News:
~ Reading period for Center 8 is now open.
~ Center 7 is out; read excerpts here; whole thing is $7; read a review at NewPages.
~ Center poems featured on Verse Daily: John Thomas' "Nostalgeurism" and Jett McAlister's "Elegy"
In Posse Review
"FAQ" and "According to Nixon's advisor," Fall 2008Valparaiso Review
"Round about," Fall 2008BlazeV0X
"He leads the way for his sons to follow," "Nothing the matter with the instrument; it's the body.," and "Tripping the plexal chakra," Spring 2008Ars Interpres
Literary Imagination
”Symptomatic, asymptotic” and
”Now Playing: Saddam Hussein as Thane of Cawdor,” Fall 2007
DIAGRAM
"C-section"Not Just Air 7
"Funeral games," Fall 2007
Not Just Air 6
Chronogram
“Mantlepiece,” March 2007
CipherJournal
DIAGRAM
Not Just Air 5
"Saving the day" and "Event horizon"Chaffin Journal
"This poem is carbon neutral," 2008A Handsome Journal
“My son, two, who wakes in our bed and screams in terror if we’re not there because he thinks we have betrayed and/or abandoned him,” “Source code,” and “Carrying capacity,” 2008Caveat Lector
"Drag coefficient"Laurel Review
"Churn rate" and "Stop-motion still life," Fall 2008Fox Cry Review
"Separated from his natural condition by tools of his own making," Fall 2008In Posse Review
"FAQ" and "According to Nixon's advisor," Fall 2008Interim
"Algorithm," 2009If
"It's always afternoon in the long shadows" and "My initiation into poetry," Summer 2008Valparaiso Review
"Round about," Fall 2008Mochila Review
"Birth class" and "Next door anchorite," Summer 2008LIT
"On the 898 to New York, via Atlanta," Spring 2008(AWP contest selection)
West Branch
"Year: two," 2008MARGIE
"These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us," Fall 2008Dash Literary Journal
"Legacy," Spring 2008GW Review
"3-season room" and "High fidelity," Spring 2008Cooweescoowee
"State of the art," Fall 2008BlazeV0X
"He leads the way for his sons to follow," "Nothing the matter with the instrument; it's the body.," and "Tripping the plexal chakra," Spring 2008The Journal
"Genealogy," Fall 2008Hampden-Sydney Review
"A world made as real as it is," Fall 2008American Poetry Journal
"Object permanence," 2008Another Chicago Magazine
"The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination," 2008Caesura
"Live and find out who you are," "The existence of the world is a controversy" and "To my sperm, nightswimming," Spring 2008Book Signing at AWP
Finishing Line Books TableNew York City
January 31, 10-11 a.m.
Orr Street Studios
Columbia, MissouriNovember 27, 2007
Eighth Day Books
Wichita, KansasNovember 24, 2007
Ragtag Reading Series
Columbia, Missouri
October 2, 5:30 p.m.
About the Book
Runner up, 2007 Brushfire Chapbook Award, judged by Ilya Kaminsky"Fathers—biological, spiritual, aesthetic—and sons populate these complex, allusive, sharply crafted, and probing poems. In them Estes asks nothing less than: For what do we live and for what are we willing to die? Their satisfying mix of high and low dictions, the mythic and familiar, the sacred and sexy re-invigorates these age-old questions—and, appropriately, it is Sappho who provides the age-old answer, which is: Desire." --Kathy Fagan
"These are the texts of a lost literacy. These poems make me want to weep." --Joseph Duemer