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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Cummings isolates and connects words to strip them of their immediate meanings in order to open them to more possibilities. This is the method by which Cummings diverts the reader from foregone conclusions toward a new way of thinking.
Consider: a conscientious object-or (S1L3.)
The poet sets the scene for this poem with a paucity of words, by use of a dash to connect two ideas. The first idea that comes to the reader might be that Olaf is a conscientious objector. But,...

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:
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-- "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...