- Beowulf to Beatles: Approaches to Poetry
- Beowulf to Beatles and Beyond: The Varieties of Poetry
- A Generation in Motion: Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties (online edition available)
- Late Harvest: Recent Rural American Writing
- Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People
- UBO3: A Season in Outer Mongolia
- Hallelujah Anyway
- A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town
- The Father Poems
- Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place
- Song of the North Country: A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan
- The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories
- Crying in the Wilderness: Essays Public and Personal
- Here I Stand: The Education of David Pichaske
- Bones of Bricks and Mortar