Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law

Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965–2021

And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems

The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America

Citizen: An American Lyric

Voices from Death Row, Second Edition

Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

The Souls of Black Folk

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection

Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

Helium

Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Flowers on the Moon

The Complete Poetry