John Estes directs the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Previous books include KINGDOM COME (C&R Press, 2011) and Swerve, which won a National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America.
Poetry. "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 Lippm...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. John Gallagher had this to say about it: "In John Estes's SURE EXTINCTION, everything is up for grabs. It starts out with the inscription 'A hymn to fate,' and it's a particularly open ...