A Selection Of Poetry by Chris Roe

Swan

Preening,

Soft, virgin white feathers,

Aware of my presence

But not of my world.

Before me, another world,

No analytic philosophy,

No targets, budgets or schedules.

No self-appraisal,

Or attempt to be

Something other than

Just part of.

Poetry: A Selection of Poetry By JW Drake

JW Drake lives and writes poetry and other things in North Carolina. He has had work published in "Nefarious Ballerina," "Red Ochre Press," "Line Zero," "Red Booth Review," and other small but extremely intelligent printed and e-publications. He will always appreciate more. 

Face Paint

I

Getting the face right depends a lot on the colors,

black may make for cruelty or laughter,

white can be happy or hateful or dead,

and red raises hopes or burns them in the fire.

Poetry: A Selection of Poetry by A.J. Huffman

A.J. Huffman has published eight solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  She also has two new full-length poetry collections forthcoming, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press) and A Few bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing).  She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind Of A Hurricane Press. www.kindofahurricanepress.com 

Aging in an Instant

Mirror.

Silver surface.

Keeper of self-image.

Plane reveals echoing touches

of time.

Fiction: "Only Nada Lives On The Other Side Of Mountains" by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan

Muhammad Nasrullah Khan is from Pakistan currently living in Saudi Arabia, where he is Lecturer in English at Taif University. His short stories are well recognized internationally for his unique prose style, and really naive innocence of rural life of Pakistan. His short story Donkey-Man was selected among the Notable Online Short Stories of 2003 in the StorySouth Million Writers Award. His work has appeared in Newtopia Magazine, Gowanus Books,Offcourse literary Journal University at Albany, The Raven Chronicles, and many others. He exists on twitter as @nasar_peace ,at  [email protected], [email protected],  and https://www.facebook.com/nasar.peace 

Flash Fiction: "Battery" by Mitchell Grabois

Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois' poems and fictions have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He is a regular contributor to The Prague Revue, and has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital is available for .99 cents on Kindle and Nook or as a print edition.

  

Battery

I was nine when my grandmother died. She was more than my father’s mother, she was my life raft. I wondered if I could make it without her. I wondered, not in words, but in my body. 

My mother put on a dress that accentuated her plush 1950’s figure, and my father put on a dark business suit to wear to the funeral. They were leaving me home. My father was below average height, but towered above me as he bent to kiss me goodbye. His lips came out of a cloud of Old Spice. They left. I watched the car pull away through the ground-level den window, the same window through which my pal Richie and I sneaked frightened peaks when we watched monster movies. It was a grey and windy day, ordered for the occasion.

Art Photography Gallery By Duane Locke

Duane Locke, PH. D, lives hermetically in Tampa, Florida near anhinga, gallinules, raccoons, alligators.  Has had published 6,905 different poems, none self-published or paid to be published.  This includes 32 books of poems.

His latest book publications are DUANE LOCKE, THE FIRST DECADE, 1968-1978 (First 11 books—Order from publisher Bitter Oleander Press or AMAZON---YANG CHU’S POEMS,

Order from AMAZON---TERRESTRIAL  ILLUMINATIONS, FIRST SELECTION, from FOWLPOX PRESS.

He is a photographer of Surphotos and Nature.  Has had 447 photos published,

Some as book covers.  A book of 40 of his surphotos  has been published by BLAZE VOX,

POETIC IMPRINTS, RESPONSES TO THE ART OF DUANE LOCKE, by Connie Stadler and Felino Soraino.

His paintings have been described in Gary Monroe’s EXTRAORDINARY INTERPRETITONS,

Published by University of Florida Press, and are in many private collections and museums.

He is a student of philosophy—favorites: Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,

Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida.

Fiction: "Mimmi And Me In Paradise" by Peter Fraser

Peter Fraser lives in Newcastle, Australia. He has pursued many different careers, including English teaching and winemaking. At present he enjoys travel and writing. [email protected]

 Mimmi and Me in Paradise

I’d met Mimmi in Lyon. She was way so attractive, and for a while, I’m sure she found me engaging. That is not beyond understanding. I can be most persuasive at times. Well certainly until you get to know me. Mimmi was a citizen of that city.  She could speak French and English and had a part time job as a waitress. Which was fine, it gave me a lot of time to myself. We were nurturing a little romance and felt it needed to be tempered with a holiday in paradise.

