Able Muse, Winter 2022/23 (No. 30 - print edition): a review of poetry, prose & art

Alexander Pepple · Mary Jo Salter

Dec 2022 · Able Muse, Print Edition Book 30 · Able Muse Press

About this ebook

This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2022/2023 issue, Number 30. 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 2022 Able Muse contest (Able Muse Write Prize) winners and finalists.

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CONTENTS:

WITH THE 2022 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION – Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists

EDITORIAL – Alexander Pepple

FEATURED ART - A Height Theme

FEATURED POET - Mary Jo Salter;

(Interviewed by Stephen Kampa)

FICTION –L. M. Brown, Terese Coe, Silvia DiPierdomenico, Thomas Mampalam, R. S. Powers

ESSAYS – Evan Fiscella, Michael Hettich, N.S. Thompson

BOOK REVIEWS – Brooke Clark, Susan McLean, Peter Vertacnik

POETRY – John Wall Barger, Daniel Bourne, Brian Brodeur, Blake Campbell, Dan Campion, Mike Chasar, Tadeusz Dziewanowski, Aaron Fischer, Amy Glynn, Timothy Kleiser, Jenna Le, Burt Myers, Jay Rogoff, Natalie Staples, Donald Wheelock, Gail White

About the author

CONTENTS:

WITH THE 2022 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION – Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists

EDITORIAL – Alexander Pepple

FEATURED ART - A Height Theme

FEATURED POET - Mary Jo Salter;

(Interviewed by Stephen Kampa)

FICTION –L. M. Brown, Terese Coe, Silvia DiPierdomenico, Thomas Mampalam, R. S. Powers

ESSAYS – Evan Fiscella, Michael Hettich, N.S. Thompson

BOOK REVIEWS – Brooke Clark, Susan McLean, Peter Vertacnik

POETRY – John Wall Barger, Daniel Bourne, Brian Brodeur, Blake Campbell, Dan Campion, Mike Chasar, Tadeusz Dziewanowski, Aaron Fischer, Amy Glynn, Timothy Kleiser, Jenna Le, Burt Myers, Jay Rogoff, Natalie Staples, Donald Wheelock, Gail White

Mary Jo Salter was born in 1954 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up there, in Detroit, and in Baltimore. She was educated at Harvard and at Cambridge. Salter has held editorial positions at the Atlantic and at the New Republic, and was the editor for both the Collected Poems and the Selected Poems of Amy Clampitt. She has also coedited three editions (1996, 2005, and 2018) of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Salter has been a lyricist for composers, including Fred Hersch and Caroline Shaw. After many years of teaching at Mount Holyoke College, Salter went on to Johns Hopkins University, where she taught for fifteen years before retiring in 2022 as Krieger-Eisenhower Professor. Her most recent of nine volumes of poetry, all published by Knopf, is Zoom Rooms (2022). Her second children’s book, Leena Learns to Talk, will appear in 2024. She lives in Baltimore.