Artistic Awards and Fellowships

• Named first Tompkins County Poet Laureate
• Poetry Award, Creative Artists Partnership (Tompkins County). 1998.
• Honorable Mention, Art on the Air Detroit radio program's national poetry. 1996.
• Ithaca College Faculty Grants for poetry: 1996, 1995, 1991, 1987
• Honorable Mention, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod magazine's national competition). 1995, 1990.
• Second Place Award, Poetpourri magazine's New York competition. 1995.
• First Place Award, In Praise of Poetry magazine's national poetry competition. 1994.
• Second Place Award, Inky Blue magazine's national poetry competition. 1994.
• Third Place Award, Verve magazine's national poetry competition. 1994.
• First Honorable Mention, New England Writers' national poetry competition. 1994.
• Womanspace Poetry Award (Korone magazine's national competition). 1992.
• Tompkins County Individual Artist Award for playwriting. 1992.
• Goodman Award for poetry (Thorntree Press' national competition). 1991.
• Carolyn Kizer Poetry Award (Calapooya Collage magazine). 1991.
• Third Place Award, Tantalus Poetry Society's national competition. 1991.
• Honorable Mention, Passaic County Community College's national poetry competition. 1991.
• Honorable Mention, Kudzu Poetry Contest (The Devil's Millhopper Press' national competition). 1991.
• Honorable Mention, Poetpourri magazine's national poetry competition. 1991.
• First Place Award, Lyra magazine's national essay competition. 1990.
• Honorable Mention, Kudzu Poetry Contest. 1990.
• Second Place Award, Artemis magazine's national poetry competition. 1989.
• First Place Award, CrazyQuilt Press National Chapbook Competition. 1988.
• Tompkins County Individual Artist Awards for poetry. 1988, 1987.
• Ravenswood Prize for poetry. 1987.
• Poetry Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 1987.
• Best-of-Issue Award for Essay, A.I.D. Review. 1987.
• First Place Award, The Signpost Press National Chapbook Competition. 1986.
• Second Place Award for poetry, Yankee magazine's "Best of 1986" (selected by Donald Hall).
• Cecil Hemley Award, Poetry Society of America. 1984.
• Celia B. Wagner Award, Poetry Society of America. 1982.
• Poetry in Public Places Award, New York City Subway Placard Series. 1978.