Able Muse - a Review of Poetry, Prose and Art - Winter 2012 No. 14 - Print edition

Publisher Marketing: This is the seminannualAble Muse Review(Print Edition) - Winter, 2012 issue. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with theAble 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). ." . . [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry." Dana Gioia. CONTENTS: WITH THE ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists. EDITORIAL Alexander Pepple. FEATURED ARTIST Nicolas Evariste. FEATURED POET Catherine Tufariello; (Interviewed by Uche Ogbuji). SPOTLIGHT POET Ted Kooser. FICTION Carole Rosenthal, Lewis Buzbee, Evelyn Somers, Gigi Mark, Adrianne Aron. ESSAYS Gregory Dowling, Derek Furr, Michael Cohen, Peter Byrne. BOOK REVIEWS Aaron Poochigian, Ryan Wilson, Jennifer Reeser. POETRY Richard Wakefield, Catharine Savage Brosman, Timothy Murphy, Lorna Knowles Blake, Wendy Videlock, Thomas Carper, Tony Barnstone, Leonard Kress, Elise Hempel, Stephen Harvey, Victor Hugo, Catullus, Len Krisak, Rose Kelleher, Kathryn Locey, Annabelle Moseley, Ted Mc Carthy, Peter Kline, John Beaton, Sarah White, Susan McLean, Susan Cohen, Jeanne Wagner, Bruce Berger, Richard Meyer. Contributor Bio:  Pepple, Alexander Alexander Pepple is the editor of Able Muse Press. He edits their biannual publication, ABLE MUSE, which features poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography. Contributor Bio:  Tufariello, Catherine Tufariello has taught literature and writing at Cornell, the College of Charleston, and the University of Miami. Contributor Bio:  Kooser, Ted As Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser launched the weekly poetry column "American Life in Poetry," which appears in over 100 newspapers nationwide. He is the author of ten books of poems, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Delights & Shadows. He lives in Nebraska.