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Biographical Information
Books
15 Days of Prayer with Saint Katharine Drexel (2002)
Blackrobe's Love Letters: Poems about Katharine Drexel (new edition, 2000)
Nothing Grows in One Place Forever: Poems of a Sicilian American (1998)
Silent Film, a narrative poem (1997)
Blackrobe's Love Letters (first edition, 1994)
The Secret Proximity of Everywhere, poems from Wales (1994)
Awards and Honors
2001-2005 Shearman Professor of Liberal Arts at McNeese State University
[major project: a book of creative non-fiction, Approaching Kaos]
1992-93 MSU Distinguished Professor of the Year
1992-93 Shearman Academic Professor
[major project: to create and direct a symposium about W.B. Yeats]
1991 Louisiana Life, Louisiana Letters Award of Excellence
1991-90 Shearman Fellowship for Blackrobe's Love Letters, poems
1989-90 Shearman Fellowship for Contending with Angels and Beasts, poems
1987 David Lloyd Kreeger Award, Washington, DC,
for the poetry manuscript
The Infinite Possibilities of Desire
1982 Acme Fiction Award
1980 Deep South Writers Conference Poetry Prize