2018 ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD: Last Day of 5-Day Extension (Poetry Manuscript)

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** 2018 Book Award :: Extended 5 DAYS to April 5
(LAST DAY of Extension ... Last Chance to Enter) **

* ~ 24 hours to go ... Enter now *


ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (for poetry manuscript)
Able Muse Write Prize (for poetry & flash fiction)A.E. Stallings - final judge for the Book Award$1000 prize
publication of winning book manuscript by Able Muse Press
• all poetry styles welcome
Entry deadline: March 31, 2018 (Now extended to April 5, Midnight PST)
• anonymous judging by final judge: Marilyn Nelson  

• Details at:  http://www.ablemusepress.com/


2017 Winners
:
Lorna Knowles Blake for her manuscript, Green Hill (formerly, The Wrack Line) -
(judged by Charles Martin)
. . . $1000 to the winner & publication by Able Muse Press. Complete results here.


Able Muse Press Able Muse Press  announces the pre-release of
Naked for Tea - Poems
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

FINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award

ISBN 978-1-77349-016-8 • July 9, 2018 release • 136 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

Naked for Tea - Poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 
"Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s welcoming voice, receptive heart, artistic mastery, and empathic vision become an alchemy of being." —Jack Ridl, author of Practicing to Walk Like a Heron and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch

"Heart-thawingly honest, deliriously sexy, and compassionate down to the fingertips. A book of kindness and bewilderment and delight from one of our best poets." —Teddy Macker, author of This World

"It is a delight to find a poet who can tell a crackling story laced with gorgeous imagery and euphony that will appeal to the ancient seats of learning: the heart, belly, and brain." —David Lee, Utah State Poet Laureate emeritus, author of Last Call and A Legacy of Shadows

"The elegance of her simplicity will blind you to her mastery. Then, she will let you fall, head over heels, in Love. With everything." —Wayne Muller (from the foreword), author of Sabbath and Legacy of the Heart


Able Muse Press Able Muse Press  announces the pre-release of
Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic - Poems
by Anna M. Evans

Runner-Up, 2017 Able Muse Book Award

ISBN 978-1-77349-012-0 • May 28, 2018 release • 82 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic - Poems by Anna M. Evans 
[Anna M. Evans] series on the Titanic is one of the most memorable I have ever read. The technical difficulty of the poem is noteworthy, but it is the construction of the book, based on that poem as a centerpiece, that is genius.
—Kim Bridgford, author of Undone

Anna M. Evans, [dives] into the wreck of the Titanic to illuminate both personal experience and the politics of social class ... The result is one of the best, most unforgettable books I have read in years. Julie Kane, author of Paper Bullets

Despite the great accomplishment of [Evans’s] technical tours de force, it is not admiration for technique that is the main feeling that stays with a reader once the book is finished, rather it is the undeniably powerful emotional force of what is being said. Dick Davis (from the foreword), author of  Love in Another Language


Able Muse Press Able Muse Press  announces the pre-release of
The Cynic in Extremis - Poems
by Jacob M. Appel

FINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award

ISBN 978-1-77349-014-4 • June 4, 2018 release • 78 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Cynic in Extremis - Poems by Jacob M. Appel 
[L]ike the cynics in their classical conception, the poet’s subtext here is hope, at least love, and living without illusion in the extremis of the quotidian.
—Dan O’Brien, author of War Reporter

Like his stories—approachable, insightful, and touched with a tinge of sadness for what was and, indeed, is—Appel’s poems speak in straightforward, plain language to raise the curtain on the intimacies of his world. —Alice Friman, author of The View from Saturn

Quirky characters, often full of longing and regret, pepper Appel’s work ... These characters seem to fail to leave a mark on the world, beyond the poet’s eye.
Brigit Young (from the foreword), author of Worth a Thousand Words

Both beautifully written and lively, the poems in The Cynic in Extremis embrace the world with warmth and wit. John Skoyles, author of Suddenly It’s Evening and poetry editor at Ploughshares


Able Muse Press Able Muse Press  announces the release of
Manhattanite - Poems
by Aaron Poochigian 
WINNER, 2016 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by A. E. Stallings)

