Matthew Fort teaches American literature and rhetoric at Central Lakes
College in Central Minnesota. As the son of an underground miner, his
stories explore the joys, sorrows, and dreams of people who live in
small, mining towns, similar to the one he grew up in as a child.
February 2, 2016
Flash Fiction By Belinda Hubert: "Edges"
Fiction By Adam Matson: “Gales of Inappropriate Laughter”
My fiction has appeared in The Bryant Literary Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Mobius: The
Journal of Social Change, The Driftless Review, Crack the Spine, The Broadkill Review, Happy Magazine, and The Cynic Online Magazine, with a
forthcoming publication in Infernal Ink
Magazine. I have also published a collection of short stories, Sometimes Things Go Horribly Wrong (Outskirts
Press).
I have previously published two short stories in the IVJ, "Dairy Queen"
in February 2015, and
"The Witch of Malibu" in September 2015.
Fiction By Jenny Sturgill: "The Torn Dress"
Jenny Sturgill is a nurse living in Louisville, Kentucky. Publications include:
Page&Spine, Long Story Short, The Enchanted File Cabinet, Ky Story, Kentucky Explorer, and The Pink Chameleon.
Page&Spine, Long Story Short, The Enchanted File Cabinet, Ky Story, Kentucky Explorer, and The Pink Chameleon.
CNF/Essay By L.D. Zane: "Caught"
L.D.
served seven years in the Navy, which included a combat tour in Vietnam
on river boats, and five years aboard nuclear-powered, Fast Attack
submarines. At 65, his life is quieter now, and is a member of The Bold
Writers.
L.D.’s short stories have been published in: Red Fez, Indiana Voice Journal, Remarkable Doorways Online Literary Magazine, The Writing Disorder, The Furious Gazelle, Slippery Elm, and The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society. His website is: ldzaneauthor.com
Essay By Raymond Greiner: "Where is my Garden?"
Visual Art By Eric Hill
Telling a story is my priority no matter what the Medium or Style … A Seduction of Color, Composition, Light/ Shadow revealing a sensation of being.
I draw images from the unconscious by spontaneous action over a ‘Section de Or’ grid, then apply Elements of Abstract, Cubism, Symbolism, Expressionism, to heighten the sensation / meaning. I want to leave the Viewer with an insight into the Interior Worlds, like an inward looking Mirror.
January 4, 2016
JANUARY 2016 ISSUE #17
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| "They Transition Easier If We Indulge Their Whims" by W. Jack Savage |
This painting by W. Jack Savage pretty much sets the tone for the January issue of IVJ. It's strange and terrifying... and wonderful. I hope you enjoy this big edition and don't forget to leave comments on your favorite posts. Writer's love feedback. Have a blessed 2016. ~Janine Pickett
POETRY
Caleb Allison, Alison Moncrief Bromage, JD DeHart, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Ricky Garni, John Grey, Ananya S Guha, David Howerton, Lindy Hubert, Frances Klein, Milton Montague, Simon Perchik, Gerard Sarnat, David Subacchi, Y.X. Xia
FICTION
Glenna Blomquist, Simon Brown, DB Cox, Nels Hanson, Muhammad Nasrullah Khan, Jim Kjeldsen, Jack Daniel Miles, Colin Rowe, L.D. Zane
NONFICTION/ESSAY/MEMOIR
Lynda McKinney Lambert, Charles E.J. Moulton, K.R. Riordan, Bruce F. Rosen, Adreyo Sen
VISUAL ART
W. Jack Savage, David J. Thompson
Three Poems By Caleb Allison: "And when do we embrace the madness?", "Κρητικά Χριστούγεννα", "Idol"
These
poems were inspired by the local Cretan culture in Greece while being
in the Navy stationed at Naval Support Activity Souda Bay on the island
of Crete. They spring from my observations of the local culture and
environment as well as my feelings associated with being separated from
my wife and family for long periods of time. There is an odd
juxtaposition of being able to enjoy the beauty of a paradise location
but experiencing it without my wife and family and it is from this that
my inspiration stems.
Three Poems By Alison Moncrief Bromage: "In the Pen", "Alibi", "Datum"
Alison's poems have been published in the Paris Review, Denver Quarterly,
Barrow Street and in Drunken Boat (which has just nominated her poem
"Teratoma" for a Pushcart). The following three are appeals to Daedalus, the tinkerer from mythology.
Three Poems By JD DeHart: "Brother", Bunker", "Hardly Known"
JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. His chapbook, The Truth About Snails, is available from RedDashboard.
A Poem By Ken Allan Dronsfield: "Jack Speaks R2"
Ken Allan Dronsfield is a Published Poet/Author/Digital Artist who resides in Oklahoma. He has been writing for many years and has, only recently, been published in a variety of print venues.
