Able Muse is a free, online journal focusing on metrical poetry, as well as fiction, art, photography, essays, interviews, and reviews. Able Muse was created in 1999 by Alexander Pepple. Able Muse is published on an irregular basis. They do not currently pay for submissions.

Contributors to Able Muse include X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy is a poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and writer of children's literature and student textbooks on English literature and poetry.-Beginnings and academic career:...

, Mark Jarman

Mark Jarman

Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s...

, A.E. Stallings, Annie Finch

Annie Finch

Annie Finch is an American poet. She is author of numerous books of poetry as well as poetry translation, poetry anthologies and criticism, opera libretti, and poetic collaborations with visual art, music, theater, and dance. Her writings on poetry address topics including meter and prosody,...

, Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Classics: Essays , and her most recent poetry collection is The Ache of Appetite . Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, the O.B...

, R.S. Gwynn and Thaisa Frank.