Honors
- 2008 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- 2007 USA Rasmuson Fellow from United States Artists
- 2005 Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist
- University of Alaska Northern Momentum Scholar, 2002
- Fellow, the Academy of American Poets, 1997
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alaska Center for the Book/Library of Congress, 1994
- Poets' Prize, 1991
- Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
- two Guggenheim Fellowships
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, 1976–1977
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