Awards

Honors and Awards

  • 2019 Ruth Lilly Award
  • 2019 Denise Levertov Award
  • 2017 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children
  • 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
  • 2013 Elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
  • 2012 Poetry Society of America Robert Frost Medal
  • 2006 Connecticut Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community
  • 2005 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award
  • 2002 J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • 2001-2006 Poet Laureate, State of Connecticut
  • 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award
  • 2001 Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
  • 1998 Poets’ Prize
  • 1995 Fulbright Teaching Fellowship (France)
  • 1992 Anisfield-Wolf Award
  • 1990 Connecticut Arts Award
  • American Council of Learned Societies, Contemplative Practices Fellowship
  • Department of the Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service
  • National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 1981 and 1990