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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Published: | 28 April 2024 |
Contents: Issue 23
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Now in Print: Writing to Heal |
Featured Artists |
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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 the journal is published 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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Now in Print From MacQ |
| Clare MacQueen | Writing to Heal: Self-Care for Creators by Kendall Johnson (includes 21 full-color artworks) |
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Featured Artists |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Morty Bachar | Broken bowl restored via Kintsugi process [R] [ceramic art] |
| Patty Storms | Five Artworks [R] [watercolor, drawings, and ceramic art] |
| Pierre Cully | Five Rust Artworks [R] [photographs] |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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| Mikki Aronoff | We Deer-Catch [microfiction], after a painting by Wifredo Lam |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Esperanto Invertebrata [poem], after a drawing by [H.] Morin |
| ◊ | Three Vignettes After Elaine Soulé’s Photograph Great Egret Departing [poems] |
| Simona Carini | St. Francis Renounces All Worldly Goods [poem], after a fresco by Giotto di Bondone |
| George Franklin | In a Florida Prison [poem], after a painting by Hugo Simberg |
| Frank Keim | To Carve This Whale [poem], after his hand-carved wood sculpture Beluga |
| Maureen Kingston | Chocolate and Maple [haibun story], after a painting by Wayne Thiebaud |
| Judy Kronenfeld | Confidence [poem], after a photograph by Vivian Maier |
| Jacqueline Pearce | Holding On [haibun], after a painting by Vincent van Gogh |
| Jessica Purdy | El Morocco, New York [prose poem], after the photograph by Garry Winogrand |
| Gary S. Rosin | Cono de Arita [poem], after a photograph by Ignacio Palacios |
| ◊ | Fingers on Barbed Wire [poem: solo renga variation], after a photograph by Yves Vaugeois |
| ◊ | Portrait of Manzanar at 82 [micro-poem: cherita terbalik], after a photograph by Chuck Kimmerle |
| ◊ | Spring Hope [poem: solo renga variation], after a photograph by Christer Widegren |
| ◊ | Uncivil War [micro-poem: solo renga variation], after an untitled photograph by Ignacio Palacios |
| Daryl Scroggins | A Near Miss [prose poem], after an etching by Rodolphe Bresdin |
| ◊ | Not Yet Bound for Market [prose poem], after a painting by Vincent van Gogh |
| Susan Tekulve | Two Ekphrastic Poems: |
| ◊ | “After Andrew Wyeth’s Breakup (A Self-Portrait)” |
| ◊ | “After Andrew Wyeth’s Shoreline” |
| Jonathan Yungkans | The Moon Decrees That It Be With Us Awhile to Enhance the Atmosphere [prose poem], after a painting by René Magritte |
| 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] |
| Roberta Beary | Leaving for San Francisco With Emily Dickinson [micro-CNF] |
| Guy Biederman | Meow of Now [micro-memoir] |
| John Brantingham | Jeff Burd’s Sixteen Ways to Be in Love [book review] |
| Luanne Castle | My Haunted Childhood [CNF] |
| Kendall Johnson | Interior Lighting: Abstraction and the Concrete [essay + six of Johnson’s artworks] |
| Marianne Kipp | Puff [micro-CNF] |
| Dotty LeMieux | If You’re Black, Get Back! [micro-CNF] |
| ◊ | The Night the Bathroom Ceiling Collapsed [micro-CNF] |
| Dotty LeMieux | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Richard L. Matta | Between the Lines [micro-CNF] |
| ◊ | Transactions [micro-CNF] |
| Bayveen O’Connell | Stolen Child [micro-CNF] |
| Susan Tekulve | Of Fear [flash essay] |
| ◊ | Of Friendship [flash essay] |
| Jo Tyler | I Got It [micro-CNF] |
| ◊ | Our Colossus [micro-essay] |
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Fiction: Flash* |
| Marianne Kipp | Something Big |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Frost |
| ◊ | Vore |
| Daryl Scroggins | Power Beseechment |
| Joanna Theiss | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
| *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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Fiction: Micro* |
| Cynthia Anderson | See Haibun below for her haibun story. |
| Mikki Aronoff | The Skin of Our Teeth |
| ◊ | You Don’t Mean to Miss Your Appointment |
