2018 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE: Just THREE WEEKS+ only to Deadline (Poetry / Fiction)

2018 Able Muse Contests: ** Just 3 Weeks+ left before 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:   J. Allyn Rosser (poetry),  Bret Lott (fiction) • Entry deadline: March 15, 2018 • Details at: http://www.ablemusepress.com/ [6] 2017 Winners: D. R. Goodman - Poetry (judged by Annie Finch), Leslie Jill Patterson - Fiction (judged by Jill Alexander Essbaum) . . . $500 to each winner. Complete results here [7]. [8]ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD [6] (for poetry manuscript) [5]• $1000 prize • publication of winning book manuscript by Able Muse Press • all poetry styles welcome • Entry deadline: March 31, 2018 • anonymous judging by final judge: Marilyn Nelson   • Details at:  http://www.ablemusepress.com/ [6] 2017 Winners: Lorna Knowles Blake for her manuscript, Green Hill (formerly, The Wrack Line) - (judged by Charles Martin) . . . $1000 to the winner & publication by Able Muse Press. Complete results here [9].

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[6] Able Muse Press  announces the pre-release of Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic - Poems [10] by Anna M. Evans FINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-012-0 • May 28, 2018 release • 82 pp.
ABOUT THE BOOK
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:	[Anna M. Evans] series on the Titanic is one of the most memorable I have ever read. The technical difficulty of the poem is noteworthy, but it is the construction of the book, based on that poem as a centerpiece, that is genius. —Kim Bridgford, author of Undone Anna M. Evans, [dives] into the wreck of the Titanic to illuminate both personal experience and the politics of social class ... The result is one of the best, most unforgettable books I have read in years. —Julie Kane, author of Paper Bullets Despite the great accomplishment of [Evans’s] technical tours de force, it is not admiration for technique that is the main feeling that stays with a reader once the book is finished, rather it is the undeniably powerful emotional force of what is being said. —Dick Davis (from the foreword), author of  Love in Another Language
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[6] Able Muse Press  announces the pre-release of The Cynic in Extremis - Poems [12] by Jacob M. Appel FINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-014-4 • June 4, 2018 release • 78 pp.
ABOUT THE BOOK
*NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:	[L]ike the cynics in their classical conception, the poet’s subtext here is hope, at least love, and living without illusion in the extremis of the quotidian. —Dan O’Brien, author of War Reporter Like his stories—approachable, insightful, and touched with a tinge of sadness for what was and, indeed, is—Appel’s poems speak in straightforward, plain language to raise the curtain on the intimacies of his world. —Alice Friman, author of The View from Saturn Quirky characters, often full of longing and regret, pepper Appel’s work ... These characters seem to fail to leave a mark on the world, beyond the poet’s eye. —Brigit Young (from the foreword), author of Worth a Thousand Words Both beautifully written and lively, the poems in The Cynic in Extremis embrace the world with warmth and wit. —John Skoyles, author of Suddenly It’s Evening and poetry editor at Ploughshares
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[14] Able Muse Press  announces the release of Manhattanite - Poems [15] by Aaron Poochigian  WINNER, 2016 Able Muse Book Award (as selected by A. E. Stallings) ISBN 978-1-927409-90-9 • October 9, 2017 release • 102 pp. *NEW* Now available for Pre-Order: ABOUT THE BOOK [15]  Aaron Poochigian takes on the role of American flâneur for the twenty-first century, drifting through the frenetic metropolis at a dreamer’s planetary pace.    — A. E. Stallings, 2016 Able Muse Book Award judge Each poem is a tower growing out of our human filth and scraping the sky with sky-lines, and together they build a city of words. Put New York in your pocket. It’s inside this book.    — Tony Barnstone These poems travel at a fast clip, pulling you along through cityscapes, wastelands, and other vistas. Some of the poems tunnel downward, plumbing depths of mood and memory.    — Rachel Hadas The concluding lines of “Song: Go and Do It” . . . claim, “I’ll still swear/ we could be happy anywhere.” One sure location of that “anywhere” exists between the covers of Manhattanite.    — R. S. Gwynn Read More [15] Order [16]

