Reg Saner

1960-61 Fulbright Scholar, Università di Firenze.

1975 Walt Whitman Award, conferred by Academy of American Poets and The Copernicus Society of America (a national competition attracting 1600 manuscripts).

1976 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (165 granted; 2436 applicants).

1977 Who's Who in America, publ. Marquis Who's Who, Inc. Chicago.

1980 Creede Repertory Theatre Poetry Competition (Prize, $3,300 awarded to winner of open competition: a performance/reading of work thereby commissioned for the occasion, August, 1981.)

1981 National Poetry Series winner of open competition. My So This Is the Map was selected by Derek Walcott (subsequent Nobel Laureate) from among 1300 mss. in a competition sponsored by James A. Michener, Edward J. Piszek, The Ford Foundation, The Witter Bynner Foundation.

1983 University of Colorado "Distinguished Research Lecturer," Spring 1983. (Lecture: "Poetic Images and the Naming of the Gods").

1983 Prairie Schooner special issue: "Reg Saner: Light's Offer," 17 of my poems featured

1983 State of Colorado: Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.

1981 & 1987 Van Ek Award Faculty Mentor.

1989 Quarterly Review of Literature, $5000 Award in poetry.

1990 "Resident Scholar," Centro Culturale della Fondazione Rockefeller, Bellagio, Italy. (134 invited internationally each year).

1992 Creative Fellowship ($4000), Colo. Council on Arts & Humanities.

1992 New York composer Anthony Davis commissioned by Vail music festival ("Bravo!") to set two of my poems. The composition for soprano, strings, piano, and percussion was premiered at Beaver Creek Resort on July 28, 1992, with PBS taping the performance for later broadcast.

1993 Hazel Barnes Award, University of Colorado ($20,000).

1994 Colorado Center for the Books Award in Nonfiction.

1994 Nominated for the John Burroughs Medal in nature writing.

1994 Featured speaker at annual banquet of Texas Association of American Studies, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, 18 November, on "Richard Wetherill and the Road to Chaco Canyon."

1997 Co-winner, The Wallace Stegner Award, conferred by The Center of the American West. 2000 Keynote address at U.S. Air Force Academy Educator Awards ceremony.

2004 Keynote speaker, annual mtg. Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.

2005 Keynote speaker, Univ. of N. Carolina at Wilmington, marking debut of literary magazine Ecotone.