Able Muse / Eratosphere Newsletter - December 2009

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Happy Holiday! :)

The new issue of Able Muse [10]

The Tribute Issue of Able Muse, Winter 2009, is now online at:

http://www.ablemuse.com [10]

Turner Cassity Tribute special feature -- with new poems and essays from: Turner Cassity, Suzanne Doyle, Timothy Steele, Dick Davis, A.E. Stallings, William Conelly, Memye Curtis Tucker, Helen Pinkerton Trimpi, Christophe Fricker.

featured artist: Royena Rasnat • featured poet: Stephen Edgar (in conversation with Timothy Murphy) • spotlight poet: John Beaton (interviewed by Timothy Murphy) • poetry with new poems from: Amit Majmudar, Bruce Taylor, Brian Culhane, Lyn Lifshin, Maryann Corbett, J.D. Smith, Michael Burch, Howie Good, Thomas David Lisk, Cally Conan-Davies, Esther Greenleaf Mürer, Ana Garza G'z, Dave Engeldrum, Keith O'Shaughnessy, Kathy Davis, John Milbury-Steen, David Alpaugh, Lark Beltran, Stanley P. Anderson, Rebecca Foust, Peter Branson, Frederic Kusseler • fiction with new stories from: Anne Fox, Nina Schuyler, Kristen Edwards, Tom Earles, Molly Malone, Marge Lurie, Richard Spuler • essays: Clive Watkins, Rory Waterman • book reviews: Julie Stoner, Chris Childers.

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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to-- Suzanne Doyle (Guest Features Editor), Tim Murphy (Associate Poetry Editor), Thaisa Frank (Associate Fiction Editor), Gregory Dowling (Associate Nonfiction Editor).

Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com [11]

Eratosphere Workshops Events [14]

Ongoing:
- A decade Anniverary of Able Muse & Eratosphere here [18].

Coming Soon:

At the Translation Forum: [19] Translation Event with finalists' submissions critiqued by acclaimed poet and translator, Willis Barnstone. Details can be found here [20] and here [21].

At the Distinguished Guest Forum: Deck-the-Halls with finalists poems critiqued by Judge, Jennifer Reeser. Details here [22].

Able Muse Pushcart Prize 2009 Nominations: [23]

Congratulations to the 5 poets and 1 writer nominated and announced here [23].