2020 Able Muse Book Award & Write Prize: Submissions Still Open + Latest Book Releases

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From childhood to history to mythology to politics to literature and back, Alpaugh takes us on a magical mystery tour through a universe of his own making.
—Lynne Knight, author of The Persistence of Longing

Tracking the moves he makes connecting double-title after double-title is its own reward, a pleasure so pure as not to be missed.
—William Slaughter, editor of Mudlark

David Alpaugh’s Spooky Action at a Distance offers readers a cornucopia of delights, complications, and some truly moving insights—all in an intriguing new form of his own invention. Alpaugh’s double-title form shows how two titles can be separate, like two photons miles apart, yet “entangled” in meaning and intent.
—Kathleen Lynch, author of Lucky Witness

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A core of spiritual knowledge resides in the poems of Sally Thomas’s Motherland: a book of the presence—radiant, benevolent, challenging—for which there is often no word, except as we find in poetry, like the poetry of Sally Thomas.
—Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry

The poems of Sally Thomas are compelling because in every line something is at stake: our very understanding of creation, the human condition, and the mystery of thought and its language that link us, however imperfectly.
—David Middleton (from the foreword), author of The Fiddler of Driskill Hill

In her most recent collection of poems, Motherland, Sally Thomas gives us a world we live in but, alas, too often don’t seem to see. What a delight to discover a poet who has found a way to allow the sacred and the sacramental inform her poems in a surprising range of contemporary idioms.
—Paul Mariani,
author of Epitaphs for the Journey

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Written with great compassion, precision, and nuance, these gorgeously made poems face into the heartbreaks of time and loss, of selves and ex-selves.
—Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine

Here is a poet who knows that the mind is complex, a map of many countries, in some of which people are starving.
—Marilyn Nelson, 2018 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of Faster Than Light

I am in awe of this poet for many reasons but especially the way she charts a direct line between the mind that takes in the world, in all its beauty and tragedy, and the ethical voice that speaks out of that witness.
— Shara McCallum, author of Madwoman

These are not just good poems. They are spells. . . . Deirdre O’Connor is an exquisite lyric poet.
—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

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