Three Poems By Ricky Garni: "I Can Feel The Wind On My Face", "Alligator V. Cat: 1-4", "In Retrospect"
Three Poems By John Grey: "Being Unidentified", "A Spring Boy", "My Morning"
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in New Plains Review, Perceptions and Sanskrit with work upcoming in South Carolina Review, Gargoyle, Owen Wister Review and Louisiana Literature.
Two Poems By Ananya S. Guha: "Man Dies", "Summer In Fetters"
Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India. He has been writing and publishing poetry for the last thirty years.
Three Poems By David Howerton: "pain of job hunting", "Looking for you in senses", "memory 1986 VII"
David's
a part time programmer and lives in the American River Canyon outside
of Auburn Ca. He has done some landscaping sign painting cooking and
made jewelry to pay the bills. He lives a rather quiet life. His wife
and he live with a bossy cat. He has three adult daughters and eight
grandchildren. His hobbies include type design, soapstone carving,
walks in the woods, collecting dragons, and a growing library of
Science Fiction.
Two Poems And a Flash By Belinda Hubert: "Striving", "Grief", "Morning"
Three Poems By Frances Klein "Eve ate the apple/cause the apple was sweet", "Strange Fruit", "High Noon"
Frances Klein is a high school English teacher and poet. She was raised in Southeast Alaska, and has since migrated to Indianapolis, where she lives with her husband Kris.
Three Poems By Milton Montague: " "Sweet Spot", "The Face", "Writer's Block"
milt montague was born and raised in new
york city, survived The Great Depression, the school system, and World
War ll. After 20 years back at college he discovered poetry at 85. Now
at 90 plus he has 54 poems published in 14 different magazines.
Three Poems By Simon Perchik
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
A Poem By Gerard Sarnat: "Orestes Of Theses, Not Thebes"
Gerry and his wife of 45 years live in the room above a
daughter’s family’s garage. Grandkids wander in and out all the time. It’s
great! When we’re not there, we live in a yurt where our son’s family
lives off the grid between the Klamath River and Marble Mountains.
Gerard Sarnat MD received his education at Harvard where he was
the editor of the freshman literary magazine The Yardling, and Stanford. He established and staffed
clinics for the disenfranchised, has been a CEO of healthcare organizations,
and was a Stanford professor.
Three Poems By David Subacchi: "You Wouldn't Laugh", "Wondering", "Unbearable"
He studied at the University of Liverpool and his poetry collections
FIRST CUT (2012) and HIDING IN SHADOWS (2014) are with
Cestrian Press. You can find out more about David and his work
Three Poems By Y.X. Xia: "Not Running Away", "Willow Tree", "Apple Tree"
Y.X. Xia is a scientist by day, poet by
daydream. His work has been published or is forthcoming from Strong
Verse, Society of Classical Poets, Boston Literary Magazine, Otoliths,
Pantheon Magazine, Star*line, Eunoia Review and elsewhere (see yuxingxia.wordpress.com). He also really likes boards that promote justice such as the washboard. Like really, all kinds of flat boards.
Visual Art: Three Paintings By W. Jack Savage
W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is
the author of seven books including Imagination:
The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com). To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short
stories and over six-hundred of his paintings and drawings have been published
worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
Flash Fiction By Glenna Blomquist: "It's Alive!"
Glenna Blomquist has lived in Florida for 15 years and is still
exploring what it is to be a "Floridian". Now retired, she has time to
recollect and time to experience each moment as new. So she writes,
weaving her childhood appreciations into the experience of her older
self, offering up lyrical pieces with universal appeal.
Flash Fiction By Simon Brown: "These Pretty Roses"
Please visit Simon Brown's blog at: thetypewriteraddiction.wordpress.com
His twitter handle is: Simon Brown @typewaddition
Featured here: These Pretty Roses
Flash Fiction By DB Cox: "Hope"
DB Cox is a blues musician/writer from South Carolina. He grew up in a Southern Baptist Orphanage called Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, SC. He graduated from high school in 1966, and joined the Marines Corps right after the Vietnam TET Offensive in 1968. After being discharged in 1972, he spent several years playing guitar in bars, juke joints, and honky tonks across the South.
Fiction By Nels Hanson: "Can You Tell Me Now?"
Fiction By Muhammad Nasrullah Khan: "Raja and his Buffalo"
Fiction By Jim Kjeldsen: "The Glob"
Fiction By Jack Daniel Miles: "Jasper County"
Jack Daniel Miles currently resides in Gainesville, Florida, with his wife and daughter. Jack is a writer, multi-instrumentalist, and volunteer educator. Some of Jack's most recent work is forthcoming in the spring 2016 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine. You can also check out him and his sporadically updated blog at jackdanielmiles.com.
