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2016 Able Muse Contests:
** ONLY ~ ONE WEEK left before entry deadline in BOOK AWARD! **

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, 2016
• anonymous judging by final judge: A.E. Stallings 

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


2015 Winners
:
Emily Leithauser for her manuscript, Borrowed World - (judged by Peter Campion)
. . . $1000 to the winner & publication by Able Muse Press. Complete results here.


SB Able Muse Press  announces the release of
The Borrowed World - Poems
by Emily Leithauser
 
WINNER, 2015 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by Peter Campion)

ISBN 978-1-927409-67-1 • July 4, 2016 release • 84 pp.

ABOUT THE BOOK


*NEW*
Now available for Pre-Order:

[T]his book is made to endure. The Borrowed World marks the arrival of a major talent.
—Peter Campion, 2015 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of El Dorado

These are deeply felt poems and Leithauser has a finely-tuned ear for the lyricism of syntax and the enduring rhythms of traditional forms. The Borrowed World is her stunning debut.
—Natasha Trethewey, 2012–2014 US Poet Laureate, author of Thrall

[I]n poem after poem, she enlarges and encompasses, she broadens and deepens and transmutes perception into feeling, feeling into thought, and thought into revelation.
—Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of 3 Sections

The Borrowed World is a moving and memorable debut which covers a lot of ground but is always rooted in actualities.
—Andrew Motion, 1999–2009 UK Poet Laureate, author of The Customs House

I have read The Borrowed World several times, and each time I find more in it to be delighted and touched by.
—Michael Palma (from the foreword), author of Begin in Gladness

The Borrowed World - Poems by Emily Leithauser
 
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** 2015 FINALISTS: Able Muse Book Award ***
 

*NEW*
Now available for Pre-Order:

Animal Psalms - Poems by Alfred Nicol
Animal Psalms - Poems by Alfred Nicol


ISBN 9978-1-927409-69-5 • May 30, 2016 release • 88 pp.
Dear reader, I’ve fallen in love with this book, and that will happen to you too. Read, for instance, the very last poem, “Nuts,” and read the great “How to Ignore an Invisible Man,” and you’re hooked forever.
— David Ferry
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Coming Soon:

 

Bed of Impatiens - Poems by
Katie Hartsock

 

Coming Soon:

 

Second Rain - Poems by
Elise Hempel

 
 

 
** Books from PAST WINNERS & FINALISTS:
Able Muse Book Award
**
 
Dirge for an Imaginary World - poems by Matthew Buckley Smith - front cover (click to enlarge)

2011

DIRGE FOR AN IMAGINARY WORLD
(2013 Winner:
Able Muse Book Award, selected by final judge
Andrew Hudgins)
Poems by
Matthew Buckley Smith    
 
Mental and linguistic agility generously challenge the reader in poem after poem.
— Greg Williamson
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2011 FINALISTS:


The Cosmic Purr - poems by Aaron Poochigian

The Cosmic Purr - Poems by Aaron Poochigian


Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - poems by Maryann Corbett
Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - Poems by Maryann Corbett


Life in the Second Circle - Poems by Michael Cantor (with a Foreword by Deborah Warren)
Life in the Second Circle - Poems
by Michael Cantor


This Bed Our Bodies Shaped - poems by April Lindner
This Bed Our Bodies Shaped - Poems
by April Lindner


A Vertical Mile - Poems by Richard Wakefield
A Vertical Mile - Poems
by Richard Wakefield

 

Virtue, Big as Sin - poems by Frank Osen - front cover (click to enlarge)

2012

VIRTUE BIG AS SIN
(2012 Winner:
Able Muse Book Award, selected by final judge
Mary Jo Salter)
Poems by
Frank Osen  
 
Frank Osen’s poems revel in beauty and pleasure, in technical dexterity and high-gloss finish.
— Dick Davis
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2012 FINALISTS:


House Music - poems by Ellen Kaufman
House Music
- Poems by Ellen Kaufman


Heaven from Steam - poems by Carol Light
Heaven from Steam - Poems by Carol Light


All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems by Richard Newman
All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems by Richard Newman


Pumpkin Chucking - poems by Stephen Scaer
Pumpkin Chucking - Poems by Stephen Scaer

 

Walking in on People - poems by Melissa Balmain

2013

WALKING IN ON PEOPLE
(2013 Winner:
Able Muse Book Award, selected by final judge
X.J. Kennedy)
Poems by
Melissa Balmain  
 
An infectious, often hilarious blend of the sweet and the lethal, the charming and the acidic.
— Billy Collins
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2013
RUNNER-UP:


Cup - poems by Jeredith Merrin

Cup - Poems by Jeredith Merrin



2013 FINALISTS:


Uncontested Grounds- poems by William Conelly
House Music
- Poems by William Conelly


Greed: A Confession - poems by D.R. Goodman
Greed: A Confession - Poems by D.R. Goodman


Vellum - Poems by Chelsea Woodard
Vellum - Poems by Chelsea Woodard

 

Cause for Concern - poems by Carrie Shipers

2014

CAUSE FOR CONCERN
(2014 Winner:
Able Muse Book Award, selected by final judge
Molly Peacock)
Poems by
Carrie Shipers  
 
Shipers reminds us that our lives must first be prodded and cauterized, if the injured parts are ever to heal..
— Jehanne Dubrow
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2014
RUNNER-UP:


Asperity Street - Poems by Gail White

Asperity Street - Poems by Gail White

 



Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 20): Winter 2015
Featured Poet: Amit Majmudar
Featured Artist: Léon Leijdekkers

Withe the 2015 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction — 
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
Able Muse, Number 20 - Winter 2015

editorial:Alexander Pepple
featured artist: Léon Leijdekkers featured poet: Amit Majmudar (interviewed by Daniel Brown) fiction: Paul Soto, Lynda Sexson, Andrea Witzke Slot essays: N.S. Thompson, Moira Egan book reviews: Stephen Kampa, Robert B. Shaw poetry: X.J. Kennedy, Wendy Videlock, Kim Bridgford, Peter Kline, Catharine Savage Brosman, Terese Coe, Steven Winn, Jay Udall, Beth Houston, Jennifer Reeser, Leslie Schultz, Ryan Wilson, Max Gutmann, Freeman Rogers, Dan Campion, Brooke Clark, David Stephenson, Autumn Newman, James Matthew Wilson, Athar C. Pavis, Jeanne Wagner, Elise Hempel.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to -- Stephen Kampa, Callie Siskel, Reagan Upshaw (Assistant Poetry Editors); Gregory Dowling (Nonfiction Editor);  Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Jonathan Danielson, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).

Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com

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For more information or for review copies, contact Able Muse Press here. 

Able Muse Press
www.ablemusepress.com

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