Ben Estes lives in Kingston, NY. He is the author of the poetry collections ABC Moonlight and Illustrated Games of Patience (both published by The Song Cave). Ben worked as the editor of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (with Alan Felsenthal); Together & Alone, The Photographs of Karlheinz Weinberger; and the poetry anthology On The Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing.
With Alan Felsenthal, he runs the small literary press The Song Cave, is a painter who has most recently shown his paintings at James Fuentes, Paula Cooper Gallery, and Headstone Gallery, and spends time working in a community ceramics studio in Kingston NY.
Education:
2011- MFA English, Poetry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2008 - MFA Painting, University of Iowa
2007 - MA Art History, University of Iowa
1999 - BFA Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
Selected Press:
The New Yorker
Selected Exhibits: