- 1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Frank O'Hara Prize, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship[1]
- 1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets– The Names of the Lost (1975)[1]
- 1978 Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry[1]
- 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Ashes: Poems New and Old – 7 Years from Somewhere[1]
- 1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship[1]
- 1980 National Book Award for Poetry[22] – Ashes: Poems New and Old[1]
- 1981 Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine[1]
- 1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts[1]
- 1991 National Book Award for Poetry[23] and Los Angeles Times Book Prize – What Work Is
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry – The Simple Truth (1994)[1]
- 2011 Appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate)[1]
- 2013 Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award [1]
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