Peaches (Abrams, May 2024)

Our Joyful Noise (Atheneum, October 2024)

How Fires End (Little A, 2019)

• A 2020 Connecticut Book Awards finalist and honorable mention
• Winner of the 2021 Italian American Studies Association Book Award

The Way I Say It (Charlesbridge, 2022)

The Ghost of Spruce Point (Aladdin, 2022)

Let’s Dance!

Together We Ride

Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!

The Ladybug Who Lived on a Four Leaf Clover

“Gallows Road,” a novel

POETRY

Bible Poems for Reflection and Response

No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk

Her House and Other Poems

We Walk Together

What’s Wrong with Ordinary? Poems to Celebrate Life

Cancer, A Caregiver’s Journey

Job Loss, A Journey in Poetry

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Teensy Meensy Mice, ill. by Ed Heck

Hush That Hullabaloo, ill, by Chris Demarest

Too-Tall Tina, ill. by Liza Woodruff

A Watershed Year (2011)
The Virtues of Oxygen (2014)
The Liability of Love (2021)

A Thirst For Home, A Story of Water Across the World, Bloomsbury 2014 / Scholastic 2016

Emmertje op Wereldreis, Clavis 2021

The Purple Pail, Clavis 2022

Beautiful Corruption, 2021. A collection of poems and artwork, full color.

The Appointed Hour

Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure (Reedy Press, 2021)

Nowhere to Run, 2013

A Rebellious Woman, 2021

Images of America: Cheshire

Naugatuck Revisited

Make Dust our Paper

Soul Food Sunday, Fall 2021

Fort Goode, Summer 2022

Life Is Beautiful, Fall 2022

• James W. Hawk – Windows on the Universe: A life unscripted, a film yet to be produced – an autobiography (2021)
• Jenny – She was trying to ease her father’s grief by doing things for him that would give him pleasant memories of his deceased wife. (2021)
• CONFLUENCE – When her realities coalesce, they transcend the boundaries of reason! (2020)
• Failure – Future generations would remember me as the father of civilization. (2017)
• Willard’s Fundamental Force – “…if you want to be in the company of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.” (2017)
• To beta-Vanverden and Back – They undertook a momentous intergalactic mission to try to restore the former glory of their civilization. (2016)

Poems in English

The Angled Road, Collected Poems 1970-2020. (Beaumont: Lamar University Press 2020).

Early Poems, 1966-1969.  (New York: Black Spruce Press 2020)

Notebook Sketches. Poems and Drawings. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2019).

Three White Horses: Still Lifes. Poems by Jonas Zdanys. Paintings by Sou Vai Keng. (Beaumont: Lamar University Press, 2017).

St. Brigid’s Well. (Chicago: Purple Flag Press, 2017).

Red Stones.  Poems. Paintings by Steven Schroeder. (Beaumont: Lamar University Press, 2016).

Cormorants.   (Boston: Timberline Press 2013).

The Kingfisher’s Reign. Prose Poems. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2012)

The Thin Light of Winter: New and Selected Poems. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2009)

Salt. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2007)

The Woman on the Bridge. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2005)

The White City.  (New Haven: Branford College Press and Jonathan Edwards College Press 2004).  Illustrated by Kristina Zdanys.

White. (New Haven: The White Birch Press and The Carl Purington Rollins Press, Yale School of Art 2004)

Lithuanian Crossing.  Prose Poems.  (New Haven: The White Birch Press and The Carl Purington Rollins Press, Yale School of Art 1999)

Water Light.  New and Selected Poems.  (Vilnius: Vaga Publishers Ltd. 1997).

The White Bend of the River. Poems. Drawings by Mykolas Malkovas.  (New Haven: Patrick Schreiber and The Carl Purington Rollins Press, Yale School of Art 1994).

The Metaphysics of Wolves. Poems. Drawings by Mykolas Malkovas (New Haven: The White Birch Press 1994).

Maine Aubade. (New Haven: Appletree Chapbooks 1990).

Voice on an Anthill.  (New York: Manyland Books 1982).

Poems in English and Lithuanian

Two Voices/Du Balsai. Jonas Zdanys and Kornelijus Platelis. (Chicago: Purple Flag Press, 2017).

Preliudai po lietaus / Preludes After Rain.  (Macau, China and Markwell, Australia: Flying Island Books, ASM, and Cerberus Press 2017)

Poems in Lithuanian

Ikaro prisikelimas.  (Vilnius: Lietuvos Rašytoju Sajungos Leidykla 2014).

