Date Published: | 15 Aug. 2023 |
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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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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] |
*Note: The “[R]” after titles in the Table of Contents indicates republished works (aka reprints). |
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