• 2003 Richard Wilbur Award

• "The First-born", Beloit Poetry Journal 29 (Spring 1979), 7.

• Distant Blue, University of Evansville Press, October 2003, ISBN 9780930982577
• From Nature, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, ISBN 9780801852084
• Fiddle Lane, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780801842689
• Musicians: poems, Aralia Press, 1990

• Meter and meaning: an introduction to rhythm in poetry, Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 9780415311748

Anthologies

• The Maine Poets: An Anthology, Wesley McNair, editor, Down East Books, November 25, 2003, ISBN 9780892726295
• "Turning in Bed"; "That's a Nice Leg", Words brushed by music: twenty-five years of the Johns Hopkins poetry series, Editor John T. Irwin, JHU Press, 2004, ISBN 9780801880292

There are many more fine poems in Thomas Carper’s Distant Blue. A poet of rare craft, a superlative ear, and an obvious commitment to giving his art to his reader rather than concealing it behind the hifalutin and the irrational, Carper is a poet to enjoy, not theorize about.