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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Date Published: | 18 Sept. 2022 |
Contents: Issue 15
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Content Warning: MacQueen’s Quinterly (aka MacQ) contains an eclectic range of literary and artistic works, many of which are suitable only for mature adults. However, an “[R]” after titles below simply indicates reprinted works (or, more accurately, republished works, since MacQ publishes online and not in print). Unless otherwise noted, all works published in this journal are copyrighted by their respective authors and artists, and may NOT be reproduced without written permission from individual copyright holders. Thank you for respecting copyrights. Works by an individual may appear under multiple genres below. For a complete list of works by each person, see Index of Contributors. |
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Cheribun [prose + cherita] |
| Kendall Johnson | Out of the Desert [+ painting by Johnson] |
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Ekphrastic Challenge: |
| Clare MacQueen | Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge [includes commentaries + links to the eight works listed below] |
| Winner: | |
| Jonathan Yungkans | “It Belongs to Each of Us Like a Blanket” [poem] |
| Finalists (unranked): | |
| Roberta Beary | “The True Story of the Reproduction of The Holy Shroud and the Convent School: Brought to You by Yours Truly, Creator of the Quaeritur Podcast” [microfiction] |
| Roberto Christiano | “The Question of Questions” [poem] |
| Linda Nemec Foster | [Turin Shroud Triptych]: “Prelude”; “The Making of the Shroud: Fourteen Visions (After the Fourteen Stations of the Cross)”; and “Afterword” [micro- and prose poetry] |
| Hazel Hall | “A Question of Faith” [hybrid prosimetrum, with tanka, senryu, & cherita variation] |
| Daryl Scroggins | “Roadshow” [microfiction] |
| ◊ | “Love Touches All Love” [prose poem] |
| ◊ | “The Fungible Nimbus” [microfiction] |
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Ekphrastic Works |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Purgatory [prose poem], after digital illustration by “grandfailure” |
| Cherie Hunter Day | Gallery of the Like-Minded [haibun], after a photograph by John Levy (of a painting by André Derain) |
| Margaret Dornaus | When a Tree Falls [haibun], after a painting by Maria Prymachenko |
| Stephen D. Gibson | The Tree of Knowledge of Life [microfiction], after a painting by Pavel Tchelitchew |
| Hazel Hall | Let the Bass Walk With You [R] [sonku: sonnet + haiku; includes audio of poet’s reading], after Chet Baker’s performance of “Almost Blue” (Tokyo, 1987) |
| Rick Mulkey | Late Summer Meditation on Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with a Reaper [poem, lineated] |
| Gary S. Rosin | Night Wind [micro-poem: American cinquain], after the art quilt by Carol Anne Grotrian |
| Gary S. Rosin | Rainbow and Dead Tree [micro-poem: cherita terbalik], after the photograph by Chuck Kimmerle |
| Gary S. Rosin | When Spirits Play [micro-poem: cherita terbalik], after the photograph by Klaus Priebe |
| Jane Salmons | Tom’s Ninth Life [microfiction], after a painting by Charles Verlat |
| Harriot West | Posing for Degas [haibun story], after a painting by Edgar Degas |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
| Note: If you’re interested in submitting ekphrastic works to MacQueen’s Quinterly, wonderful! We hope you’ll take a few minutes to read Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide for Verbalizing Art, tips by Jack Cooper and Clare MacQueen in KYSO Flash which include additional examples of what Clare’s looking to publish here in MacQ as well. See also the excellent recommendations from Robert L. Dean, Jr. in his essay on craft: Finding the Door: One Writer’s Approach to Ekphrasis (MacQ-13, May 2022). | |
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Featured Artists |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title below indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
| Angela Carole Brown | Five Artworks (paintings): |
| ◊ | [Happy Accident] [R] (alcohol ink on yupo) |
| ◊ | Blu Period [R] (acrylic on canvas) |
| ◊ | Blood Need Only Signify Womanhood [R] (alcohol ink on yupo) |
| ◊ | Man on Deathbed Enveloped in His Dreams [R] (alcohol ink on yupo) |
| ◊ | The Sea [R] (alcohol ink on yupo) |
| Angela Carole Brown | See also Fiction: Flash and Micro below, for three of her 100-word stories. |
| Carol Anne Grotrian | Four Art Quilts (American quilting + Japanese shibori): |
| ◊ | Lilies of the Lake, Spring [R] |
| ◊ | Rockery Grasses, Ipswich River [R] |
| ◊ | Bouquet [lilacs] [R] |
| ◊ | Pyrotechnics, The Fourth [R] |
| Carol Anne Grotrian | To link to her art quilt Night Wind, see Gary S. Rosin under Ekphrastic Works. |
| Susan Tekulve | Six Artworks: |
| ◊ | Canna Abstract [R] [digital art] |
| ◊ | Happy Spring [R] [watercolor painting, with heat-embossed gold stamp] |
| ◊ | Driftwood Tree [R] [photograph] |
| ◊ | Untitled [R] [artisan jewelry], bezel/pendant encasing an alcohol-ink painting by Claire Bateman |
