Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Sounds around a Man | "It's late, late in the year" | Wisconsin Review 6 (Fall 1970) 21. |
| Stormbound | "Whipped by the blizzard I fled" | New York Times (9 April 1970) 40. |
| The Blame | "It is difficult to explain" | Kansas Quarterly 3 (Winter 1970-1971) 18. |
| The Day of the Hawk | "I went to the city" | Aspen Times (27 Aug. 1970) 13b. |
| The Face of Things | "The creek retreats from flood rage" | Virginia Quarterly Review 46 (Autumn 1970) 595. |
| The Farmstead | "The farmstead lies in the angle" | Apple 4 (Autumn 1970) 21. |
| The Smile | "You smiled and waved as you drove" | Ladies Home Journal (June 1970) 114. |
| To a Loquacious Friend | "Either you bleat like a moth-eaten" | Iowa State Liquor Store 2 (Winter 1970) 22. |
| To Run or Sit | "Today, he said, the sky bends down" | The Back Door 1 (1970) 40. |
| Vacations | "What do people do for vacations" | Aspen Times (July 1970). |
| What Wind | "crept in to slam the door" | Prairie Schooner 44 (Spring 1970) 43. |
| Bitter Taste | "I ate the sour grapes and tried" | Kansas Quarterly 3 (Summer 1971) 84. |
| Caveat Emptor | "I meant to take a quiet walk" | Inserat Groteski 10 (Jan 1971) 33. |
| Comfort in an Old Tune | "The fields echo an old tune" | Pebble: A Magazine of Poetry (Summer 1971). |
| Every Teacher Has One | "This morning I cleaned out" | English Journal 60 (March 1971) 358. |
| Order in the Grove | "The small grove has been let go," | South Dakota Review 9 (August 1971) 81. |
| Out of Season | "Half of the elms along the street looked dead," | Pebble: A Magazine of Poetry (Summer 1971). |
| Poverty | "The field of clover sowed last fall" | Kansas Quarterly 3 (Summer 1971) 84. |
| Pressed Flowers | "The flowers we picked last summer" | Nimrod 16 (Fall-Winter 1971) 13. |
| Pride in Love | "The neighbors laugh up their sleeve" | Poet Lore 66 (Summer 1971) 191. |
| Queer People | "Queer people eat soup" | Erebus Rising 4 (1971). |
| Reflection in a Dimestore Window | "It’s not that men are never" | Poet Lore 66 (Summer 1971) 192. |
| Seventh Grade | "The scrubbed question marks" | The English Journal 60.4 (April 1971) 454. |
| Sharers | "You grieved so for a rosebush" | Ladies Home Journal (Nov. 1971) 191. |
| Spring Rites | "We celebrate the rites of spring" | New York Times (28 March 1971) Sec.4.14. |