Fiction: "Strike Not" by Scott Archer Jones

Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on his fifth novel in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He’s worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. Now he's on the masthead of the Prague Revue, and has a novel out this summer, Jupiter and Gilgamesh, a Novel of Sumeria and Texas.  Website -- www.scottarcherjones.com 

 

STRIKE NOT

Las esperanzas engordan pero no maintienen.  Hope fattens, but it doesn't keep you alive.

It turned noon as David Alvarez raised the roof of the Crusher.  With short little explosive sounds, the Rambler lying in the Crusher’s bed released tension from its new shape, as if it tried to pop its bones back into its joints.  The compressor topped up its pressure, and when the gauge showed right for a fast restart, David turned off the diesel.

Essay: Sea-Monkey Necklace by R.J. Fox

   

  R.J. Fox is the award-winning writer of several short stories, plays, poems, a memoir and 15 feature length screenplays. Two of his screenplays have been optioned to Hollywood.

     His work has been published in the The Naked Feather, The Medulla Review, Lap Top Lit Mag, The Path, Contemporary Literary Review India, Yareah Magazine, One Title Magazine, The Knotted Beard Review, Bareback, The Zodiac Review, Fortunates, Randomly Accessed Poetics, Wordsmiths, Toska, Enhance, Common Line Journal, Cold Noon, Miracle e-Zine, Shadows Express, The Rusty Nail, Airplane Reading, Untapped Cities, The Lyceum, L’Allure des Mots, Awesome Online, Hackwriters, Litlover, Vine Leaves, Death Throes, Writer’s World Journal, Tenement Block Review, Unchartered Frontier, Wordsmiths Online, The Commonline Journal, The Bitchin’ Kitcsch, Wordplay, Five 2 One, The Wordsmith Journal TravelMag, inTravel Magazine, Dearborn Times-Herald, and Detroit News.

     He is also the writer/director/editor of several award-winning short films. His recent stage directing debut led to an Audience Choice Award at the Canton One-Acts Festival in Canton, MI.

Art Paintings By W. Jack Savage

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books. Two short story collections, three novels, the autobiographical The High Sky of Winter’s Shadows and Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage.  Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California. 
 wjacksavage.com

INDIANA VOICE JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2014 ISSUE 2

September 2014                                                                                

vol.1 issue 2 

~SEPTEMBER FEATURES~

In This Issue...

Quick Links To Content:

Photography by Mary Clark

PHOTO GALLERY:  "Summer Beauty" by Mary Clark

CREATIVE NON-FICTION:  "Better Than Flowers" by Bill Vernon

POETRY:  A Selection Of Three Poems by Dan Jacoby

POETRY:  A Selection Of Three Poems by Valentina Cano

POETRY:  A Selection Of Three Poems by John Grey

FICTION:  "Music Outside A Roller Rink" by William Cass

INTERVIEW:  A Conversation with Lorene Stunson Hill Author of  "To Dance With Ugly People"

~Or Scroll Down To Browse~

Poetry: A Selection Of Three Poems By Dan Jacoby

Dan Jacoby was born in Chicago in 1947. He has published poetry in Haunted Waters Press, Deep South Magazine, Lines and Stars, Red Booth Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Red Fez. He has work soon to be published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine, The Vehicle, Clockwise Cat, and Steel Toe Review. He is a member of the American Academy of Poets.

 

Moonlight Chase

Used to be that men

Would sit around a fire

Of any fine foggy southern evening

Listening to fox hounds

Poetry: A Selection Of Three Poems by Valentina Cano

 Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time she has either reading or writing. Her works have appeared in numerous publications and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Her debut novel, The Rose Master, was published in 2014.

BECOMING

She is learning to breathe underwater.
Second by swallowed second,

Poetry: A Selection Of Three Poems by John Grey

John Grey is an Australian born poet. Recently published in Slant, Southern California Review and Natural Bridge with work upcoming in the Kerf, Leading Edge and Louisiana Literature.


