An expanded edition of his first book was published in April 2012[4] by Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
[2] In 2015, Bad Angels (Nine Mile Press) was published, and is, among other things, a poetic look at the years Pereira was a student in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
In December, 2020, Nine Mile Press published Pereira's newest collection of poems, True North and Untrue You, which is his seventh book.
Work of his has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry in recent decades, among them: Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets (Silver Skates, 1987), The Body Electric (W. W. Norton, 2000), and How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (Heyday/Roundhouse Press, 2001).
[2] Pereira was a Language Arts Teacher at Los Banos Junior High School until he retired in 2019.