Three Poems By KG Newman: "Postmortem Imagination", "Empty Beds", and "Harvest Cycle"

KG Newman is the editor of a high school sports website, ColoradoSportsNetwork.com, and lives in Aurora, Colo. He is an Arizona State University graduate and his first collection of poems, While Dreaming of Diamonds in Wintertime, is available on Amazon. 

Four Poems by Todd Outcalt: "Class Photos", "Antiques", "A Tree the Memory of a Tree", and "Passenger Pigeons"

Todd Outcalt is the author of thirty books in six languages, including Common Ground, Candles in the Dark, The Best Things in Life Are Free and Where in the World We Meet (his first poetry collection). His most recent poetry has been published in The Oklahoma Review, Rattle, Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. He lives in Brownsburg, Indiana and enjoys kayaking, hiking and travel.

Three Poems by Dale Patterson: "on jade melmac", "old harry’s greed", and "rockhound"

Dale is a visual artist and poet living in Indiana. His work has been published in many online and print journals; the most recent appearing in: Pilgrimage, The Tower Journal, The Museum of Americana, The Lake, Short Fast and Deadly and Midwestern Gothic. A more complete listing of Dale’s work can be seen on his website http://dalepattersonart.com/

Six Poems by Arthur Powers: "Air Force Troop Planes At Pittsburgh Airport", "Linhares", "Look, I Tell My Daughters...", "Three Metaphors", " Twisted Trees", and "Vespers"

Arthur Powers is from Illinois.  In 1969 he went to Brazil as a Peace Corps Volunteer and lived most of his adult life there.  From 1985 to 1992 he and his wife lived in the Brazilian Amazon, working with subsistence farmers in a region of violent land conflicts; through his experience with the farmers, Arthur came to appreciate more deeply his own Midwestern heritage.

Three Poems by Soodabeh Saeidnia: "Mailboxes", "Neverland" and "Scientific Concept of Love"

Soodabeh Saeidnia was born (1973) in Iran and received Pharm.D. (1997) and also Ph.D. of Pharmacognosy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in 2002. She was Visiting Researcher (2002-2003) at Kyoto University, and was also awarded a Foreign Researcher Fellowship to work as a Research Associate both at Kyoto University (2005-2006), as well as Associate Professor at TUMS (2007-2015) and Visiting Professor at Saskatchewan University, Canada (2013-2014). She has written roughly 150 scientific papers for various academic journals, as well as books in both English and Farsi.

Three Poems by Jay Sizemore: "What is known", "The illusion of starting over", and "Subconscious gods"

Jay Sizemore is not your enemy. He's just a writer, someone who writes things and then spends weeks regretting it. Sometimes he questions the motives of the muse, but he's handcuffed to her for life. You can find him at jaysizemore.com, or, if you're a stalker, in Nashville, TN, where he may or may not actually exist.

A Poem by Emile Stieffel IV: "My Reality"

Emile Stieffel IV  is a student majoring in secondary education - English at University of Detroit Mercy. Website:  http://stieffel.weebly.com/

Three Poems by David Subacchi: "Skateboarding in the Square", "Too Late", and "They"

David Subacchi lives in Wales (UK) where he was born of Italian roots. He studied at the University of Liverpool and Cestrian Press has published his poetry collections First Cut (2012), Hiding in Shadows (2014) and Not Really a Stranger (due in May 2016).

His collection of Sonnets about the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916 -  A Terrible Beauty is also published this year. His blog can be found at:

http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/davidsubacchi

Visual Art: Spring Photography by Ken Murphy

Ken Murphy is a retired war veteran residing in South Carolina with his wife Deena of 16 years. He became interested in photography in 2011, and especially likes photographing nature. In his spare time Ken enjoys working out, working with weapons, and spending time with family and friends.

CNF/Essay by Glenna Blomquist: "Paradise Mobile Park"

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. 

CNF/Essay by Lynda McKinney Lambert: "A Visitation from Butterflies"

Lynda McKinney Lambert is a retired fine arts and humanities professor from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA.  She resides in a small village in western Pennsylvania with her husband, Bob, 4 cats and 2 dogs.  Lynda is the author of Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage, published by Kota Press. She writes articles on the humanities,  contemporary poetry and inspirational human interest stories.  Her teaching career took her to Europe  each summer where she taught  drawing and writing to college students. She also taught a course in Puerto Rico every spring semester for the college. Lynda loves to write, knit. and travel. 

