John Estes directs the Creative Writing Program at Malone University in Canton, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and sons.

Other poems by John Estes in Verse Daily:
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" "Why we resist coming after, coming second, coming late..."

Books by John Estes:

Other poems on the web by John Estes:
"Creamline"
"Round About"
"Last Supper"
"Epithalamium"

John Estes's Website.

About Kingdom Come:

"John Estes’ poems—precise, quizzical, erudite, playful—remind us of the revelatory work wit can do when matched to a sensuous mind."
—Michele Glazer

"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