Black Feeling, Black Talk (poetry) 1968
Black Judgement (poetry) 1968
Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices (editor) 1970
Re:Creation (poetry) 1970
Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Children (poetry) 1971
Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (autobiography) 1971
Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children (poetry) 1971
My House (poetry) 1972
A Dialogue: James Baldwin and Nikkt Giovanni (essays) 1973
A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (essays) 1974
The Women and the Men (poetry) 1975
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (poetry) 1978
Vacation Time: Poems for Children (poetry) 1980
Those Who Ride the Night Winds (poetry) 1983
Sacred Cows … and Other Edibles (essays) 1988
Racism 101 (autobiographical essays) 1994
The Genie in the Jar (poetry) 1996
The Sun Is So Quiet: Poems (poetry) 1996
Love Poems (poetry) 1997