Bibliography
Other info : Career
POETRY, EXCEPT AS NOTED
- Different Ways to Pray, Breitenbush (Portland, OR), 1980.
- On the Edge of the Sky, Iguana Press (Madison, WI), 1981.
- Hugging the Jukebox, Dutton (New York, NY), 1982.
- Yellow Glove, Breitenbush (Portland, OR), 1986.
- Invisible, Trilobite (Denton, TX), 1987.
- Mint (prose; also see below), State Street Press (Brockport, NY), 1991.
- Red Suitcase, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 1994.
- Words under the Words: Selected Poems, Far Corner Books (Portland, OR), 1995.
- Fuel, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 1998.
- Mint Snowball (prose; includes selections previously published in Mint), Anhinga Press (Tallahassee, FL), 2001.
- You and Yours, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 2005.
POETRY FOR CHILDREN
- (Editor) This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from around the World, Four Winds Press (New York, NY), 1992.
- (Editor) The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Stories from Mexico, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1995.
- (Editor, with Paul Janeczko) I Feel a Little Jumpy around You: A Book of Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996.
- (With others) The Space between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1998, published as The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East, Aladdin (New York, NY), 2002.
- (Selector) What Have You Lost? (young-adult poetry), with photographs by husband, Michael Nye, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 1999.
- (Selector) Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, illustrated by Ashley Bryan, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2000.
- Come with Me: Poems for a Journey, with images by Dan Yaccarino, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2000.
- Nineteen Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2002.
- Is This Forever, or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2004.
- Sweet Sifter in Time: Poems for Girls, illustrated by Terre Maher, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2005.
PICTURE BOOKS
- Sitti's Secrets, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1994.
- Benito's Dream Bottle, illustrated by Yu Cha Pak, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1995.
- Lullaby Raft, illustrated by Vivienne Flesher, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997.
- Baby Radar, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2003.
OTHER
- Never in a Hurry (essays; for yung adults), University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1996.
- Habibi (novel; for young adults), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996.
Also author of chapbooks Tattooed Feet, 1977, and Eye-to-Eye, 1978. Contributor to Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet, edited by Richard B. Sale, University of North Texas Press, 1990, and Best American Essays 1991, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Contributor of poems, stories, and essays to periodicals, including Atlantic, Iowa Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Manoa, Houston Chronicle, and Austin Chronicle. Recordings include Rutabaga-Roo (songs), Flying Cat (San Antonio, TX), 1979; Lullaby Raft, Flying Cat (San Antonio, TX), 1981; and The Spoken Page (poetry reading), International Poetry Forum (Pittsburgh, PA), 1988.
