Allison Whittenberg is a poet and novelist (LIFE IS FINE, SWEET THANG, HOLLYWOOD AND MAINE all from Random House). She lives in Philadelphia.
June 5, 2015
Indiana Voice Journal June 2015 Issue #11
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| NATURAL FORCE CREW, MILAN, ITALY. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES LAWLESS. |
Happy Father's Day this month to all you incredible guys out there. Whether you've helped birth a child, a story, an idea, or a poem...you are a Papa. In this issue we're thrilled to be dancing in the streets of Milan with James Lawless aka"Teach" and the B-Boy's Natural Force and Open Road Crews. If that doesn't get your adrenaline flowing, fly on over to BB Riefner's multi-generational poem Circus Song and catch a view from the high-wire, or slow dance with Sheehan as he honors the muse in A Salutation to Saugus, Embassy of the Second Muse. In a more thoughtful, or reflective mood? Visit a Japanese restaurant with poet John Grey as he shows us This Is How Exactly, or ponder The Holiness of Minute Particulars with author James Owens. Want to explore some weightier matters? DB Cox wonders about Treyvon Who?, and Raymond Greiner reminds us why Falling Back To Butterflies is necessary. Need a little romance? Check out Decker by A.D. Ellis, Leaf In The Wind by Charles E.J. Moulton, and the romantically humorous Freddie by Steve Slavin in The Wedding Date. Okay, I could go on and on about all the great stuff in this issue, but I'll stop here. Enjoy the read!
~Janine Pickett
POETRY
Two Poems By DB Cox: Before Nightfall
A Poem By Jonathan Dick: Renting The Moon
Three Poems By Dorian Dyler: And I Became
Three Poems By Dallas Gorbett: In Another World
Three Poems By John Grey: Sunset, Santa Cruz County
Three Poems By Lewis R. Humphries: Kindling
Three Poems By Steven Jacobson: Kitty-Kat
Two Poems By Richard Kostelanetz: Mirror Stories
Three Poems By Milton Montague: Gift
Three Poems By JoyAnne O'Donnell: Springs Window
Three Poems By James Owens: Broken
Three Poems By BB Riefner: Circus Song
Four Poems By G. David Schwartz: I Knew A Girl Named Martha
Three Poems By Tom Sheehan: For One Woman Raised on High (haibun) (or Love behind the Door)
A Poem By Jorge Vazquez Jr: We Are Defined By Our Shadows
Three Poems By Dr. Mel Waldman: My Father, Tell Me about the Afterlife
CNF/ESSAYS
Essay By Raymond Greiner: Falling Back To Butterflies
Essay By James Lawless: B-Boys In Milan, Italy
Essay By Tom Sheehan: A Salutation to Saugus, Embassy of the 2nd Muse
Essay By Kathryn Streeter: What Shakespeare Taught Me About Family
FICTION
A Novel Excerpt by A.D. Ellis: Decker
Fiction By Liz Flaherty: Roll Back The Clouds
Fiction By Jason Constantine Ford: A Choice Between Two Rivals
Fiction By Sharon R. Hill: Life in Silhouette
Flash Fiction By Belinda Hubert: Paul
Fiction By Jim Kjeldsen: The Giant Gila Monster
Fiction By Alex Mantel: An Apologia For Boarding School
Fiction By Charles E.J. Moulton: Leaf In The Wind
Fiction By Sunil Kumar Poudyal: Hardship
Fiction By BB Riefner: A Brush With Reality In The Key Of B-Flat Minor
Fiction By Barbara Kinsey Sable: He Made Me Laugh
Fiction By Steve Slavin: The Wedding Date
Two Poems By DB Cox: Before Nightfall
DB Cox is a blues musician/writer from South Carolina. His poems and short stories have been published extensively in the small press, in the US, and abroad. His first collection of short stories called “Unaccustomed Mercy,” published by Studio Books, is available at the Amazon Kindle Store.
A Poem By Jonathan Dick: Renting The Moon
Jonathan Dick is a 21 year old human being from Toronto, Canada. He is graduating this year from Huron University College with a major in English Language and Literature. In the summer, Jonathan will be traveling with his beautiful girlfriend across Europe, as they dream the dreams they had forgotten. Twitter: @jjdickyboy
Three Poems By Dorian Dyler: And I Became
Three By Italian Poet, Dorian Dyler
And I Became, I'll Have Breakfast, and Shooting Stars
Three Poems By Dallas Gorbett: In Another World
Dallas's short fiction "Flittery" appeared in the Nov. 2014 edition of Indiana Voice Journal. He also had three short stories appear in a local anthology, Stories and Poems of the OLLI Writers. Although he currently lives in Mississippi, he feels his Hoosier sense of humor comes out in his poetry.
