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Recent Books

Kitchen Apocrypha By Gregory Emilio 12-Apr-24	Twisted Pairs By Gabriel Spera 8-Mar-24	Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale By Stephen Gibson 16-Feb-24	The Teller's Cage By John Philip Drury 12-Jan-24
Romance Language (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry) By Amy Glynn 2-Jan-24	World Too Loud to Hear By Stephen Kampa 24-Nov-23	Rise above the River (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry) By Kelly Rowe October 20, 2023	You Will Remember Me By Barbara Lydecker Crane October 13, 2023
Wolf Trees By Katie Hartsock September 15, 2023	Seeing the There There By David Alpaugh September 8, 2023	Imaginary Sonnets By Daniel Galef July 14, 2023	Advocatus Diaboli (The Catholic Themes, Book One) By William Baer June 9, 2023

2023 Able Muse Book Award (for poetry manuscripts)

Final Judge: David Yezzi
$1000 prize plus publication of winning manuscript by Able Muse Press. Finalists will also be considered for publication.
Entry deadline: March 31, 2023

2023 Able Muse Write Prize (for Poetry & Flash Fiction)

Final Judges: Chelsea Rathburn (Poetry);
Terese Svoboda (Fiction)
$500 prize for the best poem, and $500 prize for the best short story (flash fiction), plus publication in Able Muse (the print journal). Finalists in each category will also be considered for publication.
Entry deadline: March 15, 2023

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