• Lacunae: New Poems, Iron Pen, 2023
  • School of Embodied Poetics: New Poems, Paraclete Press, 2020
  • Anaphora: New Poems, Paraclete Press, 2019
  • Short Trip to the Edge: A Pilgrimage to Prayer, Paraclete Press, 2016, (new edition)
  • Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems, Paraclete Press, 2015
  • Endless Life: Poems of the Mystics, Paraclete Press, 2014
  • Idiot Psalms: New Poems, Paraclete Press, 2014
  • God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter (contributor), Paraclete Press, 2013
  • The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain, Paraclete Press, 2009
  • God with Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas (contributor), Paraclete Press, 2007
  • Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven – A Pilgrimage, HarperOne, 2007
  • Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life, Paraclete Press, 2007
  • Compass of Affection: New and Selected Poems, Paraclete Press, 2006
  • Philokalia: New and Selected Poems, Zoo Press, 2002
  • Recovered Body, George Braziller Inc., 1998
  • Americans With Disabilities Act: Its Impact on Public Schools, National School Boards Association, 1993
  • The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World (an anthology including work by Annie Dillard and Cathryn Hankla; co-editor with W. Scott Olsen), University of Utah Press, 1996
  • Figures for the Ghost, University of Georgia Press, 1994
  • Sermons For the Wary: poems, Franciscan University Press, 1993
  • Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Special Publications, 1991
  • The Translation of Babel: poems, University of Georgia Press, 1990
  • The Theology of Doubt: poems, Cleveland State University Press, 1985
  • Finding the Broken Man, Window Press, 1983
  • Differential and Combinatorial Topology: A Symposium in Honor of Marston Morse (edited by Cairns), Princeton University Press, 1965