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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Published: | 1 January 2024 |
Contents: Issue 21
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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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Ekphrastic Works |
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| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Riverside Girls [poem], after “So What” by Miles Davis |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Window Dressing [poem], after a B&W photograph by Jason Baldinger |
| Kate Flannery | See Essays, Etcetera below. |
| Seth Friedman | Local News Bulletin from Good Grief, Idaho [haibun story], after a photograph by Alec Soth |
| Malcolm Glass | Gone [poem], after one of his photographs |
| Robbi Nester | Watching Pins [poem], after the photograph by Sal Taylor Kydd |
| Gary S. Rosin | Somewhere Over Ukraine [micro-poem], after For the Innocents (stained glass) by Deborah J. Ripley |
| Gary S. Rosin | Waiting for Día de los Muertos [poem], after an image of Jupiter processed by Vladimir Tarasov |
| Daryl Scroggins | Between Two Stiles [prose poem], after a painting by Childe Hassam |
| ◊ | By Hook or By Crook [microfiction], after a painting by Adriaen Brouwer |
| LL Wohlwend | Priceless [haibun], after sculpture by Edgar Degas |
| 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] |
| Bella Mahaya Carter | Bad Genes [micro CNF] |
| Kate Flannery | Schoenberg Finds Rothko: An Ekphrastic Work in Music [essay] |
| Angela Townsend | See Humor below. |
| Annette Januzzi Wick | Egg White on My Face [CNF: memoir] |
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Fiction: Flash & Micro* |
| Roberta Beary | The Quandary [micro] |
| ◊ | See also Humor below. |
| Guy Biederman | Counting Sheep [micro] |
| ◊ | See also Humor below. |
| Steven H. Bills | Skunked [micro] |
| Bella Mahaya Carter | Museum Muse [micro] |
| ◊ | Spy [micro] |
| Eli S. Evans | See Humor below. |
| Peter Fiore | New Year’s Eve [micro] |
| Seth Friedman | See Haibun Forms below for his haibun stories. |
| Michael H. Lester & Vicki Miko |
See Tanka Forms below for their tanka tales. |
| Kurt Luchs | See Humor below for his flash fiction. |
| Amy Marques | Sunset with Crows [micro] |
| Liz Mayers | Suzie, Sammie, and Me [micro] |
| Liz Rosen | Survival Skills [flash] |
| Linda Saldaña | Most Beautiful Girl in the Train Station [micro] |
| ◊ | Three Days [flash] |
| Angeline Schellenberg | Off the Rails [micro] |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kathryn Silver-Hajo | In the Dark [hint 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 Forms [prose + haiku] |
| Aidan Castle | Intrastate |
| Thomas Festa | Hinges and Hasps |
| ◊ | Spirited Away |
| Seth Friedman | Ridin’ Rough [haibun story] |
| Seth Friedman | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Tricia Knoll | In the Drawer |
| Margaret Koger | Winter Wings [anomalous] |
| Kat Lehmann | Clay Body |
| ◊ | My Nose Is Its Own Country |
| Michael H. Lester | Cut to the Quick |
| Bob Lucky | A Reminder |
| ◊ | To the Elderly Parents Having Coffee With Their Offspring |
| Bob Lucky | See also Humor below. |
| Kati Mohr | The Empress |
| ◊ | Unravel |
| James Penha | From Empathy to Tonglen |
| Lew Watts | Entrainment |
| Lew Watts | See also Humor below. |
| LL Wohlwend | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Haiga [haiku + visual art] |
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| James Penha | Justin Peck [found haiga] |
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Humor |
| Part I. | |
| Erasure Rejection Letters [found poetry]: | |
| Roberta Beary | “Dear RobertA” [two] |
| Luanne Castle | “Dear Luanne” |
| Kathryn Silver-Hajo | “Dear Kathryn” |
| Mikki Aronoff | “Dear Mikki” [two] |
| Part II. | |
| Guy Biederman | Career Opportunity Awaits [microfiction], plus photograph |
