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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Date Published: | 15 Sept. 2023 |
Contents: Issue 20
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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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Featured Author/Artist |
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| Jane Salmons | Five Microfictions: |
| ◊ | From Bucharest to Monte Carlo, after a painting by Tamara de Lempicka: Autoportrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti) |
| ◊ | The last night of the season in Capbreton [one-sentence story] |
| ◊ | Dream Alice |
| ◊ | Sunflower Girl |
| ◊ | Twisted Willow |
| Jane Salmons | Five Collage Artworks with Poems: |
| ◊ | Crowd [prose poem] |
| ◊ | Dream of Billy Casper |
| ◊ | Girl Missing |
| ◊ | Growing Flowers on Mars |
| ◊ | In his jacket pocket |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Façade [microfiction], after an etching by Edward Hopper |
| Karen George | Edvard Munch’s The Girl by the Window, 1893 [poem] after a painting |
| ◊ | Is She the Blue Bird of Paradise? [poem], after a painting by Konstantin Somov |
| Elizabeth Kerlikowske | Their First Meeting [poem], after Mary Hatch’s painting The Last Bouquet |
| Nina Lindsay | Strangers to Ourselves [poem], after still-life sculptures by Libby Black |
| Gary S. Rosin | Portal [poem], after a photograph by Achim Korherr |
| Jane Salmons | See Featured Author/Artist above. |
| Daryl Scroggins | Diana’s Diversion [microfiction], after a painting by Marcel Duchamps |
| ◊ | Haven [micro prose poem], after a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige |
| Marianne Szlyk | Two Poems After Artwork by Maia Cruz Palileo: |
| ◊ | “Before the Triptych” |
| ◊ | “After the Triptych” |
| 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 [nonfiction forms] |
| Jude Dillon | Triggered: A Pillow Book (Writing by Alexis Rhone Fancher, with art by Kenna Barradell) [book review, micro] |
| Michael Loveday | The Fireflies Around Us by Kendall Johnson [book review, micro] |
| Jocelyn Rose | Breathe [memoir] |
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Fiction: Flash & Micro* |
| Dave Alcock | Sycorax [micro] |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| John Brantingham | Messages [micro: drabble] |
| ◊ | Friday [micro: drabble] |
| C. S. Dines | See Humor below. |
| Louella Lester | Memory Jogged [micro] |
| ◊ | Only Stealing Bits [micro: drabble] |
| ◊ | Switching Addictions [micro: drabble] |
| ◊ | Taking Control [micro] |
| ◊ | Until It’s Over and Over [micro] |
| Robert I. Mann | Cameoed Against the Twilight [flash] |
| Lynn Mundell | Friends [flash: one-sentence story] |
| Jane Salmons | See Featured Author/Artist above for a quintet of her microfictions. |
| Daryl Scroggins | Alexandria [micro] |
| ◊ | Small Breaks in a Continuum [micro] |
| Daryl Scroggins | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Richard Stimac | Rain Cover [micro] |
| Mary Hannah Terzino | See Humor below for her flash fiction. |
| Stuart Watson | See Humor below for his flash fiction. |
| *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] |
| Roberta Beary | Dad Says |
| Peggy Hale Bilbro | Time Warp |
| Lynn Edge | Year of the Farrier [haibun story] |
| Keith Evetts | Graham Greene’s Footsteps |
| ◊ | The Haiku Spirit |
| Keith Evetts | See also Humor below. |
| Jonathan Humphrey | As For You, Lightning |
| ◊ | Blue, the Moving Valley of His Wake |
| ◊ | Tom and Anne [haibun story] |
| Kat Lehmann | Event Horizon |
| ◊ | Life Is a Highway |
| ◊ | Materials and Methods |
| ◊ | Sensory Deprivation Tank [anomalous] |
| Mark Meyer | Texas Requiem |
| Mish (Eileen) Murphy | Everything You Need to Know About Florida |
| Lorraine A Padden | Those who are in favor [micro-haibun] |
| ◊ | whatsoever star [micro-haibun] |
| Elisabeth Preston-Hsu | Ache, with pollen and kink [burning haibun, Erotic] |
| Alexis Rotella | Third Try |
| Alice Wanderer | Puffing Billy |
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Haiga & Related Forms [haiku + visual art] |
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| Brian Kates & Cáit O’Neill McCullagh |
Untitled (“raindrop”) [collaborative shahai: haiku + photograph] |
| Brian Kates | Untitled (“garden buddha”) [shahai: haiku + photograph] |
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Humor |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Rose Mary Boehm | In praise of smelly cheese [poem] |
| C. S. Dines | Pilgrim’s Protest [microfiction] |
| Keith Evetts | Echinoderms [poem] |
| ◊ | Klecksography [haibun] |
| ◊ | I’m All Right Jack [haibun] |
| Keith Evetts | Untitled [I am the King’s Apostropher] [micro-poem] |
| ◊ | Untitled [Three Epigrams] [micro-poems] |
| Gary Grossman | Targeted Advertising [prose poem] |
| Kurt Luchs | 2CV [poem] |
| ◊ | Crime Prevention in Wheaton, Illinois [poem] |
| Bob Lucky | An Unexpected Message [poem] |
| ◊ | Ode to Cobwebs or, Maybe, Spiders, But Not the Cat [poem] |
| Patricia L. Scruggs | Dracula Considers Solar Panels [poem] |
