• That Was Really Something, Groundhog Poetry Press, 2018
  • All the Earthly Lovers: Selected and New Poems, Foothills Publishing, 2014
  • Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman (edited by Howard Nelson), North Atlantic Books, 2010
  • The Nap by the Waterfall, Timberline Press, 2009
  • Bone Music, poems, Nightshade Press, 1997, (1996 winner of the William & Kingman Page Chapbook Award)
  • Gorilla Blessing, Falling Trees Press, 1993
  • Singing into the Belly, Foot Hills Publishing, 1990
  • On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell (ed.), University of Michigan Press, 1987
  • Robert Bly: An Introduction to Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1985
  • Creatures, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1983