Are We Not Men? (stories). New York: Arcade Publishing,1996.

The Lost Son (novel). New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995.

STORIES

"The True History," Prairie Schooner, Summer 2006.

"The Tyrant's Tales," McSweeney's" (online), January 29, 2004. ( http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/1/29spencer.html)

"Class Report" and "Down in the Jungle Room" (short-shorts), Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Minuscule Fiction. Mammoth Press, Spring 2003.

"Down in the Jungle Room" (short story), Epoch, 51:2, Fall 2002.

"Pie Night," Glimmer Train Stories, Summer 1999.

"This Is the Last of the Nice." GQ, August 1996.

"All I Ever Wanted." Antioch Review, Spring 1995.

"Babyman." Missouri Review, XV, 3, Winter 1992.

"Haven't You Ever Seen Cary Grant?" American Literary Review, Fall 1991.

"The Hazards of Poetry." Stanford Magazine, March 1991.

"The Small Things That Save Us." The Atlantic, October 1984.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

“Mystery Ways,” River Teeth, 11.1, Fall 2009.

"Red-Eyed Dog," Witness, XiX, 2005, pp. 26-39.

"Tough," River Teeth, Fall 2004, pp. 41-53.

"Simple Pleasures." The Sun, Winter 1980.

"Home." The Sun, Summer 1979.

POEMS

"Woman Trades Child for Sportscar." Hurãkan, Winter 1995.

"Fishermen at Mori Point." Midland Review, #6, Spring 1990.

"Christmas Cards on Catherine Street." Intro 13, 1982.

"Terrorist Poem," "Some Postcards." Arachne, Summer 1981.

"Inventor," "Poultry Disease." Dekalb Journal, Winter 1980.

"Farm Ceremony," "Deserted by Bulbs." US 1 Worksheets, Nov 1979.

"Old Hills in Pennsylvania." Poet and Critic, Fall 1979.

"Two Lancaster Poems." Poet and Critic, Fall 1979.

"An Epic Poem for Mr. Pope." King James Review, Spring 1973.

ARTICLES

"On Shattered Wings," Creighton Magazine, November 2001.

"WebCT and Me." Information Technology Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 3, Feb 1998.

"Ten Things Dialogue Should and Shouldn't Do." Writer's Digest. February 1998.

"Old-Fashioned Things." Nebraska Nightly, Nebraska Public Radio, November 8, 1995.

"Hollywood in the Heartland." Nebraska Nightly, Nebraska Public Radio, May 16, 1995.

"Inside the Programs: Iowa." AWP Newsletter. November 1983.

"Poetry and the Centered Life." Stony Hills, #11, 1982.

"The Country of Donald Hall." Poet and Critic, Spring 1982.

"The Poem of Personality Once More." Kayak, Spring 1982.

Interview with Poet Donald Hall. WVIA-FM, Wilkes-Barre, 1980.

Book Reviews. Living Digital, 1995.

Book Reviews. San Francisco Chronicle. 1985-1988.

Book Reviews. Rural Review Project, CCLM, 1978-79.

"The Country Is Not Frightening." Aspen Anthology, Fall 1976.

ANTHOLOGIES

"Tough," reprinted in 10th anniversary issue of River Teeth, The River Teeth Reader. University of Nebraska P, 2008.

"The True History" selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories, Ed. Carl Hiaasen. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

"Storyboard Your Story" (essay). Now Write!. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006.

"Fishermen at Mori Point" and "Boy Raised by Wolves" (poems), Palpable Clock. University of Scranton Press, 2004.

"Class Report" and "Down in the Jungle Room" (short-short), Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Minuscule Fiction. Mammoth Press, Spring 2003.

"Pie Night," A Different Plain. University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

"The Small Things That Save Us" (published as "Night, Sleep, Death, and the Stars"). The Uncommon Touch. Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Association, 1989.

"The Small Things That Save Us." The Editors' Choice. New York: Wampeter/Bantam, 1986.