Grants from
New York State Council on the Arts
  Project Grant as Director of Incisions/Arts, awarded each year for work in prisons from 1988 through 2008
 
 

AE Ventures
 

Literary Award based on body of work in poetry and prose, July 2008
 

Golda Award
 

Awarded for costs of studio time to record a music/spoken word CD.  July 2005
 

S.O.S.
 

Travel Grant through N.Y.F.A. and N.Y.S.C.A, to participate in International Poetry Festival, Pistoia, Italy, June, 2004
 

Golda Award
 

Awarded for The Green Piano , new ms. in progress, 2002
 

Puffin Foundation

 

Grant for Print Design of Eastern C.F. Poetry Anthology, 1998
 

S.O.S.
 

Travel Grant through N.Y.F.A. and N.Y.S.C.A, to publicize
Tracking the Serpent
through the American Southwest,
awarded 1997
 

Writers & Books Award
 

One month Writer's Retreat with Honorarium at the Gell Center, Finger Lakes District, NY, November 1998
 

New York State Council
on the Arts
 

Networking Grant , 1995
 

Heaven Bone Chapbook
Competition
 

First Place for Red Bracelets 1992