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:

McSweeney’s

Bomb Magazine

Poetry Society of America

Gasher

The New Yorker

Aquarium Drunkard

Poetry Foundation

Aperture

Elephant

Brooklyn Rail

Selected Exhibits:

Paula Cooper

Situations

Headstone

Bad Water

James Fuentes

Kobo Chika

Dia Beacon

Dia Beacon (video)