- The Collected Poems, Antrim House, 2014, ISBN 978-1-936482-60-3
- Rooms of Grace: New and Selected Poems, New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, 2005, ISBN 0-938498-10-X
- The Runners, Slow Loris Press, 1988, ISBN 0-918366-29-1 (Winner of the Capricorn Award for 1984)
- Strange Gravity, The Tidal Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-930954-22-2
- Not Seeing Is Believing, Juniper Press,1983
- Time Songs, Biscuit City Press,1979
- Light from the Furnace Rising, Copper Beech Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-914278-19-1
- The Academy of Goodbye, The University Press of New England, 1974, ISBN 0-87451-098-8
- From Under The Hill of Night, Vanderbilt University Press, 1969, ISBN 978-0-8265-1140-9
- The Leader, Hellcoal Press, 1968 (a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.), a poem read at the 1968 Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Brown University, whose first section describes the June, 1963 Great March on Detroit in which the poet participated
- The Race With Time and the Devil, Golden Quill Press, 1965 (a selection of the Book Club for Poetry)
- Confessions of a Nonconformist, Hillside Press, 1963