Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.

| Title | First Line | Original Citation | 
|---|---|---|
| Trials of Ownership | "The title to the land's a piece of paper" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 41.  | 
              
| We All Bear the Mark | "The mark of Cain is hard to spot" | Rendezvous 2 (Winter 1967) 22. | 
| Wren in the Vervain | "Sprung from the sacred verbena family" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 14.  | 
              
| A Way to Measure | "How stupid to try to measure" | Cottonwood Review (1968) unpaged. | 
| After Years Apart | "The town moved on its streets" | Quartet 3 (Summer 1968) 5. | 
| End of April | "A grey sky roofs the morning" | Yankee Magazine (April 1968) 182.  | 
              
| Fear of Renewal | "Snow rotted at the sun's touch," | Chicago Tribune Magazine (1 Dec. 1968) 16.  | 
              
| Fourth of July at Aspen | "The color-striped day" | South Dakota Review 6 (Spring 1968) 50. | 
| Games Are Never Free | "The city park still draws children" | Iowa Arts Council Newsletter 1 (June 1968) 1.  | 
              
| Giant Fear | "The day overwhelmed him with its size," | Cloud Marauder (Sept. 1968). |