| ◊ | Italian Chapel [R] [digital art] |
| ◊ | Mystery Title [R] [digital art] |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| Dave Alcock | Equanimity [sequence, micro] |
| Roberta Beary | See Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Guy Biederman | Kitchen Mishap [micro] |
| Callie S. Blackstone | Escape from the Zoo [micro] |
| ◊ | Untitled [micro] |
| Angela Carole Brown | Splenic Descent [R] [micro] |
| ◊ | Alms [R] [micro] |
| ◊ | Intersection [R] [micro] |
| Rebecca Dempsey | Woman of Salt [micro] |
| Stephen D. Gibson | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Kenophobia [flash] |
| ◊ | The Hairdresser [flash] |
| Nora Nadjarian | My Perfect Cousin [micro] |
| Ken Poyner | Automaton [micro] |
| ◊ | Capture [micro] |
| ◊ | Puberty [micro] |
| Jane Salmons | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Jeanette Topar | Facedown in the Cornflowers [micro] |
| ◊ | Low on Eggs [micro] |
| *Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles! | |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
| Cynthia Anderson | “I’m a Bill you never have to pay” |
| ◊ | La Buena Vida |
| Marion Starling Boyer | Forelsket |
| Cherie Hunter Day | Agency |
| ◊ | Memory as a Kind of Resurrection |
| Cherie Hunter Day | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Margaret Dornaus | The River |
| Margaret Dornaus | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Rebecca Drouilhet | The Nick of Time [braided haibun] |
| Kyle Hemmings | The Queen of Soft Distant Animals |
| ◊ | Triad [haibun story] |
| ◊ | War Lords [micro-haibun] |
| Peter Jastermsky | Two Haibun: |
| ◊ | “Bodie” |
| ◊ | “What’s Left Behind” [micro] |
| Bob Lucky | Are We There Yet? |
| ◊ | Fame |
| ◊ | Somewhere in Texas |
| ◊ | The Armchair Daoist Channels the Mad Farmer |
| Harriot West | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Poems: Micro |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Poetry: Lineated |
| Roberto Christiano | See Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Roseanne Freed | A Fearful Thing |
| ◊ | This Isn’t About You |
| ◊ | Your name is a poem |
| Gary Grossman | Two Linked Poems: |
| ◊ | “First Cicada” |
| ◊ | “Oh You Rascal Billy Collins” [prose poem] |
| Hazel Hall | Bethungra Spiral [sonku: sonnet + haiku] |
| ◊ | Breaking New Ground [sonku: sonnet + haiku] |
| Hazel Hall | See also Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Rick Mulkey | Susan’s Creek |
| ◊ | Singing |
| Rick Mulkey | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Prose Poems below. |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Prose Poems |
Cynthia Anderson | Cinema Perdu |
| ◊ | The Deaths of Others |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Guy Biederman | Convergence of Light |
| ◊ | Oatmeal Chronicles |
| Janet Bowdan | Shingles |
| Linda Nemec Foster | My Husband Disguised as a Stranger in a Kraków Bar |
| ◊ | Hel as a Destination |
| ◊ | The Cloud Sleeps on the Mountain |
| ◊ | Foreign Subplots [sequence, prose poems]: |
| ◊ | “House of Strong Light—El Escorial” [R] |
| ◊ | “A Herd of Butterflies Near a Manor House—Scunthorpe, UK” |
| ◊ | “Primitive Art Above the Main Altar in a Museum that Used to be a Church—Holland” |
| ◊ | “Oak Tree Growing Out of a Skylight—Near Minsk” |
| ◊ | “The Young Man Whose Face is Covered with a Birthmark in the Shape of a Cloud” |
| Linda Nemec Foster | See also Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Gary Grossman | Joys of Gardening |
| ◊ | Picking Figs |
| Gary Grossman | See also Poetry: Lineated above. |
| Peter Jastermsky | Eavesdroppings |
| ◊ | Highlights |
| ◊ | Reservations |
| Bob Lucky | Missing |
| ◊ | Strangled Dreams [prose ghazal] |
| ◊ | This Is No Joke |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Las Ramblas |
| Lorette Luzajic | See also Fiction: Flash and Micro above. |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Answering Neruda [A Quintet of Prose Poems: 4, 14-17] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See also Results of Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Visual Arts |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Angela Carole Brown | See Featured Artists above. |
| Edgar Degas | See Harriot West under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Giovanni Battista della Rovere | See ekphrastic microfiction by Roberta Beary. |
| André Derain | See Cherie Hunter Day under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Carol Anne Grotrian | See Featured Artists above. |
| Kendall Johnson | See Cheribun above. |
| Chuck Kimmerle | See Gary S. Rosin under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| John Levy | See Cherie Hunter Day under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Maria Prymachenko | See Margaret Dornaus under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Peter Paul Rubens | See “Picking Figs” by Gary Grossman under Prose Poems above. |
| Susan Tekulve | See Featured Artists above. |
| Vincent van Gogh | See Rick Mulkey under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Charles Verlat | See Jane Salmons under Ekphrastic Works above. |
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