Indiana Voice Journal

April 4, 2015

ABRAHAM OGEBE ADONDUWA: "BROKEN HEART, CAREFREE"

Abraham Ogebe Adonduwa is a writer of poetry and short stories and has been published in a few international literary journals and magazines, Origami and OntheRusk amongst them. He hopes to publish more poems and more stories about his beloved home Nigeria, and he also hopes to take out time to travel more, which is another thing he loves almost as much as writing.

MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN "GHOSTS, IN THE BEGINNING, GEOMETRY AND ITS PLACE IN A POEM"

GHOSTS

I do not have a presence and she tells me she is a ghost.

Substance has that kind of weight.

You talk to the streams radiating from the edge of the river

as if each one were a snake that fat

and walk into an outer universe

to draw the night with color,

quick and simple,

exactly like life and everything else in this world.

JEFF BURT "BLUE JEANS AS SPIRITUAL UTILITY, COAT, SHOES"

Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California. He has work in The Cortland Review, Windfall, eclectica, Blue Hour, and others.

He won the 2011 SuRaa short fiction award.

HOLLY DAY: "LOVERMAN, FALLING, FLYING, TODAY, WAITING TO DIE, THE HORSE"

Holly Day was born in Hereford, Texas, “The Town Without a Toothache.” She and her family currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center. Her published books include the nonfiction books Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, Piano All-in-One for Dummies, A Brief History of Nordeast Minneapolis; the poetry books Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men (The Moon Publishing) and The Smell of Snow (ELJ Publications); and a novel, The Book Of (Damnation Books).Her needlepoints and beadwork have recently appeared on the covers of The Grey Sparrow Journal, QWERTY Magazine, and Kiki Magazine.

Kevin Heaton is originally from Kansas and Oklahoma, and now lives and writes in South Carolina. His work has appeared in a number of publications including: Guernica, Rattle, Raleigh Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, and The Monarch Review. He is a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

http://kevinheatonpoetry.webstarts.com/

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era: now known as the Illinois poet, from Itasca, IL. Today he is a poet, freelance writer, photographer who experiments with poetography (blending poetry with photography), and small business owner in Itasca, Illinois, who has been published in more than 875 small press magazines in 27 countries, he edits 9 poetry sites. Michael is the author of The Lost American: "From Exile to Freedom", several chapbooks of poetry, including "From Which Place the Morning Rises" and "Challenge of Night and Day", and "Chicago Poems". He also has over 71 poetry videos on YouTube.

Dane Karnick grew up by the Colorado “Rockies” and lives near Seattle. His poetry recently appeared in Pacifica Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Poppy Road Review, and Alba. Visit him at www.danekarnick.com.

Nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, Donal Mahoney has had work published in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his earliest work can be found at http://booksonblog12.blogspot.com/.

Brandon Marlon is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. (Hon.) in Drama and English from the University of Toronto and his M.A. in English from the University of Victoria. His poetry has been published variously in Canada, USA, England, Greece, Romania, Israel, and India. www.brandonmarlon.com.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, free e-books and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com

RICHARD PERRY: "RUBICON, DICHOTOMY"

Born in Scotland and lived in Iran and London

RUBICON

You ask: was there grief on the veldt?

A leopard stalked us.

We saw it through the tall grass.

It charged.

We fled.

She tripped.

And fell.

I turned.

Its jaws closed upon her neck.

Born and raised in India. Worked in Middle East and London. Daughter, wife and sister, aspiring to be known in the space of poetry as someone who weaves magic into language and combines unique design and strong color to her work of art.

Lisa is a new graduate from Purdue University Calumet with a BA in Arts (Spanish International Studies). She is just getting her life started and writing is something she loves to do.

www.linkedin.com/in/lisamariestrohl11

CHRISTOPHER SUDA: "A YOUNG MAN STRUGGLES ACROSS FIFTY STATES, THE THIRD COMING, AFTER TURNING OLD"

Christopher's poetry has been published in Digital Americana, Indian Review, Shot Glass Journal, Wilderness House Literary Review, and other literary journals. Christopher attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham and has just attended the A-I-R program at Byrdcliffe Artist Guild in Woodstock, NY.

