Poetry:

• The Venus Hottentot (1990)
• Body of Life (1997)
• Antebellum Dream Book (2001)
• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (2005)
• American Blue (2006)
• Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color (2007)
• Praise Song for the Day (2009)

Memoir:

• THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD (2015)