Sophie Cabot Black has four poetry collections: The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award, The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award, and The Exchange which received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly. NPR labels her a "poet's poet" and Billy Collins calls her voice "fresh and daring". Her newest collection,  Geometry of the Restless Herd, is out May of 2024. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.