George Zamalea graduated from La Habana University with degrees in Literature, Philosophy, & History. Immigrated to the world. Lived in Spain, France, Italy, and Brazil. Received a recipient of Creative Writing & Language & BA in USA. Awards: First place of the 2011 International Latino Book Awards in the category of Best Spiritual / New Age book in English with the Six Seasonal Amendments, A Hispanic Inspiration. Nominated third and fourth place in 2012 and 2013 respectively from the International Latino Book Awards in the short story titled “I” and a novel titled “Flowery of Evil”. Members: Academy of American Poets, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, Writing & Nonsense Club and American Hispanic in Journalism. Publications and literary journals: The Screech Owl, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Spectrum, The Flesh Lit, Indiana Voice Journal, Ink Dot, Vasasvada,The Front Porch Publication. His credits novels, mysteries, nonfiction and poetry. Lives in Rosamond, California.

I currently live in northern New Mexico, after stints in Louisiana, Texas, the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway. I'm on the masthead at the Prague Revue. I launched a novel last year with Southern Yellow Pine, Jupiter and Gilgamesh, a Novel of Sumeria and Texas. I was a finalist in the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book awards in four categories.

I've been a finalist a few places but never a winner. I've published here and there but received enough rejection to achieve humbleness. That publication list is dull but available - what is more important is that I cut and split all my own firewood, live a mile from my nearest neighbor, and write grants for the community. ~Scott Archer Jones

Previously published pieces of mine have been published in Skirmish, Socrates, Aphelion, The Woven Tale Press, Idea Gems, SNM Magazine, TWJ Magazine, Shadows Express, 365 Tomorrows, Shadows Express, Redhead Magazine, Aquarius Atlanta, Vocal Images, Cover of Darkness and CLR India. I am the Chorus Master of a Chorus in Germany, a big band vocalist, an operatic baritone and an exhibited artistic painter.

Homepages: http://www.reverbnation.com/charlesejmoulton/

http://about.me/cmoulton

I am currently a senior at Colorado State University double majoring in Communication Studies and English. Currently, I also work at a local radio station— 99.9 The Point— as an on-air radio personality. I love telling stories about real people with more interesting lives than me (ha- but who doesn’t love reading that?) I hope you enjoy my work! ~Madison Scruggs

Here is my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lifewithmadi

ADREYO SEN: "SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE LIMINAL WOMAN"

Adreyo Sen resides in Kolkata, India. He is pursuing his MFA at Stony Brook, Southampton. He has been published in Danse Macabre, Kritya and Garbanzo.

You can read more of his work in the January 2015 issue of Indiana Voice Journal.

ANA DEBORAH F. DO CANTO: FLASH FICTION "NIGHTS"

Ana Déborah F. do Canto is a 21 years old college student from Brazil.

NIGHTS

“Shhhh!” she said. Her eyes shined in the darkness of the bedroom and I laughed even more.

She put her hand over my mouth. Our eyes met, she smiled and whispered:

“Will you be quiet if I tell you a story?”

Diana Corbitt is a retired elementary school teacher who has lived her entire life in northern California. She has two sons who, although grown up and out of the house, still live nearby. Besides writing, Diana enjoys creating stained glass windows and lamps, travel, and eating popcorn at the movies.

Gwendolyn Kiste is a horror and fantasy writer based in Pennsylvania. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications including Sirens Call, Danse Macabre, Dark Fire Fiction, 99 Pine Street, and Saturday Night Reader.

ANTHONY LA FLAME: FLASH "BLUE SUNRISE"

Anthony La Flame is a short story fiction writer who is currently studying for his B.A. in English, His first short story has appeared in Fictionmagazines: Under the Bed. Some of his works in-progress projects include flash fiction and short story pieces. Born in Washington State, he currently resides in Pennsylvania.

The author’s first novel was published by Fireship Press in the spring of 2013, entitled 1812 The Land Between Flowing Waters. The author has published two short stories with Inwood Indiana and a third is forthcoming in 2015. The author grew up in Marshall County, Indiana, and as a young man, attended Indiana University.

