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[4]ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD [4] (for poetry manuscript)
[5]• $1000 prize
• publication of winning book manuscript by Able Muse Press
• all poetry styles welcome
• Entry deadline: March 31, 2018 (Now extended to April 5, Midnight PST)
• 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 [7].
[8] Able Muse Press announces the pre-release of
Naked for Tea - Poems [9]
by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerFINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-016-8 • July 9, 2018 release • 136 pp.*NEW* Now available for Pre-order:
ABOUT THE BOOK[9]
"Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s welcoming voice, receptive heart, artistic mastery, and empathic vision become an alchemy of being." —Jack Ridl, author of Practicing to Walk Like a Heron and Saint Peter and the Goldfinch"Heart-thawingly honest, deliriously sexy, and compassionate down to the fingertips. A book of kindness and bewilderment and delight from one of our best poets." —Teddy Macker, author of This World
"It is a delight to find a poet who can tell a crackling story laced with gorgeous imagery and euphony that will appeal to the ancient seats of learning: the heart, belly, and brain." —David Lee, Utah State Poet Laureate emeritus, author of Last Call and A Legacy of Shadows
"The elegance of her simplicity will blind you to her mastery. Then, she will let you fall, head over heels, in Love. With everything." —Wayne Muller (from the foreword), author of Sabbath and Legacy of the Heart
[8] Able Muse Press announces the pre-release of
Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic - Poems [11]
by Anna M. EvansRunner-Up, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-012-0 • May 28, 2018 release • 82 pp.*NEW* Now available for Pre-order:
ABOUT THE BOOK[11]
[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 UndoneAnna 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
[8] Able Muse Press announces the pre-release of
The Cynic in Extremis - Poems [13]
by Jacob M. AppelFINALIST, 2017 Able Muse Book Award
ISBN 978-1-77349-014-4 • June 4, 2018 release • 78 pp.*NEW* Now available for Pre-order:
ABOUT THE BOOK[13]
[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 ReporterLike 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 WordsBoth 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
[8] Able Muse Press announces the release of
ISBN 978-1-927409-90-9 • October 9, 2017 release • 102 pp.
Manhattanite - Poems [15]
by Aaron Poochigian
WINNER, 2016 Able Muse Book Award
(as selected by A. E. Stallings)*NEW* Now available for 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 judgeEach 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 BarnstoneThese 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 HadasThe 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
[8] Able Muse Press announces the release of
ISBN 978-1-927409-82-4 • February 26, 2018 release • 266 pp.
New Jersey Noir - A Novel [17]
by William Baer
The Jack Colt Murder Mystery Novels (Book 1)*NEW* Now available for Order:
ABOUT THE BOOK[17]
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 YouIn 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 TightJack 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
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" ThemeWith 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
www.AbleMuse.com [22]
[8]Able Muse Press announces the release of
ISBN 978-1-77349-004-5 (paperback) • ISBN 978-1-77349-004-5 • (hardcover) • September 25, 2017 release • 116 pp.
The Blind Loon
A Bestiary [24]
by Ed Shacklee
(Illustrated by Russ Spitkovsky)*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.
[8]Able Muse Press announces
ISBN 978-1-927409-95-4 • October 9, 2017 release • 82 pp.
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*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
[8]Able Muse Press announces *NEW* Now available for Pre-Order:
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