In 2014 he published Fading Hearts on the River, a book of nonfiction about his son's professional poker career.
[1][2] Brooks Haxton has received awards, fellowships, and grants of support for original poetry, translation, and scriptwriting from the NEA, NEH, Guggenheim Foundation, and other institutions.
[3] He has taught creative writing at Syracuse University since 1993,[4] and he has been a member of the Warren Wilson College faculty since 1990, teaching in the low-residency MFA program for writers.
The resigning members viewed Congress's restriction of awards based on "general standards of decency" as a curb on freedom of speech.
[7][8] In 2011 Haxton presented the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College under the title “Candor and Wisdom: the Poetry of Early Classical Greece.”[9] In 2013, he received the Hanes Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, an organization that recognizes and encourages excellence in Southern literature.