2020  Judged the Fischer and Cantor Prizes in Poetry for the Talking Gourd Institute in Telluride, Colorado

2018  Talking Gourd Teaching and Performing Tour celebrating performance poetry at high schools, libraries and art centers in four Colorado towns, culminating in performance poetry reading at Telluride Art Gallery
 
Finalist for the Fischer Poetry Prize, $200, and an invitation to read at Telluride Literary Arts Festival

2014   Video documentary, WAKE-UP CALL: SAVING THE SONGBIRDS, selected for video streaming by Facets, Kids, a non-profit organization affiliated with Chicago International Children's Film Festival

2007   $5,000 grant from private donor to write and re-produce WALL OF SILIK, a performance poetry collaboration at Bolinas Community Center with actors and dancers

2003   $2,000 Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Poetry for second time

2000  $8,300 grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation to complete video documentary, WAKE-UP CALL: SAVING THE SONGBIRDS, about world-wide decline of migratory songbirds

1995  First Place Poetry Award of $300 in the Bay Guardian Poetry Contest

1993   $2,000 Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Poetry

1992  San Francisco Performance Poetry Slam Winner, $100 prize, a round trip ticket to Boston to represent S.F. and $200 second place prize in Boston Team Competition

1991   Sonoma & San Francisco Performance Poetry Slam Winner with $200 in prizes, a round trip ticket to Chicago to represent S.F. in National Poetry Slam Finals & $200 second place prize at Chicago Team Competition
 
$3,000  Marin Community Arts Grant and $2,000 Flow Fund Grant to write and produce BLACK BIRD, SING! a musical theater piece about the world-wide decline of migratory songbirds

1981  The American Academy of Poets First Place Graduate Poetry Award and the Browning Poetic Monologue Second Place Award at San Francisco State University