| Mikki Aronoff | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Tricia L. Bernard | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Guy Biederman | Intruder |
| ◊ | Tipping the King |
| Jeff Burd | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Luanne Castle | A Mountain Like a Painting |
| Luanne Castle | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Lynn Edge | See Haibun below for her haibun story. |
| Victoria Garton | See Haibun below for her haibun story. |
| Richard Holinger | The Desolation of Empty Frames |
| Richard Holinger | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Susan Israel | I’m Coming Home |
| Susan Israel | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Roberta Beach Jacobson | Going in Circles |
| ◊ | Let’s Just Eat Cake |
| ◊ | Who Do You Think I Am? |
| Roberta Beach Jacobson | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Maureen Kingston | See Ekphrastic Works above; and Haibun below for her haibun stories. |
| Louella Lester | Bonanza Blindness |
| ◊ | Reading the Dead |
| Linda Lowe | The Deluge |
| ◊ | The Next Street Over |
| ◊ | On the Cul-de-sac |
| Bob Lucky | See Haibun below for his haibun story. |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | The Arrangement |
| ◊ | Shamrock |
| Mish (Eileen) Murphy | D. H. Lawrence and Me |
| Kapka Nilan | Conversion |
| Bayveen O’Connell | The “R” Word |
| Daryl Scroggins | On Hold in El Paso |
| Cheryl Snell | Scarcity |
| Sarp Sozdinler | Within An Inch Of |
| Sarp Sozdinler | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Lew Watts | See Haibun below for his haibun stories. |
| *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] |
| Cynthia Anderson | Interspecies [haibun story] |
| ◊ | Town Center Mall, 7 a.m. |
| Margaret Dornaus and Marjorie Buettner | Samhain [collaborative haibun] |
| Lynn Edge | Undefeated [haibun story] |
| Victoria Garton | Buzzing Within Inches [haibun story] |
| Maureen Kingston | “What’s the Buzz” [haibun story] |
| Maureen Kingston | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Bob Lucky | The Old Man Tells Us Again [haibun story] |
| Bob Lucky | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Peter Newton | The Wisdom So Far |
| Jacqueline Pearce | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kala Ramesh | Indra’s Net |
| Kelly Sargent | Birds of a Feather |
| Carla Schwartz | To Argument |
| ◊ | Walking, Alone |
| Crystal Simone Smith | Landscape |
| Lew Watts | Gifts of the Lord [haibun story; also, braided haibun variant] |
| ◊ | The Man With the Mercury Engine [haibun story; also braided haibun variant] |
| Scott Wiggerman | Rumors |
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Haiga Forms [haiku + visual art] |
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| Scott Ferry & Gary S. Rosin |
Transmission [collaborative shahai: micro-poem + photograph] |
| Kala Ramesh | Two Artworks: |
| ◊ | Untitled (“fire”) [tanka art: tanka + photograph] |
| ◊ | Untitled (“last light”) [haiga: micro-poem + digital art] |
| Kelly Sargent | Untitled (“wartime news”) [haiga: pastel drawing + senryu] |
| Kim McNealy Sosin | Untitled (“leap for first light”) [shahai: photograph + senryu] |
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Humor & Wordplay |
| Mikki Aronoff | In Praise of Leavening [poem] |
| Tricia L. Bernard | Frazzle Framp [microfiction] |
| Jeff Burd | Last Time [R] [microfiction] |
| Luanne Castle | The New One [microfiction] |
| Marcus Elman | Bojangles Love [poem] |
| Lael Ewy | I Had a Vision That the Wall Was Full of Weasels [poem] |
| Gary Grossman | She Reads in Front of a Fake Zoom Background [poem] |
| Richard Holinger | Listen to What I’m Telling You [microfiction] |
| ◊ | The Mendacious Monarch [microfiction] |
| Susan Israel | Jane Erred [microfiction] |
| Roberta Beach Jacobson | Stan’s Educational Crisis [microfiction] |
| Dotty LeMieux | Fired [micro-CNF] |
| ◊ | Super Burger [micro-CNF] |
| Bob Lucky | One Does One’s Best [poem] |
| ◊ | Some Things That Should Be Borne in Mind [prose poem] |
| ◊ | Spring Is in the Fucking Air [haibun] |
| Lesléa Newman | Birds of a Feather [poem] |
| ◊ | Sonnet for My Beloved [poem] |
| Jessica Purdy | For Christmas, a friend gave me a Calendar of Forgotten English [prose poem] |
| Sarp Sozdinler | Pink Pyramids [microfiction] |
| Joanna Theiss | A Screw [flash fiction] |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Micro-Poems |
| Cynthia Anderson | Out the Window [haiku sequence] |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Sand |
