• 1971 Yale Younger Poets Award
• 1973 National Endowment for the Arts grant
• Ingram Merrill Foundation grant
• Yaddo resident fellowship
• The MacDowell Colony resident fellowship
• La Fondation Karolyi resident fellowship
• The Millay Colony for the Arts resident fellowship

• "The Cat Lover", AGNI 4, 1975
• "Enrichissez Vous", AGNI 4, 1975
• "Variegations", AGNI 4, 1975
• "Satan Who Is Most Noisy When He Whispers", AGNI 12, 1980
• "If Innocent", Ploughshares, Summer 1981
• "The Prime of Life", Ploughshares, Winter 1991-92
• "CHOKECHERRIES"; "IMPATIENS"; "DOSTOEVSKI SAID MAN"; "CLOSING IN NEW HAVEN"; "THE COURTSHIP OF THE MORTICIANS"; "J'ACCUSE", Beltway Poetry Quarterly Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2002
• "CEREBRAL CORTEX", Six Gallerys Press

• How I Stopped Writing Poetry and Other Poems

Anthologies

It's not just the superb wit and eloquent writing embodied in this collection, but the constant stirring of surprises, of some great soul searching, if you will. The images are breathtaking. What is most ingenious about this writer is how he tackles difficult subjects, such as war and race, producing poetry with the social message he intends but with startling grace.