Carter McClure is a senior Elementary Education Major at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He says he has lived in Muncie for 22 years, and people make fun of him when he tells them he has no desire to leave. More of his poems can be found at: https://mehthodology.wordpress.com/.
April 4, 2017
Two CNF/Essays and Featured Visual Art by Toni Cogdell
Toni Cogdell lives and works in Bristol, UK, from her woodland studio. Exhibiting her paintings across the UK for many years, she has honed her process and technique to give voice to her expression, a personal style seeking to connect with the world around her. She loves to write as part of her expression and her written pieces like to exist nearby her paintings, gently trailing from their coat-tails.
In walking the space between figuration and abstraction Toni finds a freedom which allows her to go deeper into the intangible substance of the psyche and human condition without restricting or enforcing definitive ideas. Pulling recognisable truths into the work while giving reign to the unknown and ensuing contradiction to hold its own space, her paintings are looking for a balance, a kind of peace. In every journey travelled there is darkness as well as light, with more questions than answers. And these are the places Toni looks to find beauty.
CNF/Essay/Visual Art by Eric Hill: "A Matter of Time"
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.
CNF/Essay By John Spiegel: "The Life of the Homebodied Tigershark"
John Spiegel is an English teacher in Springfield, Ohio. He wears one pair of shoes and had a flip phone until last year because it just worked, dang it. His poetry and nonfiction can be read or is forthcoming in Birds Piled Loosely, Vine Leaves, Garbanzo, Indiana Voice Journal, and others.
CNF/Essay by Rekha Valliappan: "Orange Mystique"
Rekha Valliappan blogs, writes and lives in New York. She has taught college level English Literature and 'A' Levels Law. Much of her time is spent in community service. She now devotes her time to her first love - fiction-writing. Recently she was adjudged the 2nd Prize winner in the Annual Short Story Contest held by Boston Accent Lit. She was born and raised in Bombay and looks to Asia for inspiration. https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
CNF/Essay by Lois Greene Stone: "Diapered Doll"
Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies. Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian.
CNF/Essay by Lou Graves: "If Only We Could Talk Like Pianos"
Lou Graves is a writer, literary and music critic, and contributing author to Narrow Magazine. Recent work has appeared in Flash Fiction, Fishfood, Out Of Our, The Write Room, Foliate Oak, A.C. PAPA, Florida Speaks, and others. http://lou-graves.tumblr.com/
Fiction by Adam Matson: "Euxent"
Adam Matson's fiction has appeared internationally in over twenty magazines including The Indiana Voice Journal, Straylight, Soundings East, The Bryant Literary Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Morpheus Tales, Infernal Ink Magazine, and Crack the Spine. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Sometimes Things Go Horribly Wrong (Outskirts Press).
Fiction by Zoe Reger: "From the Desert"
Zoe Reger is an emerging fiction writer from Maryland. She majored in Philosophy at the University of Maryland and served on the editing board of Stylus literary magazine.
Flash Fiction by Ethan Danner: “The Secrets of the Stag”
Ethan Danner is a resident of South-East Arkansas where he is an English student at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Danner's short stories reflect the southern world and people around him. He explores the minds of the southerners young and old on issues big and small. Ethan has a love for beautiful prose and it shows through in his writing, especially when writing about nature in all its small intricacies.
Fiction by Raymond Greiner: "Peace Pilgrims"
Raymond Greiner's writings include short stories and essays published frequently in various literary journals and magazines: Branches magazine, La Joie Journal, Literary Yard Journal, Nib Magazine, Canary Literary Journal, Bellesprit Magazine, Freedom Journal, Grace Notes Literary Magazine. His latest book, "Queenie; a novella" is available on Amazon. Raymond lives in a remote area of southern Indiana in a cabin far off a lightly traveled road with his two dogs Orion and Venus.
Fiction by Charles E.J. Moulton: "Where Hearts Never Die"
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/ and http://moultoniancreativity.weebly.com
Highlight: Books by IVJ Authors
This month, we are featuring a few books written by authors published in IVJ. We've also opened an amazon bookstore page where you can purchase these books, and many more, written by our authors. If you have published content in Indiana Voice Journal, and you have a new book out and would like it listed in our bookstore, please let me know and I will add your book to our Bookstore page.
March 5, 2017
March 2017, Women's Issue #32
Powerful, historic, wacky, and wonderful...Welcome to the March 2017 edition of Indiana Voice Journal authored entirely by women!
International Women's Day is annually held on March 8 to celebrate women's achievements throughout history, and across nations. It is also known as the United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace. The 53 stories, poems, visual art, and essays in this issue are the best of the best! I hope you enjoy, read, share, and comment on our featured posts. A heartfelt thanks to art editor, Jennifer Criss, and poetry editor, David Allen for all their help with this huge edition! ~Janine Pickett
~Featured Authors~
Poetry
Visual Art
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction/Essay
Three Poems by Marianne Szlyk: "Shattered, Callie Drives Through Nevada," "The Poet of Spotsylvania," and "Home from the Oncologist"
Marianne Szlyk is the editor of "The Song Is...," associate poetry editor at "Potomac Review," and a professor of English at Montgomery College. Her second chapbook, I Dream of Empathy, was published by Flutter Press. Her first chapbook, Listening to Electric Cambodia, Looking up at Trees of Heaven, is available through Kind of a Hurricane Press: http://barometricpressures.blogspot.com/2014/10/listening-to-electric-cambodia-looking.html . Her poems have appeared in a variety of online and print venues.Two of her poems received nominations for Bet of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Recently she was artist in residence at The Wild Word: http://thewildword.com/artist-in-residence-marianne-szlyk/ . He blog is at http://thesongis.blogspot.com/
Three Poems by Bonita Cox Searle: "The Eclipse of July 11, 1991," " Passion Prosaic," and "Sweet and Sour Sonnet"
Bonita Cox Searle is a Hoosier native who strayed outside the border to the UK for a brief five years and returned with a slightly bewildered husband and a toddler with a British accent. She lives in Noblesville, Indiana, where she writes whenever she can’t bear not to. Her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction has been published by Flying Island and the Polk Street Review.
Three Poems by Blanca Alicia Garza: "Inamorata," "Love from Afar," and "Hold my Hand"
Blanca Alicia Garza is from Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a nature and animal lover, and enjoys spending time writing. Some of her poems have been published in the Poetry Anthology, "Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze," now available at Amazon.com. Blanca's published work can be viewed at The Poet Community, Whispers in the Wind Blog, The Winamop Journal, Indiana Voice Journal, Tuck Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, as well as Birdsong Anthology 2016, Vol 1.
Four Poems by Laurie Kuntz: "Debussy at Dusk," "Hands," "A Basket Set on the Shore," and "Starfish and Suns"
Laurie Kuntz is an award-winning poet and film producer. She taught poetry in Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines. Currently, she is helping produce a documentary, Strangers to Peace, about the current Colombian peace process (www.strangerstopeace.com). Recently retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind and drinks milk shakes and eats cake whenever possible.
Three Poems by Anoucheka Gangabissoon: "I Saw Me, Did You?" "My Choice," and "The Contrasting Color"
Anoucheka Gangabissoon is from Mauritius, where she is a primary school educator. She says she “writes and publish as hobby and passion.” She has published a collection of poems titled “Awakened Fancies,: and has a nother collection pending with the Ministry of Arts of Mauritius. Her blog is at anoucheka.blogspot.com. She has been published in various literary journals, including SETU, Different Truths, Dissident Voice, and Tuck Magazine. Her works can also be found at poetrysoup.com.
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