The 1980s started with a Pushcart Prize for "My Poetry" and ended with the Western States Poetry Award for his selected poems, "Desire". In between, Bromige devoted himself to his wife and young daughter while carrying a full-time professor's responsibilities in the English Department at Sonoma State University. He coordinated poetry conferences at SSU, published a collaboration with Opal Nations, wrote an analysis of Allen Fisher's four-day residency at Langton Street in San Francisco, and was himself the subject of an issue of Tom Beckett's "The Difficulties". In 1990, John Martin, who had moved Black Sparrow Press to Santa Rosa, published "Men, Women & Vehicles", a book of selected prose.