Angie Estes

Angie Estes is an American poet, and Professor Emerirta, California Polytechnic State University

She graduated from the University of Oregon with an M.A. and Ph.D. in English. She taught at California Polytechnic State University, Oberlin College, and Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly.

Awards

• James Merrill House Residency 2023
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2015
• Audre Lorde Award 2014
• Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010
• Pushcart Prize
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship
• California Arts Council Fellowship
• MacDowell Colony residency
• Ohio Arts Council grant
• 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize
• 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize, from the Poetry Society of America
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Poetry

• The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems 1995-2025, Unbound Edition Press, 2026
• The Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, Unbound Edition Press, 2025
• Parole, Oberlin College Press, 2018
• Enchantée, Oberlin College Press, 2015
• Tryst, Oberlin College Press, 2009,
• Chez Nous, Oberlin College Press, 2005,
• Voice-Over, Oberlin College Press, 2002,
• The Uses of Passion, Gibbs Smith, 1995

Anthologies

• "Kind of Blue", Cap City Poets, Pudding House Publications, 2008,
• "Now and Again: The Autobiography of Basket", The Extraordinary Tide, Columbia University Press, 2001,
• "Nocturne"; Serenade", Geography of Home, Heyday Books, 1999,
• Queer Dog, Cleis Press, 1997,

References

External links

• Author's website
• "Something like truth: an interview with Angie Estes", Smile Politely, Caleb Curtiss, March 2, 2010