2022 Finalist, the Big Other Book Award for Translation, for Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields: Poems from Contemporary China, 2021
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International Beverly Prize for Literature, Finalist for The Flight from Meaning, London, UK, 2019
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Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Awards (Poetry): 2016, 2008, 2001, 1996, 1994


Djerassi Foundation Residency Fellowship (Poetry), Woodside, CA, September 2014


The Poets’ Prize, Nominee for The Last Sacred Place in North America, 2014


New American Poetry Prize Winner, for The Last Sacred Place in North America, 2012


Ohio Poet of the Year, for Dust and Bread, Ohio Poetry Day Association, 2009
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‍Nominated by Syracuse University Press in Nonfiction for National Book Award, 2008: The River Lock: One Boy’s Life Along the Mohawk
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Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Runner-up for The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (judge, Philip Levine), 2001
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Fulbright Senior Teaching Fellowship, American literature, Beijing Normal University, 1997-1998


Tennessee Williams Scholar in Poetry, Sewanee Writers Conference, 1996


Ohio Arts Council Writer in Residence, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, summer months 1995;
Returning Fellow Residencies 2024, 2023, 2021, 2017, 2015, 2012, 2011, 2002


Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, American literature, People’s University (Beijing), 1990-91‍


MacDowell Art Colony Residencies (Poetry): Dec./Jan. 1989-90, Dec./Jan. 1988-1989, August 1986.


The Billy Murray Denny Competition, for best single poem, Lincoln College 1990, 2nd Prize.
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Yaddo Residencies (Poetry): May/June 1985, May/June 1986


Academy of American Poets Prize for best single poem (judge Norman Dubie), University of Iowa, 1984