Advancement of Humanities Younger Scholar Grant 1974, 1976, 1985, 1997, 2000 MacDowell Colony Fellow 1976-1977 National Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry 1977 Breadloaf Writers' Conference Fellowship 1977 New Jersey Arts Council Award in Poetry 1979 A Dream of Springtime selected as one of the best small press titles 1982 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Research in the Humanities 1984-1985 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Poetry 1986 Strousse Poetry Prize, Prairie Schooner 1986 Poetry Society of America William Carlos Williams Prize for The Imaginary Lover 1987 Rutgers University Trustees Award for Excellence in Research Summer 1987 Djerassi Foundation Resident 1992 New Jersey Arts Council Award in Poetry 1994 Edward Stanley Award, for poems published in Prairie Schooner 1994 Judah Magnes Jewish Museum, Berkeley, Anna David Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience. First Prize for "The Eighth and Thirteenth." 1995 Rutgers University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributors to Undergraduate Education 1995-6 Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis 1996-7 Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis 1996 Poem in The Best American Poetry 1996 Poem in Yearbook of American Poetry 1997 Paterson Poetry Prize for The Crack in Everything 1998 San Francisco State Poetry Center Award for The Crack in Everything 1998 Readers’ Choice Award for poems published in Prairie Schooner February 1999 Residency at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy 1999 Poem in Pushcart Prize Anthology 2000 San Diego Women's Institute for Continuing Jewish Education: Endowment Award Fall 2001 Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, Cambridge 2002 Larry Levis Prize for poems published in Prairie Schooner 2003 Best American Essays Notable Essay for “Milk.” 2003 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow 2007 Anderbo Poetry Prize distinguished poem 2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice June 2008, for For the Love of God. 2009 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry for The Book of Seventy 2010 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, for poems published in the summer 2009 issue. 2010 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement for The Book of Seventy 2011 Named in the list of “10 Great Jewish Poets” in Moment 2017 National Jewish Book Award in the Poetry category for Waiting for the Light 2018 Named 11th New York State Poet Finalists 1996 The Crack in Everything finalist for a National Book Award 1998 The Little Space finalist for a National Book Award 1999 The Little Space finalist for Lenore Marshall Prize,