** 2020 Book Award :: Extended 7 DAYS to April 7 (Now, Only ~3 DAYS of the Extension Left) ** **
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ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (for poetry manuscript)
• Just ~3 of the 7 DAYS of the Extension Left
$1000 prize
• publication of winning book manuscript by Able Muse Press
• all poetry styles welcome
• Entry deadline: March 31, 2019 (Now Extended to Tuesday, April 7, Midnight PDT)
• anonymous judging by final judge: Brad Leithauser
• Details at: https://www.ablemusepress.com/
2019 Winners: Deirdre O'Connor for her manuscript, Trap Street - (judged by David Mason)
. . . $1000 to the winner & publication by Able Muse Press. Complete results here.
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I'm pleased to announce that the new Able Muse, Winter 2019 (Print Edition, Number 27), 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 27): Winter 2019
Special Feature: Tribute to Timothy Murphy
(guest-edited by Richard Wakefield)
Featured Art: The Hunt Theme
With the 2019 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction —
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
• editorial: Alexander Pepple • guest editorial: Richard Wakefield • featured art: The Hunt Theme • special feature : Tribute to Timothy Murphy
(guest-edited by Richard Wakefield), with tribute poetry from A.E. Stallings, Timothy Steele, Rhina P. Espaillat, John Ridland, Amit Majmudar, Wendy Videlock, Bruce Bennett, Len Krisak, Catherine Chandler, Terese Coe, Mary Meriam, Andrew Frisardi, Richard Meyer, John Beaton; and tribute essay from Dana Gioia • fiction: Erin Russell • essays: Edward Lee, Tony Whedon • book reviews: Brooke Clark, Travis Biddick • poetry: Hailey Leithauser, John Philip Drury, Len Krisak, James Matthew Wilson, Suzanne Noguere, Alfred Nicol, Katie Hartsock, David MacRae Landon, Amy Bagan, Barry Abrams, Miriam O’Neal, Beth Paulson, Daniel Galef.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to --Nicole Caruso Garcia, Susan de Sola (Assistant Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editor); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).
Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com
Now, only Days to go! . . . Enter the
2019 Able Muse Contests:
for poetry/fiction/book manuscripts:
Submissions open for
for the Able Muse Write Prize & the Able Muse Book Award |
2020 Contest now open for submissions:
ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (for poetry & fiction)
• $500 for the winning poem (all styles welcome)
• $500 for the winning story
• publication in Able Muse (print edition)
• anonymous judging by the final judges:
Emily Grosholz (poetry), Hollis Seamon (fiction)
• Entry deadline: March 22, 2020 (Extended 7 days by popular request from previous March 15 deadline!)
• Details at: https://www.ablemusepress.com/
2019 Winners:
David MacRae Landon- Poetry (judged by Erica Dawson),
Erin Russell- Fiction (judged by Jacob M. Appel)
. . . $500 to each winner. Complete results here.
ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (for poetry manuscript)
• $1000 prize
• publication of winning book manuscript by Able Muse Press
• all poetry styles welcome
• Entry deadline: March 31, 2020
• anonymous judging by final judge: Brad Leithauser
• Details at: https://www.ablemusepress.com/
2019 Winners: Deirdre O'Connor for her manuscript, Trap Street - (judged by David Mason)
. . . $1000 to the winner & publication by Able Muse Press. Complete results here.
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Word Galaxy Press ~ an imprint of Able Muse Press ~
announces the prerelease of
Spooky Action at a Distance -
double-title
poems
by David Alpaugh
978-1-77349-051-9 • May 22, 2020 release • 106 pp.
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From childhood to history to mythology to politics to literature and back, Alpaugh takes us on a magical mystery tour through a universe of his own making.
—Lynne Knight, author of The Persistence of Longing
Tracking the moves he makes connecting double-title after double-title is its own reward, a pleasure so pure as not to be missed.
—William Slaughter, editor of Mudlark
David Alpaugh’s Spooky Action at a Distance offers readers a cornucopia of delights, complications, and some truly moving insights—all in an intriguing new form of his own invention. Alpaugh’s double-title form shows how two titles can be separate, like two photons miles apart, yet “entangled” in meaning and intent.
—Kathleen Lynch, author of Lucky Witness
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Able Muse Press announces the prerelease of
Motherland - Poems
by Sally Thomas
FINALIST, 2018 Able Muse Book Award
978-1-77349-043-4 • May 29, 2020 release • 126 pp.
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A core of spiritual knowledge resides in the poems of Sally Thomas’s Motherland: a book of the presence—radiant, benevolent, challenging—for which there is often no word, except as we find in poetry, like the poetry of Sally Thomas.
—Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry
The poems of Sally Thomas are compelling because in every line something is at stake: our very understanding of creation, the human condition, and the mystery of thought and its language that link us, however imperfectly.
—David Middleton (from the foreword), author of The Fiddler of Driskill Hill
In her most recent collection of poems, Motherland, Sally Thomas gives us a world we live in but, alas, too often don’t seem to see. What a delight to discover a poet who has found a way to allow the sacred and the sacramental inform her poems in a surprising range of contemporary idioms.
—Paul Mariani,
author of Epitaphs for the Journey
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Able Muse Press announces the release of
The Cupped Field - Poems
by Deirdre O'Connor
WINNER, 2018 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by Marilyn Nelson)
978-1-77349-035-9 • December 13, 2019 release • 92 pp.
*NEW* Now available for Order:
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Written with great compassion, precision, and nuance, these gorgeously made poems face into the heartbreaks of time and loss, of selves and ex-selves.
—Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine
Here is a poet who knows that the mind is complex, a map of many countries, in some of which people are starving.
—Marilyn Nelson,
2018 Able Muse Book Award judge,
author of Faster Than Light
I am in awe of this poet for many reasons but especially the way she charts a direct line between the mind that takes in the world, in all its beauty and tragedy, and the ethical voice that speaks out of that witness.
— Shara McCallum, author of Madwoman
These are not just good poems. They are spells. . . . Deirdre O’Connor is an exquisite lyric poet.
—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
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~ coming soon ~
from Able Muse Press
• In Code - Poems by Maryann Corbett
• Selected Poems - by Richard Moore
• Fetch Muse - Poems by Rebecca Starks
• Progressions of the Mind - Poems by
David Berman
• The Changed and the Changeless
- Poems by John Beaton
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coming soon
The Exquisite
Triumphs of Wormboy
- Poems & Illustrations
by Sydney Lea
&
James Kochalka
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I'm pleased to announce that the current Able Muse, Winter 2018 (Print Edition, Number 26), 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 26): Winter 2018
Featured Poet: Matthew Buckley Smith
(interviewed by Joanna Pearson)
Featured Art: A "Couples" Theme
With the 2018 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction —
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
• editorial:Alexander Pepple • featured art: A "Couples" Theme • featured poet: Matthew Buckley Smith
(interviewed by Joanna Pearson) • fiction: Anthony J. Otten, Claudette E. Sutton • essays: Stella Pye, Michael Cohen, Sam Aaron Morgan • book reviews: Brooke Clark • poetry: Amit Majmudar, Gabriel Spera, Lynn Marie Houston, Maryann Corbett, D. R. Goodman, Heinrich Heine, Terese Coe, Andrew Frisardi, Alexis Sears, Ann M. Thompson, Melissa Cannon, David Allen Sullivan, 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 Editor); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).
Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com
All applicable links are at the Able Muse homepage - www.ablemuse.com
Or, at the Able Muse Press website - www.ablemusepress.com
Or, at the Able Word Galaxy website - www.wordgalaxy.com
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