Books

• Awakening to Music, Briarpatch Press, 1979.
• Bloodfire: A Poem, LSU Press, 1978.
• Brighten the Corner Where You Are, St. Martin's, 1989.
• C, LSU Press, 1993.
• Castle Tzingal, LSU Press, 1984.
• Dagon, Harcourt, 1968, reprinted, St. Martin's, 1986.
• Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle, Iron Mountain Press, 1981.
• Earthsleep: A Poem, LSU Press, 1980.
• Family Gathering, LSU Press, 2000.
• First and Last Words, LSU Press, 1989.
• The Fred Chappell Reader, St. Martin's, 1987.
• I Am One of You Forever, LSU Press, 1985.
• Reprinted LSU Press 1998. ISBN 9780807121191
• Reprint LSU Press 1996.
• The Man Twice Married by Fire, Unicorn Press, 1975.
• Midquest: A Poem (contains "River: A Poem", "Bloodfire: A Poem", "Windmountain: A Poem", and "Earthsleep: A Poem"), LSU Press, 1981.
• More Shapes Than One, 1991.
• Plow Naked: Selected Writings on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1993.
• River: A Poem, LSU Press, 1975.
• Source, LSU Press, 1986.
• Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1995.
• Wind Mountain: A Poem, LSU Press, 1979.
• A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, Picador, 1998.
• The World Between the Eyes, LSU Press, 1971.
• Shadow Box: Poems, :Louisiana State University Press, 2009

Short stories

• "Shadow of the Valley" Fantasy and Science Fiction 116/2 (February 2009) : 5-40