Able Muse

Publisher Marketing: This is the seminannualAble Muse Review(Print Edition) - Winter 2014 issue, Number 18. 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 2014 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists. EDITORIAL Alexander Pepple. FEATURED ARTIST Gustavo Thomas. FEATURED POET Wendy Videlock; (Interviewed by David Mason). ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Adel Souto. FICTION Tamas Dobozy, Maxine Rosaler, Michael Lacare, Bridget Apfeld, Anthony Mastroianni, J. Preston Witt. ESSAYS N. S. Thompson, Michael Cohen, Barbara Haas, Derek Furr. BOOK REVIEWS Martin McGovern, Hollis Seamon. POETRY Hailey Leithauser, Catharine Savage Brosman, Katharine Coles, Susan McLean, Jeredith Merrin, Lisa Huffaker, Len Krisak, Gail Tyson, Stephen Kampa, Terese Coe, Robert W. Crawford, Marilyn L. Taylor, Catherine Chandler, Judith Kunst, Paul Verlaine, Diane Furtney, Teresa Milbrodt, Kathryn Locey, Peter Austin, Kyle Potvin, Roy Bentley, Pierre de Ronsard, Frank De Canio, Dorie deWitt LaRue, J. P. Grasser, Zara Raab, Duane Caylor, Anne-Marie Thompson, Scott M. Miller, Eric Berlin. 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:  Videlock, Wendy Wendy Videlock was born in a raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She drifted many a year, and now lives on the Western Slope of the Colorado Rockies with her husband, two children, and their domesticated coyote. In recent years her work has appeared widely, most notably and most regularly in Poetry. NEVERTHELESS (Able Muse Press, 2011) is her first full-length collection. Contributor Bio:  Thomas, Gustavo Gustavo Thomas es un dramaturgo, artista de Butoh e investigador de artes escenicas mexicano. Actor en su base estudio al lado del dramaturgo y pedagogo Antonio Gonzalez Caballero y ha sido promotor del metodo de actuacion surgido en el taller de Gonzalez Caballero. Despues de haber trabajado en Mexico durante mas de 15 anos como actor, dramaturgo y director de escena se ha dedicado, desde el ano 2003, a viajar por el mundo buscando tecnicas de actuacion y nuevas formas de abordar su propio teatro incluyendo la danza-teatro Butoh a la que se dedica profesionalmente desde 2010.