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RUNNER-UP:

• Anna M. Evans: States of Grace

FINALIST:

• Jane McKinley: Mudman

Congratulations to our runner-up and finalist above,  from our anonymous judging process!--

Some of them will also be offered a standard Able Muse Press book contract.

HONORABLE MENTION:

• Vince Gotera: Pacific Crossing
• Forester McClatchey: The Tedium of Miracles
• Athar C. Pavis: Double Exposure
• Lisa Sewell: Mean Season
• David Southward: Truth Sinks In
• Donald Mace Williams: Rainer Marie Rilke: One Hundred Short Poems

 

Stay tuned for the announcements coming soon for the 2024 Able Muse contests.

Subscribe now to Able Muse to read the fine work of the winners of our other contests, the 2023 Write Prize for poetry and fiction, in the forthcoming Winter 2023/24 issue.

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2022 Able Muse Book Award WINNER
Amy Glynn, Romance Language (selected by Rachel Hadas)

Romance Language - winner, 2022 Able Muse Book Award) - poems by Amy Glynn
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2021 Able Muse Book Award WINNER
Kelly Rowe, Rise above the River (selected by Mark Jarman)

Rise above the River - winner, 2021 Able Muse Book Award) - poems by Kelly Rowe
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2020 Able Muse Book Award WINNER
Len Krisak (selected by Brad Leithauser)

Say What You Will - winner, 2020 Able Muse Book Award) - poems by Len Krisak
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2019 Able Muse Book Award WINNER
Will Cordeiro (selected by David Mason)

Trap Street - winner, 2019 Able Muse Book Award) - poems by Will Cordeiro
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The Cupped Field - poems by Deirdre O'Connor
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Green Hill - poems by Lorna Knowles Blake
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Manhattanite - poems by Aaron Poochigian
(with an foreword by A. E. Stallings)
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The Borrowed World - poems by Emily Leithauser
(with an foreword by Michael Palma)
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Cause for Concern - poems by Carrie Shipers
(with an foreword by Jehanne Dubrow)
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Walking in on People - poems by Melissa Balmain
(with an foreword by David Yezzi)
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Virtue, Big as Sin - poems by Frank Osen
(with an afterword by Timothy Steele)
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Dirge for an Imaginary World (winner, 2011 Able Muse Book Award) - poems by Matthew Buckley Smith
(with an foreword by Greg Williamson)
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• (2022 Winner Announcement here)
• (2021 Winner Announcement here)
• (2020 Winner Announcement here)
• (2019 Winner Announcement here)
• (2018 Winner Announcement here)
• (2017 Winner Announcement here)
• (2016 Winner Announcement here)
• (2015 Winner Announcement here)
• (2014 Winner Announcement here)
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• (2012 Winner Announcement here)
• (2011 Winner Announcement here)

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