 Koethe's "Domes" won the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry, and his "Falling Water" won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University.He has been granted fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and he has been nominated for the New Yorker Book Award, the Boston Book Review Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Boston Book Review Book Award.He is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.