Poetry Collections:
* The Long Home (1990)
* The River of Heaven (1995)
* The Night Brothers (2002)
* Every Riven Thing (2008) - Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
* The Long Home (2010) - A revised and expanded version of his first collection
* Hammering on the Door of Heaven (2017) - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Essays and Prose:
* My Bright Abyss: Meditation on a Dark Subject (2013) - A deeply personal and introspective exploration of faith, suffering, and the nature of darkness.
Other Works:
* The Open Door: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (co-edited with David Dodd Lee, 1998)
* A Primer of Poetry (co-authored with David Dodd Lee, 2000)
His work is characterized by its intellectual depth, emotional honesty, and exploration of faith, doubt, and the human condition. Wiman's poems and essays often grapple with difficult questions of suffering, loss, and the search for meaning in a seemingly indifferent universe.
He is also a distinguished professor of English at Yale University, and his work has been widely praised by critics and fellow poets.