Tarpdury.  (Vilnius: Lietuvos Rašytoju Sajungos Leidykla 2008).

Dumu stulpai.  (Vilnius: Lietuvos Rašytoju Sajungos Leidykla 2002).

Dotnuvos stoty.  Poems in Lithuanian.  (Vilnius: Vaga Publishers Ltd. 1999)

Aušros Daina.  (Kaunas: Spindulys/Santara 1993).

Translations

Alternating Masks: Selected Poems of Kornelijus Platelis. (New York: Black Spruce Press   2021).

Invocations of Light: Poems by Valdas Aušra.  (Brooklyn: Grey Willow Press 2020)

Solitary Architectures: Selected Poems of Kornelijus Platelis. (Beaumont: Lamar University Press 2014)

Artistic Cloning: Poems by Agne Zagrakalyte.. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2010)

Kornelijus Platelis: Haiku.  (New Haven: Pierson College Press of Yale University 2007).  Illustrated by Joanna Zdanys.

Icchokas Meras: Stalemate.  (New York: Other Press 2005).

Emptiness: Poems by Vytautas P. Bloze. (Vilnius: Vario Burnos 2005)

Zones: Poems by Kornelijus Platelis. (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective 2004)

Five Lithuanian Women Poets.(Vilnius: Vaga Publishers Ltd 2002)

Inclusions in Time: Selected Poems by Antanas A. Jonynas. (Vilnius: Lietuvos Rašytoju  Sajungos Leidykla 2002)

Silk: Poems by Nijole Miliauskaite. (Vilnius:  Vario Burnos 2002)

@ and Other Poems by Kornelijus Platelis. (Vilnius: Vario Burnos 2002).

Snare for the Wind: Selected Poems of Kornelijus Platelis. (Vilnius: Vaga Publishers Ltd. 1999).

The Theology of Rain: Selected Poems of Alfonsas Nyka-Niliunas. (Vilnius: Vaga Publishers Ltd and Lithuanian PEN 1999)

Smoke From Nothing: Poems by Vytautas P. Bloze. (Philadelphia: The Pine Press 1998).

Four Poets of Lithuania: Vytautas P. Bloze, Sigitas Geda, Nijole Miliauskaite, Kornelijus Platelis. (Vilnius: Vaga Publishers Ltd. 1995).

Chimeras in the Tower: Selected Poems of Henrikas Radauskas.  (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1986). Recorded, Talking Books for the Blind 1988.

Leonardas Andriekus: Eternal Dream. (New York: Franciscan Fathers Press and Manyland Books 1980).

Icchokas Meras: Stalemate.  (New York: Lyle Stuart; Toronto: General Publishing Co.; Tel Aviv: Michaelmark Books 1980).

Sigitas Geda: Songs of Autumn.  Translated by Jonas Zdanys (Pittsburgh: The Slow Loris Press 1979).

Selected Post-war Lithuanian Poetry.  (New York: Manyland Books 1979).

Brone Martin: Reality and Dream & The Wandering Seagull. (New York: Privately printed, 1979).

Jurgis Gliauda: Agony. (New York: Manyland Books 1977).

Editions

Unlocking the Word. An Anthology of Found Poetry. Edited by Jonas Zdanys. (Beaumont: Lamar University Press 2018).

Pushing the Envelope: Epistolary Poems. Edited by Jonas Zdanys. (Beaumont: Lamar University Press 2015)

Yale 1972: Twenty-five Years Out.  Edited by Jonas Zdanys.  (New Haven: Yale University 1997).

Yale 1972: Twenty-Five Years Out, A Supplement   Edited by Jonas Zdanys (New Haven: Yale University 1997).

True Fellowship in All Its Glory: Remembrances of C.S.P.  Jonas Zdanys and Stephen S. Gurney, Editors.  (New Haven: Kingsley Trust Association 1992)

The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow (Delacorte- 2015)

Fairday Morrow and the Talking Library (Willow Press- 2017)

From the Desk of Zoe Washington (2020)

A Soft Place to Land (2021)

As editor or author, 26 books most recently:

Frame Narrative (poetry, Blaze Vox, 2018)

Second Thoughts (prose, Bordighera Press, 2017)

Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America (SUNY Press, 2016)

Casting, (2021, Antrim House Books)

Tempest: Poems (March 2021, 9780578831756)

Haunt: Poems (February 2018, 9780692069981)

Heartbeat
Blink!
Hear the Wind Blow

Coral Reef Hideaway: The Story of a Clown Anemonefish
Otter on His Own: The Story of a Sea Otter
Summer Coat, Winter Coat: The Story of a Snowshoe Hare
Gray Wolf Pup
Earth Day, Every Day
Fun with the Family, Connecticut
Guide to the Connecticut Shore

