• 2003 Hayden Carruth Award
• 2003-2004 Fulbright Fellowship
• Finalist, 2006 National Book Award for Angle of Yaw.
• Finalist, 2006 Northern California Book Awards for Angle of Yaw
• 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellow

Collections

• The Lichtenberg Figures, poetry (Port Townsend, Copper Canyon Press, 2004).
• Angle of Yaw, poetry (Port Townsend, Copper Canyon Press, 2006).
• Mean Free Path, poetry (Port Townsend, Copper Canyon Press, 2010)

Anthologies

Poetry

• Poem The Lost Browning Tape from SOFT TARGETS v.2.1
• Four poems from Angle of Yaw in Boston Review
• Three poems from Angle of Yaw in Jacket Magazine.
• An excerpt from The Lichtenberg Figures in Slope.
• Poems in Fascicle.
• Lerner's poem Didactic Elegy
• A poem by Lerner in The Nation
• Lerner's series "Doppler Elegies" in Jacket

Other

• Ben Lerner interviews Peter Cole in Bomb see Wikipedia article on Peter Cole for another perspective
• Book Patrol: Ben Lerner on W.S. Merwin
• Poet’s Sampler: Lynn Xu Lerner provides an introductory note to a group of poems by Lynn Xu published in Boston Review's May/June 2010 issue

Critical pieces, retrospectives, etc.

• Apples of Discourse on Rosmarie Waldrop in Jacket upon the publication of Waldrop's Curves to the Apple, which gathers her trilogy of prose poems
• "Cezanne refused to dissolve the object into atmospheric effects..." on poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge in Rain Taxi, upon the publication of her book I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems
• Of Accumulation: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley on Robert Creeley in boundary 2
• The Future Continuous: Ashbery's Lyric Mediacy on John Ashbery in boundary 2
• “Selfish Enchantments”: Barbara Guest and the Nature of Arrangement This essay on U.S. poet Barbara Guest first appeared in New American Writing, number 27

The Lichtenberg Figures

• Poetry Microreviews appeared in the Boston Review September/October 2005 online edition.
• The Lichtenberg Figures, reviewed by Cindra Halm in Rain Taxi.
• A Review of Ben Lerner's The Lichtenberg Figures by Brian Leary in 42opus
• Sustained elegy this review by Cyrus Console appeared online October 2005 in Jacket Magazine, Number 28.

Angle of Yaw

• Fault Lines: Ben Lerner's Angle of Yaw and Sarah Manguso's Siste Viator appeared in the Boston Review September/October 2007 online edition.
• A review of Angle of Yaw at Coldfront Magazine.
• A review of Lerner's work in The Pittsburgh City Paper focuses primarily on Angel Of Yaw
• An essay on Lerner's "Didactic Elegy" in Jacket

Mean Free Path

• An essay on Mean Free Path in The New Republic
• The Art of Losing, Re-mastered: an essay on Ben Lerner's "Mean Free Path" by David Gorin in Jacket Magazine, Number 40.
• A review of Mean Free Path in The Critical Flame
• "Somewhere in this Book I Broke" -- a review of Mean Free Path
• A dialogue with Aaron Kunin about Mean Free Path in Jacket Magazine
• Karla Kelsey reviews Mean Free Path at the Constant Critic
• Ben Lerner's "Mean Free Path" reviewed by Evan Hansen at the website The The Poetry, April 4, 2010
• "Starred Review" in Publishers Weekly
• Mean Free Path reviewed in Library Journal

Other

• Die wollen doch nur spielen An essay by Matthias Göritz, principally focusing in on the German translation of The Lichtenberg Figures; appears online in SPRITZ (German)
• An essay treating Lerner in Postmodern Culture.