Awards and Honors
- 1953 – Vanderwater Poetry Prize, Ohio State University
- 1954 – Vanderwater Poetry Prize, Ohio State University
- 1959 – Borestone Mountain Poetry Award for "From the Uncertainty for Our Dire Predictions"
- 1965 – Borestone Mountain Poetry Award for "Summer Dances"
- 1965 – Ohioana Award (category of fiction) for Bitter Knowledge
- 1967 – Quill Award for "The Hotel"
- 1968 – Florence Roberts Head Award for Hanger Stout, Awake!
- 1974 – Guggenheim Foundation grant in creative writing
- 1987 – Ohioana Book Award (category of essays) for Booking in the Heartland
- 1989 – Major Artist Award, Ohio Arts Council
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