He is a two-time winner of the
Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work The Bindery won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the
Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and
Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on
First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry.[1]