• 2005 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
• 2006 Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters
• 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

• "Some Things Along Strada C.A. Rosetti", Parnassus: Poetry in Review via Poetry Daily. 2009.
• "Portrait Detail, with Pear", AGNI 2006

Books

• Goat Funeral Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN 9781931357388
• His first book, After Greece Truman State University Press, 2001, ISBN 9781931112000

Translations

• The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, Translated Christopher Bakken, Roula Konsolaki, Truman State University Press, 2006, ISBN 9781931112642

Anthologies

• Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, Truman State University Press, 2004. ISBN 1931112371
• "Ohio Elegy", Poets against the War, Editors Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003, ISBN 9781560255390
• "Home Thoughts, from Abroad", Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977, Editor William J. Walsh, Mercer University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780881460476

If Bakken can, in the future, stay put in his resplendent Hellenic-inflected imagination for a good while, and avoid the art museum and his personal library, he may just write a book with the smell, taste, and texture of ambrosia. Goat Funeral isn’t quite that, but it’s not chopped liver, either.