If you’re in or near Austin, TX, Jan 25, you could use an afternoon of poetry reading, sponsored by Able Muse Press! ---

Our lineup at the mic includes:

1. D.R. GOODMAN (headliner) -- winner of Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry 2013, reading from her new book Greed: A Confession (Dec 2014, finalist 2013 Able Muse Book Award).
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Congratulations to the six nominees -- X.J. Kennedy, A.E. Stallings, Stephen Kampa, Gail Tyson, Tamas Dobozy and Barbara Haas here.

...Alex

Chelse is on Poetry Daily today, here, with a poem from her collection, Vellum, from Able Muse Press. (After today, the link will be here.)

Congratulations, Chelsea!

Cheers,
...Alex

New and now pre-released from Able Muse Press --

Congrats to Jeredith Merrin for her new book -- a special honoree for the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, as selected by final judge, X.J. Kennedy:
Cup
-- "In these forthright and moving poems written in restrained, disciplined stanzas, the stories are told of how we each, “trying to make it better,/ whatever . . . it is,” have to...

New and now pre-released from Able Muse Press --

Congrats to Richard Newman for his new book:
All the Wasted Beauty of the World
-- "All the Wasted Beauty of the World returns us to the real and, consequently, the new by putting on the brakes and asking us to look, if only briefly, beyond our rear-views." —Dorianne Laux

And congrats to Chelsea Woodard for her...