The Free-Lance Pallbearers (novel) 1967

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (novel) 1969

catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church (poetry) 1970

19 Necromancers from Now [editor and contributor] (short stories, essays, and novels) 1970

Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963-1970 (poetry) 1972

Mumbo Jumbo (novel) 1972

Chattanooga (poetry) 1973

The Last Days of Louisiana Red (novel) 1974

Flight to Canada (novel) 1976

A Secretary to the Spirits [illustrations by Betye Saar] (poetry) 1978

Shrovetide in Old New Orleans (essays) 1978

Mother Hubbard (play) 1981

God Made Alaska for the Indians: Selected Essays (essays) 1982

The Terrible Twos (novel) 1982

Reckless Eyeballing (novel) 1986

Hubba City (play) 1988

New and Collected Poems (poetry) 1988

Writin' is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper (essays and criticism) 1988

Savage Wilds (play) 1989

The Terrible Threes (novel) 1989

Airing Dirty Laundry (essays) 1993

Japanese by Spring (novel) 1993

The Preacher and the Rapper (play) 1994

Multi America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace [editor] (essays) 1997

Gethsemane Park (libretto) 1998

The Reed Reader (poetry, novels, essays, and plays) 2000

From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry across the Americas, 1900-2002 [editor] (poetry) 2002

Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War (essays and criticism) 2003