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The new issue of Able Muse [3]: Summer 2013

The new issue of Able Muse, Print Editon (Number 15) - Summer 2013, has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print [11] & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo & iBooks [11] editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com
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[12]with Able Muse WRITE PRIZE for Poetry & Fiction —

editorial: Alexander Pepple • featured artist: Clara Lieu (interviewed Sharon Passmore) • featured poet: Greg Williamsosn (interviewed by Stephen Kampa) • fiction: Jim Meirose, Ilya Lyashevsky, Haley Hach, Jonathan Danielson • essays: David Mason, N.S. Thompson, Peter Byrne • book reviews: David Caplan • poetry: Dick Allen, Fred Longworth, Catharine Savage Brosman, N.S. Thompson, Timothy Murphy, D.R. Goodman, Len Krisak, Propertius, Callie Siskel, Jen DeGregorio, Robert J. Levy, Ryan Wilson, Robert Schultz, Colin Dodds, Gerald Bosacker.
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to -- Jonathan Scott (Assistant Poetry Editor), Gregory Dowling (Nonfiction Editor),  Nina Schuyler (Fiction Editor), Janice D. Soderling, Tim Love & John Riley (Assistant Fiction Editors).

Alex Pepple, Editor
www.AbleMuse.com [13]

** Now Available for Pre-Order from ABLE MUSE PRESS:
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Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - Poems by Maryann Corbett [20](with a Foreword by Peter Campion)

Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter  by Maryann Corbett is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award.
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"What makes Maryann Corbett such a rare, excellent writer must be her talent for weaving together various artistic impulses, so that her poems often sound both traditional and brand new, both humorous and serious, both worldly-wise and, as John Keats once put it, “capable of being in uncertainties.” [She] remains a poet of the first order, and her poems are cause for gratitude, and deep enjoyment." 
             – Peter Campion (from the Foreword)

 . . . read more [21]  |  Pre-Order your copy now! [22]

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Virtue, Big as Sin - Poems by Frank Osen [20](with an afterword by Timothy Steele)

* WINNER * 2012 Able Muse Book Award
* Included in the First Books Panel at West Chester University Poetry Conference this summer
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"Frank Osen’s Virtue, Big as Sin offers one witty, elegant poem after another. The rhymes are especially clever, the meter sure, the stanzas well-shaped, but this poet’s sense of proportion is also reflected in wisdom (and what is wisdom but a sense of proportion?). An urbane maker of sparkling phrases like “that genuine Ur of the ersatz,” Osen can also write plainly, movingly, about a young girl’s funeral. And he reflects often on art itself, which he so rightly calls “the conjured awe.”
            – Mary Jo Salter (Judge, 2012 Able Muse Book Award)

 . . . read more [23]  |  Pre-Order your copy now! [24]

[20]* Recent Release * from ABLE MUSE PRESS:

Sailing to Babylon - Poems by James Pollock [20](with a Foreword by Jeffery Donaldson)

* Included in the First Books Panel at West Chester University Poetry Conference this summer
* Currently, a Shortlisted Book for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize
* Finalist 2012 Governor General Literary Awards for Poetry
* Honorable Mention for the 2012 Posner Poetry Book Award
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"The sentence, in James Pollock's remarkably assured debut volume, is a unit of music and of time, a carefully modulated choreography that moves the reader through an elegantly constructed set of meditations on place and history and the education of the self . . . . Quietly confident, formally adept, assured in their music, these artful lyrics are not only an accomplishment in themselves but promise to register, as the poet says, 'the breaking changes of a life to come'."
        – Mark Doty, Judge's Citation, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist

 . . . read more [25]  |  Order your copy now! [26]

Now Available from Able Muse Press [14]
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Now available from Able Muse Press [14], Amazon and other online & offline bookstores:
• Able Muse - Print Edition back issues & subscription [27]
• T [28]he Able Muse Anthology [28] - the best of the poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography [28]
• Corporeality - stories by Hollis Seamon [29]
• Strange Borderlands - poems by Ben Berman [30]
• The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy Videlock [31]

Coming Soon from Able Muse Press in 2013/2014 [14]

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• Compositions of the Dead Playing Flutes by Barbara Ellen Sorensen [20]

Selected 2012 Able Muse Book Award Finalists:
• House Music - poems by Ellen Kaufman [14]
• Heaven from Steam - poems by Carol Light [14]
• Pumpkin Chucking - poems by Stephen Scaer [14]

SUBMISSIONS: [36]

Able Muse (print edition):
1) reads submissions year-round. Submit now for a chance to appear in Able Muse - send your best poetry, art, fiction, essays, book reviews. The submission guidelines are available here [36].
2) Submit now for our Translation Special Issue. guest edited by acclaimed poet, critic and translator Charles Martin [37].

Able Muse Press:
reads submissions during the yearly open reading period, May 1 - July 15, 2013. Submit your poetry/fiction manuscript now. The submission guidelines are available here [38].

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