• 2009 Shelley Memorial Award
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• the Vogelstein Foundation
• the California Arts Council
• two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Pushcart Prize
• James D. Phelan Award for The Dream of a Moral Life
• William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, No Other Life
• Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, Braver Deeds

Poetry

• New and Selected Poems, White Pine Press.

Editor

Gary Young's is a sensibility unique in American poetry, at once grounded in daily experience in his home in California and yet focused on, tuned to a metaphysical cast, a direction in no small way influenced by deep reading of Asian poetries. A luminous and concrete vision is at the center of his poetry. His recent books employ the prose-poem format exclusively and are shorter constructs, which move the quotidian to a significant level of contemplation and epiphany. His basis is the nature around him, and Young's textures and focuses show the speaker of the poem as part of nature, working within it and accountable to all things for action, thought, and being.