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

| Title | First Line | Original Citation | 
|---|---|---|
| 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.  | 
              
| Stunted Root | "A season without rain, he saw the stalks" | Kansas Quarterly 3 (Summer 1971) 83.  | 
              
| The Farmer's Bride | "Dry weeds wait for snow," | Commonweal (22 Oct. 1971) 85.  | 
              
| The Gardener | "When in the sun and armed with shears" | English Journal 60 (Nov 1971) 1079. | 
| The Hard Sell | "The spangles in his talk glitter" | The Denver Post Roundup (26 Sept 1971) 20. | 
| The Morning Paper | "The morning paper told" | Catalyst (October 1971) 17. |