2017 Able Muse Contests:
** Less Than 48 HOURS Only to entry deadline in WRITE PRIZE! **[4]ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE [5] (for poetry & fiction)
[5]• $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:
Annie Finch (poetry), Jill Alexander Essbaum (fiction)• Entry deadline: March 15, 2017
• Details at: http://www.ablemusepress.com/ [6]
2016 Winners:
Scott Ruescher - Poetry (judged by Patricia Smith),
Victoria Mlyniec - Fiction (judged by Stuart Dybek)
. . . $500 to each winner. Complete results here [7].
[8]ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD [6] (for poetry manuscript)
[5]• Less Than 3 WEEKS left before entry deadline• $1000 prize
• publication of winning book manuscript by Able Muse Press
• all poetry styles welcome
• Entry deadline: March 31, 2017
• anonymous judging by final judge: Charles Martin
• Details at: http://www.ablemusepress.com/ [6]
2016 Winners: Aaron Poochigian for his manuscript, Manhattanite - (judged by A.E. Stallings)
. . . $1000 to the winner & publication by Able Muse Press. Complete results here [9].
[10] Word Galaxy Press [10]
(an imprint of Able Muse Press [6])
announces the pre-release of
Some Bore Gifts - Stories [11]
by A.G. Harmon [12]ISBN 978-1-927409-97-8 • July 2, 2017 release • 228 pp. ABOUT THE BOOK
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:
These are elegant and humble and ruminative stories of people reaching their worldly ends in one way or another, and their encounters there with grace and a hard-wrought hope. Some Bore Gifts is in itself a gift, and A.G. Harmon a writer who blesses us with his art.
—Bret Lott, author of Dead Low TideSome Bore Gifts, is stunningly diverse, displaying a vast range of characters and the skill to draw them that enchants his reader.
—Margaret-Love Denman,
author of Daily, Before Your EyesSome Bore Gifts are stories that track the movement from despair to hope, loss to restitution, the seemingly random steps we take along the road of grace. Harmon’s consummate storytelling makes us believe in, not only the resilience, but also the essential grandeur of the human spirit.
—Suzanne M. Wolfe,
author of The Confessions of XSome Bore Gifts, is stunningly diverse, displaying a vast range of characters and the skill to draw them that enchants his reader.
—Margaret-Love Denman,
author of Daily, Before Your Eyes
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[6] Able Muse Press announces
the pre-release of
The Bard and Scheherazade Keep Company - Poems [14]
by Jan D. HodgeISBN 978-1-927409-85-5 • June 5, 2017 release • 112 pp. ABOUT THE BOOK
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:
[Jan D. Hodge has given us an astonishing book-as remarkable a tour de force as ever I’ve seen. I wouldn’t have thought that witty verse form, the double dactyl, could be used to tell a story, but modifying the pattern only slightly, Hodge retells some celebrated stories in enjoyable style-Shakespeare plays, six tales from the Arabian Nights, and the popular medieval legend of Reynard the Fox
—X.J. KennedyOpen this book at random, and you will find the form perfectly used, the language both natural and original, and the wit a delight.
—Gail WhiteJan D. Hodge has renovated the most challenging of light verse forms and transformed it into a vehicle for poems that revisit classic works of literature.
—A.M. Juster
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[6] Able Muse Press announces
the pre-release of
Figuring in the Figure - Poems [16]
by Ben BermanISBN 978-1-927409-71-8 • March 20, 2017 release • 88 pp. ABOUT THE BOOK
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:
[Ben Berman's] luminous details evoke a world of mutable forms and shapes that suggest the fragility of our lives. . . . This is a quietly beautiful book that deserves attention and recognition..
—Jeff FriedmanThe influence here of Frost returns us to Frost’s virtues: these poems make points and have a point of view. Like Frost, Berman is unsparing in his introspection.
—Rodger KamenetzHis observations are enriched with various kinds of humor—aphorisms, riddles, word plays, and puns. This book is wise and wonderful..
—Beth Ann FennellyBen Berman’s fine, clever poems are never merely clever. . . . If invention is his inclination, order is his learned yet sly companion, “a partner,” he writes, “the type/ that coyly invites chaos to dance.”
—Lawrence Raab
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Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 22): [18]Winter 2016
The latest Able Muse, Winter 2016 (Print Edition, Number 22), with order/subscription information (for print [19] & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks [19] editions), and with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com [18]
Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 22): Winter 2016
Featured Poet: Bill Coyle
Featured Artist: Mitch Dobrowner
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• editorial:Alexander Pepple • featured artist: Mitch Dobrowner (interviewed by Sharon Passmore) • featured poet: Bill Coyle (interviewed by Ernest Hilbert) • fiction: Erika Warmbrunn, Cameron MacKenzie, Vicky Mlyniec • essays: Gerry Cambridge • book reviews: Amit Majmudar, Brooke Clark • poetry: Amit Majmudar, Len Krisak, Scott Ruescher, Timothy Murphy, Cody Walker, Christine de Pizan, Håkan Sandell, Anna M. Evans, Feng Zhi, Tony Barnstone, Liz Ahl, Susan McLean, Elise Hempel, Siham Karami, Maryann Corbett, Fran Markover, Colleen Carias, Julie Steiner, Elizabeth Wager, Clare Jones.
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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); Robert B. Shaw, N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editors); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Janice D. Soderling, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).
Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com [21]
[6] Able Muse Press new release:
The Borrowed World - Poems [23]
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
[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 DoradoThese 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 SectionsThe 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 HouseI 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
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** 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 [25]
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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 [27]
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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 [29]
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BED OF IMPATIENS - POEMS by Katie Hartsock
Has American poetry ever produced a fresher, savvier, grittier, more elegant, and drop-dead formally exhilarating sequence than Katie Hartsock’s “Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays”? If so, I’ve yet to see it. Hartsock is as deft (and loving) with the vulgarities of truck stop rent-by-the-hour as with the secret wit of rhyme, or the venerables of Homeric epic: her range and her inventiveness appear to know no limit. And this is just a fraction of what bursts to life in Bed of Impatiens. I’m dazzled by the sheer bounty of it.
—Linda Gregerson. . . read more [32]
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