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This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Summer 2017 issue, Number 23. 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 Museprint 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. "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: EDITORIAL - Alexander Pepple. FEATURED ART - Zebra and zebra-related theme. FEATURED POET - Emily Grosholz; (Interviewed by Mark Jarman). FICTION - Tom Larsen, Israel A. Bonilla, Bruce Johnson. MEMOIRS - David Larsen. ESSAYS - Laura DiCarlo Short. BOOK REVIEWS - Brooke Clark. POETRY - Frederick Wilbur, Roy Bentley, Aaron Poochigian, Catharine Savage Brosman, Terese Coe, William Conelly, Horace, Ryan Wilson, Francesco Petrarca, Lee Harlin Bahan, Tatiana Forero Puerta.