Books and Chapbooks

Luminous Dream, Cave Spring, GA: FutureCycle Press, 2010.
Mount Toby Poems, Fulton, MO: Timberline Press, 2009.
The Silence Between Us: The Selected Haiku of Wally Swist, Decatur, IL: Brooks Books, 2005.
Veils of the Divine, Newtown, CT: Hanover Press, 2003.
The White Rose, Fulton, MO: Timberline Press, 2000.
The New Life, West Hartford, CT: Plinth Books, 1998.
The Mown Meadow: First Selected Haiku and Sequences, 1977-1994, San Diego, CA: Los Hombres Press, 1996.
Train Whistle, Aylmer, Quebec, Canada: Proof Press, 1996.
Blowing Reeds, Fulton, MO: Timberline Press, 1995.
For the Dance, Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1991.
The Gristmill’s Trough, Richland Center, WI: Hummingbird Press, 1991.
Sugaring Buckets, Battle Ground, IN: High/Coo Press, 1989.
Unmarked Stones, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada: Burnt Lake Press, 1988.
Chimney Smoke, La Crosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1988.
Waking Up the Ducks, Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1987.
Of What We’re Given, Guilford, CT: Dunk Rock Books, 1980.
New Haven Poems, Hamden, CT: Connecticut Fireside Press, 1977.

Scholarly Monograph

The Friendship of Two New England Poets, Robert Frost and Robert Francis: A Lecture Presented at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hamphsire, Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

Anthology Appearances

What's Nature Got to Do with Me?: Staying Wildly Sane in a Mad World, Prescott, AZ: Native West Press, 2011.
Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in English-Language Haiku, Ormskirk, UK: Snapshot Press, 2010.
Solace in So Many Words, Glenview, IL: Hourglass Books/Weighed Words LLC, 2010.
The Light in Ordinary Things, Berkeley, CA: Fearless Books, 2009.
From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright, Duluth, MN: Lost Hills Books, 2008.
Terebess Asia Online, Budapest, Hungary: Terebess Asia Online [TAO], 2008.
Haiku schreiben: Einfuhrung in die Kunst den Augenblick in Worte zu fassen, Lonnie Hill DuPont, Editor, Hamburg, Germany: Haiku Verlag, 2004.
Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage, Ginny Lowe Connors, Editor, Hartford, CT: Grayson Books, 2003.
The Duchess of Malfi’s Apricots and Other Literary Fruits, Robert Palter, Editor, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Haiku: Ancient and Modern, Jackie Hardy, Editor, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle & Company, Inc., 2002.
Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, Wendy Maltz, Editor, Foreword by Thomas Moore, Novato, CA: New World Library, 2001.
Stories from Where We Live: The North Atlantic Coast, Sara St. Antoine, Editor, Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2000.
The Haiku Anthology, Cor van den Heuvel, Editor, New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999.
Haiku sans frontieres, Andre Duhaime, Editor and Translator, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Les Editions David, 1998.
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor Book Company, 1997.
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, William Higginson, Editor, Tokyo, Japan & New York, NY: Kodansha International, 1996.
Place of the Long River: A Connecticut River Anthology of Poetry and Prose with Views from the Source to the Sound, Jim Lee, Editor and Master Printer, Glastonbury, CT: Blue Moon Press, 1995.
A Haiku Path: The Haiku Society of America, 1968-1988, HSA Twentieth Anniversary Book Committee, New York, NY: Haiku Society of America, 1994.
Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku, Bruce Ross, Editor, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle & Company, Inc., 1993.
Five Connecticut Poets: Joseph Payne Brennan, Gerene Freeman, Richard Geller, Robert Shaw, and Wally Swist, Albert Calhan, Editor, Hamden, CT: Connecticut Fireside Press, 1975.

Broadsides

“To Psyche," Northampton, MA: Drive-By Poets, 2008.
“Putting Up the Mailbox,” Fulton, MO: Timberline Press, 2007.
“The Energy Level,” Northampton, CT: Drive-By Poets, 2005.
“Heron,” Hartford, CT: Hartford Public Library, 2003.
“Accompaniment,” Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 2003.
“In You,” Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle Press, 1995.
“old man sweeping” [3 Haiku], Richmond, MA: Mad River Press, 1988.

Essays

The Friendship of Robert Frost and Robert Francis: High-pressure Weather and Country Air (Puckerbrush Press, Constance Hunting, Editor, Orono, ME: Puckerbrush Review, xxi, ii, Winter/Spring 2003).
Mountain by John Wills (Raw Nervz Haiku, Dorothy Howard, Editor, Ayler, Quebec, Canada: Proof Press, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1998).
The Conclusion of the Grail Legend, Trout Fishing, and the Art of Writing Haiku Poetry (Ocolind iazul/Round the Pond, Antologie de/An Anthology by Ion Codrescu, Constanta, Romania, Editura Muntenia, 1994.)
Tuning Fork on the Sidewalk of Dreams: Bert Meyers's The Wild Olive Tree & The Blue Cafe (Praises, Richard Jones, Editor, Chicago, IL: Poetry East, Number Thirty-Four, Fall 1992.)