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Education Experience Publications Awards and Grants Service Citations |
Awards
Finalist, Public Poetry contest, Houston Public Radio, 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who's Who Publications Board, 2018 Leland Best Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Lamar University, 2016–20 Margie Boswell Poetry Award, 2017 Creative Writing Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2017 Best Presentation Award, Texas College English Association, 2017 Piper Professor, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, 2014 University Professor, Lamar University, 2014 Ann Die Hasselmo Faculty Excellence Award, Lamar University, 2014 Finalist, Summer Literary Seminars fellowship (Tony Hoagland, judge), 2012 Featured Poet, Red River Review, 2011 Distinguished Leadership Award, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, inaugural award, 2009 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize, poetry, 2010 Second place, Texas Poetry Calendar contest, 2010 Frances Hernandez Teacher-Scholar Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2005 Outstanding Alumnus, Midwestern State University College of Liberal Arts, 2002 Named Award: The Jerry Bradley Award, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association given annually to the top graduate student in creative writing, annually since 2000 Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year, Texas College English Association, 2000 Texas Institute of Letters, inducted 1999 British Literature Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1996 Nominee, Pushcart Prize, non-fiction, 1982; poetry, 1983, 1993 Honorary Fraternities Sigma Tau Delta, honorary English fraternity, inducted 2003 Phi Beta Delta, honorary international scholars’ fraternity, inducted 1996 Pi Kappa Delta, honorary debate fraternity, inducted 1968 Who’s Who Who’s Who in America, 61st edition, 2007 Directory of American Scholars, 10th edition, 2000 Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century, 1999 International Who’s Who in Poetry and Poets’ Encyclopedia, 1999 International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 1998 Writing Awards Boswell Poetry Prize, Descant, Frontiers in Writing, Inago, Panhandle Professional Writers, The Plowman, Rio Grande Writers Association, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Texas Christian University, Texas College Association Grants more than forty grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin Writers League, Meadows Foundation, New Mexico Humanities Council, Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, New Mexico Arts Division, and other agencies |
