• Pushcart Prize
• two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
• Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

• "APHASIA"; "GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH", Web Del Sol
• "GIRL IN THE DOORWAY"; "CROSS COUNTRY"; "SUNDAY"; "WHAT COULD HAPPEN", Web Del Sol
• "ABSCHIEDS SYMPHONY"; "HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN"; "DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL", Web Del Sol
• "MUSIC IN THE MORNING"; "PRAYER"; "FIRESTARTER"; "THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE", Web Del Sol
• "What Would You Give Up?"; "Dump Run"; "Fog"; "Emily Said"; "Mugged By Poetry", Cortland Review, Spring 2009
• "Facts About the Moon", How a Poem Happens, February 2009
• "Roots", Orion, May/June 2008
• "Laundry And Cigarettes"; "On The Back Porch", Reading Between A&B
• "Incident with a Kiwi", Ward 6 Review

• re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
• Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008
• "Dark Charms" Red Dragonfly Press 2010 http://www.reddragonflypress.org/music/3108
• The Book of Men W.W. Norton February 2011 http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Book-of-Men/

Anthologies

• Best of The American Poetry Review
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• twice in Best American Poetry.

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