• Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Maurice English Poetry Award (1985)
• Shelley Memorial Award (1977)
• Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College - Fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship - (1960)
• Ingram Merrill Award
• National Endowment for the Arts - Fellowship
• Lamont Poetry Prize (1968) for The Weather of Six Mornings

• The Blue Anchor; The Earthquake; Ordinary Detail; In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman; Rent; The Winter Road (Part 4); The Flashboat, Norton Poets online

Books

• The Weather of Six Mornings (1969), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets.
• Maps and Windows (1974)
• Scaffolding: Selected Poems (1993)
• Green Notebook, Winter Road (1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
• Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)

Edited

• Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers (1982)
• The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems of Robert Winner (1994)

• Memories of Jane Cooper, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 12, 2008
• Memories of Jane Cooper part 2, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 14, 2008

This is a beautiful and stubborn book of poems. The poems say only what they mean. They have about them a great deep patience for the whole truth, a waiting in quietness for tremor and explosion.

Cooper handles with equal assurance public statement and private reflection

To perform the alchemical work of translating a human presence into paper and ink: that is the deam of the book, a dream fulfilled her[e], in this beautifully assembled life's work. Jane Cooper has been engaged in a long patient act of making a consideration of self-in-the-world vigorous, humble, and fierce all at once.

• Jane Cooper (1924 - 2007), The Poetry Foundation
• Jane Cooper, Poets.org
• Jane Cooper, Norton Poets