Works

Plays

for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf (1975)

A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion (1977)

Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon (1977)

A Photograph: A Study of Cruelty (1977)

Boogie Woogie Landscapes (1979)

Spell #7 (written spell #7) or spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people (1979)

Black and White Two Dimensional Planes (1979)

Mother Courage and Her Children (1980)

Three for a Full Moon (1982)

Bocas (1982)

From Okra to Greens/A Different Kinda Love Story (1983)

Three views of Mt. Fuji (1987)

Daddy Says (1989)

Whitewash (1994)

Poetry

Melissa & Smith (1976)

Natural Disasters and Other Festive Occasions (1977)

Nappy Edges (1978)

A Daughter’s Geography (1983)

From Okra to Greens (1984)

Ridin’ the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings (1987)

The Love Space Demands (a continuing saga) (1987)

A Photograph: Lovers in Motion: A Drama (1977)

Some Men (1981)

Three Pieces (1992)

I Live in Music (1994)

The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African–American Family (2004)

“Enuf”

“With No Immediate Cause”

“you are sucha fool”

“People of Watts”

“Blood Rhythms”

“Poet Hero”

Wild Beauty (2017)

Novels

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (1976)

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982)

Betsey Brown (1985)

The Black Book (1986)

Liliane (1994)

Some Sing, Some Cry (2010) with Ifa Bayeza

Children’s books

Coretta Scott (2009)

Ellington Was Not a Street (2003)

Float Like a Butterfly: Muhammad Ali, the Man Who Could Float Like a Butterfly and Sting Like a Bee (2002)

Daddy Says (2003)

Whitewash (1997)

Essays

See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976–983 (1984)

if i can cook / you know god can (1998)