• Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
• 2000 Witter Bynner Fellowship
• Whiting Writers’ Award

• "Found Letter", Poetry Foundation
• "Shame", Poetry, January 2006
• "The Dog State", Boston Review

Essays

• "Canon Fodder: A highly personal list", Poetry Foundation

Editor

I've always been impressed by Joshua Weiner's formal intelligence and his sure knowledge of how to make a poem. He's learned as much from Mina Loy, Robert Duncan, and Tom McGrath as he has from Thom Gunn, Thomas Hardy, and George Herbert. His poems are open to many different kinds of aesthetic approaches, including those of jazz and the blues. Like the modernists, he's embraced the past, but unlike some of them, he's alert to the formal possibilities lurking in popular culture. Among the squares, he is hip; among the hip, he is wary. So watch out. His poems are tonal land mines.