Bookbuilders of Boston Award for book cover design (“Apollo Helmet” 1983)
Quechua Peoples Poetry, Winner of the 1977 Islands & Continents Translation Award
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, 1973 for Santiago Poems
The Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award, 1967 for The Marshes
Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (Rome, Italy 1962 – 1963)
Jenny Taine Memorial Award
California State University, Chico has named a poetry reading series for him.[3]