He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (as Visiting Fellow at the City University of New York) and two British Council Fellowships.

British Council Fellowship (1986)

He then received a British Council Fellowship to attend the Royal College of Art in London, England.

He was the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002.

He was given a British Council Fellowship to study in England.

British Council Fellowship as Visiting Writer, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, 1987.

In 2008, she received an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to research Indigenous and Folkloric music in the Philippines.

UNESCO and British Council Fellowships to observe theater in the United States (1971)

(He also received N.E.A. Composer Fellowships in 1982 and 1991, as well as a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2001.)

Armantrout has twice received a Fund For Poetry Grant and was a California Arts Council Fellowship recipient in 1989.