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 2008

Valparaiso Review

"Round about," Fall 2008

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 2008

Merge

"Reverse polarity" and "Object reference not set to instance of an object," Spring 2008

In Posse Review

"To Byron and Floretia, who had our phone number before us," Spring 2008

Yalobusha Review

Against Perfection:
Review of Donald Revell's A Thief of Strings

Two Hawks Quarterly

"Rooster Rock" and "Last Supper," Winter 2008

Terrain.org

"Creamline," Summer 2008

Return

"And there was much rejoicing," Fall 2007

Ars Interpres

“What can turn us from this deserted future,” Fall 2007

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

“The fish turned toward shore”

Chronogram

“Mantlepiece,” March 2007

CipherJournal

Three Versions

DIAGRAM

“Epithalamium”

Not Just Air 5

"Saving the day" and "Event horizon"

Chaffin Journal

"This poem is carbon neutral," 2008

A 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,” 2008

Caveat Lector

"Drag coefficient"

Laurel Review

"Churn rate" and "Stop-motion still life," Fall 2008

Fox Cry Review

"Separated from his natural condition by tools of his own making," Fall 2008

In Posse Review

"FAQ" and "According to Nixon's advisor," Fall 2008

Interim

"Algorithm," 2009

If

"It's always afternoon in the long shadows" and "My initiation into poetry," Summer 2008

Valparaiso Review

"Round about," Fall 2008

Mochila Review

"Birth class" and "Next door anchorite," Summer 2008

LIT

"On the 898 to New York, via Atlanta," Spring 2008
(AWP contest selection)

West Branch

"Year: two," 2008

MARGIE

"These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us," Fall 2008

Dash Literary Journal

"Legacy," Spring 2008

GW Review

"3-season room" and "High fidelity," Spring 2008

Cooweescoowee

"State of the art," Fall 2008

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 2008

Merge

"Reverse polarity" and "Object reference not set to instance of an object," Spring 2008

In Posse Review

"To Byron and Floretia, who had our phone number before us," Spring 2008

The Journal

"Genealogy," Fall 2008

Hampden-Sydney Review

"A world made as real as it is," Fall 2008

American Poetry Journal

"Object permanence," 2008

Yalobusha Review

Against Perfection:
Review of Donald Revell's A Thief of Strings

Another Chicago Magazine

"The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination," 2008

Caesura

"Live and find out who you are," "The existence of the world is a controversy" and "To my sperm, nightswimming," Spring 2008

Book Signing at AWP

Finishing Line Books Table
New York City
January 31, 10-11 a.m.

Orr Street Studios

Columbia, Missouri
November 27, 2007

Eighth Day Books

Wichita, Kansas
November 24, 2007

Ragtag Reading Series

Columbia, Missouri
October 2, 5:30 p.m.

Published by Finishing Line Press

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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

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