This is the seminannual Able 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 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).

". . . [ 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.