Books & Chapbooks
- That Inescapable Animal, Pinchpenny Press, Goshen, Indiana, 1974.
- The Earth is One Body, Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1979.
- Good Housekeeping, Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1983.
- Endangered Species, Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1988.
- The Impossible Uprooting, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1995.
- The Fat Lady Struck Dumb, Brick Books, London, 2000.
- The Complete Tante Tina: Mennonite Blues and Recipes, Pandora Press, Kitchener,2004.
- One foot in heaven, Regina : Coteau Books, 2005.
- Fear of landing, Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2007.
Poems in Anthologies
- Six Days, Wedge Publishing, Toronto, 1971 & 1973.
- Making Eden Grow, Scripture Union, London, England, 1974.
- Draft, Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1979.
- The Maple Laugh Forever, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1981.
- The Country of the Risen King, Baker Book House, Grande Rapids, Mi., 1978.
- Harvest, Centennial Committee of the Mennonite Historical Society, Winnipeg, 1974.
- Number One Northern, Coteau Books, Moose Jaw, Sask., 1977.
- A Sense of Place, Alberta Education, 1979.
- The Best of Grain, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, 1980.
- Three Mennonite Poets, (with Jean Janzen and Yorifume Yaguchi) Good Books, Pennsylvania, 1988.
- In Newer Veins: an anthology of poetry written by veterinary surgeons,. AR Michell and E. Boden eds., with a forward by HRH The Princess Royal (Anne), Primrose Hill Press, London, 1998.
- A Cappella, ed. Ann Hostetler, Iowa State University Press, 2003.
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