American Ace (2015)

My Seneca Village (2015) 

How I Discovered Poetry (2014) 

Ostrich and Lark (2012) 

Snook Alone (2010) 

Sweethearts of Rhythm (2009)

Beautiful Ballerina (2009) 

Pemba’s Song: A Ghost Story (2008)

Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color (2007) 

The Freedom Business: Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa (2006)

A Wreath for Emmett Till (2005) 

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem (2004) 

Carver: A Life in Poems (1997)

Mama's Promises: Poems (1985)