Published: | 4 February 2024 |
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Feature: Self-Care for Creators, Part 6: Writing to Heal |
Kendall Johnson | Incendiaries [essay, plus five artworks] |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Farah Ali | Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, 1885 [poem: tanshi sequence], after the painting |
Mikki Aronoff | Fairest of All [microfiction], after a painting by Gertrude Abercrombie |
◊ | La Primavera [microfiction], after Romaine Brooks |
◊ | Red [microfiction], after a painting by Alvar Jonson |
Joan Leotta | An Outstretched Arm Hides the Truth [micro-CNF], after a vintage B&W snapshot |
Gary S. Rosin | Endgame [micro-poem], after a photograph by Richard Hunter |
Judith Terzi | Héritage [poem], after a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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] |
John Brantingham | Now You Are a Missing Person by Susan Hayden [book review] |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Dandelions [micro-CNF] |
Roseanne Freed | Where’s Jeffrey? [CNF: memoir] |
Kendall Johnson | See Feature: Self-Care for Creators, VI above. |
Angela Townsend | See Humor/Wordplay below for her lyric essay on metaphors versus story. |
Aruni Wijesinghe | Playback [CNF: memoir] |
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Fiction: Flash & Micro* |
Dave Alcock | Foxes [micro: dribble] |
◊ | Overlooked [micro: dribble] |
Mikki Aronoff | Swimming with the Blind Fish [micro] |
Mikki Aronoff | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Tina Barry | It’s Ed Sullivan’s Fault [micro] |
◊ | Outliers [micro] |
Guy Biederman | Precious Artifact Repairs [micro] |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Susan’s Comet [micro] |
Terri L. French | See Haibun below for two of her haibun stories. |
Ethan Geiger | Along Cat [micro] |
Max Perkins | Trigger Toe [micro] |
Jessica Purdy | The Heirloom [micro] |
Daryl Scroggins | Space [micro] |
◊ | The One and the Many [micro] |
Janey Skinner | Departure is another way of arriving [micro] |
◊ | Not pizza [micro] |
◊ | Watercolor [micro: dribble] |
*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 or senryu] |
Terri L. French | Adrift |
◊ | Cleansed [haibun story] |
◊ | Trashed [haibun story] |
Hazel Hall | On an unmarked grave [anomalous haibun, aka sonku (sonnet + senryu)] |
Kendall Johnson | The Desert Sea Suite [haibun story + painting] |
David J. Kelly | Downstream |
Kat Lehmann | Falls Into Light |
◊ | Insecure Network |
Bob Lucky | On the Division of Labor |
Marietta McGregor | Hand-me-down |
Mark Meyer | Prologue to an Epilogue |
Alexis Rotella | After My Mother’s Burial [micro-haibun] |
Lew Watts | Snug |
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Haiga Forms [haiku + visual art] |
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Scott Ferry & Gary S. Rosin |
(this gnarled tree) [shahai: micro-poem + photograph] |
Scott Ferry & Gary S. Rosin |
[Three Untitled Shahai]: |
◊ | (eye in the green) |
◊ | (passing clouds) |
◊ | (this dogwood shoot) |
Vicki Miko | (three o’clock high) [shahai: micro-poem + photograph] |
Vicki Miko | See also Humor/Wordplay below. |
Daryl Scroggins | (accumulating) [shahai] |
Richa Sharma | (arriving) [shahai] |
◊ | (vibrating) [shahai] |
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Humor/Wordplay |
Keith Evetts | A Trio of Poesies [includes two micro-poems] |
◊ | Paranoia [tanka prose] |
◊ | [Untitled] (there’s poetry in a rotting rutabaga)[poem, lineated] |
Sharon Ferrante | Six Micro-Poems [senryu] |
Ann Fisher | America Invasive [prose poem] |
Peter Jastermsky | A Day in the Life [prose poem] |
◊ | It’s Those Simple Things [prose poem] |
◊ | Life on Ice [prose poem] |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | Low Budget Zoo [prose poem] |
Bob Lucky | On the Tenacity of Love [prose poem] |
Vicki Miko | (directions) [shahai: micro-poem + photograph] |