She and I, previously published by Inwood Indiana Press in their 2013 summer anthology entitled, Salem Cemetery.

www.kenlelandauthor.com

Shashank firmly believes that written word is at the essence of human communication and evolution. He hopes that you will enjoy reading his stories as much as he has enjoyed writing them.

Jerry Mullins grew up in central West Virginia, and has lived in the Washington, DC suburbs in recent years. His work has recently been published in or is forthcoming from Columbia University Journal-Catch and Release, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Broadkill Review, Tower Journal, Newfound Journal, and internationally in Nazar-Look (Romania) and Southern Cross Review (Argentina).

RICHARD PERRY: "THE WOMAN ON THE TRAIN"

Born in Scotland and lived in Iran and London.

The Woman On The Train

Underground!

In a tube within a tube, people sped through the dark, oblivious to the traffic and the weather on the surface. In the rush hour, if the system was functioning properly, trains followed each other in quick succession, one pulling out of a station as the next pulled in, each packed with passengers, disgorging then embarking, transporting them in swaying, rattling discomfort, to and from work and home.

Carroll Ann Susco holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh and numerous publications including three essays in The Sun Magazine. She writes and teaches in Alexandria, VA. Her chapbook: True Fiction: A Pseudo Autobiographical Chapbook in Three Parts is available at Smashwords.com

You can read more of Carroll's work in the December 2014 issue of IVJ.

Michelle works as a researcher and document writer for an Indigenous not for profit in Brisbane. She writes fiction and is one of a team of digital creatives at readspace.com.au

Junior Mclean has been a digital artist for 10 years. He has freelanced as a cover artist and a graphic designer creating
postcards, greeting cards and book covers. His work has been featured in European magazines. He is a Bronx native, for a time lived in Anderson, Indiana and back, current freelance digital artist and graphic designer since 1996 and a digital cover “2D/3D” artist for Gaming, Fantasy, Sci-Fi; and fractals which have been used for public exhibitions and more.

INDIANA VOICE JOURNAL MARCH 2015 ISSUE #8

POETRY

POETRY BY ANNE BABSON "AIR: WHY DO THE NATIONS SO FURIOUSLY RAGE TOGETHER?, THE WAKING LIFE, THE TEMPLE"

POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRYSTAL BERCHE "NEVER FORGOTTEN, MOLDING, THE LAST GOODBYE, WE RACE, TRIPPING"

POETRY BY JOSEPH BUEHLER "MICHIGAN, UNKNOWN FRIENDS, TOWN AND COUNTRY"

POETRY BY DINA FRIEDMAN "SOME DAY, HE NO LONGER LISTENS TO MUSIC, NARCISSUS IN THE NEW YORK RAIN"

POETRY BY ERIC HILL "WORDS"

POETRY BY BELINDA HUBERT "THE ZONE"

POETRY BY DAN JACOBY "OOMAKA TOKATAKIYA (LAST RIDE), PENCIL SHARPENER, RURAL CHILDHOOD"

POETRY BY MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON "INDIANA POEM"

POETRY BY JAN MARQUART "FIRST DATE, IMAGINATION, BLOSSOMS AREN'T LATE"

POETRY BY SCOTT THOMAS OUTLAR "PRIORITIZING THE PROBLEMS, METHODOLOGY, EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY"

POETRY BY ADAM SEDIA "TROPHY WIFE, FEBRUARY SNOWFALL"

POETRY BY TOM SHEEHAN "BRINGING LOGS TO BETH'S KITCHEN, BLOWAN YIELD, FOUR SIGNATURES FOR EVENING'S RUSH, HIGH TENSION LANGUAGE"

POETRY AND VISUAL ART BY CECILIA SOPRANO "SATURDAY MORNING, MONARCH BUTTERFLY,WISH-FOR, FISH-FOR, LILY"

CREATIVE NONFICTION/ESSAYS

CNF/ESSAY BY TERRY BARR "OVER THE HOT COALS"

CNF/ESSAY BY LAYNE CARTER "POND SCUM"

CNF/ESSAY BY MADGE KAPLAN "THE GARDEN CONSULTANT"

CNF/ESSAY BY JULIA OLLER "CRUSHED"

