Michael Steven Harper was an American poet and English professor at Brown University, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. His poetry was influenced by jazz and history.

Chant of Saints
1979
ISBN 9780252007118
Use Trouble
2009
ISBN 9780252091476
The Vintage book of African American poetry
2000
ISBN 9780375703003
Debridement
1973
ISBN 9780385004817
Images of kin
1977
ISBN 9780252006067
Selected poems
2002
ISBN 9781900072243
Dear John, dear Coltrane
1970
ISBN 9780822931966
History is your own heartbeat
1971
ISBN 0252001441
Photographs: negatives: history as apple tree
1972
ISBN 9780912962009
Song: I want a witness
1972
ISBN 9780822932543
Nightmare begins responsibility
1974
ISBN 9780252004667
Healing song for the inner ear
1985
ISBN 9780252011283
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep
1994
ISBN 9780316347129
Honorable amendments
1995
ISBN 9780252065149
Songlines in Michaeltree
2000
ISBN 9780252071058
Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
2020
ISBN 9780810142381Works in Progress Number 7
1972