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Date Published: 15 Aug. 2023

Contents: Issue 19

  Feature: Self-Care
for Creators, IV

Fiction Ekphrastic Works Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Humor Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Ekphrastic Works Essays & Other
Nonfiction
Statistics Visual Arts
Poetry & Hybrids Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Forms Humor Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Prose

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Feature: Self-Care for Creators, Part 4: Writing to Heal
Kendall Johnson Through a Curatorial Eye: The Apocalypse This Time [essay, plus five artworks]
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Ekphrastic Works (various poetic forms)
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Cherie Hunter Day Yesterday’s News [prose poem], after a photograph by John Levy
Robert L. Dean, Jr. Breath of the Lord [poem, lineated], after a photograph by Jason Baldinger
Judy Kronenfeld Crumpled Man on the Sidewalk, 1953 [poem, lineated], after a photograph by Vivian Maier
Two Little Girls, Face to Face [poem, lineated], after a photograph by Vivian Maier
Betsy Mars Portal [poem, lineated], after a painting by Danelle Rivas
Wilda Morris The Bread Line [poem, lineated], after sculpture by George Segal
The Fortune Teller Speaks [poem, lineated], after a painting by Caravaggio
Robbi Nester Fireworks Show [R] [poem, lineated], after a painting by Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja
David B. Prather No Shoes [poem, lineated], after The Tragedy by Pablo Picasso
Gary S. Rosin The Dark [micro-poem: cherita terbalik], after a painting by Lorette C. Luzajic
Ukrainian Lights [micro-poem: cherita terbalik variant], after a painting by Octavio Quintanilla
Sarah Scott Perfect Life [poem, lineated], after a painting by Nancy Cheairs
Donna Shanley Activewear [micro-poem], after a photograph by Jocy H.
Karen VandenBos Ghost of the White Horse Dream [prose poem], after a painting by Eric Ravilious
Under the Crescent Moon [prose poem], after a painting by Marc Chagall
Waiting [micro-poem], after a painting by René Magritte
 
*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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Essays & Other Nonfiction
John Brantingham Peter Johnson’s While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems [book review]
Kendall Johnson Art and Writing in This Age of Isolation:
An Interview with John Brantingham and Jane Edberg
[includes poems and etymphrastic artworks in response]
Kendall Johnson See also his essay under Feature: Self-Care for Creators above.
Dotty LeMieux Dead Letter Office [lyrical memoir]
Clare MacQueen “One Hallelujah at a Time”: A Review of Lorette C. Luzajic’s The Rope Artist: small ekphrastic fictions [book review]
Jocelyn Rose Basta [lyrical memoir]
Zaftig (Parts I and II) [lyrical memoir]
Daryl Scroggins On Audience [micro-nonfiction]
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Fiction: Flash & Micro*
Ani Banerjee See Humor below.
Jerome Berglund See Haibun below, for his haibun story.
Guy Biederman Aeolian Morning [micro: dribble]
Lawn Chair Dialogues [micro]
John Brantingham A Pebbled Paradise [micro: drabble]
The Miracle of Stones and Snakes [micro: drabble]
Butterfly Wing [micro: drabble]
It’s Not So Much That You’re Thirsty [micro: drabble]
Kevin Brennan Our Son [flash]
Jeff Burd Three stories from Hello, Joe [flash novella]:
Confessional [micro]
Regina [flash]
Just the Wine [micro]
Richard Holinger The Bus Driver [flash]
Don Noel Man with a Riata [micro]
Opportunities [flash]
Keith J. Powell Invited In [micro: one-sentence drabble]
Lovebug [micro: drabble]
Deborah Prum See Humor below.
Andrew Schley As If You Were My Own [micro]
Donna Shanley See Humor below.
Rich Youmans See Haibun below, for his haibun story.
 
