Able Muse, Winter 2020/21 (No. 28 - print edition): a review of poetry, prose & art

Alexander Pepple · Stephen Kampa

Feb 2021 · Able Muse, Print Edition Book 28 · Able Muse Press

About this ebook

This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2020/2021 issue, Number 28. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010).

Includes the winning stories and poems from the 2020 Able Muse contest (Able Muse Write Prize) winners and finalists.

". . . [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry."-Dana Gioia.

"Able Muse is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life."-NewPages.

CONTENTS:

WITH THE 2020 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION - 

Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists

EDITORIAL - Alexander Pepple

FEATURED ART - An Exotic Theme

INTERNATIONAL FICTION SPECIAL FEATURE - L.M. Brown, John McLennon, Nageen Rather, Guadalupe Sexto, Treena Thibodeau

ESSAYS - N.S. Thompson, Christopher Rivas

BOOK REVIEWS - Travis Biddick, Luke Hathaway, Matthew Buckley Smith

POETRY - John Beaton, Bruce Bennett, Catharine Savage Brosman, Dan Campion, Richard Cecil, J.P. Celia, Terese Coe, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Anna M. Evans, David Galef, S.R. Graham, Julia Griffin, Elise Hempel, Vera Ignatowitsch, George Kalogeris, Garret Keizer, Quincy R. Lehr, Amit Majmudar, Eileen Malone, Tim McGrath, Susan McLean, Estill Pollock, Anne Delana Reeves, Rainer Maria Rilke, J.C. Scharl, David Southward, Wendy Videlock, Marly Youmans

 

About the author

Alexander Pepple founded and edits Able Muse and Able Muse Press, and also founded and directs the Eratosphere online worskshop. His poetry and prose have been or will be published in Barrow Street, River Styx, American Arts Quarterly, Light, Think Journal, Euphony, Per Contra, Eclectica, Measure and elsewhere. He edited the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010).

Stephen Kampa was born in Missoula, Montana, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. He holds degrees from Carleton College and the Johns Hopkins University. His books are Cracks in the Invisible (Ohio University Press, 2011), Bachelor Pad (Waywiser Press, 2014), and Articulate as Rain (Waywiser Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2018 and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf, 2020). He has also worked as a musician for over a decade, and his session work can be heard on Robert “Top” Thomas’s The Town Crier (WildRoots Records) and Victor Wainwright’s Boom Town (Blind Pig Records). Currently, he teaches at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.