 In 1993 Makuck received the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum.Poems, stories, and reviews by Makuck have been published in many leading journals, including "Poetry", "The Southern Review", "The Hudson Review", "Ploughshares," and others, and his work has been featured on the Poetry Daily website and on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.Makuck was the founding editor of the journal "Tar River Poetry".