I had these strong ambitions to enter the bourgeoisie if I could. I wasn't a radical at all. But I do remember understanding that I had never questioned that men had all the important jobs. And that was shocking—well, I was 20 years old! I'd never thought, "Oh, where's the woman bus driver?" So there's another subject—which was what it felt like to be a woman in the world." Honors and awards 1978 Creative Artists Public Service Grant 1978 Madeline Sadin Award, New York Quarterly 1979 Younger Poets Award, Poetry Miscellany 1980 Satan Says inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. 1981–1982 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1982–1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1983 The Dead and the Living Lamont Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 1992 The Father, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award. 1993–1996 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award 1998–2000 New York State Poet Laureate 2002 Academy of American Poets Fellowship 2002 The Unswept Room, Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2003 Judge, Griffin Poetry Prize; for "distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career" 2004 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards 2004 Became member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006–2012 Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets 2009 One Secret Thing, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize, Stag's Leap 2012 Stag's Leap, named as one of "Oprah's Favorite Reads of 2012" 2013 Pulitzer Prize, Stag's Leap 2014 Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry 2015 Elected to become a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (to be inducted mid-May 2015) 2016 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets 2020 Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, Arias Bibliography Collections 1980 Satan Says, University of Pittsburgh Press 1984 The Dead and the Living, Knopf 1987 The Gold Cell, Knopf 1987 The Matter of This World, Slow Dancer Press 1991 The Sign of Saturn, Secker & Warburg 1992 The Father, Secker & Warburg 1996 The Wellspring, Knopf 1999 Blood, Tin, Straw, Knopf 2002 The Unswept Room, Tandem Library 2004 Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980–2002, Knopf 2008 One Secret Thing, Random House 2012 Stag's Leap, Knopf 2016 Odes, Knopf 2017 Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body by Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, Warsan Shire. Penguin. 2019 Arias