The Hunger Moon. New York: W. W. Norton, July 1997.
Books of Poetry
Durable Goods. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1993.
Sea Level. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1990.
Poetry in Periodicals
Missionary, 1920, Went into a Bar, Celia, To Genda, Little Deaths, Calling Her.Re-Markingsspecial number: A World Assembly of Poets 16.4 (November 2017): 163-66.
Wٳ.73 (11/6/16).
Division Street, Story, Rishikesh. (2/27/14).
Found Haiku, Missing Beat. Washington Square Review (winter/spring 2009): 26.
Birds at Six OClock; From SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS; Reading Lesson at a Farm Workers Community School, Woodville, California, 1942. Kippis! 1:1 (winter 2009): 29-31.
Honeymoon Snapshot: Diptych. Boston College Magazine 66.4 (fall 2006): 61.
Mysore Pantoum, Ballroom Dancing, A Vision, Photographing Debra.
Kestrel 18 (2005): 54-58.
Alligator Country (reprinted), Backyard Soil, c. 1960, Renovation. Salamander: Then and Now 10th Anniversary Issue 9.1-2 (2003): 134-8.
One night. Ed. Alice Hoffman.40 Women, 40 Words: For the Anniversary of Rosie Place. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 44.
Coyotes, In Rovaniemi, Finland, Twenty-fifth Birthday, Night Fishing, The Beach, Father Day, Stubbornness, Durable Goods (poems); Persephone at Boylston (story). Finnish-North American Literature in English: A Concise Anthology. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2009. 531-51.
Love in the Coal Mine. Coal: A Poetry Anthology. Ashland, KY: Blair Mountain Press, 2006. 143.
Worry, The Beach. Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2004. 113-14.
The Wound-up Girl Ice Skater, The Bohemian Wedding. March Hares: The Best Poems from Fine Madness, 1982-2002. Seattle, WA: Fine Madness, 2002. 242-244.
First Words. The Fruitful Branch: 21 Brookline Authors on Literature, Libraries, Life. Brookline, MA: Brookline Library Foundation, 2002. 67.
Scotch Coulee. Red, White and a Paler Shade of Blue: Poems on the Finnish-American Experience. Rhinelander, WI: Tamarack Publishing Co., 1996. 26-27.
The Regulars, Wifery. For a Living: The Poetry of Work (companion anthology to Working Classics). Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1995. 256-8.
Love in the Coal Mine. Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1990. 160.
The Sunday Drunk. Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor Book Co., 1984. 301.
Nonfiction Essays
, in Ties,New York Times, Nov. 23, 2018.
"For parents, gridiron isnt just fun and games. The Boston Globe Oct. 31, 2009: A11.
"Prospects. Boston College Magazine 68:3 (Summer 2008): 50-1.
"Fellow Workers. . . . The Seattle Times June 27, 2005: B5.
A Thank-You Note. Child February 2000: 104.
Love Among the Ruins. Child February 1999: 111-12.
Days Like These. Child August 1998: 19.
Milestones. Child May 1998: 119.
When Nick Met Henry. Child Dec.-Jan. 1998: 151-2.
He Not Heavy, He My Baby. New York Times Magazine Jan. 12, 1997: 54.
Short Fiction
Convention Center,Harvard Review48: (Dec 2015).
Manger,online (9/4/2015); in printPangyrus 2.
Pie,3:1 (August 27, 2014).
Your Best Yet,Harvard Review45: 92-108 (May 2014).
Boys Choir.Carolina Quarterly62.3 (winter 2012): 60-5.
Ultraviolet.(June 2012).
Persephone at Boylston. BostonNOW 1.5-1.11 (April 23-May 1, 2007), serialized in seven installments.
Column
Disquieting Muses: The Politics/Poetics of Looking. Harvard Review 7 (fall 1994): 125-8.
Disquieting Muses: Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Relation. Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 32-5.
Articles in Books
Birth Metaphors in Three American Women Poets. Commonwealth and American Women Discourse: Essays in Criticism. Ed. A. L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Press, 1996. 268-277.
On Reclaiming the Universal. Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition. Ed. Sharon Bryan. NY: W. W. Norton, 1993. 118-124.
Articles in Journals
The Liberty Committee: Finns, Sedition, and Montana Vigilantes during World War I. Journal of Finnish Studies 13:1 (summer 2009): 67-74.
Strange Cities. Harvard Review 13 (fall 1997): 47-50. A special issue devoted to the poetry of Charles Simic.
Without Relation: Family and Freedom in the Poetry of Louise Glück. The Mid-American Review 14.2 (1994): 88-109.
Flowery Codes: Sandra McPherson Poetics of Gender and Naturalism. Denver Quarterly 28.2 (fall 1993): 86-92 .
On Reclaiming the Universal. River City 13.2 (spring 1993): 118-124.
Please Dont Call it the New Confessionalism. Harvard Review 2 (fall 1992): 164-66.
Talking to Our Father: The Political and Mythical Appropriations of Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds. The American Poetry Review 18.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1989): 35-41.