sentences:  Barnes has given scores of readings at college and university campuses, and his work is widely anthologized.Barnes received a National Endowment for the Arts "Creative Writing Fellowship" in 1978 and the "Columbia University Translation Award" for his translation of "Zeugnis und Zeichen" ("Summons and Signs") in 1980.In 1989, he was awarded the St. Louis Poetry Center's "Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award"; and, in 1990, he was awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation a "Bellagio Residency Fellowship" for the purpose of beginning his translations of Dagmar Nick's poetry.