Timeline

1957

B.A., Antioch College, Ohio

1959

B.F.A. Yale University

1962

M.A. University of Iowa

1975

National Institute of Arts and Letters Award

1977 - 1978

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1979

The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets

1982

Writer in Residence, American Academy in Rome

1986 - 1987

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1987 - 1992

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship

1990

United States Poet Laureate, Library of Congress Washington, DC

1992

The Bobbit National Prize for poetry

Utah Governor’s Award in the Arts Edgar Allan Poe Prize, 1.974

1993

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry

1999

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

2005 - pres

Professor of English at Columbia University, New York