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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Date Published: | 1 Jan. 2023 |
Contents: Issue 16
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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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Feature: Self-Care for Creators |
| Kendall Johnson | A Conversation with John and Ann Brantingham, Authors of Kitkitdizzi: A Non-Linear Memoir of the High Sierra [interview] |
| ◊ | A Walk Among Giants [book review of Kitkitdizzi], with three works each by Ann and John Brantingham |
| ◊ | Writing to Heal, Part 1: Tapping Hidden Gifts of Experience [essay], with three of Johnson’s abstract paintings |
| Clare MacQueen | Reframing Self-Care for Creators: Tips for Stewarding Your Talents and Energies in Non-Toxic Ways [essay] |
| Susan Tekulve | What My Muse Prefers [poem] |
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Cheribun [prose + cherita] |
| Gary S. Rosin | Birthdays of the Dead |
| Amy Small-McKinney | Dear Body |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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| Rose Mary Boehm | Kleidung wider den Tod zu Rom, Anno 1656 [poem, lineated], after an engraving by Paulus Fürst |
| Margaret Dornaus | In America: Remember [poem, lineated] |
| Norbert Kovacs | Monsieur Antoine’s Visit [microfiction], after a painting by Edgar Degas |
| Judy Kronenfeld | Anti-Pastoral [poem, lineated], after a painting by Claude Monet |
| ◊ | Freeze [poem, lineated] |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | The Apocalypse of Sister Gertrude Morgan [CNF] |
| Amy Marques | Date Night [microfiction] |
| ◊ | I would rather rake leaves than masturbate [prose poem], after anonymous postcard |
| dl mattila | Loose Lips [haibun], after digital art by Karen Coburn |
| Robbi Nester | Beekeeper [poem, lineated] |
| ◊ | Under the Metal [poem, lineated], after a photograph by Daniel Mauermann |
| Gary S. Rosin | Untitled [a shiver of moon] [haiku], after a photograph by Lars Leber |
| Gary S. Rosin | Extremadura Night [micro-poem: cherita terbalik] |
| ◊ | Milky Way Selfies [micro-poem: cherita terbalik] |
| Richard Allen Taylor | Little Girl Blue [poem, lineated] |
| 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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Essays, Etcetera |
| Kendall Johnson | See his works under Feature: Self-Care for Creators above. |
| Dotty LeMieux | Spring Trip to Mazatlán [CNF] |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | See her CNF under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Sarah Sarai | O Faded Elegant World [micro-nonfiction] |
| Daryl Scroggins | A Mint Reply [micro-nonfiction] |
| Rich Youmans | Plaiting Poem & Prose: The Art of Braided Haibun [R] [critical essay] |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| Dave Alcock | Believer [micro] |
| ◊ | Hand [micro] |
| Guy Biederman | Living Is Easy Behind Ray Bans [flash] |
| William Cass | Neighbors [micro] |
| Gary Glauber | Always Something [flash] |
| Norbert Kovacs | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | The Man Who Married a Pizza [flash] |
| Amy Marques | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Bayveen O’Connell | A Cobbler’s Tale [micro] |
| ◊ | Washerwoman’s Wish [micro] |
| Daryl Scroggins | Geography [micro] |
| ◊ | Librarian Ondine [R] [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] |
| Peggy Hale Bilbro | Clear the Decks |
| ◊ | Texas Two-Step |
| Andrea Eldridge | Shattered Ceilings [braided] |
| Janine Lehane | Folly Mountain |
| ◊ | Southern Peninsula |
| Dotty LeMieux | False Spring |
| Bob Lucky | This Old Man, He Dreams Too |
| Richard L. Matta | Uncle Eddie’s Falcon |
| dl mattila | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Stella Pierides | Bone Broth [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | Off Time [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | Wabi-sabi [micro-haibun] |
| Norman Silver | Gramadoelas |
| Sydney Solis | The End of the War |
| Scott Wiggerman | The Story of Fire |
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Haiga & Hybrids [poetry + visual art] |
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| Peggy Hale Bilbro | Untitled [by a thread] [photo-poem] |
