Poetry
- Homecoming, Broadside Press, 1969
- We a Baddddd People (1970), Broadside Press, 1973
- Love Poems, Third Press, 1973
- A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman, Broadside Press, 1974
- Autumn Blues: New Poems, Africa World Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0865432086
- Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry, 1994, ISBN 978-0865432123
- Shake Down Memory: A Collection of Political Essays and Speeches, Africa World Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0865432116
- It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs (1971)
- Homegirls and Handgrenades (1985) (reprint White Pine Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-893996-80-9)
- Under a Soprano Sky, Africa World Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-86543-052-5
- I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems, Third World Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-88378-112-8
- Wounded in the House of a Friend, Beacon Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8070-6826-7
- Does Your House Have Lions?, Beacon Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8070-6830-4
- Like the Singing Coming Off of Drums, Beacon Press, 1998
- Shake Loose My Skin. Beacon Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8070-6853-3.
- Ash (2001)
- Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (2001)
- Morning Haiku. Beacon Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8070-6910-3. morning haiku.
- Collected Poems (2021)
Plays
- Black Cats and Uneasy Landings (1995)
- I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't (1982)
- The Bronx is Next (1970)
- Sista Son/Ji (1972)
- Uh Huh, But How Do It Free Us? (1975)
- Malcolm Man/Don't Live Here No More (1979)
- I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays (Duke University Press, 2010)
Short-story collections
- A Sound Investment and Other Stories (1979)
Children's books
- It's a New Day (1971)
- A Sound Investment
- The Adventures of Fat Head, Small Head, and Square Head, The Third Press, 1973, ISBN 978-0-89388-094-1
Anthologies
- (Editor) We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans (1974)
- (Editor) 360 Degrees of Blackness Coming at You! (1999)
- (Contributor) Margaret Busby, ed. (1992), Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present.
- (Contributor) Robert Bly; David Lehman, eds. (1999). The Best American Poetry, 1999. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-84280-6.
- (Contributor) Junot Díaz, ed. (2001). "A Poem for My Father". The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6239-5.
- (Contributor) Arnold Rampersad; Hilary Herbold, eds. (2006). "answer to yo / question of am i not yo / woman even if you went on shit again". The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512563-4.
Interviews
- Joyce Ann Joyce, ed. (2007). Conversations with Sonia Sanchez. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-952-1.
