Selected Awards, Fellowships, Honors
- Fellow, North Carolina Council for the Arts, 2007-08
- Pushcart Prize nomination for 2008, by Jane Hirshfield, Linda Gregerson, and Tom Lux
- Campbell Corner Featured Poem, 2007
- Pushcart Prize anthology, Special Mention, 2007, nominated and selected by Eleanor Wilner
- LITERATURE: Reading Fiction, Poetry & Drama, DiYanni, R, ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2006), ekphrastic poem (little Roysie's following ones by Bishop, Blake, Auden, Williams and Lorca)
- Humanistic Poetry Competition, First Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2006
- American Life in Poetry, 2006, poem selected and featured by Ted Kooser
- 2006 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, 2005, selected by editors
- Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, 2006, Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England, selected by Lucia Perillo
- Iowa Review Poetry Award, Runner-up, 2005, selected by Robert Hass
- Pushcart Prize nomination, 2004, nominated by Linda Gregerson
- Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Runner-up, 2003, selected by Denise Duhamel
- Pushcart Prize nomination, 2003, by Chris Forhan
- Readers' Choice Award, Prairie Schooner, 2003, selected by Hilda Raz
- Pushcart Prize nomination, 2002, by Paul Zimmer
- Felix Pollak Prize, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, selected by Edward Hirsch
- Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets, Finalist, 2001, selected by Sherrod Santos
- Sewanee Writers' Conference, Tennessee Williams Scholar, 2000
- North Carolina Writers' Network, Harperprints (now Randall Jarrell) Chapbook Prize, 2000, selected by Gregory Orr
- Marlboro Poetry Prize, Runner-up, Marlboro Review, 1999, selected by Stephen Dunn
- James Wright Poetry Prize, Winner, Mid-American Review, 1999, selected by Scott Cairns
