Helen Adam and her sister collaborated on a ballad opera entitled "San Francisco's Burning" which was published in 1963 and reissued in 1985 with score by Al Carmines and drawings by Jess. A collection of her poems was collected in a work titled "Selected Poems and Ballads". She was one of only four women whose work was included in Donald Allen's landmark anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960). Adam also appeared in several films: "Flotsum", a 45 minute art film done in San Francisco by her friend, the artist Gary Swartzburg, "Poetry in Motion" by Ron Mann, "Death" and "Our Corpses Speak" by German experimental film maker Rosa von Praunheim.