What You Wish For

A Book for Darfur

2011

American Ace

2016

Snook Alone

2010

Mrs. Nelson's Class

2017

The Freedom Business

2006

The Homeplace

Poems

1990

Fortune's Bones

The Manumission Requiem

2004

Beautiful Ballerina

2009

My Seneca Village

2015

Augusta Savage

The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

2021

How I Discovered Poetry

2014

The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems

2005

Faster Than Light

New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011

2012

Carver

A Life in Poems

1997

Sweethearts of Rhythm

2009

A Wreath for Emmett Till

2005

Ostrich and Lark

2012

Papa's Free Day Party

2021

Lubaya's Quiet Roar

2020

The Fields of Praise

New and Selected Poems

1997

Magnificat

Poems

1994

Pemba's Song

A Ghost Story

2008