Two of his three marriages have ended in divorce. He married Sara Anderson on 14 March 1943, and they have one child, Martha Hamilton. He married Eleanore Ray on 29 November 1952. And he married Rose Marie Dorn on 28 October 1961; they have one son, David Barrow. Carruth's home, and the home of his Crow's Mark Press, is Johnson, Vermont.
His professional life has been almost entirely literary. He was editor of Poetry magazine in 1949-1950, associate editor of the University of Chicago Press in 1950-1951, and project administrator for Intercultural Publications in New York in 1952-1953. He has been consulting editor of the Hudson Review since 1970 and poetry editor of Harper's since 1977. He was poet-in-residence at Johnson State College in Vermont, 1972-1974, an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont, 1975-1978, and is now a senior member of the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. The many literary prizes he has won include Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize (1954), the Vachel Lindsay Prize (1956), Poetry's Levinson Prize (1958), the University of Chicago's Harriet Monroe Poetry Award (1960-1961), the Carl Sandburg Award (1963), Poetry's Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize (1964), Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize for his poem "North Winter" (1964), and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Prize (1968).
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