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This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2023/2024 issue, Number 31. 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). Includes the winning stories and poems from the 2023 Able Muse contest (Able Muse Write Prize) winners and finalists. "... [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry."-Dana Gioia. "Able Muse 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."-NewPages. CONTENTS: WITH THE 2023 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY & FICTION - Includes the winning story and poems from the contest winners and finalists EDITORIAL - Alexander Pepple FEATURED ART - An Active Family Theme FEATURED POET - Ned Balbo; (Interviewed by Stephen Kampa) FICTION: W Goodwin, Annie Shepherd ESSAYS: Dylan Night, Roy Isen, Jean Rover BOOK REVIEWS: Brooke Clark, Maryann Corbett, Reagan Upshaw POETRY: Hilary Biehl, E. Hume Covey, Malcolm Farley, Kelly Scott Franklin, Rachel Hadas, David M. Katz, Jennifer Keith, David Lehman, Forester McClatchey, Jane McKinley, Susan McLean, Matthew Buckley Smith, Maura Stanton, N. S. Thompson, Christopher R. Vaughan, Wendy Videlock