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Recent Books

Remembering Lethe By Brian Culhane December 17, 2021	Fetch, Muse By Rebecca Starks November 26, 2021	Say What You Will (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry) By Len Krisak November 1, 2021	Progressions of the Mind By David Berman October 15, 2021
Beyond Repair By J. C. Todd September 3, 2021	Trap Street By Will Cordeiro August 27, 2021	Double-Parked, with Tosca By Ellen Kaufman May 14, 2021	Leaving Camustianavaig By John Beaton 23-Apr-21
Last Wishes By Rob Wright February 12, 2021	Able Muse, Winter 2020/2021 (No. 28 - print edition) Edited by Alexander Pepple February 2, 2021	The Powow River Poets Anthology II Edited By Paulette Demers Turco January 16, 2021	New Jersey Noir: Cape May By William Baer January 15, 2021

2021 Able Muse Book Award (for poetry manuscripts)

Final Judge: Mark Jarman
$1000 prize plus publication of winning manuscript by Able Muse Press. Finalists will also be considered for publication.
Entry deadline: March 31, 2021

2021 Able Muse Write Prize (for poetry & fiction)

2021 WINNERS:
Amina Gautier: fiction winner;
E. D. Watson: poetry winner.
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Say What You Will - Poems
by Len Krisak

Winner, 2020 Able Muse Book Award
". . . enormous erudition, sure, but equally with wit and charm, solemnity and grace, in this exquisite book.."—Ilya Kaminsky

New Jersey Noir: Cape May
A Novel
by William Baer

The Jack Colt Murder Mystery Novels, Book 2
". . . this is a can’t-put-it-down thrill ride."—Publishers Weekly

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Book-Launch Reading: David Berman, Will Cordeiro, J.C. Todd: 24 October 2021

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Remembering Lethe

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ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD, 2021 Results

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2021

Contest Winner Announcement

Final Judge: Mark Jarman

Able Muse is pleased to announce the winner of the Book Award for a poetry manuscript (judged anonymously throughout by the Able Muse Contest Committee and the final judge, Mark Jarman.)