Poverty Creek Journal: Lyric Essays, by Thomas Gardner, Tupelo Press(2014), ISBN: 978-1-936797-50-9

John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination, by John Gardner, Baylor University Press (July 15, 2011), 236pp., ISBN-13: 978-1602583153

A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson, by Thomas Gardner, Oxford University Press (August 17, 2006), 270pp., ISBN-13: 978-0195174939

Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry, by Thomas Gardner, University of Nebraska Press (December 1, 1999), 315pp., ISBN-13: 978-0803221765

Discovering Ourselves in Whitman: The Contemporary American Long Poem, by Thomas Gardner, University of Illinois Press; 1st Printing edition (October 1, 1989), 208pp., ISBN-13: 978-0252016301