| Award |
Prize |
Year |
Description |
|
Nominee |
Pushcart Prize |
2010 |
Three poems nominated for the award-winning anthology |
|
Nominee |
Ohio Book Award
Society of Midland Authors Book Award
American Book Award
Foreword Magazine's Book of the
Year Award in Poetry
W.C. Williams Award from the
Poetry Society of America |
2009-2010 |
Book award nominations for Talking Diamonds |
|
First Place |
International Creative Arts Award |
2008 |
Annual award sponsored by the Polish American Historical
Association (a member of the American Historical
Association) recognizes the international contributions in
the field of creative arts (music, visual arts, film, and
literature) by individuals who have promoted an awareness of
the Polish experience. |
|
Finalist and publication |
Top finalist in national competition and will be published
in late, 2008. |
2007 |
Chapbook, Ten Songs from Bulgaria, Cervena Barva Press |
|
Honorable Mention |
New Millennium Writings competition |
2007 |
For poem "Contrapuntal: Negative Space" |
|
Second place |
Detroit Working Writers Annual Spring Writing Awards |
2007 |
For the poem "Climbing Cherry Trees" |
|
Finalist |
22nd Annual ArtServe Michigan Governor's Awards for Arts &
Culture |
2007 |
For the category of Michigan Artist |
|
Honorable mention and finalist status |
Honorable mention and finalist status |
2006 |
National Poetry Competition awarded to two poems in the
Ekphrasis |
|
Award |
1st runner-up in The Laureate Prize for Poetry |
2006 |
LN-F poem "The Field Behind the Dying Father's House" was
selected to be 1st runner-up in the The Laureate Prize
for Poetry sponsored by The National Poetry Review |
|
Honor |
Finalist, Ohio Book Award in Poetry |
2003 |
Sponsored by the Ohioana
Library Association |
|
Honor |
Poet
Laureate of Grand Rapids
Click HERE to read
Grand Rapids Press Article. |
2003 |
Linda
Nemec Foster selected as 1st Poet Laureate of the City of
Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Grant |
ArtServe
Michigan Creative Artist Grant in Literature |
2001 |
|
| Nominee |
Academy
of American Poets Laughlin Award Nomination for a Book of
Poems |
2000 |
For
Amber Necklace from Gdansk. |
| Honors |
Outstanding
Alumni Award, Aquinas College |
2000 |
Grand
Rapids, MI |
| Fellowship |
National
Writers' Voice Project Poetry Fellowship |
1999 |
|
| Finalist |
Finalist,
Poet's Prize for the book, Living in the Fire Nest |
1997 |
Sponsored
by the Nicholas Roerich Museum. Cited by juror Colette Inez. |
| Honors |
Outstanding
Alumni Award in the Arts, Trinity High School |
1997 |
Garfield
Heights, OH |
| Winner |
First
place, National Women's Poetry Competition, Oakland Community
College |
1997 |
|
| Hon.
Mention |
The
Atlanta Review, International Poetry Competition |
1996 |
|
| Winner |
Creative
Artist Award in Poetry, Arts Foundation of Michigan |
1996 |
|
| Winner |
Second
place, National Poetry Competition sponsored by Northwoods
Journal |
1995 |
|
| Winner |
First
place, National Women's Poetry Competition, Oakland Community
College |
1995 |
|
| Grant |
Creative
Artist Grant in Literature, Michigan Council for the Arts
and Cultural Affairs |
1990 |
|
| Grant |
Creative
Artist Grant in Literature, Michigan Council for the Arts |
1984 |
|
| Winner |
Pushcart
Prize |
1984 |
Pushcart
Prize Anthology VIII |
| Nominee |
Over
20 poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize |
1982
- 2003 |
|
