Aaron Anstett's collections of poetry are SUSTENANCE (New Rivers Press, 1997), No Accident, Each Place the Body's, INSOFAR AS HERETOFORE (The Backwaters Press, 2014), MOREOVER (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2016), PLEASE STATE THE NATURE OF YOUR EMERGENCY (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2017), and THIS WAY TO THE GRAND AS-IS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2020). Among other honors, his work has received the Nebraska Book Award, the Backwaters Press Prize, and the Balcones Poetry Prize, and he has served as a regional poet laureate, instituting a continuing program that places pamphlets of poems by local writers in waiting areas. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Lesley, and children.

“In an era when contemporary poetry sometimes means earnest essays with jagged line margins, Aaron Anstett’s latest collection, Moreover, brings a welcome mix of longing and gladness, leavened by wonder. He is also not afraid to be entertaining. Moreover seems to be part of a larger project to address what, for lack of a better paraphrase, I would call the unruly immensity of experience. Don’t think you have things figured out, it implicitly cautions, because there is always something else....” -- from Charles Holdefer, Entropy Magazine

“What makes Aaron Anstett’s poems unforgettable? Is it the last known photograph of Robert Desnos, in Theresienstadt, 1945? A pigeon feather on pavement? A speaker who asks, ‘Who’s most dumbstruck anything exists?’ No to all of those, I’d say, for what this poet gives us are not just things and their tragedies but moments in which to witness our own gestures toward life, the acts of willed and failed attention that constitute hope -- a hope both breathtaking and fleeting, as the poems unfurl line by line, in a syntax built to mend, then break, then mend again, your heart.” -- Susan Tichy, author of "Trafficke"

"Playfully and profoundly alive to sound and sense, Aaron Anstett presents a world both shaped and shifted by language. Hard, bitter, witty, wise, the poems in this volume confront a landscape of social ruin and bright horizons, where history dissolves into moments and moments resolve in wonder, or anger, or humor. Moreover mesmerizes and is a treasure.” -- Janice Gould, author of "Doubters & Dreamers"

“Aaron Anstett has made a career of the unexpected. We’re called to witness as we have before us the very essence of the spectacle of ourselves ‘in history / like a robbery in progress.’ Anstett’s work in Moreover is both conversationally inviting and completely honest.” -- John Gallaher, author of "In a Landscape"

“With brazen eloquence, Aaron Anstett’s poems continually poke the universe for a sign. Questioning, conjuring, cajoling, entreating, his is a powerful, full-throttle advancing steeped in unflinching grace and stunned luminescence. A language that will not settle.” -- Maureen Owen, author of "Edges of Water"