brian Swann. University of Utah Press, 2002.

Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City. Ed. Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Milkweed Editions, 2000.

On William Stafford. Ed. Tom Andrews. University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Poetry from the Amicus Journal. Ed. Brian Swann. Tioga Publishing, 1990.

The State Street Reader. Ed. Judith Kitchen. State Street Press, 1990.

A Garland for Harry Duncan. Thomas Taylor, 1989.

Strong Measures. Ed. David Jauss and Philip Dacey. Harper and Row, 1985.

Men Talk. Ed. Elliot Fried and Barry Singer. Pacific House Books, 1985.

A Green Place. Ed. William Jay Smith. Delacorte Press, 1982.

The POETRY Anthology. Ed. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi. Houghton-Mifflin, 1979.

Anne Sexton: The Artist and Her Critics. Indiana University Press, 1978.

Residencies

Yaddo (1991, 1992, 1994, 1997)

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Co. Monaghan, Ireland) 1985-1996

Centrum (Port Townsend, Washington, 1992, 1993)

Administrative Work

Director, Visiting Writers Series, Alfred University, 1970-1995

Designer and Director of Text 21: A Symposium on the Future of the Written Word