ISBN 978-1-927409-90-9 • October 9, 2017 release • 102 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

Manhattanite - Poems by Aaron Poochigian 
Aaron Poochigian takes on the role of American flâneur for the twenty-first century, drifting through the frenetic metropolis at a dreamer’s planetary pace.
   — A. E. Stallings, 2016 Able Muse Book Award judge

Each poem is a tower growing out of our human filth and scraping the sky with sky-lines, and together they build a city of words. Put New York in your pocket. It’s inside this book.
   — Tony Barnstone

These poems travel at a fast clip, pulling you along through cityscapes, wastelands, and other vistas. Some of the poems tunnel downward, plumbing depths of mood and memory.
   — Rachel Hadas

The concluding lines of “Song: Go and Do It” . . . claim, “I’ll still swear/ we could be happy anywhere.” One sure location of that “anywhere” exists between the covers of Manhattanite.
   — R. S. Gwynn


Able Muse Press Able Muse Press  announces the release of
New Jersey Noir - A Novel
by William Baer 

The Jack Colt Murder Mystery Novels (Book 1)

ISBN 978-1-927409-82-4 • February 26, 2018 release • 266 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

New Jersey Noir - A Novel by William Baer 
New Jersey Noir is a loving tribute to the Garden State by a writer who appreciates its grime as much as its glory.
   — Hollis Seamon (Jersey girl, born and raised), author of Somebody Up There Hates You

In prose as fast-moving as a bullet, Baer compels the reader to keep flipping pages more and more rapidly. Baer’s writing is taut and gut-wrenching. New Jersey Noir and Baer’s talent presage a brilliant career for this wonderfully gifted writer.
   — Terri Brown-Davidson, author of Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight

Jack Colt, the private investigator in William Baer’s New Jersey Noir, romances the genre to the suspenseful effect that JJ “Jake” Gittes achieves in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed Chinatown. In place of technicolor LA, however, Baer evokes a cinematic chiaroscuro New Jersey, specifically Paterson, its history and politics limned over a baseline of Springsteen, doo-wop, and Whitney Houston.
   — Dennis Must, author of Hush Now, Don’t Explain


Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 24): Winter 2017

I'm pleased to announce that the new Able Muse, Winter 2017 (Print Edition, Number 24), has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com

Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 24): Winter 2017
Featured Poet: Jacqueline Osherow
Featured Art: An "Eat" Theme

With the 2017 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction — 
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
Able Muse, Number 24 - Winter 2017
editorial:Alexander Pepple
featured art: An "Eat" Theme featured poet: Jacqueline Osherow (interviewed by Malachi Black) • fiction: Tim Frank, Leslie Jill Patterson essays: Rachel Hadas, Sam Aaron Morgan book reviews: Brooke Clark poetry: ailey Leithauser, Gail White, Scott Ruescher, Stephen Kampa, Catherine Chandler, Kathryn Locey, Jean L. Kreiling, Chris Fahrenthold, D. R. Goodman, Alexander Pushkin, Jay Rogoff, Terese Coe, Heinrich Heine, Timothy Murphy, Ann M. Thompson, Rob Wright.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to --Nicole Caruso Garcia, Susan de Sola, Scott M. Miller (Assistant Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editors);  Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).

Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com


Able Muse PressAble Muse Press  announces the release of
The Blind Loon
A Bestiary

by Ed Shacklee
(Illustrated by Russ Spitkovsky)

ISBN 978-1-77349-004-5 (paperback) • ISBN 978-1-77349-004-5 • (hardcover) • September 25, 2017 release • 116 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Blind Loon - A Bestiary by Ed Shacklee 
In his impressive bestiary, The Blind Loon, Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This encyclopedic collection includes the commonplace python, monkey, crocodile, tortoise, camel; the mythical kraken, lamia, chimera, wyvern; the prehistoric ankylosaurus; the fantastical logorrhea, mope, snub, hipster. Shacklee doles out marvels, mischief and hilarity in The Blind Loon, and the breathtaking illustrations of Russ Spitkovsky provide an accompanying visual feast and are by themselves worth the price of admission.