CNF/ESSAY BY TOM SHEEHAN "A LITTLE RED WAGON, A LONG-REMEMBERED FACE"

CNF/ESSAY BY L.D. ZANE "ONE OUT OF THREE"

HISTORICAL NONFICTION BY CHARLES E.J. MOULTON "VIENNA'S INTERNATIONAL THEATRE-LIVING THE DREAM"

FICTION

FICTION BY STINSON ANDERSON "THE GHOST OF GOODWILL"

FLASH FICTION BY ROCHELLE CASHDAN "REVENGE OF THE PASTA"

FICTION BY COLE KINNA "UNCLE CHUCK'S MUSE SAFARI"

FICTION BY MARY LARSEN "FLATTENED CORN"

FLASH FICTION BY LILY IONA MACKENZIE "THE INTRUDER"

FLASH FICTION BY ALAN SEMROW "WE USED TO FEED CHICKENS"

POETRY BY ANNE BABSON "AIR: WHY DO THE NATIONS SO FURIOUSLY RAGE TOGETHER?, THE WAKING LIFE, THE TEMPLE"

My first full-length collection is coming out in February with Vox Press - The White Trash Pantheon. My current chapbook, Poems Under Surveillance (Finishing Line Press, 2013) is currently available in independent bookstores. The opera for which I wrote the libretto, entitled Lotus Lives, was performed in the Northeast in 2012 and is currently being considered for broadcast by WGBH Boston. I have been nominated for the Pushcart four times. I have been featured on Poetry Daily. My work has recently appeared in Iowa Review, Cider Press Review, Southampton Review, Bridges, Barrow Street, Connecticut Review, The Pikeville Review, Rio Grande Review, English Journal, New Song, The Penwood Review, Sow’s Ear, The Madison Review, Atlanta Review, Grasslands Review, WSQ, Global City Review, Comstock Review, California Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, The Red Rock Review, and many other publications.

Chrystal dabbles, lots, and somewhere in those dabbles blossoms ideas that take shape into images. Many of her current pieces of artwork start out as three minute gesture drawings and eventually get paired with still life photography and a lot of playing in Photoshop. She loves to take pictures, especially out in the woods, where she can sit on a rock or a log and wait quietly, jotting notes for stories until something happens by. A free spirit, Chrystal digs in dirt, dances in rain and chases storms, all at the whims of her muses.

Joseph Buehler lives in northern Georgia with his wife Trish. He is a retired deputy property appraiser from Sarasota County, Florida. He has published poetry in "Bumble Jacket Miscellany", "Defenestration", "Common Ground Review", "Theodate", "Mad Swirl", "The Write Room", "The Tower journal","Turk's Head Review", "The Stray Branch" and has an upcoming poem in the spring of 2015 in "Two Cities Review".

D. Dina Friedman has published widely in literary journals (including Calyx, Xanadu, Common Ground Review, Bloodroot, Inkwell, Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review, Tsunami, The Sun, Anderbo, San Pedro River Review, Mount Hope, Rhino) and received two Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry and fiction. She has also published two young adult novels. Dina currently teach at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and is enrolled in the MFA program at Lesley University. Visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com

Eric Hill, born in Washington DC, was first photographed among the cherry blossoms. This, no doubt, forms the basis for his colorful politics and a life long pursuit of cherry pie. That his Grandfather was a minister, no doubt explains, his intense desire to find another way to God than Religion. His writing comes from his profound need to get this crazy stuff out of his head.

He has published with Black Wire, Indiana Voice Journal, Rain/Disaster/Party, Ijagun Poetry Journal and Behhutet.

In addition to writing fiction and poetry, Belinda Hubert is currently working on a novel, titled Shrink Wrapped and a collection of short stories about life in the Midwest. She works as a clinical psychologist in a private practice in Lowell, Indiana. Belinda is a frequent contributor to Indiana Voice Journal.
http://buelasprairiepractice.blogspot.com/

Dan Jacoby is a graduate of St. Louis University. He has published poetry in Belle Rev Review, Chicago Literati, Indiana Voice Journal, Haunted Waters Press, Deep South Magazine, Lines and Stars, Red Booth Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Steel Toe Review, Red Fez and the Vehicle. He has work soon to be published in Bombay Gin, Canary, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, The Clockwise Cat, and Psychokinetic. He is a member of the American Academy of Poets.

