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Awards
and Service Positions
- Lindsay Young Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006-2011
- James R. and Nell W. Cunningham Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, 2010
- Finalist, UT National Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, 2008 and 2010
- Chancellor's Academic Outreach Award, University of Tennessee, 2007
- Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching, Department of English, 2003-2006
- East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame in Poetry, 2005
- YWCA Tribute to Women, Woman of Achievement in the Arts, 2000
- Chancellor's Research and Creative Achievement Award, 2002
- Panelist, City Arts Grant, Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance, 2008
- Arts Reach Grant, Knoxville Council on the Arts, 1998
- Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship in Poetry, 1989
- UT National Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000
- Amon Carter Evans Tennessee Tomorrow Award, 1983
- NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Rutgers, 1968-1971
- Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1968
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1968
She teaches poetry workshops in Auvillar, France, for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
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Updated November 21, 2014