Ken
Allan Dronsfield is a Published Poet/Author/Digital Artist originally
from Hampton New Hampshire, now residing in Oklahoma. He has been
writing for many years and enjoys spending time hiking, playing guitar
and spending time with his cats Merlin and Willa. His published work can
be found at numerous print venues.
April 5, 2016
Four Poems by Matt Duggan: "No One Loves Us Like The Graveyards", " The Crow", "Acrobat", "The Heart That Had Two Eyes"
Born Bristol U.K. 1971
Matt won the Erbacce prize for poetry 2015 his new
collection Dystopia 38.10 (erbacce-press) is now available. His poems
have appeared in many magazines and journal's such as Page and Spine,
Harbinger Asylum, Apogee Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Knot
Literary Magazine, Clockwise Cat, Ygdrasil, The Journal, The Seventh
Quarry Carillon, Sarasvati, Poetry Quarterely. http://www.mattduggan.webnode.
Three Poems by John Grey: "A Sundown Sleep", "My Rescue", "Something Else"
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in New Plains Review, South Carolina Review, Gargoyle and Silkworm work upcoming in Big Muddy Review, Main Street Rag and Spoon River Poetry Review.
Three Poems by Scott Hensley: "September Song", "Shhhh...", and "Even Here"
Scott Hensley and his wife, Erica, own and operate a small farm near downtown Indianapolis. The themes of land, restoration, and the spiritual life are the main threads that inspire these thoughts and words.
Three Poems By Julia Hones: "Life Changes", "Fear is the heart running away", and "Garden Soul"
My poetry and stories have appeared in a vast array of literary journals and anthologies including Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Embodied Effigies, Loud Zoo, The Medical Literary Messenger, The Voices Project, Coffee Shop Poems, Mother Bird, Digital Papercut, Vox Poetica, The Artistic Muse, and many others. To learn more about my list of published or forthcoming material you can check my literary blog.
Four Poems by Michael Lee Johnson: "I Tell Nikki's Short Cat Story Dreams", "When I Die (V3)", "Graying in My Life", "Headlights Tossed Forward (V2)"
Michael
Lee Johnson
lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. He is a Canadian and USA
citizen. Today he is a poet, editor, publisher, freelance writer, amateur
photographer, small business owner in Itasca, Illinois. He has been published in more than 880 small
press magazines in 27 countries, and he edits 10 poetry sites. Author's
website http://poetryman.mysite.com/. Michael
is the author of The Lost American:
From Exile to Freedom (136 page book) ISBN: 978-0-595-46091-5, several chapbooks of
poetry, including From Which Place the Morning Rises and Challenge of Night and
Day, and Chicago Poems. He also has over 88 poetry videos on YouTube as of 2015: https://www.youtube.com/user/
Poems by Joan Payne Kincaid: "In Memorium", "The Best Time of Year", " Afterward ll", and "Spring"
Joan's latest book Being Here New and Selected Poems 1988-2012 is now available here there and on Amazon. She also has an on-line book with John M. Bennett: Now Blank Sky.https://archive.org/details/NOWBLANKSKYKincaidBennett.doc (15 years in the works). Joan has been published in a wide variety of magazines and journals.
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:
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.
March 4, 2016
"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.
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
Two Poems By Elizabeth Brooks: "That Little Girl", "Your Sound Your Style"
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 in her faith and accept many challenges. She is a librarian by profession
and a part-time reference librarian at Saint Leo University, St. Leo
Florida. She continues to enjoy reading and sharing her poems with many, at events in Tampa Bay.
A Lyrical Poem By Phillip Brown: "Do You Have Peace My Friend?"
Do You Have Peace My Friend?~Phillip Brown
Four Poems By DB Cox: "Spaces-For Charlie Parker", "Shades of Ray", "Take Me To a Place", "Natalie"
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.
Two Poems By James Diaz: "It's The Music That Gets Us Through", "The Bar At The Edge Of Town"
James Diaz lives in upstate New York. His poems and stories have appeared in Cheap Pop Lit, Chronogram, Ditch, Pismire, My Favorite Bullet, Collective Exile, Commonline Journal, Dissident Voice, Epigraph and The Voices Project.
