News:
~ Eating Her Wedding Dress, an anthology of poems on clothes, is now available.
~ Thanks to the Tusculum Review for making me the first featured artist at their new website.
~ "My initiation into poetry" nominated for a Pushcart Prize by If Poetry Journal
~ Swerve chosen by C.K. Williams for a PSA National Chapbook Fellowship (now available)
Tusculum Review Online
Artist statement:"The one and the many are one and the same"
Poem: "To a young poet, workshopped"
In Posse Review
"FAQ" and "According to Nixon's advisor," 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"Dos 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!"Cream 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"
inscape
"Purpose-built from household objects," "A ticket to Obiralovka," and the essay "A space for the marvelous and the murderous," 2009The Portland Review
"A kind of retinal registration," 2009The Tusculum Review
"School of prophets," "Shanti Shanti Shanti" and "Tourism superorganic," 2009Packingtown Review
"Resolution," Fall 2008Ecopoetics
"Mantlepiece," and "Pop goes the agitprop," Fall 2008Chaffin 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,” 2008Laurel 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 2008Mochila Review
"Birth class" and "Next door anchorite," Summer 2008Purchase College
White Plains, NYTuesday, April 28, 12 p.m.
Poetry Society of America
The New SchoolNew York City
April 28, 2009
Orr Street Studios
Columbia, MissouriMay 5, 2009, 7 p.m.
Book Signing at AWP
Finishing Line Books TableNew York City
January 31, 10-11 a.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