Awards

• Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, for Bullroarer
• Natalie Ornish Poetry Award
• Nebraska Book Award
• Pushcart Prize
  Pushcart Prize
  The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
  
   for poetry
• National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
   fellowship in Poetry.
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• "Graveyard of Empires: Nine Months on the Ground in Obama’s Afghanistan", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010
• "The Death of Fiction?", Mother Jones, January/February 2010
• Hard time: voices from a state prison, 1849-1914, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002, ISBN 9780873514347
• Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's poet during the lost years of 1860-1862, University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 9780520259065

Poetry

• The dead have a way of returning, Brooding Heron Press, 1997, ISBN 9780918116925
• Bullroarer, UPNE, 2001, ISBN 9781555535070
• Anna, washing: poems, University of Georgia Press, 2008, ISBN 9780820332062
• "Rural Electric", Poets Against the War, Editors Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003, ISBN 9781560255390

External links

• Ellies 2007: So What Do You Do, Ted Genoways, Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review?