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The new issue of Able Muse, Print Editon (Number 12) - Winter 2011, has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle editions), with online excerpts and the subscribers' online edition at: www.AbleMuse.com

with Able Muse WRITE PRIZE for Poetry & Fiction —
Includes the 2011 winning story & poems from contest winners and finalists.
editorial: Alexander Pepple • featured artist: Alper Çukur (interviewed by Sharon Passmore) • featured poet: David Mason (interviewed by David J. Rothman) •fiction: Gilbert Allen, Rachel Bentley, Bruce Bromley, Keith J. Powell, Mary Widdifield, Douglas Campbell • essays:Michael Cohen, Seree Cohen Zohar, André Naffis-Sahely, Frank Osen, Andrew Frisardi • book reviews: Stephen Collingtonl • poetry:Suzanne J. Doyle, Midge Goldberg, Catharine Savage Brosman, Amit Majmudar, Richard Wakefield, Timothy Murphy, Philip Morre, Paul Bone, Alyce Miller, Kathryn Locey, Susan McLean, Rebecca Foust, Lyn Lifshin, Stephen Collington, George Witte, William Conelly, Lew Watts, Jean L. Kreiling, Susan McLean, John Beaton, Joshua Lavender, Catherine Chandler, Gabriel Spera, T.S. Kerrigan, Bertran de Born (translated by Maryann Corbett), Achilles Paraschos (translated by David Mason).
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With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to -- Juleigh Howard-Hobson (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
2012 Able Muse Contest now open for submissions:
ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) • $500 for the winning poem (all styles welcome) • $500 for the winning story • publication in Able Muse (print edition) • anonymous judging by the final judges: John Drury (poetry), Ellen Sussman (fiction)
- Entry deadline: February 15, 2012.
( 2011 results here).
ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (Poetry) - $1000 prize, plus book publication
Blind Judging by Final Judge: Mary Jo Salter
Entry deadline: March 31, 2012.
(2012 results here).
Now available from Able Muse Press
Now Available from Able Muse Press





Now available from Able Muse Press, Amazon and other online & offline bookstores:
• Able Muse - Print Edition back issues & subscription
• The Able Muse Anthology - the best of the poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography
• Nevertheless - poems by Wendy Videlock
• Lines of Flight - poems by Catherine Chandler
• Grasshopper - the poetry of M A Griffiths
Coming Soon from Able Muse Press in 2012


• Sailing to Babylon - poems by John Pollock
from ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD, 2011 - WINNER & FINALISTS
(final judge, Andrew Hudgins)
WINNER:
• Dirge for an Imaginary World - poems by Matthew Buckley Smith
FINALISTS:
• Life in Second Circle - poems by Michael Cantor
• This Bed Our Bodies Shaped - poems by April Lindner
• The Cosmic Purr - poems by Aaron Poochigian
• A Vertical Mile - poems by Richard Wakefield
• Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter - poems by Maryann Corbett (in 2013)
More information at the Able Muse Press website - www.ablemusepress.com
Cheers,
...Alex
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