Books
* Felix of the Silent Forest (poetry), Poets Press, 1967.
* (Editor) Umbra Anthology 1967-1968, Society of Umbra, 1968.
* De Mayor of Harlem (poetry), Dutton, 1970; North Atlantic Books, 1985.
* (Editor) Umbra/Latin Soul 1974-1975, Society of Umbra, 1975.
* Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age, Doubleday, 1978; condensed and revised as 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix, Bantam, 1981; revised and reissued, Omnibus, 2003.
* The Low East, North Atlantic Books, 1980.
* Neo-California, North Atlantic Books, 1998.
Anthologies
* New Negro Poets: USA, Indiana University Press, 1964.
* Where Is Vietnam? American Poets Respond, Anchor/Doubleday, 1967.
* Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, Morrow, 1968.
* The World Anthology: Poems from the Saint Mark's Poetry Project, Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
* Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970, Doubleday, 1970.
* Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems. Simon & Schuster, 1973.
* Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry & Prose (includes "Sonny Rollins," "A Coltrane Memorial," "Thelonious Sphere Monk"), Coffee House Press, 1993.
* Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry, Signet, 1997.
Recordings
* New Jazz Poets, Broadside, 1967.
* Black Poets IV, Pacifica Tape Library, 1973.
* Poems: Selections, Library of Congress, 1978.
* (With Sun Ra) "Love in Outer Space," The Singles, Evidence, 1996.
* (With Ornette Coleman) The Complete Science Fiction Sessions, Columbia/Legacy, 2000.
Other
* Color: A Sampling of Contemporary African American Writers (videorecording), The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco State University, 1994.
* "Seven Poems from Neo-California," Poetry.About.com, www.poetry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.cyberpoems.com/henderson.html.
Further Reading
Books
* Cole, Terry Joseph, "David Henderson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 41, Gale Group, 1985, pp. 166-71.
Periodicals
* African American Review, Winter 1993, pp. 579-84.
On-line
* "David Henderson," Biography Resource Center, www.galenet.galegroup.com/servlet.BioRC (May 12, 2005).
* "A Poets Consensus," Public Art Forum: zumThema! www.public-art.de/forum/poetcons.html (June 23, 2005).
Other
* Additional information for this profile was obtained through an interview with David Henderson on June 21, 2005.