<p>This is the seminannual&nbsp;<em>Able Muse Review&nbsp;</em>(Print Edition) - Winter 2018 issue, Number 26. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art ' photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the<em>&nbsp;Able Muse-</em>online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence,&nbsp;<em>Able Muse</em> print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the <em>Able Muse Anthology</em>&nbsp;(Able Muse Press, 2010).</p><p><em><strong>'. . . </strong></em><strong>[ ABLE MUSE ]</strong><em><strong> fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry.</strong></em><strong>'</strong>&mdash;Dana Gioia.</p><p><strong><em>'</em>Able Muse<em> is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life.'</em>&mdash;NewPages.</strong></p><p><strong>CONTENTS:</strong></p><p><em>WITH THE 2018 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY ' FICTION&nbsp;</em>-&nbsp;<br />
Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists.</p><p><em>EDITORIAL</em>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Alexander Pepple.</p><p><em>FEATURED ART</em>&nbsp;-&nbsp;A <em>Couples</em> theme.</p><p><em>FEATURED POET</em>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Matthew Buckley Smith;<br />
(Interviewed by Joanna Pearson).</p><p><em>FICTION</em>&nbsp;- Anthony J. Otten, Claudette E. Sutton.</p><p><em>ESSAYS</em>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Stella Pye, Michael Cohen, Sam Aaron Morgan.</p><p><em>BOOK REVIEWS</em>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Brooke Clark.</p><p><em>POETRY</em>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Amit Majmudar, Gabriel Spera, Lynn Marie Houston, Maryann Corbett, D. R. Goodman, Heinrich Heine, Terese Coe, Andrew Firsardi, Alexis Sears, Ann M. Thompson, Melissa Cannon, David Allen Sullivan, Rob Wright.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>