Honors & Awards
David Ray has received honors including:
- 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for When
- 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for Music of Time
- 2005 Finalist in Paterson Poetry Prize for One Thousand Years
- 2003 Finalist in the Strokestown Poetry Contest, Ireland, for the poem "Grace Under Fire"
- 2001 The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Poetry Prize
- 1999 The Richard Snyder Memorial award from Ashland Poetry Press for Demons in the Diner
- 1999 Flyway Literary Review's Poetry Award
- 1998 Amelia longpoem award for "Letter from Arizona to Dave Ignatow"
- 1997 Explorations magazine prize for poetry
- 1997 New Millennium Writings poetry award
- 1997 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center, Paterson, NJ
- 1996 New England Poetry Club Daniel Varoujan Award
- 1994 William Carlos Williams prize from the Poetry Society of America for Wool Highways
- 1993 H.G. Roberts Foundation Writing Awards for a poem and a creative essay
- 1988 Maurice English Award for Poetry for Sam's Book
- 1984 Fellowship, Rockefeller Conference & Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
- 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards for short stories
- 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing
- 1982 N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research & Creative Activity from University of Missouri
- 1981-1982 Indo-U.S. Fellowship from Council for International Exchange of Scholars
- 1979 William Carlos Williams prize from the Poetry Society of America for The Tramp's Cup
- 1979 Editorial Fellowship awarded by the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines
- 1966-1971 Fellowship from the Abraham Woursell Foundation and the University of Vienna