Damien Irwin currently resides in Fort Smith AR. He is a native of Eastern Oklahoma who grew up in the foothills of the Ozarks. His poetry and fiction have been published in Applause.
May 4, 2016
Three Poems By Dr. Emory Jones: "The Patriot", "Bones Die Hard", "Magic Medicine Show"
Dr. Emory D. Jones is an English teacher who has taught in Cherokee Vocational High School in Cherokee, Alabama, for one year, Northeast Alabama State Junior College for four years, Snead State Junior College in Alabama for two years, and Northeast Mississippi Community College for thirty-five years. He joined the Mississippi Poetry Society, Inc. in 1981 and has served as President of this society. He has over two hundred and thirty-five publishing credits including
publication in such journals as Voices International, The White Rock Review, Free Xpressions Magazine, The Storyteller, Pasques Petals, The Pink Chameleon, and Encore: Journal of the NFSPS. He is retired and lives in Iuka, Mississippi, with his wife, Glenda. He has two daughters and four grandchildren.
Two Poems By Lynda McKinney Lambert: " Musings on “E”", "Crystal Healer"
Lynda McKinney Lambert is the author of
“Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage” published by Kota Press. It is
a book of poetry and short essays Lynda wrote over several years while spending
her summers in Salzburg, Austria where she taught a course in writing and art
each summer. She is a retired professor of fine arts and humanities from Geneva
College in western Pennsylvania. Lynda currently authors two blogs on
writing, the humanities, art, and faith. She is a freelance writer and her poetry and
essays appear in numerous books and literary journals. She also exhibits her fiber art in
exhibitions worldwide; her art work is in many public and private
collections.
A Poem By Mankh
Walter E.
Harris III (known to fellow poets and friends as Mankh) is a writer,
small press publisher, editor, and Turtle Islander. He hosts a the audio
show, Between the Lines: listening to literature online.
A Poem By Alice Jane-Marie Massa: "Welcoming Springtime in Indiana"
After
earning
master’s degrees from Indiana State University and Western
Michigan
University, Alice
Jane-Marie Massa--still
a Hoosier at heart--taught for
25 years,
including 14 years of teaching writing and public speaking at
Milwaukee Area
Technical College. Alice
invites you to
visit her blog: http://alice13wordwalk.
Two Poems By Carole Mertz: "Hard Times", "Empty Canisters of the World"
Carole Mertz has poems in various online publications. Her reviews, essays, and short stories appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Ascent Aspirations, Conium Review, Copperfield Review, CutBank, Mature Years, Mom Egg, Toasted Cheese, Women on Writing, Working Writer, World Literature Today, With Painted Word, WPWT, and in Seek Publications. Two poems won Wilda Morris’ Poetry Challenges, Summer, 2015. Carole writes in Parma, OH.
Five Poems By Milton Montague: "Because", "Eleven Smiling Faces", "For the Birds", "On the Grass", "Orion the Hunter"
milt montague, [email protected],
205 west end ave, new york, new york 10023, was born and raised in new
york city, survived The Great Depression, the school system, and World
War ll. Finished college, married happily, raised 3 lovely daughters,
retired. Back to college and after 20 years discovered poetry at 85.
Now at 90 plus years, he has 78 poems published in 26 different
magazines in under 3 years.
Three Poems By Judy Moskowitz: "Jazz Me", "Interrupted Madness", "Slam"
Judy Moskowitz is a jazz pianist from New York City . She started playing at the age of three and attended the Julliard School of Music. Judy began writing poetry three years ago and has been published on www.thepoetcommunity.com and is a featured poet in Michael lee Johnson’s antholgy Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, available on Amazon.
A Poem By Shirley Pearson: "Dad And I - Oh Horrors!"
Shirley Pearson is a freelance writer and editor. Her first job out
of high school was with Sears, writing copy for their Big Book. She has
continued to write for many publications over the years, taking awards for her
stories and poetry. For the past 27 years Shirley has led writing groups and was
head of PR for ElderCollege at Terra State College in Ohio. Currently she
is working on two books and writes poetry as her muse allows. A widow,
Shirley’s two cats, her elderly father, daughter, granddaughters and great
grandchildren keep her busy.