| Eli S. Evans | By Any Definition [microfiction] |
| Michael H. Lester | Familiar, Yet Forgotten [tanka prose] |
| Kurt Luchs | The President of Nothing [flash fiction] |
| Bob Lucky | Two Left Feet [haibun] |
| Angela Townsend | Yellow Potatoes of the End Times [CNF] |
| Lew Watts | Flat Pack [haibun, anomalous] |
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Micro-Poems |
| Alexandra Fössinger | Lund |
| Margaret Koger | Ream of Sky |
| D.S. Maolalai | A view from my balcony |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Alan Summers | spoondrift at Christmas [haiku sequence] |
| *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 |
| L. Ward Abel | Suited |
| Cynthia Anderson | Afterlife [cherita sequence] |
| ◊ | San Francisco, April 14, 1905 |
| M. J. Arcangelini | One Highway Too Far |
| Mikki Aronoff | See Humor above. |
| Roberta Beary | See Humor above. |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Luanne Castle | See Humor above. |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | At the Lake with Schrödinger’s Cat |
| ◊ | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Scott Ferry | my mother repeats certain phrases, plus photograph |
| Alexandra Fössinger | Congenial |
| ◊ | Queer |
| Alexandra Fössinger | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| Malcolm Glass | Her Voice |
| Malcolm Glass | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Gary Grossman | One Degree of Separation |
| Hazel Hall | The Miner’s Wife [sonka: sonnet + tanka] |
| Greg Huteson | Lunar New Year’s Eve, ’23 |
| Tricia Knoll | The White Hydrangea with a Voice Disability Prepares for the Devotions of Lauds [cento] |
| Tricia Knoll | See also Haibun Forms above. |
| Judy Kronenfeld | Naked vs. Nude |
| D.S. Maolalai | The house shone like a fish |
| ◊ | The mechanical creature |
| D.S. Maolalai | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| Robbi Nester | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Linda Parsons | Times Gone By |
| Cynthia Pyun | Just Before and Long After [R] |
| Daryl Scroggins | On Screen |
| Kathryn Silver-Hajo | See Humor above. |
| Robin Turner | Elegy with Clouds & Breakfast Cereal |
| ◊ | Waiting for My Flight After Burying Our Mother |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Prose Poems |
| Eli S. Evans | Pants Man |
| Jeff Harvey | We’d Never Put Our Parents in a Place Like This |
| Peter Johnson | Three Excerpts from Observations from the Edge of the Abyss: |
| ◊ | “A black carriage trudging” [R] |
| ◊ | “Mirabel’s favorite song” [R] |
| ◊ | “We were whining and dining” [R] |
| Amy Marques | We Are Made of Scraps |
| Daryl Scroggins | Late Critique |
| Daryl Scroggins | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Robin Shepard | in*scrut*a*ble |
| ◊ | Some People Lead Such Fantastic Lives |
| Jonathan Yungkans | All Mattresses Point North |
| ◊ | The Whole Other Issue of Belonging |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Tanka Forms [prose + tanka] |
| Michael H. Lester & Vicki Miko |
From Shadows of the Saguaro: The Wiles of Cactus Annie May and Bad Jack Muldoon [a series of responsive tanka tales]: |
| ◊ | A Painful Reminder |
| ◊ | Settling in for the Night |
| M. H. Lester | See also Humor above. |
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Visual Arts |
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| Guy Biederman | Untitled photograph |
| Guy Biederman | See also Humor above. |
| Scott Ferry | See Poetry: Lineated above. |
| James Penha | See Haiga above. |
| Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works: | |
| Jason Baldinger | Van Wert, Ohio (2023) [B&W photograph] |
| Adriaen Brouwer | Youth Making a Face [painting] |
| Edgar Degas | Little Dancer Aged 14 [sculpture] |
| Childe Hassam | The New York Window [painting] |
| Sal Taylor Kydd | Watching Pins [photograph] |
| Deborah J. Ripley | For the Innocents [stained glass] |
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