Biography
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- Angel
- At the Bambi Motel
- Black Fairy Tale
- Boardwalk
- Catchpenny Road
- Cemetery Reef
- Death Dress
- Fabergé's Egg
- Glass-Bottom Boat
- Globe
- Letter from Swan’s Island
- Letter in July
- Mansion Beach
- Mutoscope
- My Daughter
- Ocean City: Early March
- Profil Perdu
- S N A I L
- Sims: The Game
- The Bodies
- The Playground
- Two Characters in Search of a Metaphor
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Waving Goodbye
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- Davis, William V.. "Elizabeth Spires". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 120: American Poets Since World War II, Third Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by R. S. Gwynn, Lamar University. The Gale Group, 1992. pp. 291-292.
- Spires, Elizabeth. Boardwalk. Cleveland, Ohio: Bits, 1980.
- --. Globe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. PS3569 .P554 G57 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
- --. Swan's Island. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. PS3569 .P554 S92 1985 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
- --. Annonciade. New York: Viking/Penguin, 1989. PS3569 .P554 A83 1989 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
- --. Worldling. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. PS3569 .P554 W67 1995 Robarts Library
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