Collections of Poetry
I: New & Selected Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019- The Undertaker’s Daughter, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011
- Tender; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997
- Captivity; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989; second printing, 1991; third printing, 1993; fourth printing, 1995
- Natural Birth; The Crossing Press, 1983; republished by Firebrand Press, 2000
- The Empress of the Death House; Lotus Press, 1978; second printing, 1989
Memoir
- Bread on the Water: Recollections of a “Li’L Half-White, Stuck-up Nigga Girl,” by Antonia Baquet; eds. Toi Derricotte & Ellen Smith; self-published, 2007
- Noire, la Couleur de ma Peau Blanche; Kiron/Editions du Félin, 2000; translation of The Black Notebooks into French by Phillippe Moreau
- The Black Notebooks; W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Poetry Anthology
- Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade; eds. Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady, asst. ed. Camille Dungy; University of Michigan Press, 2006
Selected Anthologies
- Women’s Work; eds. Eva Salzman & Amy Wack; Seren Press, 2009
- 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology; eds. Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl; Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2009
- Poems from the Women’s Movement; ed. Honor Moore, American Poets Project; The Library of America, 2009
- Poems of Nature; ed. William Roetzheim; Level 4 Press Inc., 2009
- When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women; ed. Andrea Hollander Budy; Autumn House Press 2008
- The Sixth Wave; eds. Quraysh Ali Lansana & Toni Asante Lightfoot; Just Us Books Inc., 2008
- Persimmon Tree, An Online Literary Magazine; ed. Chana Bloch; 2008
- Mobius, The Poetry Magazine, 25th Anniversary Edition;
ed. Juanita Torrence-Thompson; 2007 - Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems; eds. Joy Katz & Kevin Prufer; University of Illinois Press, 2007
- Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing; eds. Catherine Wagner & Rebecca Wolff; University Press of New England, 2007
- An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, Joyful Noise; ed. Robert Strong; Autumn House Press, 2007
- After the Bell, Contemporary American Prose about School; eds. Maggie Anderson & David Hassler; University of Iowa Press, 2007
- Mobius, The Poetry Magazine; ed. Juanita Torrence-Thompson; September 2006
- The Best American Essays 2006;<;/span> ed. Laurie Slater; Houghton Mifflin, 2006
- Lifelines, New and Collected Letters from Famous People About Their Favourite Poem; ed. Niall MacMonagle; Town House Dublin, 2006