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).

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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.