The First Cities. New York, NY: Poets Press, 1968.
Cables to Rage. London, UK: Paul Breman, 1970.
From a Land Where Other People Live. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973.
New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1975.
Coal. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1976.
Between Our Selves. Point Reyes, CA: Eidolon Editions, 1976.
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
The Black Unicorn: Poems. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1978.
The Black Unicorn: Poems. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1995, 1978.
The Cancer Journals. Argyle, NY: Spinsters, Ink, 1980.
Zami, a new spelling of my name. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.
Zami, a new spelling of my name. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. London, UK: Pandora, 1996, 1982.
Chosen Poems, Old and New. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1982.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY : Crossing Press, 1984.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007.
I Am Your Sister: Black women organizing across sexualities. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1985.
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1986.
Apartheid U.S.A./Freedom Organizing in the Eighties. With Merle Woo. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1986
A Burst of Light: Essays. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.
Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, 1990.
Undersong: Chosen Poems, Old and New. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1992.
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1993.
Zami; Sister outsider; Undersong. New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993.
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1997.
The Cancer Journals. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1997.
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde. Byrd, Rudolph P, Johnnetta B. Cole, and others. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.