 TAKE GERRY AND GRETCHEN FOR EXAMPLE

wham crash,

who slammed that door?

don't tell me it was the wind,

Interview: A Conversation With Lorene Stunson Hill Author of "To Dance With Ugly People"

Lorene Stunson Hill is the author of the fiction novel, "To Dance With Ugly People".  The Kindle version of her book became the No.1 Bestseller in the African-American Women's Fiction Category in the United Kingdom. Lorene wrote her novel while surviving the challenges of homelessness, and raising her newborn grandson.  She agreed to share her personal story with Indiana Voice Journal.

Creative Nonfiction: "Better Than Flowers" by Bill Vernon

Bill Vernon served in the United States Marine Corps, he studied English literature, then taught it.  Writing is his therapy, along with exercising outdoors and doing international folkdances.  His poems, stories and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and Five Star Mysteries published his novel "OLD TOWN" in 2005.

Better Than Flowers

 Winter, the first skim of ice on my driveway where the tar puckered up to hold for a while the gift of the heavens. "Watch your step," I tell the kids. "Hard surface." Because it can throw you. It can make your innocent feet slip out from under your weight so you land on your backside or worse. In a parking lot at

Photo Gallery: "Summer Beauty" by Mary Clark

 
 Mary Clark is a retired grandmother who began shooting pictures with her companion, and commercial photographer, Dale Pickett about six years ago.  Mary sometimes sees the "picture within the picture".  She finds beauty in many forms, even the tiniest weeds. Mary's goal is for her lens to capture what her eyes see, and what her heart and soul feel at the time she is taking the photograph. She believes if she can convey that to the viewer, then she has taken a nice photo.  Mary resides in Anderson, Indiana.

Fiction: "Music Outside A Roller Rink" by William Cass

 William Cass has had a little over sixty-five short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies, including the winning selection in The Examined Life Journal's writing contest.  He is a former resident of the Midwest, and now lives and works as an educator in San Diego, California.

MUSIC OUTSIDE A ROLLER RINK

   The movie theater’s old doors were made of oak. Rain fell in big drops in the muck that had formed in front of the ticket window. It wasn’t yet five o’clock, but the evening’s gloaming had already begun to descend.

Photo Gallery: Indiana's Turkey Run State Park by Susan Mach

Susan enjoys spending time wandering Indiana with her camera and her four-footed friend Bogey.  She resides in Indianapolis, IN  Turkey Run is one of her favorite places to visit. For more information about Turkey Run State Park, click on this link... 

TURKEY RUN STATE PARK

...

Fiction: "Fairy-Feet Liar" by Janine Pickett

    
    I can't depend on the cat, he'll never tell. I know they're in there though, I can hear them laughing. Everyday at lunch, half-way up the walk, I stop and listen. I can feel the house breathing, panting from their ruckus as they dance on the counter tops, slide their fairy feet through leftover ketchup on the plates, hang from the corners of my picture frames. And everyday, at lunch, I sneak up to the door and fling it open—and am greeted by silence—and the cat. God, they're fast. I look for evidence—patterns in the ketchup like tracks on a junkies arm, lopsided pictures hanging on the walls. Weighted corners and dead plants. I know they've been peeing in my plants because the soil is dry except for one small moist spot.

Essay: "The Cooling Breath" by Kat Stillman

  Kat is currently living, working, and writing in Atlanta.  She lived in Indiana for a brief time in the early 1970's.  She is currently working on a poetry chapbook and enjoying time with her family.

"The Cooling Breath"

    As a child during the 1960's I was plagued with sudden, unexplained fevers.  A frequent event that had the doctors mystified and my mother running for the alcohol bottle.  Rubbing alcohol, that is.  She was a firm believer that alcohol sponge baths would quickly reduce a fever.  Of course, it didn't work, and as my temperature raged, I slipped into unconsciousness.

Poem: "Indiana" by James Whitcomb Riley

 

Our Land-- our Home-- the common home indeed
Of soil-born children and adopted ones--
The stately daughters and the stalwart sons
Of Industry--: All greeting and godspeed!
O home to proudly live for, and if need
Be proudly die for, with the roar of guns
Blent with our latest prayer--. So died men once...
Lo Peace...! As we look on the land They freed--
Its harvests all in ocean-over flow
Poured round autumnal coasts in billowy gold--
Its corn and wine and balmed fruits and flow'rs--,
We know the exaltation that they know
Who now, steadfast inheritors, behold
The Land Elysian, marvelling 'This is ours?'

James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively.