Collections

• Songs of Jamaica (1912)
• Constab Ballads (1912) (transcription project)
• Spring in New Hampshire, and Other Poems (1920) (transcription project)
• America (1921)
• Harlem Shadows (1922)
• The Selected Poems of Claude McKay (1953)

Individual poems

• "If We Must Die" (1919)
• "Travail" (1920)
• "After the Winter"
• In The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson

"The Lynching"

"If We Must Die"

"To the White Fiends"

"The Harlem Dancer"

"Harlem Shadows"

"After the Winter"

"Spring in New Hampshire"

"The Tired Worker"

"The Barrier"

"To O. E. A."

"Flame-Heart"

"Two-an'-Six"

Articles

Workers' Dreadnought

• “Socialism and the Negro”, 31 January 31 1920 , p.1-2
• “The Capitalist Way: Lettow-Vorbeck”, 7 February 1920, p.6
• “A Black Man Replies”, 24 April 1920, p.2
• “Review of Creative Revolution”, 24 July 1920, p.5
• “Review of First Principles of Working Class Education”, 11 September, 1920, p.5
• “Communists and Local Councils of Action”, 25 September, 1920, p.6
• “The Revolution in Currency”, 2 October, 1920, p.
• “The Yellow Peril and the Dockers”, 16 October 1920

The Liberator

• “How Black Sees Green and Red”, Vol. 4 No. 6, June 1921

Other

• A Long Way from Home (1937)
• Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940)
• My Green Hills of Jamaica (1946)