In drama and fiction, he wrote five plays and cowrote the novel A Nest of Ninnies with James Schuyler.

Many of his works of poetry, prose, drama, and translations have been compiled in volumes of collected writings.

Asbery wrote numerous journalistic articles—mostly art criticism—in the International Herald Tribune, New York magazine, Newsweek, and other periodicals.

There has been one book-length interview published to date: John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford.

In 1976, Ashbery's partner David Kermani published a comprehensive 244-page bibliography compiling the author's then-published works.