Flash Fiction By Colin Rowe: "Peppered Eggs"
Colin Rowe lives in Santa Fe, NM and has been published by
Cracked.com, The Boston Literary Magazine, The Eunoia Review, and a
dozen other flash fiction zines. He tweets under the handle @lowericon and
can also be found on WriteOn and Scribophile. Colin's Write On Profile
Flash Fiction By L.D. Zane: "Where's The Cow?"
L.D. served seven years in the Navy, which included a combat tour in Vietnam on river boats, and five years aboard nuclear-powered, Fast Attack submarines. At 65, his life is quieter now, and is a member of The Bold Writers.
L.D.’s short stories have been published in: Red Fez, Indiana Voice Journal, Remarkable Doorways Online Literary Magazine, The Writing Disorder, The Furious Gazelle, Slippery Elm, and The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society.
His website is: ldzaneauthor.com.
Photography By David J. Thompson: "Cadillac Ranch, Carhenge, and Old Car City"
Nonfiction Essay By Lynda McKinney Lambert: "A January State of Mind"
Lynda McKinney Lambert created a collection of poems, reflections, and
short essays in the book, “Concerti, Psalms for the Pilgrimage, “ published by
Kota Press.
Her writing research and unique projects have been published in 2 books by
Terry White, Professor of English, Kent State University. Lambert is a retired
Professor of Fine Arts and Humanities, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA since
2008.
Nonfiction Article By Charles E. J. Moulton: "Colenton Freeman-Atlanta's Gift To Opera"
CHARLES E.J. MOULTON has been a stage performer since age eleven. His trilingual, artistic
upbringing, as the son of Gun Kronzell and Herbert Moulton, lead to a
hundred stage productions, countless cross-over concerts, work as a
bandleader and as an acting teacher. He is a regular contributor for
Idea Gems, has written for Shadows Express, Cover of Darkness, Vocal
Images and Pill Hill Press. He is a tourguide, a big-band-vocalist, a
filmmaker, a painter, a voice-over-speaker, a translator, is married and
has a daughter. Charles E.J. Moulton's passion is creative versatility. His short story collection, Aphrodite's Curse: 21 Tales of Love and Terror can be purchased by clicking the link. Homepages: http://www.reverbnation.com/charlesejmoulton/ Nonfiction Portrait Piece By K.R. Riordan: "Swimming In Conversation"
K. R. Riordan is a senior at Seattle University, diligently working towards his Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing. He has published numerous short stories, photographs, & non-fiction essays in various journals and literary magazine throughout the Pacific Northwest and across America in such places as the Percival Review, a literary journal out of Olympia, Washington, The Indiana Voice Journal, and The Mulberry Fork Review. After graduating, he plans to teach Literature and/or Creative Writing at the collegiate level. His main goal in life is to transfer his passion for literature and reading onto younger generations.
Memoir Excerpt By Bruce F. Rosen: "Phillip Rusty Siegler" from If You Ever Need Me, I Won’t Be Far Away
Memoir By Adreyo Sen: "Roots"
Adreyo Sen is pursuing his MFA at Southampton College.
He is a frequent contributor to Indiana Voice Journal.
November 5, 2015
Indiana Voice Journal November/December 2015~Encountering God's Presence~The Grace Issue #16
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| PAINTING COURTESY OF ERIC HILL |
I've implemented a couple of changes in this issue of Indiana Voice Journal. 1. The author photographs are at the end of the posts. 2. No fictional short stories.
It is my hope that this issue of IVJ will awaken your faith and cause you to seek God's presence beyond the veil of religion, and to step into a supernatural, life-changing encounter with Jesus. God is all about relationship. He loves you. Allow yourself to take delight in the wonder, mystery, beauty, grace, and love of the Father. He's seeking you, ask Him to show you his glory.
