- Songs for Certain Children (1947) San Francisco: Centaur Press
- The Playground (1949) San Francisco: Centaur Press
- Musical Chairs (1950) San Francisco: Centaur Press
- An Almanac for Amorists (1955) Paris: Collection Merlin
- True & False Unicorn (1957) New York: Grove Press
- The Right Playmate (1964) San Francisco: Pearce & Bennett
- Tidings (1965) San Francisco: Pterodactyl Press
- High Kukus (1969) New York: Jargon Society
- A Long Undressing (1971) New York: Jargon Society
- Seeing the Light (1977) republished as Making Light of It (1992) San Francisco: City Lights Books
- Odes for Odd Occasions (1977) San Francisco: Manroot Press
- The Androgyne Journal (1977) Oakland, CA: Scrimshaw Press
- Hymns to Hermes (1979) San Francisco: Manroot Press
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- Graffiti for the Johns of Heaven (1982) Mill Valley, CA: Syzygy Press
- Ecstasies (1983) Mill Valley, CA: Syzygy Press
- A to Z: 26 Sermonettes (1986) Mill Valley, CA: Syzygy Press
- Hooplas (1988) San Francisco: Pennywhistle Press
- 75 Life Lines (1988) Winston-Salem, NC: Jargon Society
- Special Deliveries: Selected Poems (1990) Seattle, WA: Broken Moon Press
- Coming Unbuttoned (1993) San Francisco: City Lights Press
- Little Sermons of the Big Joy (1994) Philadelphia, PA: Insight to Riot Press
- Little Prayers to Big Joy's Mother (1995) Port Townsend, WA: Syzygy Press
- Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 (1997) Santa Barbara, CA & Ann Arbor, MI: Black Sparrow Press
- ALL: A James Broughton Reader (2007) edited by Jack Foley, Brooklyn, NY: White Crane Books
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