Complex sentence: Selected Poems 1980-1998 received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2000, and he became one of the few Americans elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2001.
Split into simpler sentences: Selected Poems 1980-1998 received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2000. In 2001 he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2001.