This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2024/2025 issue, Number 32. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010).
Includes the winning stories and poems from the 2024 Able Muse contest (Able Muse Write Prize) winners and finalists.
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CONTENTS:
WITH THE 2024 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION - Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists
EDITORIAL – Alexander Pepple
FEATURED ART – A Reflection Theme
TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH HARRISON FEATURE:
Tribute GUEST-EDITOR: Stephen Kampa
Tribute Poetry: Joseph Harrison, Andrew Motion, Jennifer Keith
Tribute Essays: Stephen Kampa, Philip Hoy, Joe Osterhaus, Ned Balbo
FICTION – Rob Wright
ESSAY – J. Eric Miller
BOOK REVIEWS – Rachel Hadas, Alexander Pepple
POETRY – Rebekah Wolman, Joshua Coben, Ben Corvo, Susan McLean, Stephen Gibson, Bruce Bennett, Elijah Perseus Blumov, Catherine Chandler, Adam Tavel, Julia B. Griffin, John Glowney, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Stephen Gibson