Includes the winning stories and poems from the 2023 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.
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CONTENTS:
WITH THE 2023 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 Active Family Theme
FEATURED POET - Ned Balbo;
(Interviewed by Stephen Kampa)
FICTION: W Goodwin, Annie Shepherd
ESSAYS: Dylan Night, Roy Isen, Jean Rover
BOOK REVIEWS: Brooke Clark, Maryann Corbett, Reagan Upshaw
POETRY: Hilary Biehl, E. Hume Covey, Malcolm Farley, Kelly Scott Franklin, Rachel Hadas, David M. Katz, Jennifer Keith, David Lehman, Forester McClatchey, Jane McKinley, Susan McLean, Matthew Buckley Smith, Maura Stanton, N. S. Thompson, Christopher R. Vaughan, Wendy Videlock
Alexander Pepple founded and edits Able Muse and Able Muse Press, and also founded and directs the Eratosphere online workshop. His poetry and prose have been or will be published in Blue Unicorn, Grand Little Things, Barrow Street, Hopkins Review, Rosebud, 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).