He has earned many honors and awards with his work, including the Diane Brebner Poetry Prize, the Carleton University Poetry Prize, the Keji Aso Senryu Prize, the Tanka Splendor Award for a Tanka Sequence, and the Hekinan (Japan) International Haiku Competition Special Prize and others. He has served as a co-chairman of the 2009 Haiku North America Conference in Ottawa and has been for several years an influential editor for GUSTS, a journal of tanka poetry. He is an acknowledged authority on Japanese poetic forms.