Old Enough: How 18-Year-Olds Won the Vote & Why it Matters (Heath Hen, 2020), ISBN: 978-1735493008

Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street’s History (Praeger, 2013), ISBN: 978-1440802652

How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss

Hartford Mayor Ann Uccello: A Connecticut Trailblazer

Courage and Sacrifice: The Italian Immigrants of Hartford 1860-1960

The Exceptional Miss Uccello: the Legacy of Hartford’s First Female Mayor

“MERG” The true story of one WWII soldier’s selfless act of valor that one town that never forgot.

“AMERICAN ST. NICK” The true story of how a handful of American soldiers brought Christmas back to a small war-torn town during the darkest days of WWII

Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Poems (29 Trees Press, 2019); ISBN: 0988492644.

Small Stones from the River: Meditations and Micropoems (29 Trees Press, 2017); ISBN: 154555580X.

Moon Full of Moons: Poetry of Transformation (29 Trees Press, 2015); ISBN: 1096125374.

Birthmarked (2010)

“Tortured” (Birthmarked 1.5)

Prized (Birthmarked #2) (2011)

“Ruled” (Birthmarked 2.5) (2012)

Promised (Birthmarked #3) (2012)

The Vault of Dreamers (2014)

The Rule of Mirrors (The Vault of Dreamers #2) (2016)

The Keep of Ages (The Vault of Dreamers #3) (2017)

Permeable Boundaries: Stories (Fomite Press, 2021)

After the Hunger: Stories (Fomite Press, 2020)

Pirate Island (2017), Elixir Bound (2018), Elixir Saved (2020)

• “The State of Science: What the Future Holds and the Scientists Making It Happen.” Prometheus Books, 2020 (ISBN 978-1633886391).
• “Solutions for a Cleaner, Greener Planet: Environmental Chemistry.” Twenty First Century Books, Minneapolis, 2019 (ISBN 978-1541519794).
• “発光する生物の謎 (生命ふしぎ図鑑).” Nishimura Shoten, Matsusaka, 2017 (ISBN 978-4890137725).
• “Lighting Up the Brain: The Science of Optogenetics.” Twenty First Century Books, Minneapolis, 2018 (ISBN 978-1512427523).
• “Bioluminescence Nature and Science at Work.” Twenty First Century Books, Minneapolis, 2016 (ISBN 978-1467757843).
• “Illuminating Disease.” Oxford University Press, New York, 2015. (ISBN 978-0199362813)
• “Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology.” Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2005. (ISBN 1-59102-253-3).
• “光る遺伝子 オワンクラゲと緑色蛍光タンパク質GFP (単行本).” Maruzen Publishers, Tokyo, 2009. (ISBN 978-4621080948).

Silent Anatomies (Kore Press, 2015)

Spindle City, July 21, 2020

Celtic Crossing

Good Luck and a Benevolent God

Going Up

A Rage of Intelligence, 2003

This Is Me, Not Robert Creeley, Speaking, 2017

Towards A New Piety, 2019

Lines Inspired By Irene Jacob, 2021

Ruby in the Sky, Farrar Straus Giroux (2019)

A Galaxy of Sea Stars, Farrar Straus Giroux (2020)

Soaked! (Viking Children’s Books, 2020)
Animals Go Vroom! (Viking Children’s Books, 2021)

The Body Flute (poetry chapbook) Adastra Press 1994

Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (co-editor) University of Iowa Press 1995

Details of Flesh (poetry)  CALYX Books 1997

 Willy-Nilly: Poems for Children (poetry chapbook) Small Poetry Press 2000

I Knew a Woman: the Experience of the Female Body (memoir) Random House 2001

Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (co-editor) University of Iowa Press 2003

Leopold’s Maneuvers (poetry) University of Nebraska Press 2004

The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing (essays) Kent State University Press 2009

Conversion / Return (poetry chapbook) Finishing Line Press 2009

When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: a Story in Words and Images (memoir and paintings) Kent State University Press 2015

Taking Care of Time (poetry) Michigan State University Press / Wheelbarrow Books 2018

Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose (co-editor) Kent State University Press 2018

Tiny Footcrunch

DEALING: tarot poems and pictures (illustrated by Project Runway’s Helen Castillo)

I Liked My Life

Touch
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

Kiki and Jacques: A Refugee Story>/em> (Holiday House, 2015)
Searching for Lottie (Holiday House, 2019)