~ New review from Jay Robinson at The Barn Owl Review : here.
~ Some early blogger reviews of Kingdom Come: by Glynn Young; by Maureen Doallas.
~ For a review copy, write me.
~ A guest blog post to end What is Poetry? month at the Tweetspeak blog.
~ A guest blog post on fasting and The Fast at the Eighth Day Books blog.
99 Poems for the 99 Percent
"The Universe Is Your Country"Verse Daily
"I Foresee the Breaking of All That is Breakable" September 15, 2011Front Porch Journal
"D.H. Lawrence, Painter" and "Clean Me"
Tusculum Review Online
Artist statement:"The one and the many are one and the same"
Poem: "To a young poet, workshopped"
BlazeV0X
"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"Chronogram
“Mantlepiece,” March 2007
CipherJournal
DIAGRAM
99 Poems for the 99 Percent
"The Universe Is Your Country"Verse Daily
"I Foresee the Breaking of All That is Breakable" September 15, 2011St. Katherine’s Review
"Circle (as in) Cycle," Spring 2011
Front Porch Journal
"D.H. Lawrence, Painter" and "Clean Me"
ABZ
"Ode to Dogwood Winter," 2010Poetry Daily
"I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable,"November 28, 2009
Packingtown Review
The Old English Rune Poem (selections), 2010Iron Horse Literary Review
"Stet," 2009The Literary Review
"The male gaze" and "Ora pro nobis," 2010subTerrain
"Marriage and departure, departure and marriage," 2009The Southern Review
"Country matters," 2010Dos Passos Review
"my last fetus," 2009Makeout Creek
"Macculate conception," summer 2009New Orleans Review
"St. Francis reads the Kama Sutra" and "Useful fictions," 2009Plains Song Review
"Emptied term," Spring 2009Copper Nickel
"A list of what is found," "Stray paragraphs, February, year of the rat," and "On this day in 1805," 2009Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems
"A few chemicals mixed together and flesh and blood and bone just fade away!"Tin House
Body World(s)," 2009Cream City Review
"Notes toward an introduction for Charles Simic," 2009AGNI
"I foresee the breaking of all that is breakable," 2009Tusculum Review Online
Artist statement:"The one and the many are one and the same"
Poem: "To a young poet, workshopped"
Kafe Keroac
with The Jack Korbel ConfluenceColumbus, Ohio
Saturday, January 21
9 p.m.
Big Big Mess Reading Series
with Alissa Nutting, Adam Clay,Krysia Orlowski, and Michael Dumanis
Akron, Ohio
Friday, February 3
7 p.m.
House Party!
with The Rough & TumbleCanton, Ohio
Wednesday, March 28
7 p.m.
Visible Voice Books
with Mary BiddingerCleveland, Ohio
Saturday, October 15
8 p.m.
Subterranean Books
With Jennifer KronovetSt. Louis, Missouri
October 20, 2011
7 p.m.
Evangel College
Springfield, MOSomewhere on Campus
Friday October 21
2 p.m.
Eighth Day Books
Wichita, KansasSaturday, October 22
7 p.m.
~ Michele Glazer
Author of On Tact, & the Made Up World
"These are the poems of the perplexed. More specifically, they are the poems of the perplexed but good-humored, the perplexed but well-disposed—an all but forgotten species of intellectual whose lineage includes Chesterton, Orwell, and Lippmann. They are, moreover, poems that treat domestic life—life in common—with due respect, and with intermittent awe."
~ Scott Cairns, Author of Compass of Affection
Winner of a 2008 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America, chosen
by C. K. Williams
“John Estes has a formidable sense of the music of poetry, a command of its resources so certain that he can play and display his verbal gifts with, when he wishes, a headlong dexterity. His poems can also be funny, and sad, as aware of mortality and grief as only the best playful poets can be, and intellectually serious.
“Many of the poems in Swerve are in the tradition of what might be called the domestic sublime, which usually consists of meticulously observed recountings of the mores and morals of individuals in intimate situations, particularly family relations, and their emotional and intellectual repercussions. The aesthetic opportunities of poems in this tradition, from Lowell and Plath to Olds, and reaching back to Coleridge and Wordsworth, pivot on such dramatic observations out into more resonant, philosophical and spiritual awarenesses; there is often a pressing urge for the poetic consciousness to suspend meaning and value between the particular and the general in just the way Estes does so well.” ~ From the Introduction

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"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
Published by Finishing Line Press
