Recognition
Tate was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2004)
Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award (1995)
National Book Award for Poetry (1994)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1976)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1974)
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry (1969, 1979)
Yale Series of Younger Poets (1966)