Reed Whittemore: A Literary Chronology
| 1939-53 | Furioso, co-founded and editor |
| 1941-45 | U.S. Army Air Force |
| 1946 | Heroes and Heroines (Reynal & Hitchcock) |
| 1947-66 | Professor, Carleton College |
| 1954 | Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, Poetry magazine |
| 1956 | An American Takes a Walk (University of Minnesota Press) |
| 1959 | The Self-Made Man and Other Poems (Macmillan) |
| 1960-64 | The Carleton Miscellany, founder and editor |
| 1960 | Robert Browning, Editor (Dell) |
| 1962 | The Boy from Iowa: Poems and Essays (The Macmillan Company) Emily Clark Balch Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review |
| 1963 | The Fascination of the Abomination: Poems, Stories, and Essays (Macmillan) |
| 1963 | Little Magazines (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers) |
| 1964-65 | Consultant in Poetry to Library of Congress Ways of Misunderstanding Poetry (Library of Congress) |
| 1965 | Return Alpheus: A Poem for the Literary Editors of Phi Beta Kappa (King & Queen Press) |
| 1966-68 | National Institute of Public Affairs, Program Associate |
| 1966 | The Little Magazine and Contemporary Literature: A Symposium Held at the Library of Congress, 2nd and 3rd April 1965 (Modern Language Association) |
| 1967 | Bain-Swiggert Lecturer, Princeton University |
| 1967 | From Zero to the Absolute (Crown Publishers) |
| 1967-84 | Professor, University of Maryland |
| 1967 | Poems: New and Selected (University of Minnesota Press) |
| 1969 | National Council on the Arts Award for lifelong contribution to American letters |
| 1969-73 | Literary Editor, The New Republic |
| 1970 | American Academy of Arts and Letters: Award of Merit Medal Fifty Poems Fifty (University of Minnesota Press) |
| 1971 | Litt. D. Honorary Doctorate from Carleton College |
| 1974 | The Mother’s Breast & The Father’s House (Houghton-Mifflin Company) |
| 1975 | William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey (Houghton-Mifflin Company) |
| 1975 | The Poet as Journalist: Life at the New Republic (The New Republic Book Company) |
| 1976 | Travel to USSR (sponsored by USAID) |
| 1977 | A Whittemore Miscellany, sound recording (Watershed Intermedia) |
| 1982 | The Feel of Rock: Poems New & Selected (Dryad Press) |
| 1983 | Travel to Israel (sponsored by USAID) |
| 1984 | William Carlos Williams: "The Happy Genius of the Household" (Library of Congress) |
| 1985-86 | Interim Consultant in Poetry to Library of Congress |
| 1985-88 | Poet Laureate of Maryland |
| 1986 | Poets and Anthologists: A Look at the Current Poet-packaging Process (Library of Congress) |
| 1988 | Pure Lives: The Early Biographers (John Hopkins University Press) |
| 1989 | Whole Lives: Shapers of Modern Biography (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 1988-92 | Delos, Editor |
| 1988 | The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New (University of Arkansas Press) |
| 1993 | Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate (University of Missouri Press) |
| 2006 | Author of Year Award from Maryland Library Association |
| 2007 | Ten from Ten Plus One More (chapbook; Dryad Press) |
| 2007 | The Season of Waiting: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, trans. into Hebrew by Moshe Dor (Keshev Publishing House, Israel) |