| Carol Raisfeld | Untitled [that was fun!] [photo-poem] |
| Gary S. Rosin & Jana Craighead Smith |
Floating [collaborative shahai] |
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Poems: Micro |
| Richard L. Matta | Heating Up [split sequence] |
| dl mattila | Country Ku [micro-poem sequence] |
| Stella Pierides | See Haibun above. |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| *Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (which is the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the Twitter limit), with each word containing an average of 5.5 characters. The limit of 51 words includes punctuation, spaces between words, and the title if the micro-poem has one. Haiku, senryu, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. | |
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Poetry: Lineated |
| Rose Mary Boehm | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Beth Copeland | Mountain Cento |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Not Even a Bird |
| Margaret Dornaus | O, To Be a Curmudgeon |
| Margaret Dornaus | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Laura Foley | Into the Silky Water |
| ◊ | The Mosquitoes of Tatamagouche |
| George Franklin | Ode to Stalin |
| Gary Glauber | The Din of Iniquity |
| Gary Grossman | Seven Sisters |
| Jeanne Julian | How to Welcome the New Year |
| Judy Kronenfeld | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Janine Lehane | Swimming Test, Merewether Baths |
| Janine Lehane | See also Haibun above. |
| Terry Jude Miller | proof |
| ◊ | until today |
| Penelope Moffet | Bestseller |
| ◊ | Roosevelt Elk |
| Robbi Nester | Composed |
| Robbi Nester | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Frederick Pollack | I. M. J-L. G. |
| Laura Ann Reed | Inhabited |
| ◊ | Memory Awake |
| VA Smith | Mother of Pearl |
| ◊ | Ukrainian Easter Eggs |
| Julie Standig | Black and Whites [Waltmarie form: new to MacQ] |
| ◊ | Use ’Ta Could |
| Mary Ellen Talley | Heron, Whose Ghost Are You? |
| ◊ | Loneliness in the Museum Garden |
| Richard Allen Taylor | Passage |
| Richard Allen Taylor | See also Ekphrastic Works above and Prose Poems below. |
| Susan Tekulve | Congregation |
| ◊ | Hummingbird |
| Susan Tekulve | See also Feature: Self-Care for Creators above. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See Prose Poems below. |
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Prose Poems |
Gary Grossman | Heart Cracked Not Broken |
| Peter Jastermsky | Flatbed Logic |
| ◊ | Route 666 |
| ◊ | Underbellies |
| Dana Kinsey | Fly Girls |
| Amy Marques | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Richard Allen Taylor | Not the Home I Remembered |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Answering Neruda [A Quintet of Prose Poems: 3, 7, 11, 21, 23] |
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Visual Arts |
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| Part I. | |
| Zak Foster | Two Art Quilts [R]: |
| ◊ | Crazy Quilt |
| ◊ | Jeans, I Love You |
| Stephen Nelson | Four Asemic Artworks [R]: |
| ◊ | The only words left after midnight |
| ◊ | Postcards from a Scottish Bench |
| ◊ | Rimbaud in Africa |
| ◊ | Thinking About Baudelaire |
| Part II. | |
| Peggy Hale Bilbro | See Haiga & Hybrids above. |
| Ann Brantingham | See Kendall Johnson’s book review, “A Walk Among Giants,” under CNF, Essays, & Other Nonfiction above. |
| Karen Coburn | See dl mattila under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Edgar Degas | See Norbert Kovacs under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Paulus Fürst | See Rose Mary Boehm under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kendall Johnson | For three of Johnson’s paintings, see his essay “Writing to Heal: Tapping Hidden Gifts of Experience” under Feature: Self-Care for Creators above. |
| Lars Leber | Untitled [Twin Lakes, Colorado] [photograph] |
| Daniel Mauermann | See Robbi Nester under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Claude Monet | See Judy Kronenfeld under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Carol Raisfeld | See Haiga & Hybrids above. |
| Gary S. Rosin & Jana Craighead Smith |
See Haiga & Hybrids above. |
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