| Mary Hannah Terzino | Saving the Turtles [flash fiction] |
| Stuart Watson | Pope Wins Easter Egg Hunt [R] [flash fiction] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Make a Purple Prayer Out of Origami and Stuff It [prose poem] |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Micro-Poems |
| Sarah Das Gupta | See Tanka Forms below. |
| Keith Evetts | See Humor above. |
| Richard L. Matta | The Good Host [split sequence] |
| Lorraine A Padden | See Haibun above. |
| LeeAnn Pickrell | February 3 |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Joshua St. Claire | Bell Pepper |
| *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 | Sanctification [R] |
| ◊ | Seppuku [R] |
| Amrita Skye Blaine | born of darkness |
| ◊ | the tube [R] |
| Rose Mary Boehm | Eyewitnesses |
| ◊ | Open and Shut |
| Rose Mary Boehm | See also Humor above. |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | In Which the Dark and I Come to Terms |
| Steve Deutsch | Memories |
| Margaret Duda | My Father’s Tears [R] |
| Karen Greenbaum-Maya | Comeback [R] |
| ◊ | Miss Irene |
| ◊ | Nothing Special... |
| Gary Grossman | Barred Owls |
| ◊ | Tante Sophie’s Schnapps Glasses |
| Lori Howe | Nacre [cadralor] |
| ◊ | Resonance Frequencies [cadralor] |
| Elizabeth Kerlikowske | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Stellasue Lee | Be Happy! Be You! |
| ◊ | Scavenging What Remains [+ Poet’s Note] |
| Nina Lindsay | Crave |
| ◊ | New year |
| Nina Lindsay | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kurt Luchs | Coffee |
| ◊ | Inheritance |
| Kurt Luchs | See also Humor above. |
| Bob Lucky | See Humor above. |
| LeeAnn Pickrell | Daylight Savings Time |
| ◊ | Resistance (June, Week 4) |
| LeeAnn Pickrell | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| David B. Prather | Fall Field Crickets |
| ◊ | Snake-Mimic Caterpillar |
| ◊ | Monarch vs. Viceroy |
| Laura Ann Reed | Dillon Beach |
| ◊ | Where the Heart Is Fattened |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Jane Salmons | See Featured Author/Artist above for a quintet of her poems with collages. |
| Patricia L. Scruggs | An ego is not an egg |
| ◊ | Fire Dance for Santa Cruz |
| ◊ | The Pear Trees Have Erupted |
| Patricia L. Scruggs | See also Humor above. |
| Richard (Dick) Westheimer | The Poetic Impulse of the Dead Not Forgotten |
| John Wheway | A Folio of Vermeer’s Paintings |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Prose Poems |
| Guy Biederman | A Small Dark Light |
| ◊ | Shadow Question |
| John Brantingham | When the Earth Is Quiet |
| Karen Greenbaum-Maya | Pony Girl |
| Gary Grossman | For the Girl at the Athens Comic Fair With the Crematorium Advertising Tote |
| Gary Grossman | See also Humor above. |
| Elizabeth Kerlikowske | What time does your heart have? |
| Jane Salmons | See Featured Author/Artist above for a quintet of her microfictions. |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Susan Starbird | Cheated |
| Jonathan Yungkans | But Anyone Engaged in the Business of Swapping Purity for Depth Will Understand What I Mean |
| ◊ | Only a Poodle Separates This Life from the Next |
| ◊ | Yet Not So Dirty, Surely Not in the Spiritual Sense |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See also Humor above. |
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Tanka Forms |
| Sarah Das Gupta | Four Micro-Poems [kyoka and tanka] |
| Michael H. Lester and Vicki Miko |
From Shadows of the Saguaro: The Wiles of Cactus Annie May and Bad Jack Muldoon [a series of responsive tanka tales]: |
| ◊ | Not All Good Things Come in Threes |
| ◊ | What Happens in the Desert |
| ◊ | A Place Among the Dingos, Jack Rabbits, Diamondbacks, and Vagabonds |
| Tony Steven Williams | So glad to be here [tanka prose] |
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Visual Arts |
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| Part I. | |
| Sam Gordon | I Am This Abled [folk art: quilt] |
| Geri Hahn | Three Fiber Artworks: |
| ◊ | Girls From Mars |
| ◊ | The Colors of a 12-String Guitar |
| ◊ | Girls Just Want to Have Fun, with a Nod to Cindy Lauper, Miriam Shapiro, Judy Chicago, Ariel Pink, and the 140,000,000 Women with Genital Mutilation |
| Brian Kates | See Haiga & Related Forms above for two photo-poems. |
| Jane Salmons | See Featured Author/Artist above for five collages. |
| Debbie Strange | From the series What We Make of Language, Three Collage Artworks: |
| ◊ | 20: “into the open book of sky” |
| ◊ | 22: “midnight’s torn pages” |
| ◊ | 18: “the grammar of shadows” |
| Part II. | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works: |
| Mary Hatch | The Last Bouquet [painting] |
| Utagawa Hiroshige | Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (1857) [woodblock print] |
| Tamara de Lempicka | Autoportrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti) (1928) [painting] |
| Edvard Munch | The Girl by the Window (1893) [painting] |
| Konstantin Somov | Blue Bird (1918) [watercolor painting] |
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