• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Drivers at the Short-Time Motel
• Gloria has received a Fulbright Fellowship
• artist grant from the San Francisco Art Commission
• 96 Inc.'s Bruce P. Rossley Literary Award
• George Bogin Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America

Poetry

• "Where the Feeble Senses Fail", Drunken Boat
• "Alfonso Street", Drunken Boat
• "Saint Joe", Poetry Society
• "To Gellacio Guillermo in Iowa City", Literary Review, Spring 2000

Anthologies

Eugene Gloria's new book, Hoodlum Birds, demonstrates a central quality of poetry: depth of language, the power to get past the first surfaces of words and of things. Or to put it differently, the power to hear harmonies beyond the obvious ones, finding new undertones of meaning.