Three Poems By Sunil Sharma: "Et tu Brute?", "Phantom Road", "Red Moon"
Mumbai-based, Sunil Sharma, a college principal, is also widely-published Indian critic, poet, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist and fiction writer. He has already published three collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction, one novel and co-edited five books so far. His six short stories and the novel Minotaur were recently prescribed for the undergraduate classes under the Post-colonial Studies, Clayton University, Georgia, USA. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. He edits the online journal Episteme: http://www.episteme.net.in/
Three Poems By Tom Sheehan: "Applepine Mountain", "A Small Red Star for Me and My Father", "Trout Fishing with Rommel's Last-known Foe"
Tom Sheehan has published 23 books and has had multiple work in most of the following publications: Ocean Magazine, Rosebud, Linnet’s Wings, Serving House Journal, Eclectica, Copperfield Review, KYSO Flash, La Joie Magazine, Soundings East, Vermont Literary Review, Literary Orphans, Indiana Voice Journal, Frontier Tales, Deep South Magazine, Western Online Magazine, Provo Canyon Review, 3 AM Magazine, Vine Leaves Journal, Nazar Look, Eastlit, Rope & Wire Magazine, The Literary Yard, KYSO Journal, Green Silk Journal, Fiction on the Web, The Path, Faith-Hope and Fiction, The Cenacle, etc.
He has 30 Pushcart nominations, and five Best of the Net nominations (and one winner) and short story awards from Nazar Look for 2012- 2015. Swan River Daisy, a chapbook, was just released by KY Stories and The Cowboys, a collection of western short stories, is in production at Pocol Press.
Three Poems By John Stanizzi: "What Cannot Be Held", "What is Not Understood", "First Timers"
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall (www.antrimhousebooks.com), and After the Bell, and Hallalujah Time! (www.bigtablepublishing.com). His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The New York Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Passages North, The Spoon River Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Connecticut River Review, Freshwater, Boston Literary Review, and many other publications. He has new work forthcoming in Raintown Review, Off the Coast, Black Cat Moon, and LIPS. John has read at many venues throughout Connecticut, including The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, RJ Julia Booksellers, and the Arts Café Mystic, and his work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He is currently an adjunct professor of English at Manchester Community College. John is currently at work on two volumes -- Hallelujah Time! - Volume II, the follow up to his recently released Hallelujah Time! and another book of poems called Sundowning. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry, Connecticut. http://www.johnlstanizzi.com
A Poem By Casey Vittimberga: "Stasis"
Casey Vittimberga is a California native whose work has appeared in various literary magazines including Polaris, The Walrus, TeenInk and If & Only If. She is the recipient of the 2013 Ardella Mills Prize in Literary Composition and the second place winner of the 2014 Ohio Northern Fiction Contest. She graduated with a creative writing degree from Mills College, moved to the Silicon Valley with her angsty pet rabbit and now works in tech.
Visual Art By Allen Forrest
Born in Canada and bred in the U.S., Allen Forrest has
worked in many mediums: computer graphics, theater, digital music, film,
video, drawing and painting. Allen studied acting in the Columbia
Pictures Talent Program in Los Angeles and digital media in art and
design at Bellevue College (receiving degrees in Web Multimedia
Authoring and Digital Video Production.) He currently works in the
Vancouver, Canada, as a graphic artist and painter. He is the winner of
the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed
Magazine and his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College
Foundation's permanent art collection. Forrest's expressive drawing and
painting style is a mix of avant-garde expressionism and
post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating emotion on
canvas.
Flash Non-Fiction By Bill Vernon: "The Heart Of The City"
Bill Vernon served in the United States Marine Corps, studied English literature, then taught it. Writing is his therapy, along with exercising outdoors and doing international folkdances. His poems, stories and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and Five Star Mysteries published his novel OLD TOWN in 2005. Bill has a non-fiction piece "Better Than Flowers" featured in the September 2014 issue of IVJ.
Flash Fiction By J.Andrew Goss: "The Hardest Button"
J.Andrew Goss is an artist and writer living in the wine country of the Missouri River Hills. He is currently an MFA student at Lindenwood University.
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."
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
April 5, 2016
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH APRIL 2016 ISSUE #21
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| 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.
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.
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.
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
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