Creative Nonfiction By Jennifer Waters: "Christina The Astonishing"

Jennifer Waters was born and raised in Michigan and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She has been going to college on and off (beginning as a liberal arts major and ending now in social and behavioral sciences) since 2003. I has had two pieces of poetry published as well as a monologue.

Nonfiction Article: "Uncapping the Wells of Maria Woodworth-Etter --- Miracles, Signs, and Wonders with Jack and Deb Welch"

Maria Woodworth-Etter

Maria Woodworth-Etter is one of my hero's of the faith. Her powerful ministry was instrumental in bringing the gospel to Indiana, and literally, to thousands upon thousands of people. She traveled across the land holding revivals, saving souls, healing the sick, casting out demons, and raising the dead. In other words, doing exactly what Jesus did; what we're all called to do. When she prayed, people were touched by God sometimes from a distance of 50 miles away. Actual newspaper reports, books, and testimonies about this amazing woman of God are numerous, and I'm sharing the links: Her books are available on Amazon.

There is a wonderful Facebook page started by Maria's great-great-great grandson Jack Welch of Lite The Fire. I reached out to Jack
through Facebook to ask if I could share his story in this issue of the journal. He agreed, and stated that he and his wife Deb would be in Anderson the following Saturday. God's timing is so perfect...We decided to meet for coffee. They are an incredible couple claiming their inheritance, walking in the anointing, and working to uncap, or re-dig, the wells of Jack's grandmother Maria Woodworth-Etter.

Testimonies & Prophetic Words

A PROPHETIC WORD COMES TO PASS:

My family thinks I am crazy for believing in a supernatural God who loves them. The "religious spirit" was all they ever knew of, and turned away from. About a year ago, a particular family member was going through a tough time and I asked God for a word to share with her.  He gave me a vision of her standing in a beautiful garden dressed in vivid colors. In my spirit, I heard, "she is one of the most beautiful flowers in my garden". When I relayed this message to her, she laughed and said I was just making things up to make her feel better. She said," IF God is real, there are so many people on the planet, he wouldn't bother with me". She didn't believe she was worthy of God's love or attention. But she asked me to describe the garden anyway and I said, "beautiful colors, flowers and plants, new growth and blooms all over the place and you are dressed in the colors of the garden, and there are swarms of butterflies over the garden."

~Veteran's Day Love~

Indiana Voice Journal would like to say thank you to all veterans and military personnel serving the United States. Your stories are heart-wrenching, your sacrifices real. I pray your stories and your sacrifices become beams of light bringing change, love, honor, peace, and courage back to an America that no longer desires war. We love you, we celebrate you, and we hear you...

To read true stories from veteran's, or if you are a veteran and have stories you need help writing about, please visit the following link: http://veteranscominghome.org/

Indiana Voice Journal October 2015 Issue #15

The English Poet John Keats summed it up pretty well when he said, "The poetry of the earth is never dead". He was right. I love the "poetic" Fall season in Indiana. Here on my little spot of earth, the autumn sunshine blends a palette of colors across the tree tops- red, yellow, gold, orange, and brown. The air is chilly, perfect for nighttime bonfires, and scented ripe with the smell of molding leaves, haystacks, and wayward apples rotting against the ground. Art, poetry, motion, and life. If you think about it, there is much life even in the act of dying.

Welcome to the October 2015 issue of Indiana Voice Journal. Our 15th issue includes 20 poets, 3 creative nonfiction essays, 2 fiction stories, and a book review. It contains a masterful blend of art, poetry, motion, and life. This issue promises something for everyone. Thank you for reading and supporting these amazing authors by leaving a comment on their posts.

~IN THIS ISSUE~

POETRY

Two Poems By Jonel Abellanosa: "Card Reading", "Echo"

Poetry Excerpts By Brian Beatty: "Brazil, Indiana"

Three Poems By Don Beukes: "The Storm", "The Sentinal", "Childhood Days"

Three Poems By Carl Boon: "Meaning In Missouri", "Away-Girl", "On Falling In Love With A Syrian Refugee In Istanbul"

Three Poems By Tempest Brew: "Spree", "Damage", "Gift"

Three Poems By Isabel Chenot: ""Foreign Language", "Kite Flying", "On Seeing a Gull's Flight Reflected in a Wave"

Special Poetry Feature~ A Poem By Kay Cheshire: "Contentment"

