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Able Muse

467 Saratoga Avenue #602

San Jose, CA 95129

E-mail: editor[at]ablemuse[dot]com

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes Online submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: less than 3 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1528-3798 Founded: 1999 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram, Small Press Distribution Copy price: $14.95 Average pages: 160 Sample price (postpaid): $18 (US), $20 (foreign) Subscription (Ind) 1 year: $22 (US), $29 (foreign) Subscription (Inst) 1 year: $30

Publisher’s description: Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. We are looking for well-crafted poems of any length or subject that employ skillful and imaginative use of meter and rhyme, executed in a contemporary idiom, that reads as naturally as your free verse poems. All forms of formal poetry are welcome. We will also publish, occasionally, the exceptional free verse poem. For an example of what we're interested in, check the poetry of Philip Larkin, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht…

The best way to become acquainted with any publication is to read its recent issues. We invite you to enjoy and study our online archives or—better yet—to subscribe to Able Muse print edition at the Able Muse Press website at www.ablemusepress.com.

Send only previously unpublished poems. No simultaneous submissions, please. Contributions that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in Able Muse, unless a cross-publishing arrangement has previously been negotiated.

Recent issues:

Number 12, Winter 2012
Featured Poet: David Mason; Featured Artist: Alper Çukur. Includes Able Muse Write Prize winning story and poems. With poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, interviews, art & photography from Suzanne J. Doyle, Catharine Savage Brosman, Timothy Murphy, Gabriel Spera, Richard Wakefield, Susan McLean, Lyn Lifshin, George Witte, Amit Majmudar, Jean L. Kreiling, Rachel Bentley, Douglas Campbell, Andrew Frisardi, David J. Rothman, Michael Cohen and others.