'Fore Day Morning (poetry) 1978

Earth Magic (poetry) 1980

Primitive Offensive (poetry) 1982

Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia (poetry) 1983

Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (poetry) 1984

Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism [with Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta] (essay) 1986

Sans Souci, and Other Stories (short stories) 1989

No Language Is Neutral (poetry) 1990

No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s (biography) 1991

Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics (essays) 1995

In Another Place, Not Here (novel) 1997

Land to Light On (poetry) 1997

At the Full and Change of the Moon (novel) 1999

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (novel) 2002

Thirsty (poetry) 2002