Three Poems By John Grey: Sunset, Santa Cruz County
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in New Plains Review, Mudfish and Spindrift with work upcoming in South Carolina Review, Gargoyle, Sanskrit and Louisiana Literature.
Three Poems By Lewis R. Humphries: Kindling
Lewis is a professional writer and blogger based in Birmingham,
UK. He also has a passion for creative writing, and has featured in
magazines throughout the UK, U.S. and Oceania.
KINDLING
Ribbons of sallow light,
they stream from single bulb heads,
and gild the hour
of 3 am.
His fragmentary masterpiece,
due homage to her remembrance,
now tendered by
the sleight of hand.
Three Poems By Steven Jacobson: Kitty-Kat
Steven Jacobson was born and raised in the Midwest. He has attended multiple classes from the Loft Literary Center, promoting all levels of creative writing. His goal is to write a second book, the first book called “Spiritual Gait” was published in 2014.
Two Poems By Richard Kostelanetz: Mirror Stories
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz’s
work appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of
American Writers, Baker's Biographical
Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American
Scholars, Who's Who in America, NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com,
among other distinguished directories. http://richardkostelanetz.com
His eBooks are available on Kindle -- http://amzn.to/udj8TI
Three Poems By JoyAnne O'Donnell: Springs Window
JoyAnne O'Donnell is a poet living in Maryland. She enjoys mountain hiking, swimming. The scenery of nature inspires her poetry.
Three Poems By James Owens: Broken
James Owens lives in Wabash, Indiana. Two books of his poems have been published: An Hour is the Doorway (Black Lawrence Press) and Frost Lights a Thin Flame (Mayapple Press). His poems, stories, translations, and photographs appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in Superstition Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Cresset, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Stinging Fly.
Three Poems By BB Riefner: Circus Song
B. B. Riefner wrote with chalk on blackboards; then, with a 1918 typewriter on tailgates and picnic tables in South America, Europe and Africa. Today he and his wife live near Washington D.C. with a canine muse and a computer which must be fed daily.
Four Poems By G. David Schwarz: I Knew A Girl Named Martha
G. David Schwarz - the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue and Midrash and Working Out Of The Book Currently a volunteer at the Cincinnati J Meals on Wheels, Schwarz continues to write.
His latest book is Shards And Verse (2011, Publish America).
Names are not real people
Three Poems By Tom Sheehan: For One Woman Raised on High (haibun) (or Love behind the Door)
Sheehan
has 28 Pushcart nominations. In the Garden of Long Shadows and The
Nations (Native American fiction collection), were recently
published by Pocol Press with solid reviews (see Serving House Journal.)
Now in the Pocol production cycle are Where Skies Grow Wide, Cross Trails,
Between Mountain and River and The Cowboys, the last five titles
from Pocol Press are all western short story collections. In addition, a new
collection, Sons of Guns, Inc. was just released (print and eBook) by
Nazar Look Books in Romania and is on Amazon.A Poem By Jorge Vazquez Jr: We Are Defined By Our Shadows
I'm a Mexican American amateur writer/poet with the dream of being
professionally published. I come from the small town of Whiting, IN in
between Chicago, IL and Gary, IN. Through the help of my high school
librarian, Jean Lovasko, I have been published by small publishers and I
have received an honorable mention award for the Art & Writing
contest of the 2013 year. Even if I never become as well known as J.K.
Rowling, Stephen King, or George R.R. Martin, I plan on writing for as
long as I can. ~Jorge Vazquez Jr.
Three Poems By Dr. Mel Waldman: My Father, Tell Me about the Afterlife
Dr. Mel Waldman is a psychologist, poet, and writer. He is a past winner of the literary GRADIVA AWARD in Psychoanalysis and was nominated for a PUSHCART PRIZE in literature. He is the author of 11 books.
Essay By Raymond Greiner: Falling Back To Butterflies
CNF By James Lawless: B-Boys In Milan, Italy
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| "TOPROCK" |
By James Lawless
MAKE US HAPPY
Breakers in Italy, like breakers all over the world, don't want to be called break dancers. "That's a media term; we're B-boys!," A breaker told me in the street near Duomo Square in Milan.
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