Two Poems By Ken Allan Dronsfield: 'Music, Tea and a Bun", "Melodious in B Major"
Ken
Allan Dronsfield is a Published Poet/Author/Digital Artist originally
from Hampton New Hampshire, now residing in Oklahoma. He has been
writing for many years and enjoys spending time hiking, playing guitar
and spending time with his cats Merlin and Willa. His published work can
be found at numerous print venues.
Three Poems By David Francis: "Midnight Detour", "Of Their Song", "Mercedes Merengue"
David Francis has produced five albums of songs, one of poems, and "Always/Far," a chapbook of lyrics and drawings. In 2013 his film "Village Folksinger" premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York. His poems and stories have appeared in a number of journals. http://davidfrancismusic.com
Three Poems By Paul Goldman: "Ancestral Chord", "Breath of Thunder", "Conjoined Rhythm"
Poet Paul Goldman has just released his third collection of ecstatic poetry, which many have favorably compared to the thirteenth century mystic poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi. This latest work, Upon Your Canvas published now by River Sanctuary Publishing, is the follow up to Journey Into Oneness and Wild Joy:Ruminations.
Two Poems By Diane Sahms-Guarnieri: "Detached from the body of wind", "As if spring’s floral music is poetry of air."
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a native Philadelphian, is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Images of Being (Stone Garden
Publishing, 2011); Light’s Battered Edge
(Anaphora Literary Press, 2015) and Night
Sweat (Red Dashboard Press, January, 2016). More about Diane can be found
at http://www.dianesahms-
Three Poems By Jack D. Harvey: "Music Hath Charm", "Out In the Country", "A.U.C."
Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, Mind In Motion, Slow Dancer, The New Laurel Review, Bay Area Poets’ Coalition, The University of Texas Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Piedmont Journal of Poetry and a number of other poetry magazines over the years, many of which are probably kaput by now, given the high mortality rate of poetry magazines.
A Poem By Andrew Hubbard: "Music From Stones"
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. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2015.
Three Poems By Josh Huber: "The State Orchestra Plays the Lakeside Amphitheater", "The Poet", "Morning Walk"
Josh lives in Columbia, MO with his wife, Angela. He recently graduated from the Masters of English program at the University of Missouri and now teaches at several schools in the area. His various works have appeared (or are set to appear) in Storyscape, Foliate Oak, Bridge Eight, Scissors & Spackle, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere.
Two Songs By Chris Kempling: "I Am Your Father", "Broken But Still Beautiful"
Chris Kempling started writing professionally
as a book reviewer in 1982 for Canadian
Materials, the journal of the Canadian Library Association. Subsequently, he had a longstanding satire
column entitled Paper Jester in the Quesnel
Cariboo Observer under the pen name of Johnny Quesnel (also syndicated to
four other newspapers). Two stories were
published with the Interior Authors Group (Kamloops, BC) Collected Works, Vol. 1 in 2010, while a poem and story were
anthologized in the British Columbia authors book Voices from the Valleys (Jodie Renner, ed.) 2015. Primarily a religion columnist with the Kamloops This Week newspaper, he dabbles
in stories, poetry, essays and song writing.
Three Poems By Laurie Kuntz: "Style", "Tropical Illusions", "The Woman and Her Shamisen"
Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She taught poetry in Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind.
Five Poems By Marianne Lyon: "Ditty", "A Soprano in Lucca", " Major to Minor", "This Little Light of Mine", "Pipe Down"
Marianne has been a music teacher for 39 years. After teaching In Hong Kong she returned to the Napa Valley and has been published in various literary magazines and reviews such as Colere 2015, Crone 2015, Trajectory 2014, Earth Daughters 2015, Feile-Festa 2015 Whirlwind 2014-2105. She spends time each year teaching in Nicaragua. She is a member of the California Writers Club, Healdsburg Literary Guild.
