- Published Poetry Collections
- West of Your City, Talisman Press, 1960.
- Traveling through the Dark, Harper, 1962.
- The Rescued Year, Harper, 1965.
- Eleven Untitled Poems, Perishable Press, 1968.
- Weather: Poems, Perishable Press, 1969.
- Allegiances, Harper, 1970.
- Temporary Facts, Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
- Poems for Tennessee, (With Robert Bly and William Matthews) Tennessee Poetry Press, 1971.
- In the Clock of Reason, Soft Press, 1973.
- Someday, Maybe, Harper, 1973.
- That Other Alone, Perishable Press, 1973.
- Going Places: Poems, West Coast Poetry Review, 1974.
- The Earth, Graywolf Press, 1974.
- North by West, (With John Meade Haines) edited by Karen Sollid and John Sollid, Spring Rain Press, 1975.
- Braided Apart (With son, Kim Robert Stafford), Confluence, 1976.
- I Would Also Like to Mention Aluminum: Poems and a Conversation, Slow Loris Press, 1976.
- Late, Passing Prairie Farm: A Poem, Main Street Inc., 1976.
- The Design on the Oriole, Night Heron Press, 1977.
- Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, Harper, 1977.
- Smoke's Way (chapbook), Graywolf Press, 1978.
- All about Light, Croissant, 1978.
- A Meeting with Disma Tumminello and William Stafford, edited by Nat Scammacca, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1978.
- Passing a Creche, Sea Pen Press, 1978.
- Tuft by Puff, Perishable Press, 1978.
- Two about Music, Sceptre Press, 1978.
- Tuned in Late One Night, The Deerfield Press, 1978, The Gallery Press, 1978.
- The Quiet of the Land, Nadja Press, 1979.
- Around You, Your Horse & A Catechism, Sceptre Press, 1979.
- Absolution, Martin Booth, 1980.
- Things That Happen When There Aren't Any People, BOA Editions, 1980.
- Passwords, Sea Pen Press, 1980.
- Wyoming Circuit, Tideline Press, 1980.
- Sometimes Like a Legend: Puget Sound Country, Copper Canyon Press, 1981.
- A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems, Harper, 1982.
- Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942–1982, edited by Thom Tammaro, Barnwood, 1983.
- Smoke's Way: Poems, Graywolf, 1983.
- Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry, (With Marvin Bell) David Godine, 1983.
- Listening Deep: Poems (chapbook), Penmaen Press, 1984.
- Stories and Storms and Strangers, Honeybrook Press, 1984.
- Wyoming, Ampersand Press, Roger Williams College, 1985.
- Brother Wind, Honeybrook Press, 1986.
- An Oregon Message, Harper 1987.
- You and Some Other Characters, Honeybrook Press, 1987.
- Annie-Over, (With Marvin Bell) Honeybrook Press, 1988.
- Writing the World, Alembic Press, 1988.
- A Scripture of Leaves, Brethren Press, 1989. Reprinted 1992.
- Fin, Feather, Fur, Honeybrook Press, 1989.
- Kansas Poems of William Stafford, edited by Denise Low, Woodley Press, 1990.
- How to Hold Your Arms When It Rains, Confluence Press, 1991.
- Passwords, HarperPerennial, 1991.
- The Long Sigh the Wind Makes, Adrienne Lee Press, 1991.
- History is Loose Again, Honeybrook Press, 1991.
- The Animal That Drank Up Sound (a children's book, illustrated by Debra Frasier), Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.
- Seeking the Way (with illuminations by Robert Johnson), Melia Press, 1992.
- My Name is William Tell, Confluence Press, 1992.
- Holding Onto the Grass, Honeybrook Press, 1992, reprinted, Weatherlight Press, 1994.
- Who Are You Really Wanderer?, Honeybrook Press, 1993.
- The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, edited and with an introduction by Robert Bly, HarperPerennial, 1993.
- Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford, Harcourt, Brace, & Company, 1994.
- The Methow River Poems, Confluence Press, 1995.
- Even In Quiet Places, Confluence Press, 1996.
- The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems, introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, Graywolf Press, 1998.
- Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937–1947. Graywolf Press, 2008.
- Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford. Graywolf Press, 2013.
- Winterward. Tavern Books, 2013.
- Prose
- Down in My Heart (memoir). Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, 1947. Reprint: Columbia, S.C.: Bench Press, 1985.
- Writing the Australian Crawl. Views on the Writer's Vocation (essays and reviews). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1978.
- You Must Revise Your Life (essays and interviews). Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press, 1986.
- Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War (daily writings, essays, interviews, poems). Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2003.
- The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life (essays and interviews). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
- Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation (essays and interviews). University of Michigan Press, 1998.
- The Osage Orange Tree (fiction short story). Trinity University Press, 2014.
- Translations
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Poems by Ghalib. New York: Hudson Review, 1969. Translated by Stafford, Adrienne Rich and Ajiz Ahmad.
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