About John Estes and Meridian

Today's poem is "Forced Analogy"

from Meridian

John Estes directs the Creative Writing Program at Malone University in Canton, Ohio. The author of the collecction Kingdom Come (C&R Press, 2011) and two chapbooks: Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoon (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and Swerve (Poetry Society of America, 2009). He holds a PhD with emphases in poetics and environmental literature from the University of Missouri.
Other poems by John Estes in Verse Daily:
March 27, 2014: "Slow News" "These are momentary sensations, the wild, the windswept...."
September 15, 2011: "I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable" "Perhaps after all it is, merely, a desire..."
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:
"The Cell"
"Retroactive Continuity"
"Spare Myths"
"The Poem As Lifehack"
[At the solstice]
"Creamline"
"Round About"
"Last Supper"
"Epithalamium"
John Estes's Website.
About Meridian:

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Other poems from Meridian in Verse Daily:
July 5, 2007: "Now You See Me" by Elizabeth Bradfield
July 3, 2007: "For My Biographers, Hints of My Lover" by Molly Tenenbaum
February 25, 2007: "No Picnic" by Lisa Russ Spaar
February 24, 2007: "Parts of a Feather" by Matthew Gavin Frank
February 21, 2007: "If I Could Throw My Voice" by Keith Althaus
February 19, 2007: "Sky One" by Nance Van Winckel
July 13, 2006: "The Sign" by Elizabeth Sanger
July 12, 2006: "Domiciliary of the State" by Kevin Barents
July 11, 2006: "Poem Against Poem" by George Moore
February 22, 2006: "If You Cannot Be True" by Hayden Draper
July 1, 2005: "Greenhouse" by Rebecca Givens
June 30, 2005: "Animals" Alison Powell
June 27, 2005: "Tehachapi" St. James Wood
February 10, 2005: "Ecclesiastes" by Susan L. Miller
November 3, 2004: "'Thank You'" by Mia Leonin
June 3, 2004: "The Given" by Lawrence Revard
June 1, 2004: "Oyster Shard" by Sarah M. Brownsberger
May 31, 2004: "Behind the Fear of Flying" by Jason Nemec
February 2, 2004: "An Admonition" by Seamus Heaney
November 11, 2003: "Impossible Garden" by John Isles
July 24, 2003: "from The Decalogue (III)" by Susan Wood
July 22, 2003: "The Runes, the Brute Remedies" by Elton Glaser
January 30, 2003: "Ode on Satan's Power" by Barbara Hamby
September 8, 2002: "Plato and the Fall" by David Young
September 4, 2002: "Blue Colonial" by David Roderick
August 26, 2002: "Improvident Knowledge" by R. T. Smith

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