Just in time for Winter 2015, I'm pleased to announce that the new Able Muse, Winter 2015 (Print Edition, Number 20), has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print [2] & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks [2] editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com [1] [1]
Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 20): Winter 2015
Featured Poet: Amit Majmudar
Featured Artist: Léon LeijdekkersWithe the 2015 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction —
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Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
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• 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 [4]
Announcing the 2016
Able Muse poetry/fiction/book contests:Submissions now open for
for the Able Muse Write Prize & the Able Muse Book Award2015 Contest now open for submissions:
ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE [6] (for poetry & fiction)
[6]• $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:
Patricia Smith (poetry), Stuart Dybek (fiction)• Entry deadline: March 15, 2016
• Details at: http://www.ablemusepress.com/ [7]
2015 Winners:
Elise Hempel - Poetry (judged by H.L. Hix),
Andrea Witzke Slot - Fiction (judged by Eugenia Kim)
. . . $500 to each winner. Complete results here [8].
ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD [7] (for poetry manuscript)
[6]• $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/ [7]
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 [9].
[7] Able Muse Press announces the release of
Cause for Concern - Poems [10]
by Carrie Shipers
WINNER, 2014 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by Molly Peacock)ISBN 978-1-927409-59-6 • Oct 26, 2015 release • 106 pp.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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Her poet’s craft, palpable in every arresting line, makes the subtlest turns of vulnerability with enviable poise.
—Molly Peacock, 2014 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of The Paper GardenOnly a poet of unquestionable bravery and technical acuity could rehearse the quotidian details of a middle class, middle aged existence with such exquisite, irresistible and terrifying honesty.
—Kwame Dawes, author of Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected PoemsThese are naked, open poems. They say things that make us wince, as when we look at an incision still puckered and red. Shipers reminds us that our lives must first be prodded and cauterized, if the injured parts are ever to heal.
—Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged Marriage
Read More [10] Order [11]
. . . read more [1]Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 19): [1]Summer 2015
Able Muse, Summer 2015 (Print Edition, Number 19), with order/subscription information (for print [12] & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks [12] editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com [1]
Featured Poet: Eric McHenry
Featured Artist: Wayne Levin
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• editorial: Alexander Pepple • featured artist: Wayne Levin (interviewed by Sharon Passmore) • featured poet: Eric McHenry (interviewed by Cody Walker) • fiction: Linda Boroff, Richard Dokey, Michael Bradburn-Ruster, Zara Lisbon, Lane Kareska • essays: Catharine Savage Brosman, Kevin Durkin, Robert Earle, Eric Torgersen • book reviews: Reagan Upshaw • poetry: Jay Rogoff, Meredith McCann, William Baer, Jan D. Hodge, Stephen Scaer, William Thompson, Martial, Susan McLean, Carrie Shipers, Maura Stanton, Stephen Gibson, Len Krisak, Glenn Freeman, Richard Cecil, Bruce Bennett, Julie Steiner, Eric Torgersen, Ed Shacklee.
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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 [4]
Order your copy now! [13]
** ** NEW & Just released (August 31, 2015) from ABLE MUSE PRESS [7] -- ***
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~ paperback & hardcover ~. . . read more [14]An eclectic mix of shapes and subjects populate Taking Shape—Jan D. Hodge’s full-length collection of carmina figurata (sometimes called shaped poems, pattern poetry, or figure poems). Hodge’s many masterpieces include depictions of a saxophone, a Madonna and Child, a combination piano/guillotine, and other silhouettes of amazing difficulty and detail. These poems are not only visually stunning, they are also sonically beautiful, and retain a transcendent freedom while conforming to both illustrative and metrical constraints. Taking Shape is a visual feast of inspired poetry.
Taking Shape [14] - carmina figurata by Jan D. Hodge
“In Jan D. Hodge’s Taking Shape the subjects have burst from their cages and confront us immediately with what they are.”
—Fred Chappell“Here is a perfect matching of shapes and poetry.”
—Robert J. Conley“Jan D. Hodge is the master par excellence of carmina figurata . . . Hodge knows of grace, his poems are full of grace, and Taking Shape, like grace itself, is a gift of utter beauty”
—Vince Gotera
Order your copy now! [18]
** NEW RELEASES from Able Muse Press ***
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TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES by William Baer
Times Square and Other Stories engage the reader all the way from the title piece, an ambitious tale that draws upon art, love, and the complex beauty of the human narrative, through eight other works that touch upon the timeless questions of what it means to create and to act, to be and to pretend.
— A.G. Harmon. . . read more [19]
Order [20]
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ASPERITY STREET - POEMS by Gail White
Special Honoree, 2014 Able Muse
Book AwardAsperity Street unfolds as a brilliant mural we can return to again and again, as the poet does—still vulnerable, and wiser each time.
— Molly Peacock, 2014 Able Muse Book Award judge. . . read more [21]
Order [22]
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SLINGSHOTS AND LOVE PLUMS - POEMS by Wendy Videlock
Slingshots and Love Plums offers a delicious variety of treats, from witty send-ups of contemporary mores to somber reflections on mortality, love, and friendship.
— David Caplan. . . read more [23]
Order [24]
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BAD FAME - POEMS by Martin McGovern
Martin McGovern’s long-awaited, well-constructed first book gives itself away slowly, artfully. It is carefully considered, quietly passionate, and deeply humane.
— Edward Hirsch. . . read more [25]
Order [26]
For more information or for review copies, contact Able Muse Press here. [27]
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www.ablemusepress.com [6]
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