Read more of Dan's poetry in the September 2014 Issue of IVJ.

POETRY BY MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON "INDIANA POEM"

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. Today he is a poet, freelance writer, photographer, and small business owner in Itasca, Illinois. He has been published in more than 875 small press magazines in 27 countries, and he edits 9 poetry sites. Author's website http://poetryman.mysite.com/ He has over 70 poetry videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/poetrymanusa/videos

Jan Marquart is a psychotherapist and author of eleven books. She has had her stories, poems, essays, and articles published on line and in print. She is a writing facilitator for Story Circle Network and uses writing as a therapeutic tool to resolve PTSD and other symptomatic illnesses. Jan can be reached through her site: www.JanMarquart.com.

Scott Thomas Outlar lives a simple life, spending his time reading, researching, taking meditative walks, and writing prose-fusion dedicated to the Phoenix Generation. His work has appeared in venues such as Dissident Voice, Ascent Aspirations, Leaves of Ink, Jellyfish Whispers, Struggle Magazine, Loose Change Magazine, Common Line Journal, and Aphelion. Scott can be reached at [email protected].

I was born in 1984 in Lake County, Indiana, where I currently live and practice law. My practice primary focuses on civil and appellate litigation, and I have argued numerous cases before Indiana and federal appellate courts. In addition to my legal career, I self-published a volume of poetry in 2013 titled The Spring’s Autumn.

Presented here are Trophy Wife and February Snowfall.

Sheehan served with 31^st Infantry, Korea 1951 and graduated from Boston College, 1956. Poetry books include Ah, Devon Unbowed; The Saugus Book; Reflections from Vinegar Hill; and This Rare Earth & Other Flights. Korean Echoes nominated for Distinguished Military Award and The Westering, 2012, nominated National Book Award, and 26 Pushcart nominations.

Cecilia Soprano lives in Westchester County and makes her living as an organic gardener and artist. Her poems and artwork have been published in La Joie magazine and UC at Santa Barbara among others. Her artwork is often featured on the covers of Inner Directions magazine.

She is a member of the Greenwich Art Society and the Katonah Museum Art Association. She has published three small books and has had several one woman art exhibits. Her love of nature and gardening provides the space for uninterrupted inspiration. Her intention is to make images and words that describe beauty and uplift the human spirit. My art is about making the simple sacred and the ordinary extra-ordinary.

"The reason why we exist is to remember why we exist and to realize our interconnectedness with all things." WEBSITE: www.Amichiart.com or CeciliaSoprano.com

My essay Neither the Season, Nor the Time was nominated recently for the Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction by Belle Reve Literary Journal. I have other essays published in Sport Literate, Compose, and Full Grown People. I live in Greenville, SC, with my family.

Layne Carter is a Washington native living in Bellingham, Washington. She is a barista and a journalism major, and enjoys writing memoir and realistic fiction.

Pond Scum

I’d like to remember what time of year it was, but the fact of the matter is, I was four to five years old and there’s not much about that day I remember before I jumped into the pond.

Madge Kaplan, Director of Communications, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is responsible for developing new and innovative means for IHI to communicate the stories, leading examples of change, and policy implications emerging from the world of quality improvement in health care. Madge is also the host and producer of IHI's online audio "talk show" called WIHI, a program she conceived of and founded in 2009. Madge came to IHI after a 20-year career in broadcast journalism for public radio. She began exploring non-fiction and playwriting more than a decade ago. Many of her essays have aired on radio or been published in print. Her first play, The Last Appointment, was produced on Martha’s Vineyard in October 2011.

Julia Oller is a sophomore journalism student at Taylor University in Upland, where she is the News Co-editor for her school paper. Her favorite part of the job is sharing the incredible stories of ordinary students and employees.

Crushed

She stood in the barn kitchen, straining to lift the round metal drum full of frothing milk high enough to pour into the quart-sized Mason jars lined up in front of her. Straining, too, to hear the sound of a car engine signifying the end of his stay.

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