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	SUBMISSION

	GUIDELINES

	CA	LL	We invite submission for forthcoming issues of Able Muse.
	WH	AT	Able Muse exclusively publishes formal poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical poetry. We are looking for well-crafted poems of any length or subject that employ skillful and imaginative use of meter and rhyme, executed in a contemporary idiom, that reads as naturally as your free verse poems. All forms of formal poetry are welcome. For an example of what we're interested in, check the poetry of Philip Larkin, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht.... Able Muse seeks to publish established as well as new voices. We read everything and publish only the best. Send your best! Send only previously unpublished poems. No simultaneous submissions, please. Contributions that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in Able Muse, unless a cross-publishing arrangement has previously been negotiated.
	LIM	ITS	Send 1 to 5 poems and a brief bio. A cover letter would be nice but is not mandatory. E-mail is the preferred medium of submission, but we also welcome snail mail. When submitting mutliple poems via email, please we encourage sending us just one email containing all the poems for consideration as opposed to one email per poem. For long poems accepted by snail mail, we may expect a computer disk. Response time varies from 2 to 12 weeks. Able Muse also welcomes humorous or light poetry. We also invite submission of short fiction (4000 words or less, but we will consider longer pieces of exceptional merit,) interviews, book reviews and essays on metrical poetry, photography and artwork (black & white preferred, although we will also consider colored work. Submit in JPG or GIF format, or a URL with the images. When sending a URL, please indicate the specific images you are submitting, not just a link to your homepage.)
	WH	EN	Able Muse now accepts submissions throughout the year, and we endeavor to publish new issues on a quarterly basis. Accepted work of poetry, fiction, nonfiction or art will be targeted to the appropriate forthcoming issue. After making a submission, please do not send us another of the same type until we have had a chance to respond to the previous one.
	OTH	ERS	Able Muse acquires first-time electronic publication rights. We also reserve the right to republish it in a future electronic and/or print anthology. Back issues are archived indefinitely. Rights return to the author after publication: authors retain their copyright, however, so after their contribution has appeared in Able Muse, they may republish their text in any manner they wish—electronic or print—as long as they clearly acknowledge Able Muse as its original place of publication. Able Muse is a not-for-profit publication. Sorry, we can't pay you until this ezine becomes self-sustaining. We are hoping it will be in the near future. We offer exposure for your work and the right for you to claim a publishing credit.
	ADDR	ESS	Please e-mail submissions as Word, WordPerfect, HTML, ASCII attachments (or simply cut 'n paste into the e-mail) to: submission@ablemuse.com Or if you have no access to e-mail, send to (including SASE): Alex Pepple, Editor Able Muse Review 467 Saratoga Avenue, #602 San Jose, CA 95129

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