Runner-up, Impact Poetry Book Award, 1979.

Sou'wester Prize in Poetry, Winter, 1974. Last Things.

Arizona Quarterly Prize for fiction, 1964. Bald She Walks Among the Peacocks.

Ida and Charles Freeman Short Story Award, 1964 (Awarded by Voices at Wayne State University) Cat-House.

Avery Hopwood Award, Major, in Poetry, 1961 (Awarded by University of Michigan) Poems.

Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, 1960 (Awarded by Middlebury College).

Grand Prize,Atlantic Monthly National Contest, (Essay) 1956. Romanesque Sculpture: A Study in the Hideous.

Claire Raymer Greenwood Award, Poetry, 1954, 1955, 1956 (Awarded by the University of Houston).