Able Muse - poet https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/448/448? en M.A. Schaffner https://www.ablemuse.com/v13/bio/m-a-schaffner? <p><strong>M.A. Schaffner</strong> has poetry recently published or forthcoming in <em>The Hollins Critic, Magma, Decanto, The Monarch Review,</em> and <em>Prime Number.</em> Other work includes the collection <em>The Good Opinion of Squirrels</em>, and the novel <em>War Boys.</em> Schaffner used to work as a civil servant, but now serves civil pugs.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v13/bio/m-a-schaffner?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v13/bio/m-a-schaffner?#comments able muse ablemuse.com atlee’s poplar bio blank verse m.a. schaffner number 13 poem poet poetry print edition summer 2012 v13 Sun, 13 May 2012 06:40:50 +0000 Alex Pepple 900 at https://www.ablemuse.com Able Muse Anthology (best of the poetry, fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/alexander-pepple/able-muse-anthology-best-poetry-fiction-short-stories-creative-nonfiction-essays-interviews? <!--paging_filter--><p>The <em>Able Muse Anthology</em> — from the new Able Muse Press — celebrates <em>Able Muse'</em>s journey through its first decade and beyond, by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography, including a foreword by Timothy Steele. This anthology has received high praise and acclaim from Dana Gioia, David Mason, Charles Martin, Catharine Savage-Brosman, X.J. Kennedy, Catharine Savage Brosman and others. <strong>PRAISE FOR THE ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/alexander-pepple/able-muse-anthology-best-poetry-fiction-short-stories-creative-nonfiction-essays-interviews?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/alexander-pepple/able-muse-anthology-best-poetry-fiction-short-stories-creative-nonfiction-essays-interviews?#comments Books able muse anthology alexander pepple book review essays fiction interview poems poet poetry poetry book timothy steele v9 x.j. kennedy Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:38:19 +0000 Administrator 754 at https://www.ablemuse.com The Best Disguise https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/susan-mclean/best-disguise? <!--paging_filter--><p>The Best Disguise by Susan McLean, recipient of the 2009 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of varied lyric poems that examine contemporary life with wit, insight, and a profound intensity. As Philip Dacey comments, "In any mode -- plangent or bawdy, searing or witty -- the poems in this book consistently project both a consummate artistry and an affecting humanity." Despite the author s obvious erudition and formal skills, the poems in The Best Disguise are as accessible as they are affecting and memorable.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/susan-mclean/best-disguise?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/susan-mclean/best-disguise?#comments Books best disguise book review julie stoner poems poet poetry book susan mclean v9 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:45:42 +0000 Administrator 730 at https://www.ablemuse.com Permanent Address https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/lorna-knowles-blake/permanent-address? <!--paging_filter--><p>Lorna Knowles Blake is a poet who writes with elegance, wit, and formal invention. Her subjects are love, marriage, family, and the kinds of commitment needed to sustain them. Reading her work, one sees again and again the contingencies of domestic life transformed by those rituals that give them place and permanence. Permanent Address is a wise and joyful collection by a poet of impressive accomplishment. - Charles Martin.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/lorna-knowles-blake/permanent-address?#comments Books lorna knowles blake permanent address poems poet poetry book v9 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:51:51 +0000 Administrator 722 at https://www.ablemuse.com Sixty Sonnets https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/ernest-hilbert/sixty-sonnets? <!--paging_filter--><p>A.E. Stallings writes that “like the minutes of the hour, these Sixty Sonnets both combine to make a whole and shine as individual moments. While groups of these sonnets occasionally suggest a narrative—refreshingly, like the fugitives and weary academics that people these pages—they work alone. The newspaper crime blotter itself, from which, perhaps, some of these incidents are torn, speaks up as a single sonnet.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/ernest-hilbert/sixty-sonnets?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/ernest-hilbert/sixty-sonnets?#comments Books ernest hilbert poems poet poetry book sixty sonnets sonnets v9 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:23:22 +0000 Administrator 719 at https://www.ablemuse.com Azores: Poems https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/david-yezzi/azores-poems? <!--paging_filter--><p>Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene. The ever-present and uncomfortable realities of envy, lust, and mortality haunt the book from poem to poem.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/david-yezzi/azores-poems?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/david-yezzi/azores-poems?#comments Books azores david yezzi epic poetry poems poet poetry book v9 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:27:01 +0000 Administrator 715 at https://www.ablemuse.com The Last Glimpse https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/rachel-hadas/last-glimpse? <script>$(function(){$("#main-inner").addClass("bg-filler"); });</script> <div style="margin-left:3em; margin-right:3em"> <h2> <p>The Last Glimpse</p> </h2> <ul> <ul> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>RW 1967-2009</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/rachel-hadas/last-glimpse?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/rachel-hadas/last-glimpse?#comments Poetry last glimpse poem poet rachel hadas rachel wetzsteon tribute v9 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:35:42 +0000 Administrator 711 at https://www.ablemuse.com Rachel Hadas https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/rachel-hadas? <p>Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and translations. Most recently, she co-edited the anthology&nbsp;<em><a href="/v9/books/rachel-hadas/greek-poets-homer-present">The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present</a></em>&nbsp;(Norton, 2009).<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/rachel-hadas?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/rachel-hadas?#comments Bios ache of appetite bio last glimpse poems poet rachel hadas rachel wetzsteon river of forgetfulness tribute v9 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:12:38 +0000 Administrator 710 at https://www.ablemuse.com Dover https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/shekhar-aiyar/dover? <h2> <p>Dover</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/shekhar-aiyar/dover?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/shekhar-aiyar/dover?#comments Poetry cliff dover poems poet sea shekhar aiyar v9 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:05:50 +0000 Administrator 690 at https://www.ablemuse.com Crash, Trance, Winter https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/shekhar-aiyar/crash-trance-winter? <h2><p>Crash, Trance, Winter</p> </h2> <p> The Rorschach snow is muddy<br> and fuzzily replete<br> with footprints void of gender.<br> The crazy-angled sleet<br> repudiates geometry<br> and dissipates the heat<br> that car and car engender<br> when violently they meet. </p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry/shekhar-aiyar/crash-trance-winter?#comments Poetry crash trance winter poems poet shekhar aiyar v9 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:01:21 +0000 Administrator 689 at https://www.ablemuse.com