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-Markings special number: A World Assembly of Poets 16.4 (November 2017): 163-66.
“Found Haiku, Missing Beat.” Washington Square Review (winter/spring 2009): 26.
“Birds at Six O’Clock”; “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’s Place. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 44.
“Coyotes,” “In Rovaniemi, Finland, Twenty-fifth Birthday,” “Night Fishing,” “The Beach,” “Father’s 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.
“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’s 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’s 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 Don’t 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.