Three Poems By Don Mager: "January Journal: Friday, January 18, 2013", "March Journal: Saturday, March 16, 2013", "September Journal: Wednesday, September 11, 2013"
Don Mager is a retired university professor who has published several books of poetry. He was the Mott University Professor of English at Johnson C. Smith University from 1998-2004, where he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (2005-2011). He has published more than 200 poems and translations from German, Czech and Russian poets, including “Us Four Plus Four,” an anthology of translations from eight major Soviet-era Russian poets.. He lives in Charlotte, NC.
Three Poems By Donal Mahoney: "Marimba in the Afternoon", "Songwriter's Nightmare", "Marcia and the Locusts"
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications, including The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune and Commonweal. Some of his work can be found at http://eyeonlifemag.com/the-poetry-locksmith/donal-mahoney-poet.html#sthash.OSYzpgmQ.dpbs=
Three Poems By Des Mannay: "The New Rock'n'Roll", "Vignettes and Alcohol", "Advertisement Feature"
Des Mannay is the recent winner of the 'rethinkyourmind' poetry
competition (2015). Placed 2nd in the Disability Arts Cymru poetry
Competition 2015. 'Gold Award' winner in the Creative Futures Literary
Awards (2015). Shortlisted for the erbacce-prize for poetry 2015.
Shortlisted in the Welsh Poetry Competition 2015. "Focused on
hard-hitting social issues. Des Mannay’s ‘And the Dead Shall Rise’
expressed his disgust at a fracking company in Wrexham purchasing the
site of a mine disaster still classed as an official gravesite , whilst
‘Would that I have died that night’ was inspired by a letter he had read
on the issue of assisted suicide. These were poems which made a
statement, and his last words - “Beware as prejudice becomes dressed as
rights”' (Sabotage Reviews).
Three Poems By Joan McNerney: "Jazz", "Night Waltz", "Query"
Joan
McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such
as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Camel Saloon, Blueline,
Poppy Road Review, Spectrum, three Bright Hills Press Anthologies and
several Kind of A Hurricane Publications. She has been nominated three
times for Best of the Net.
Three Poems By Sultana Raza: "Stoned Arias", "Expunging Spell", "Interpreting Notes"
Of Indian origin, Sultana Raza has an M.A. in
English Literature. Her articles have appeared in Flick Feast (UK), Sound on
Sight (USA), the Peter Roe Series (Tolkien Society UK), Le Jeudi, the Wort and
paperjam in English and French.
Sultana Raza’s
poems have appeared in Ancient Heart Magazine (Australia), India Currents (USA), London Grip (UK), Literary
Gazette (USA), Caduceus (Ed. Yale University, USA), Beyond Bree, (an
American MENSA newsletter), the Peter Roe Series, (Tolkien Society UK), The Whirlwind Review (USA), Silver Leaves
Journal #5 (Canada), Muse
India, and The
New Verse News. Recently, more have been published in Catch and
Release (Columbia’s online Journal). More are to appear in Allegro. About: http://sultanaraza.com/about/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
A Poem By Anthony Sarch: "Piano Lover"
Poet/Author,\born 1969 in Chicago,living now in Naperville ILL,Cancer survivor I have two sons that live with their mothers,been writing since I was 15 and stop for a while,then took it back up again 10 years ago,I have published so far 11 books,8 are poetry and 3 short stories,I'm a member of a site called allpoetry since 2012 under the username Anthony Sarch as well a second account on allpoetry under Tony Sarch I run several groups on that site I also run 6 poetry groups on facebook
also have my own webpage to promote my books and work at www.anthonysarch.wix.com/
also have my own webpage to promote my books and work at www.anthonysarch.wix.com/
Three Poems By Judith Skillman: "May Rains", "Friday Mass", "A La Prima "
Judith Skillman’s recent book is House of Burnt Offerings, Pleasure Boat Studio. Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, J Journal, Seneca Review, Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, The Iowa Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Awards include an Eric Mathieu King Fund grant from the Academy of American Poets. Visit www.judithskillman.com
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