Three Poems By Daniel de Culla: "A Particular Karma", "Concrete Tense", "Front Doors"

Three Poems By Allison Grayhurst: "Yes", "Fire and More", "Grace Mightier Than Natural Law"

Three Poems By Michael Lee Johnson: "Old Hens and Young Folks",  "Arctic Chill North", "Crossing the Border Divide" 

Three Poems By Riana Mercado: "Momentary Lapses", "In Such A Short Time", "Perhaps Next Time"

Three Poems By Jocelyn Mosman:  "Split Molecules, Everywhere",  "Scenes From New England",  "Neurosis"

Three Poems By B.B. Riefner: "Saying Kaddish For Myer", "Hollow Cost Museum", "Hope Comes In Strange Packages Cleverly Wrapped"

A Poem By Lucia Robinson: "Hancock County Pilgrimage"

Three Poems By G. David Schwartz: "To Dear Sweet Mrs. Horton", "If I Get Chocolate Fever", "Carol Wolfe Is A Fox" 

Three Poems By Adam Sedia: "All Hallows' Eve", "Autumn Leaves", "Vespers"

One Poem By Adreyo Sen: "Faery"

Two Poems By Jake Tringali: "recanted",  "on the edge of escape velocity"

One Poem By Will Wareing: "Caught In The Eye"

One Poem By Hiromi Yoshida: "Lazarus, Bloomington IN (July 2000)"

FICTION

Fiction By Adam Renn Olenn: "The One Thing We've Got"

Flash Fiction By Laurel Sparks-Sellers: "The Floating Irony"

CREATIVE NONFICTION/ESSAYS

Two Creative Nonfiction Pieces By Gene Eller: "On the Distractions of Black Glass", and "Together Again"

Creative Nonfiction/Essay By Raymond Greiner: "Universal Consciousness"

Creative Nonfiction Article By Charles E.J. Moulton: "Burns Night in the Lilac Town"

BOOK REVIEW 

Book Review: "Edgewater" Poetry By Arthur Powers

Two Poems By Jonel Abellanosa: "Card Reading", "Echo"

Jonel Abellanosa resides in Cebu City, the Philippines.  His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including Pedestal (United States), Bangalore Review (India), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Cha (Hong Kong), Eastlit (Thailand), Deep Water Literary Journal (Ireland), Poetry Pacific (Canada) , Otoliths (Australia), Anak Sastra (Malaysia) and Philippine PEN Journal.  His poetry has been selected for the 2015 Dwarf Stars Anthology of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.  He has a chapbook, Pictures of the Floating World (Kind of a Hurricane Press, United States).  He is working on two full length collections, Multiverse and 100 Acrostic poems.

Poetry Excerpts By Brian Beatty: "Brazil, Indiana"

Other excerpts from Brazil, Indiana have appeared in or are forthcoming from Alba, Clementine Poetry Journal, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Moth, Poetry City USA, Right Hand Pointing, Third Wednesday and Yellow Chair Review.

Brian Beatty’s jokes, poems and short stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Bark, The Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, Conduit, Dark Mountain, Elephant Journal, elimae, The Good Men Project, Gulf Coast, Hobart, Juked, McSweeney’s, Opium, Paper Darts, Phoebe, The Quarterly, Rhino, Seventeen, The Southern Poetry Review, Sulfur River Review, Sycamore Review and Urthona. Brian’s writing has also been featured in public art projects and on public radio. 

A native of Brazil, Indiana, he has lived in Minnesota since 1999. 

Three Poems By Don Beukes: "The Storm", "The Sentinal", "Childhood Days"

I was born, raised and educated in Cape Town, South Africa in the last two decades of Apartheid and also have British and EU citizenship. Now a retired teacher of English, I am following my passion to write poetry and hoping to share my literal mentality with our global village, hoping to make global citizens check their moral compass now and then in an ever changing world. As a person of mixed race heritage, I want to share my experiences whilst growing up, living  and working in a totalitarian racist regime.

Three Poems By Carl Boon: "Meaning In Missouri", "Away-Girl", "On Falling In Love With A Syrian Refugee In Istanbul"

Carl Boon lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Recent or forthcoming poems appear in Posit, The Tulane Review, Badlands, The Blue Bonnet Review, and many other magazines.

