<p>This is the seminannual <em>Able Muse Review </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> Able Muse-</em>online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, <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> (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>—Dana Gioia.</p><p><strong><em>'</em>Able Muse<em> is refreshing to read for its selection of poetry that adheres to form . . . a quality magazine offering the reader informed and unexpected views on life.'</em>—NewPages.</strong></p><p><strong>CONTENTS:</strong></p><p><em>WITH THE 2018 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY ' FICTION </em>- <br />
Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists.</p><p><em>EDITORIAL</em> - Alexander Pepple.</p><p><em>FEATURED ART</em> - A <em>Couples</em> theme.</p><p><em>FEATURED POET</em> - Matthew Buckley Smith;<br />
(Interviewed by Joanna Pearson).</p><p><em>FICTION</em> - Anthony J. Otten, Claudette E. Sutton.</p><p><em>ESSAYS</em> - Stella Pye, Michael Cohen, Sam Aaron Morgan.</p><p><em>BOOK REVIEWS</em> - Brooke Clark.</p><p><em>POETRY</em> - 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> </p>
