Award, 1995 Franklin Furnace Performance Fund, 1995 The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA/CEC) ArtsLink Grant, 1995 The Fund for Poetry, 1988, 1990, 1996 Fellow, The Blue Mountain Arts Center, NY, 1997 Lambda Book Award, 1995, 1998 Bucknell Art Museum Residency, for Hide & Seek, 1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, poetry, 1999 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Touring Grant, 2001 Muir College Enrichment Grant, for Hell, 2004 Research and Travel Grant, University of California, San Diego, 2004 University of California Humanities Center Grant, for Hell, 2004 The University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA),for Hell, 2004 Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital, Arts Writers Grant, 2007 Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, 1991, 1996, 2009 Shelley Award, Poetry Society of America, 2010 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Fellow, 2011 Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Fiction, (Inferno) 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, Afterglow, (memoir), 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2014) The Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, 2015 Creative Capital Award, 2016 Bill Whitehead Award, 2020 Bibliography Poetry The Irony of the Leash. Jim Brodey Books, 1978. Polar Ode (with Anne Waldman). New York: Dead Duke Books, 1979. A Fresh Young Voice from the Plains. New York: Power Mad Press, 1981. Sappho's Boat. Los Angeles: Little Caesar, 1982. Not Me. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991. Maxfield Parrish: Early and New Poems. Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow, 1995. School of Fish, Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. Skies: Poems. Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. on my way. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Faux Press, 2001. Tow (with drawings by artist Larry C. Collins). New York: Lospeccio Press, 2005. Sorry, Tree (poems). Seattle: Wave Books, 2007. Snowflake/different streets. Seattle: Wave Books, 2012. I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems. Harper Collins, 2016. Fiction Bread and Water (stories). New York: Hanuman Books, 1986. 1969 (fiction). New York: Hanuman Books, 1989. Chelsea Girls (fiction). Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. Cool for You (novel). New York: Soft Skull Press, 2000. Inferno (a poet's novel). New York: OR Books, 2010. Non-fiction The New Fuck You: adventures in lesbian reading (co-edited with Liz Kotz). New York: Semiotext(e), MIT Press, 1995. The Importance of Being Iceland (art writing). New York: Semiotext(e), MIT Press, 2009. Afterglow (a dog memoir). Grove Press, 2017. Evolution. Grove Press, 2018. For Now. Yale University Press, 2020. Performances In popular culture Their name appears in the lyrics of the Le