L. Ward Abel

L. Ward Abel is a lifelong poet, composer of music and spoken-word performer.  He has written and recorded music for Abel & Rawls (now Abel, Rawls & Hayes), as Max Able (his former alter-ego) and with spoken-word pioneers Scapeweavel.  His poems have been published widely in the U.S. and Europe, in print and on-line, including or forthcoming in White Pelican Review, VLQ, erbacce (UK), Versal Two (Netherlands), Ink Pot, Texas Poetry Journal, Poems Niederngasse (Switzerland), Southern Gothic, Dead Drunk Dublin (Ireland), Poetry Super Highway, The Pedestal, Tertulia, many others.  His chapbook, Peach Box and Verge, has been published by Little Poem Press.  His new full length book of poems, Jonesing for Byzantium, will be published in early 2006 at UK Authors Press (Bristol, UK).  He lives in his native rural Georgia, cultivating his latifundia.


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