 His unpublished collection "Cathedral Building", which combines a wide variety of styles and poetic approaches, has been a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry (under the title "Removal of the Body"), the Barrow Street Press Book Contest, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.It also received an honorable mention for the Dorset Prize.Nine poems from "Sixty Sonnets" (2009) and its companion volume "All of You on the Good Earth" (2013) appeared in the "Swallow Anthology of New American Poets" (Ohio University Press, 2009).