Flash Fiction By Belinda Hubert: "Wish I Knew"

In addition to writing fiction and poetry, Belinda Hubert is currently working on a  a collection of short stories about life in the Midwest. Her novel, Shrink Wrapped is available on Amazon. Belinda works as a clinical psychologist in a private practice in Lowell, Indiana.  http://buelasprairiepractice.blogspot.com/

Fiction By Jacqueline Masumian: "Barn Dance"

Jacqueline Masumian, a graduate of DePauw University, is the author of Nobody Home:  A Memoir. She grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and has enjoyed careers as actress, performing arts manager, and landscape designer. Her stories have appeared in Mused Literary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and Still Crazy. Her blog is on Goodreads.com.

Fiction By Patric Mauzy: "Rose"

Patric Mauzy is an aspiring author from the small town of Arcola, Indiana. When he isn't focusing on his writing he is playing his guitar and making music.

Fiction By Phillip E. Temples: "Filings"

Phil Temples lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and works as a computer systems administrator at a university. He's a native of Bloomington, Indiana. Phil has had over a hundred works of short fiction published in print and online journals.
Blue Mustang Press recently published Phil's full-length murder-mystery  novel, “The Winship Affair." He has two books due out this year--a paranormal-horror novel, "Helltown Chronicles" by Eternal Press, and a short story anthology in Big Table Publishing, "Machine Feelings."

Creative Nonfiction/Essay By Elizabeth Brooks: "The Call of the Child"

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.

Memoir Excerpt By Bruce F. Rosen: "Disappearing on a Freight Train" from If You Ever Need Me, I Won't Be Far Away

 

An award-winning writer, Bruce F. Rosen shares the same publisher as literary greats Allen Ginsberg, Laurence Ferlinghetti, and William Saroyan.  Featured on The Today Show and the cover of Personal Excellence and Publisher’s Weekly, he has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Baseball Hall of Fame.  His “slice of life” pieces ran on BBC Radio.  His mother, Alma Rose, who was a psychic that read tea leaves for, among others, Marlon Brando, inspired this memoir which is dedicated to her.  This excerpt showcases his best friend from his youth, who lives on, only, in the author’s memories. Please visit his website: www.almarosepublishing.com

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH APRIL 2016 ISSUE #21

Photo Courtesy of Ken Murphy

Welcome! Thomas Gray once said, "Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn" and Indiana Voice Journal is celebrating National Poetry Month with twenty-one poets whose thoughts and words do exactly that. We also have five of the best fiction writers, two wonderful essayists, and two amazingly talented visual artists featured in this issue. It has been an honor getting this edition together and meeting new friends in the process. Enjoy the read, and don't forget to leave some kind comments for the authors. Thanks ~Janine Pickett, Editor

POETRY 

Suvojit Banerjee, GF Boyer, Jared Carter, Pijush Kante Deb, Kika Dorsey, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Matthew Duggan, L Mark Finch, John Grey, Scott Hensley, Julia Hones, Michael Lee Johnson, Joan Payne Kincaid, KG Newman, Todd Outcalt, Dale Patterson, Arthur Powers, Soodabeh Saeidnia, Jay Sizemore, Emile Stieffel IV, David Subacchi 

VISUAL ART

 Douglas G. Campbell, Ken Murphy

CREATIVE NONFICTION/ESSAYS 

Glenna Blomquist, Lynda McKinney Lambert 

FICTION

Donald Baker, Jeff Burt, Rich Elliott, Jess Kapp, Diane Stallings

Three Poems by Suvojit Banerjee: "Letters and Postcards from the other side of the glass wall", "While we died, a new plant was born", "A tale of past and present and future"

Suvojit Banerjee has seen twenty eight summers, but he doesn’t remember all of them; his existence is torn between the suburbs in West Bengal he grew up in, and the city called Atlanta he now lives in. The world around him adorns many masks, and so does he, while roaming around its streets with the eyes as a journal and his soul as a pen. He is searching for answers in this surreal yet slimy maze, but the questions keep on changing every time.

Three Poems by GF Boyer: "Fledgling", "Mercy", and "Ascending/Descending"

GF Boyer is a freelance editor, creative writing instructor, and the editor of Clementine Poetry Journal   https://clementinepoetry.wordpress.com/  and Clementine (Unbound) (https://clementineunbound.wordpress.com/). Her poems have appeared in a number of publications, including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, and Heron Tree.

Three Poems by Jared Carter: “Zhèngzài”, “Oblivion” and “Poems”

Jared Carter grew up in Elwood, Indiana

Three Poems by Pijush Kanti Deb: "Life is Colorless", "For a Refreshing Annual Honeymoon", " Happiness Is To Be Digested"

Pijush Kanti Deb is a new Indian poet with more than 234 published or accepted poems and haiku in more than 75 national and international magazines and journals,[print and online] including Down in the dirt, Tajmahal Review, Pennine Ink, Hollow Publishing, Creativica Magazine, Muse India, Teeth Dream Magazine, Hermes Poetry Journal, Madusa’s Kitchen,Grey Borders, Dead Snakes, Dagda Publishing, Blognostic and many more. He is the editor of Poebita Magazine.
His best achievement so far is the publication of his first poetry collection,’’Beneath The Shadow Of A White Pigeon’’ published by Hollow Publishing. It is available on AMAZON and BARNES AND NOBLE.

Three Poems by Kika Dorsey: "Everything Comes in Threes", "Thirst", and "Journey to Lakes"

Originally from South Bend, Indiana, Kika Dorsey is a poet and professor living in Boulder, Colorado, and lives with her two children, husband, kitten, and Border Collie. She wakes up at 5:00 every morning and crafts poetry out of dreams, myths, her body, and her travels. Her poems have been published in The Denver Quarterly, The Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Comstock Review, Freshwater, The Columbia Review, among numerous other journals and books. . Her collection of poems, Beside Herself , was published by Flutter Press. Her full-length collection, Rust, is coming out with Word Tech Editions August 2016..  She is a professor of English at Front Range Community College. When not writing or teaching, she taxis her teenagers to activities, swims miles in pools, and runs and hikes in the open space of Colorado’s mountains and plains. 

Four Poems and a Flash by Ken Allan Dronsfield: "Remembrance of Lilac Days R4", "A Whispered Hush", "Dancing to a Heart Song", "Dandelion Kisses" Flash: "The Great Teacher Whispers"

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.

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.com

A Poem by L Mark Finch: "Compost"

L. Mark Finch: Compost

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/poetrymanusa/videos  Michael Lee Johnson, Itasca, IL. nominated for 2 Pushcart Prize awards for poetry 2015.  Visit his Facebook Poetry Group and join https://www.facebook.com/groups/807679459328998/  

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.