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[6] Able Muse Press  announces the release of New Jersey Noir - A Novel [17] by William Baer  The Jack Colt Murder Mystery Novels (Book 1)
ISBN 978-1-927409-82-4 • February 26, 2018 release • 266 pp.
ABOUT THE BOOK
New Jersey Noir is a loving tribute to the Garden State by a writer who appreciates its grime as much as its glory.    — Hollis Seamon (Jersey girl, born and raised), author of Somebody Up There Hates You In prose as fast-moving as a bullet, Baer compels the reader to keep flipping pages more and more rapidly. Baer’s writing is taut and gut-wrenching. New Jersey Noir and Baer’s talent presage a brilliant career for this wonderfully gifted writer.    — Terri Brown-Davidson, author of Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight Jack Colt, the private investigator in William Baer’s New Jersey Noir, romances the genre to the suspenseful effect that JJ “Jake” Gittes achieves in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed Chinatown. In place of technicolor LA, however, Baer evokes a cinematic chiaroscuro New Jersey, specifically Paterson, its history and politics limned over a baseline of Springsteen, doo-wop, and Whitney Houston.    — Dennis Must, author of Hush Now, Don’t Explain
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Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 24): Winter 2017 [19]

I'm pleased to announce that the new Able Muse, Winter 2017 (Print Edition, Number 24), has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print [20] & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks [20] editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com [19]

Able Muse Review - Print Edition (Number 24): Winter 2017
Featured Poet: Jacqueline Osherow
Featured Art: An "Eat" Theme

With the 2017 Able Muse Write Prize for poetry & fiction — 
Includes the winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
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• editorial:Alexander Pepple • featured art: An "Eat" Theme • featured poet: Jacqueline Osherow (interviewed by Malachi Black) • fiction: Tim Frank, Leslie Jill Patterson • essays: Rachel Hadas, Sam Aaron Morgan • book reviews: Brooke Clark • poetry: ailey Leithauser, Gail White, Scott Ruescher, Stephen Kampa, Catherine Chandler, Kathryn Locey, Jean L. Kreiling, Chris Fahrenthold, D. R. Goodman, Alexander Pushkin, Jay Rogoff, Terese Coe, Heinrich Heine, Timothy Murphy, Ann M. Thompson, 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 Editors);  Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).

Alex Pepple, Editor
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[14]Able Muse Press  announces the release of The Blind Loon A Bestiary [24] by Ed Shacklee (Illustrated by Russ Spitkovsky) ISBN 978-1-77349-004-5 (paperback) • ISBN 978-1-77349-004-5 • (hardcover) • September 25, 2017 release • 116 pp. *NEW* Now available for Pre-Order: ABOUT THE BOOK [24]  In his impressive bestiary, The Blind Loon, Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This encyclopedic collection includes the commonplace python, monkey, crocodile, tortoise, camel; the mythical kraken, lamia, chimera, wyvern; the prehistoric ankylosaurus; the fantastical logorrhea, mope, snub, hipster. Shacklee doles out marvels, mischief and hilarity in The Blind Loon, and the breathtaking illustrations of Russ Spitkovsky provide an accompanying visual feast and are by themselves worth the price of admission. Read More [24] Order [25]

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[14]Able Muse Press  announces the pre-release of A Year of Mourning [26] Poems 271-322 of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta translated by Lee Harlin Bahan Special Honoree, 2016 Able Muse Book Award ISBN 978-1-927409-95-4 • October 9, 2017 release • 82 pp. *NEW* Now available for Pre-Order: ABOUT THE BOOK [26]  “This is emphatically not our grandmother’s Petrarch, but it is by turns startling, engaging, surprising, beguiling and occasionally annoying . . .  paradoxically enough, not unlike the originals.” —Dick Davis “Here, the corset tightened until the bones crack has been loosened to allow for a natural diction, syntax, and idiom that allows that old ghost, Petrarch, to speak to us as if he were alive today.” —Tony Barnstone “‘Translate’ is not quite the right word as Bahan updates and postmodernizes Petrarch in fascinating and entertaining fashion, while remaining on solid scholarly ground.” —Vince Gotera Read More [26] Order [27]

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