Honors & Awards:

Director's Fellow, Center for Scholars & Writers, NY Public Library, 2000-01

O. B. Hardison Award, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000

Award in Literature, American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters, 1990

Guggenheim Fellow, Poetry, 1988-89

Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, 1977-78 and 1994-95

Member, National Academy of Arts & Sciences

Published Books:

Classics, 2007

River of Forgetfulness , 2006

Best American Poetry 2006 , (Billy Collins, series ed.)

Laws , 2004

Indelible , 2001

Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams , 2001

Halfway Down the Hall , 1998

The Double Legacy , 1995

The Empty Bed , 1995

Other Worlds Than This , 1994

Mirrors of Astonishment , 1992

Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop , 1991

Living in Time , 1990

Pass It On , 1989

A Son from Sleep , 1987

Form, Cycle, Infinity: Landscape Imagery in the Poetry of Robert Frost & George Seferis , 1985

Slow Transparency , 1983

Starting from Troy , 1975

and translations from Seneca's Oedipus (Johns Hopkins Roman Drama Series, 1994) and Euripides' Helen (U of PA Press, Greek Drama Series, 1997)