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles!
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Haibun [prose + haiku]
Farah Ali Burn
Fangs
Cynthia Anderson Climate Incarnate
Facing the Music
On His Blindness
Storm Tending
Jerome Berglund Tornado Drill [haibun story]
Claire Everett A Thousand Thens
Keith Evetts The Bell-Shaped Curve
Thomas Festa Skyscrapers
Bob Lucky See Humor below.
Stuart Watson See Humor below.
Rich Youmans What’s Underneath [haibun story, anomalous]
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Haiga & Related Forms [haiku + visual art]
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Cherie Hunter Day Untitled Shahai [gender]
Untitled Shahai [insomnia]
Mark Meyer Untitled Haiga [wildfire morning...]
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Humor
Ani Banerjee Not Financial Advice [microfiction]
Roy J. Beckemeyer High Noon Siestina [poem, lineated]
Keith Evetts Three Micro-Poems:
[I love you Emily]
[To be inspired by skylarks is not new]
[Adlestrop]
Keith Evetts Untitled [It’s hard to rhyme lover with hoover] [poem, lineated]
Untitled [Wondering whether] [poem, lineated]
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Aubade [poem, lineated]
Bob Lucky The Meaning of It All [haibun]
Deborah Prum Spider [flash fiction]
Donna Shanley Marie-Antoinette’s Nose [microfiction]
Stuart Watson Magicians [haibun]
Kelley White Four Untitled Micro-Poems
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Micro-Poems
Jerome Berglund Four Untitled Micro-Poems
Keith Evetts See Humor above.
Kala Ramesh Untitled Tanka Doha [what’s done]
Gary S. Rosin Beyond Scorching [micro-poem: American cinquain variant]
Gary S. Rosin See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Donna Shanley See Ekphrastic Works above.
Karen VandenBos See Ekphrastic Works above.
Kelley White See Humor 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
Roy J. Beckemeyer Rejoicing [R]
Roy J. Beckemeyer Sparks [R]
Robert L. Dean, Jr. We Are Dysfunctional But Open for Business
Robert L. Dean, Jr. See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Keith Evetts See Humor above.
George Franklin Elsie and Alfred
Roseanne Freed If Grief Is Inside Us, Who Can Measure the Grief of Another?
Hayley Mitchell Haugen Liminal
Misery
Cindy Ellen Hill Gambling
Which Side Are You On
Elizabeth Kerlikowske See Humor above.
Judy Kronenfeld See Ekphrastic Works above.
Betsy Mars Losing It
Betsy Mars See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Wilda Morris See Ekphrastic Works above.
Robbi Nester Centralia Is Burning
Robbi Nester See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Frederick Pollack Fiction
Seeking the Warm Sea
David B. Prather Water Song
David B. Prather See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Anne Rankin Waiting at Sand Beach
Heather Swan Nocturne
When the Time Comes
Marianne Szlyk At the Forest Nook
The Boars Who Live in Poznań
Marianne Tefft Astrolabe
Cataract
I Am So Young
Jonathan Yungkans A Surreal Intimacy, Like Jazz Music
Being Alone in the Middle of a Moan That Did Not Issue From Me
That Stalled Moment—It Too Is Flowing, Fleeting
There Had Never Been a Problem With the Water Before
 
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Prose Poems
Cherie Hunter Day Gastroliths
Cherie Hunter Day See also Ekphrastic Works above.
George Franklin Hospitality [A Prose Poem Sequence]:
“A Little-Known Fact”
“Toothache”
“A Few Blocks Away”
Bob Lucky On the Geography of Love
Kathleen McGookey Red Box
The Monkey in the Palace
The Sleep Thief
Alexis Rhone Fancher Tongue and Groove [Erotic]
Charles D. Tarlton Pygostyle and Tibiotarus
Karen VandenBos See Ekphrastic Works above.
Elinor Ann Walker Fugitive But Gorgeous
Polymorphous Pigeon in the Art Museum
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Tanka Prose
Keith Evetts The Catch
Kala Ramesh Inner Path
Charles D. Tarlton Le Bal Masqué
Trouble in Paradise
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Visual Arts
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Jason Baldinger Roadside, New York (2023) [B&W photograph]
Caravaggio The Fortune Teller [painting]
Nancy Cheairs Perfect Light [painting]
Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja Ancestral Gold [painting]
Cherie Hunter Day See Haiga above.
Jane Edberg Three drawings from the collaborative book My Dead, within Kendall Johnson’s interview of Jane Edberg and John Brantingham
Kendall Johnson Five abstract paintings, within his essay “Through a Curatorial Eye: The Apocalypse This Time”
John Levy Untitled [photograph]
Lorette C. Luzajic Carousel of Stories [mixed media, acrylic painting]
Mark Meyer See Haiga above.
Pablo Picasso The Tragedy [painting]
Octavio Quintanilla En la aurora [painting]
Eric Ravilious Train Landscape [painting]
 
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