John Estes lives in Canton, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at Malone University. He is the author of "Kingdom Come" (C&R Press, 2011) and two chapbooks: "Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön" (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and "Swerve" (Poetry Society of America, 2009), which won a National Chapbook Fellowship. See more of his work at his website: johnestes.org.
John Estes asks what it takes to write real poetry during a century in which “the poet’s voice is just one bit of a live feed refreshing into eternity”