Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Kelly's Woods | "Kelly’s Woods—our picnic grounds" | Time Like a Furrow: Essays. Ames, IA: Iowa State Historical Department. 1981. xi-xii. |
| Liberated by Generosity | "Today was a turning point" | America 146.6 (19 Sept. 1981) 134. |
| Love is Not Earned | "A display of my skills" | Northeast 3.11 (Summer 1981) 5. |
| Mr. Norris and the Civet Cat | "We four boys liked to fish" | Maine Life (Oct.-Nov. 1981) 32. |
| Nag, Nag, Nag All Day | "The buzzing sound in my ears" | Event: Journal of Contemporary Art 10.1 (Summer 1981) 71. |
| Responsibility of Being Young | "All I knew concerned my" | Barnwood 1.3 (Spring 1981). |
| Shy Breeder | "The heifer is in heat but" | Poetry Now 6.1 (1981) 16. |
| Subscription to Salvation | "What do you know," | Wormwood Review 22.1 (1982) 38-9. |
| Survival [1] | "Lightning hit the poplar tree" | Poetry Scope 9 (August 1981) D-10. |
| The Short Run and the Long Pull | "Our fields lay side by side," | Nebraska Review (May 1981) 14. |