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)

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

When Less Than Perfect is Enough

The Namesake, The Precious Dreadful

Postcard History: Mystic

Damselfly
On Borrowed Wings
Breathe the Sky
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
Death of a Circus
Outwitting the Job Market

Blinding Light, Grayson Books 2013
I’m Dating Myself, Dancing Girl Press 2015

Pieces of the Whole
Provisions

An Astonishment and an Hissing,
North Northeast
We All Fall Down
Counting to Christmas
Learning the Angels
Passage
Getting Religion
Private Collection
First & Last
The Weathering: New & Selected Poems
Visitations
Going On: New & Collected Poems

Scholarly

Sean O’Casey (Twayne English Authors Series) Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978 — selected by
Macmillan for inclusion on a full text searchable and browsable CD-ROM, June 1997

Poetry

Balloons Over Stockholm, Fine Tooth Press, Waterbury, CT, Spring 2005
Brushstrokes of the Millennium, WCSU Foundation, Danbury, CT, February 2004
We Are What We Have Loved, Hanover Press, Newtown, CT, March 2001
The Route and Other Poems, Pikestaff Publications, Normal, Illinois, November 1996
Dikel, Your Hands and Other Poems, Spoon River Press, Peoria, Illinois, 1979

Chapbooks

On Thacher Island, The Last Automat Press, Patterson, NY, 2008
Monet in the 20th Century, Pudding House Press, Johnstown, Ohio, July 2002
Entangled Landscapes (with John Briggs) Pudding House Press, November 2002
James R. Scrimgeour: Greatest Hits, Pudding House Press, March 2001

Class Dismissed, A Teacher Says Goodbye

Shook

BOOKS

My Daughter Is Drummer in the Rock ‘n Roll Band (Antrim House, 2009)
That’s How The Light Gets In (Antrim House, 2013)