Angela Townsend | Sinews [lyric essay, flash-length] |
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Micro-Poems |
Farah Ali | Gaslight [split sequence] |
Cynthia Anderson | Badlands [split sequence] |
◊ | Syllabus [split sequence] |
Keith Evetts | Small Image Collider [tercet sequence] |
Keith Evetts | See also Humor/Wordplay above. |
Sharon Ferrante | Three Micro-Poems |
◊ | Two Cherita |
Sharon Ferrante | See also Humor/Wordplay above. |
Jennifer Gurney | [Untitled] [micro-poem: quintain] |
◊ | [Untitled] [senryu] and photograph |
Stella Pierides | Four Senryu |
◊ | Two Haiku + B&W photograph |
Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works and Haiga Forms above. |
Alexis Rotella | See Haibun 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 |
Farah Ali | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Cynthia Anderson | Alive |
Cynthia Anderson | See also Micro-Poems above. |
Tina Barry | Worried Wool |
Rose Mary Boehm | Ghosts in the Deep |
Rohan Buettel | Mount Stromlo |
Sarah Carleton | Free Time |
Marcus Elman | Because the World Is Spinning |
Ann Fisher | What Frogs Know |
Hazel Hall | See Haibun above for her sonku (sonnet + senryu) |
Tamara Madison | A Fine Specimen |
◊ | Introduction |
◊ | Hard Labor |
◊ | Tinnitus |
Gabrielle Myers | Messejana Message #18 |
Stephen Nelson | See Visual Arts below for his visual poetry. |
Daryl Scroggins | Again the Lighthouse Dream |
◊ | Garden Time [cherita sequence] |
Judith Terzi | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Prose Poems |
Roberta Beary | Bonfire Day |
Roy J. Beckemeyer | Coyote Dreams |
Guy Biederman | The Eighth Dwarf |
Bella Mahaya Carter | Lost and Found |
Kika Dorsey | Sunyi |
Marcus Elman | No Hay Palabras |
◊ | Too Late |
Ann Fisher | See Humor/Wordplay above. |
Gary Grossman | Covering the Beds |
Paul Ilechko | From Fragments for Ken Smith |
Peter Jastermsky | See Humor/Wordplay above. |
Joel Thomas Katz | On Time |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | First Lesson |
◊ | Quarantine at Gramma’s House |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | See also Humor/Wordplay above. |
Joan Leotta | A Tin Box |
Bob Lucky | See Humor/Wordplay above. |
Jessica Purdy | Headline: Female Octopuses Throw Things at Irritating Males and That’s So Relatable |
◊ | Mad(wo)man Across the Water |
◊ | The brown house that can kill you |
Alexis Rhone Fancher | As my son lies dying |
◊ | Slippery Slope |
Aruni Wijesinghe | Mise en place |
Jonathan Yungkans | As Though a Door Were Enough to Stop the Average Person |
◊ | Copacetic |
◊ | POV |
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Tanka Prose |
Keith Evetts | Félicité Perpétue |
Keith Evetts | See also Humor/Wordplay above. |
Michael H. Lester | A Growing Collection of Foul Deeds |
◊ | Rich Man, Poor Man |
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Visual Arts |
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Part 1 of 3: | |
Stephen Nelson | [VisPo Trio] [visual poetry, aka asemic writing] |
Part 2 of 3: | |
Roger Cullman | A fork in the road [photograph] |
Scott Ferry & Gary S. Rosin |
See Haiga Forms for their shahai. |
Jennifer Gurney | See Micro-Poems for her photograph with senryu. |
Kendall Johnson | Desert Sea [painting] |
Kendall Johnson | See also Feature: Self-Care for Creators, VI for additional artworks. |
Vicki Miko | See Haiga Forms for her shahai. |
Stella Pierides | See Micro-Poems above for her photograph with haiku. |
Gary S. Rosin & Scott Ferry |
See Haiga Forms for their shahai. |
Daryl Scroggins | See Haiga Forms for his shahai. |
Richa Sharma | See Haiga Forms for her shahai. |
Part 3 of 3: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works: |
Romaine Brooks | La Primavera [painting] |
Richard Hunter | Sacrificial Pawn [photograph] |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La loge (The Theatre Box) [painting] |
Vincent van Gogh | The Potato Eaters [painting] |
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