• Immortal Stuff: prose poems, Mercer University Press, 2023
  • Not Xanadu: poems, Mercer University Press, 2022
  • Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home, Mercer University Press, 2018
  • Galaxies: Poems, Mercer University Press, 2017
  • Great Bear, Groundhog Poetry Press LLC, 2016
  • Fortune Teller Miracle Fish, Michigan State University Press, 2011
  • Last Exposures: a sequence of poems, Louisiana State University Press, 2004
  • The Land Between, Baskerville Publications, 2003
  • Poems for the Pardoned, Louisiana State University Press, 2002
  • Emerald City Blues, Tryon Publishing Co., 2002
  • Texas Book School Depository (collection of prose poems), Louisiana State University, 1998
  • Negative History: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1997, 1998
  • Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World (contributor), University of Utah Press, 1996
  • Afterimages: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1991
  • Contemporary Southern Short Fiction: a sampler (contributor), Texas Review Press, 1990
  • Sound of Writing: Longest Day of the Year (with Alan Cheuse and Ann Beattie), National Public Radio Cassettes, 1990
  • Vital Signs: Contemporary American Poetry from the University Presses (contributor), University of Wisconsin Press, 1989
  • A Blue Moon in Poorwater, Ticknor and Fields, 1988, (reprinted by University of Virginia Press, 1998)
  • Learning the Mother Tongue, University of Missouri Press, 1987
  • Best of Intro (contributor), Norfolk, Virginia: Associated Writing Program, 1985
  • Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (contributor), Beverly Hills California: Monitor Book, 1984, 1985
  • Phenomena, University of Missouri Press, 1983