Three Poems By Tempest Brew: "Spree", "Damage", "Gift"

Tempest Brew is someone.  She enjoys coffee, wine (too much), and reading.

Three Poems By Isabel Chenot: ""Foreign Language", "Kite Flying", "On Seeing a Gull's Flight Reflected in a Wave"

Isabel has previously had poetry appear in the Anima poetry journal, on the Atavic poetry site, and on Hedgerows small poems.  She has loved poetry as long as she can remember.  The third poem included was written about visiting a park by Lake Michigan. 

Special Poetry Feature~ A Poem By Kay Cheshire: "Contentment"

Congratulations to Kay Cheshire for her winning poem in the poetry contest benefiting On Wings of Eagles, held by Stacy Savage at  Poetry Contests For A Cause .

 Kay Nelson Cheshire is from Greensboro, NC and has a book of poetry, Beyond the Window (St. Andrews Press). She has received the North Carolina Thomas H. McDill Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Weymouth-An Anthology of Poetry; the Crucible; Here’s to the Land - an Anthology of Poetry; and A Turn in Time-Piedmont Writers at the Millennium.

Three Poems By Daniel de Culla: "A Particular Karma", "Concrete Tense", "Front Doors"

Daniel de Culla (1955) is a writer, poet, and photographer. He is also a member of the Spanish Writers Association, Director of the Gallo Tricolor Review, and Robespierre Review. He’s moving between North Hollywood, Madrid and Burgos, Spain.

Daniel de Cullá (1955 Poeta, escritor, pintor y fotógrafo, miembro fundador de la revista literaria  Gallo Tricolor. Es miembro de la  Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España. En la actualidad participa en espectáculos que funden poesía, música y teatro. 

Three Poems By Allison Grayhurst: "Yes", "Fire and More", "Grace Mightier Than Natural Law"

Allison Grayhurst is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. She has over 625 poems published in more than 300 international journals and anthologies. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers in 1995. Since then she has published eleven other books of poetry and six collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Prior to the publication of Somewhere Falling she had a poetry book published, Common Dream, and four chapbooks published by The Plowman. Her poetry chapbook The River is Blind was published by Ottawa publisher above/ground press in December 2012. In 2014 her chapbook Surrogate Dharma was published by Kind of a Hurricane Press, Barometric Pressures Author Series in October 2014. More recently, she has a chapbook Currents pending publication this Fall with Pink.Girl.Ink. Press. She lives in Toronto with her family. She also sculpts, working with clay; www.allisongrayhurst.com

Three Poems By Michael Lee Johnson: "Old Hens and Young Folks", "Arctic Chill North", "Crossing the Border Divide"

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 10 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 74 poetry videos on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/user/poetrymanusa/videos

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Three Poems By Riana Mercado: "Momentary Lapses", "In Such A Short Time", "Perhaps Next Time"

Riana Mercado is a writer currently spending her time on reading books and generally talking to people about their day. 

Three Poems By Jocelyn Mosman: "Split Molecules, Everywhere", "Scenes From New England", "Neurosis"

Jocelyn Mosman is an English and Politics double major at Mount Holyoke College, but is attending the University of Kent this fall. She was a member of the first ever Northampton Poetry Slam Team and is the recipient of the Gertrude Claytor Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines and is currently working on her third poetry collection. 

Three Poems By B.B. Riefner: "Saying Kaddish For Myer", "Hollow Cost Museum", "Hope Comes In Strange Packages Cleverly Wrapped"

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 both of which must be fed daily.

A Poem By Lucia Robinson: "Hancock County Pilgrimage"

Lucia Robinson's  work has been published in The Southern Poetry Anthology, vol. VII, The Dead Mule School of Southern Poetry, Wild Goose Poetry Review,  and Iodine Poetry Journal (as Ellae Lawton), and is forthcoming in Kakalak 2015. She was born and raised a Hoosier but has spent half her life in the South.

Three Poems By G. David Schwartz: "To Dear Sweet Mrs. Horton", "If I Get Chocolate Fever", "Carol Wolfe Is A Fox"

G. David Schwartz is the former President of "Seed House", an on-line, interfaith community forum.  He has published three books -  " A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue" (1994),  "Midrash and Working Out Of The Book" ( 2004), and most recently "Shards and Stanzas" (2011).

He is currently retired, and besides writing, he spends his time volunteering in his community with Meals On Wheels