Able Muse PressAble Muse Press  announces
the pre-release of

A Year of Mourning

Poems 271-322 of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
translated by Lee Harlin Bahan
Special Honoree, 2016 Able Muse Book Award

ISBN 978-1-927409-95-4 • October 9, 2017 release • 82 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

A Year of Mourning- Poems 271-322 of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta translated by Lee Harlin Bahan 
“This is emphatically not our grandmother’s Petrarch, but it is by turns startling, engaging, surprising, beguiling and occasionally annoying . . .  paradoxically enough, not unlike the originals.”
Dick Davis

“Here, the corset tightened until the bones crack has been loosened to allow for a natural diction, syntax, and idiom that allows that old ghost, Petrarch, to speak to us as if he were alive today.”
Tony Barnstone

“‘Translate’ is not quite the right word as Bahan updates and postmodernizes Petrarch in fascinating and entertaining fashion, while remaining on solid scholarly ground.”
Vince Gotera


Able Muse PressAble Muse Press  announces
the pre-release of

Street View

Poems by Maryann Corbett
Finalist, 2016 Able Muse Book Award

ISBN 978-1-927409-90-9 • October 9, 2017 release • 102 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

Street View- Poems by Maryann Corbett 
“Though her weapons, her engines, are stillness, insight, and rhythm, there is indeed a sense in which the poems in Street View wallop their subjects with language.”
George David Clark

“Given her gift with detail, Maryann Corbett is the perfect person to offer a view, but an even more perfect person to offer a ‘street view.’”
Kim Bridgford

“She examines experiences with shrewdness and fascination, crafting them into poems that are breathtaking in their intelligence and brio.”
Susan McLean

“It is metrical poetry infused with gorgeous imagery and the vernacular of our scientized world, from neurotransmitters to hydrology.”
—Tony Barnstone


Word Galaxy PressWord Galaxy Press
(an imprint of Able Muse Press)
announces the pre-release of
The Stars of Earth
New and Selected Poems
Poems by Emily Grosholz

ISBN 978-1-77349-001-4 (pbk.) / ISBN 978-1-77349-005-2 (hc.) • October 16, 2017 release • 320 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Stars of Earth- Poems by Emily Grosholz 
“There is no end to the kinds of poems that Grosholz can write, always with distinction of language and with a great gift for wedding the measures of verse to the rhythms of thought.”
Richard Wilbur

“[Grosholz] has a lucid, lyrical voice, a pure, songlike quality. I think many aspire to this sort of effortless music, but few succeed as well as she.”
Alice Fulton

“Emily Grosholz is a poet of radiant intelligence,patient lyricism, and meticulous craft.”
Mark Jarman

“. . . fine poetry and fine theorems are first cousins. Or, more rarely, in poems like Emily Grosholz’s, twins.”
Marjorie Senechal

“The heart, not as a hackneyed valentine but as a living muscle, is always present as pulse and passion.”
Michael Schmidt

“. . . she achieves potent mixes of the daily and the deep.”
Melissa Balmain


Word Galaxy PressWord Galaxy Press
(an imprint of Able Muse Press)
announces the pre-release of
Reassurance in Negative Space
Poems by Elizabyth Hiscox

ISBN 978-1-927409-98-5 (paperback) • October 2, 2017 release • 106 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:

ABOUT THE BOOK

Reassurance in Negative Space- Poems by Elizabyth Hiscox 
“Her poems are tightly, urgently made.”
Nancy Eimers

Reassurance in Negative Space, is haunting in the way that brilliance of mind and vision encounter an almost secret vocabulary.”
Norman Dubie

“There is throughout this volume a deep and humane lyric wisdom, an almost fatalistically brilliant humor.”
Cynthia Hogue

“Hiscox breaks a tender heart with this equivocal and necessary advice for her reader: ‘Fall already, beautiful.’ In this gorgeous and spiritually rugged ekphrastic book I do pant, I do part, and I do fall.”
Sarah Vap


 

  
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