FEATURES
~Click the links below, or scroll down to browse~
Two Poems By Elizabeth Brooks: "Full Circle", "Somehow"
Two Poems By Philip Brown:"My Old Sheep Dog Pain", "Joy Is Not A Feeling"
Three Poems By Allison Grayhurst: "Getting Up", "Impossible, Only Possible Way", "Covenant"
A Poem By Katie Hall: "Finding God on a Day at the Beach"
Four Poems By Nels Hanson: "Sanctuary", "Prayer", "Haven", "The Stone"
A Poem By Andrew Hubbard: "Revelation"
Three Poems By Michael Lee Johnson: "Jesus Knelt in Grief Over the Death of Children", "The Christians Arrived", "Children in the Sky"
A Poem By Anna Keeler: "Children of the Sky"
Three Poems By Amy Nemecek: "The Work of our Hands", "Prospect Park, Winter 1930", "Winter Solstice"
Three Poems By Scott Thomas Outlar: "Each and Every Breath", "Renewal Song", "Revelations in the Marrow"
Two Poems By Bruce Owens: "Unspeakable Joy", "He Is"
Three Poems By Elizabeth Poreba: " "A Question That Becomes a Complaint", "For a Beloved Minister, Who Committed Suicide", “Bequeath to death your numbness -A Winter’s Tale"
A Poem By EF Schraeder: "Cobweb Church"
A Poem By Pat St. Pierre: "Rainbow"
Three Poems By Alisa Velaj: "A Tale", "Kindness", "Inception"
NONFICTION
An Essay By Barbara Altamirano: "Prayer and Meditation"
Creative Nonfiction Memoir By Amy Gray-Cunningham: "Daring to Believe, Amy’s Memoir as a Living Kidney Donor"
An Essay By Thomas Larson: "I Go to Church, Meet God on Film, and Find the Pastor’s Faith Lay Bare the Absence of Mine”
Creative Nonfiction By Colleen Warren: "Midwest Mimicking: Thoreau in Indiana"
Creative Nonfiction By Jennifer Waters: "Christina The Astonishing"
"Uncapping the Wells" Maria Woodworth Etter--Miracles, Signs, and Wonders with Jack and Deb Welch
Testimonies/Prophetic Words
Two Poems By Elizabeth Brooks: "Full Circle", "Somehow"
Elizabeth Brooks resides in Tampa, Florida. She is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. A lover of life, family,
friends, a good book, lots of laughter and continues
to grow and accept many challenges. Elizabeth has currently been giving poetry reading live in Tampa. She is a librarian by profession
and a part-time reference librarian at Saint Leo University, St. Leo
Florida.
Two Poems By Philip Brown:"My Old Sheep Dog Pain", "Joy Is Not A Feeling"
Two lyrical poems by Phillip Brown. Phillip also has work published in the January and February issues of Indiana Voice Journal.
Three Poems By Allison Grayhurst: "Getting Up", "Impossible, Only Possible Way", "Covenant"
Allison Grayhurst is a member
of the League of Canadian Poets. She has over 675
poems published in more than 315 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
A Poem By Katie Hall: "Finding God on a Day at the Beach"
Katie Hall is a writer, artist, and free spirit. She lives in Virginia and dreams of being in summer Maine with the fresh scent of pine trees, warm air, and blue lakes. She loves to weave words that have soul, meaning, and emotion together, and hopes her wordsmithing will move mountains and people.
Four Poems By Nels Hanson: "Sanctuary", "Prayer", "Haven", "The Stone"
Nels Hanson grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley and has worked as a farmer, teacher and writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in 2010, 12, and 2014. Poems appeared in Word Riot, Oklahoma Review, Pacific Review and other magazines and received a 2014 Pushcart nomination, Sharkpack Review’s 2014 Prospero Prize, and 2015 and 2016 Best of the Net nominations.
A Poem By Andrew Hubbard: "Revelation"
Andrew Hubbard recently moved back to Indiana after ten years in Houston, Texas. He has had five books published, including, most recently, his first book of poetry, "Things That Get You," which was produced by Interactive Press.
Three Poems By Michael Lee Johnson: "Jesus Knelt in Grief Over the Death of Children", "The Christians Arrived", "Children in the Sky"
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
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A Poem By Anna Keeler: "Children of the Sky"
Anna Keeler is a poet and fiction writer attending Rollins College.
She is currently a columnist for The Odyssey Online, as well as the
poetry editor for Brushing Literary Magazine. Her work has been
published or is upcoming in Crab Fat Literary Magazine and Red Fez
Literary Journal. She lives in Winter Park, FL.
Three Poems By Amy Nemecek: "The Work of our Hands", "Prospect Park, Winter 1930", "Winter Solstice"
Amy Nemecek is a freelance book editor living in rural Michigan with her husband, their
teenage son, two cats, and a Yorkie. Her poetry has appeared or is
forthcoming in Vine Leaves Literary Journal and Mothers Always Write.
When she's not working with words, she enjoys watching baseball, playing the
violin, hiking, cross-country skiing, and researching family history.
Three Poems By Scott Thomas Outlar: "Each and Every Breath", "Renewal Song", "Revelations in the Marrow"
Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry and fiction can be found. His chapbook "Songs of A Dissident" will be released in January of 2016 through Transcendent Zero Press, and his words have appeared recently in venues such as Yellow Chair Review, Dissident Voice, Literary Orphans, and Sleeve Lit Mag.
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