Fiction by Donald Baker: "Columbus Day"

Donald Baker writes under his middle name.  He has had his short fiction published in The Southern Cross Review, The Huffington Post and in Literally Stories.  He is currently hard at work submitting his first novel, Bob, P.I. and rewriting several short stories.   He is also an active amateur photographer, an actor in community theater (yes even Shakespeare), and progressive spoiler of seven grandchildren.  Somewhere in there he works when he isn’t laid off.  He happily resides in Central Indiana with his family. He maintains an author website at http://www.sylbun.com

Fiction by Jeff Burt: "Born Late, Just Sayin’"

Jeff Burt works in mental health and has work in Amarillo Bay, The Nervous Breakdown, Atticus Review, and forthcoming in Per Contra. He has published poetry in Indiana Voice Journal previously.

Fiction by Rich Elliott: "Sisters"

Rich Elliott is a writer from Valparaiso, Indiana. He is the author of two works of sports nonfiction: The Competitive Edge: Mental Preparation for Distance Running; and Runners on Running: The Best Nonfiction of Distance Running. You may visit his website at: www.richelliottproductions.com

Fiction by Jess Kapp: "Pucker"

Jess Kapp is a lecturer in the department of geosciences at the University of Arizona. She writes short fiction and memoir, and blogs for the Huffington Post.  She is currently finishing a memoir about her high altitude field adventures doing geologic research in Tibet. You can find Jess on twitter @jess_kapp, Facebook, and her website http://jesskapp.com.

Fiction by Diane Stallings: "Used, Glad to Be"

Diane Stallings' urge to write began as soon as she learned to read.  Published in a few magazines decades ago, she also has a story in the first Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul.  A Holistic Nurse, Healer, and health nut, she keeps a blog at joystreamhealth.wordpress.com

Visual Art by Douglas G. Campbell

I live in Portland, Oregon. I am a retired professor of art at George Fox University where I taught painting, printmaking, drawing and art history courses for over 20 years. My artwork is represented in collections such as The Portland Art Museum, Oregon State University, Ashforth Pacific, Inc. and George Fox University. http://www.douglascampbellart.com/work/

"Poetry, Passion and Song" March 2016, Issue #20

INDIANA VOICE JOURNAL

~Presents~ 

"POETRY, PASSION AND SONG" 

THE MUSIC ISSUE

Painting by Berthold Faust, in honour of Charlie Parker

 (August 29, 1920 - March 12, 1955)

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."~Charlie Parker

A few hours after Parker's passing "Bird Lives" began appearing as graffiti in New York City subways supposedly written by Ted Joans, a Beat Generation poet whose work drew from the African-American oral tradition and blended black consciousness with avant-garde jazz rhythm.

DB Cox-our own master blue's musician, friend, and bad-ass poet-has written a poetic tribute to Charlie Parker and some of the other "legendaries" who are no longer with us but are most certainly still howlin' from the heavens. Be sure to see the featured post in the left-hand column.

This music edition was inspired by Parker's truth--there is no boundary line to art. So turn off the TV, shut down the noise, and enjoy the unique blend of poetry, music, photography, stories, essays, and art embedded in this issue of IVJ. With all the major talent included-It's sure to become a classic!

~In This Issue~

Poetry

David Allen, Goirick Brahmachari, Elizabeth Brooks, Adam Brown, Phillip Brown, DB Cox, James Diaz, Ken Allan Dronsfield, David Francis, Paul Goldman, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri,  Jack Harvey, Andrew Hubbard, Josh Huber, Chris Kempling, Laurie Kuntz, Marianne Lyon, Don Mager, Donal Mahoney, Des Mannay, Joan McNerney, Sultana Raza, Anthony Sarch, Judith Skillman, Tim Staley, Harry Youtt

Fiction

David Domine, Scott Thomas Outlar, Harry Youtt

Creative Nonfiction/Essay/Memoir 

Alex Beckman, Nina Fosati,  Lynda McKinney Lambert

Music Review

Jennifer Criss

 Visual Art

Photgraphy by Chris McCown and Fabrice Poussin

  
 ~Please scroll the page to browse the individual features~

Two Poems By David Allen: "Mandolin Therapy", "Darren's Humming"

David Allen is poet and freelance writer living in Central Indiana. He is a retired journalist with 36 years on newspapers in Virginia, and the Far East, the last 19 years as Guam and Okinawa Bureau Chief for Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper for the American military community overseas. He has been published in several on-line poetry magazines and has two books of poetry, “The Story So Far” and “(more),” both available from Amazon.   He has been married to his Muse, Ruth Ellen, for 27 years.   www.davidallen.nu

Two Poems by Goirick Brahmachari: "A river in E major", "A river in F# minor"

Goirick lives in Dilli. He hails from Silchar, Assam