| Eva Eliav | Five Micro-Poems |
| Lael Ewy | X After the Attacks |
| Lael Ewy | See also Humor/Wordplay above. |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works and Haiga Forms 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 |
| Cynthia Anderson | Inheritance |
| Cynthia Anderson | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| Mikki Aronoff | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Rose Mary Boehm | Magic Names, or All That We’re About to Lose |
| ◊ | Planktology |
| ◊ | Pull up and go |
| Mary Buchinger | Thoughts of Bodily Integrity on My Way to School |
| Simona Carini | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Mark Danowsky | Eye Model |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Gray |
| ◊ | Brown |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| Steve Deutsch | Give Them All to Me |
| Marcus Elman | Cul-de-sac |
| ◊ | Tagine (Or, The Art of Cooking) |
| ◊ | The Veil and the Song |
| Marcus Elman | See also Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Rebecca Evans | We Drank Our Coffee and Believed |
| George Franklin | Sleeping Dogs |
| George Franklin | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Victoria Garton | Oran’s Box Elder |
| Gary Grossman | Folklore [poem] |
| Gary Grossman | See also Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Judy Kronenfeld | City Benches in the Sun |
| Judy Kronenfeld | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Bob Lucky | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Betsy Mars | Dead Animals |
| Richard L. Matta | More Answers |
| ◊ | Rebirth |
| Mish (Eileen) Murphy | Recreational Shopping |
| Lesléa Newman | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Shaun R. Pankoski | Gardenias |
| ◊ | Optimism |
| LeeAnn Pickrell | Three Trees |
| Patricia L. Scruggs | Cottonwood for Now |
| ◊ | The Doorbell Rings |
| Susan Shea | Enlightening |
| ◊ | Power |
| Susan Tekulve | For the Spiders |
| ◊ | Hormones |
| Susan Tekulve | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Jo Tyler | Batmuse |
| Claire Weiner | Chickens and Eggs |
| ◊ | The Morning My Mother Died |
| ◊ | The Weight of Newness |
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Prose Poems |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Snow, With Train [+ illustration] |
| Guy Biederman | Dinner Time |
| ◊ | Rainbow Tail |
| Merridawn Duckler | On Loneliness |
| ◊ | On Summer |
| Marcus Elman | Fortune Teller |
| Lavinia Kumar | “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity” |
| Bob Lucky | An Explanation of the Postcard From the Serengeti |
| Bob Lucky | See also Humor/Wordplay above. |
| Lesléa Newman | The Deejay |
| LeeAnn Pickrell | April |
| Jessica Purdy | Does it remind you of anything in your own life? |
| ◊ | I don’t know what happens when we die |
| Jessica Purdy | See also Ekphrastic Works and Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Daryl Scroggins | Bower |
| ◊ | Endurance |
| Daryl Scroggins | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | That’s Not the Way the Soul Functions in Today’s Suburbia [sequence of prose poems]: |
| ◊ | “Museums Live in Our Breath” |
| ◊ | “Into the Silence That Night Alone Can’t Explain” |
| ◊ | “An Incisive Shadow, Too Perfect in Its Outrageous Regularity” |
| ◊ | “Like Snow Having Second Thoughts and Coming Back” |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Visual Arts |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Part 1: | Cross References |
| Morty Bachar | See Featured Artists above. |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Prose Poems above for his illustration. |
| Pierre Cully | See Featured Artists above. |
| Scott Ferry & Gary S. Rosin |
See Haiga Forms above. |
| Kendall Johnson | See Essays, Etcetera above for his essay with six of his artworks. |
| Kala Ramesh | See Haiga Forms above for two of her artworks. |
| Kelly Sargent | See Haiga Forms above. |
| Kim McNealy Sosin | See Haiga Forms above. |
| Patty Storms | See Featured Artists above. |
| Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works |
| Giotto di Bondone | Renunciation of Worldly Goods [R] [fresco, ca. 1297-99], from the fresco cycle The Legend of St. Francis |
| Rodolphe Bresdin | Hunters Surprised by Death [R] [etching, 1857] |
| Frank Keim | Beluga [sculpture] |
| Chuck Kimmerle | Four Stairs [R] [photograph] |
| Ignacio Palacios | Cono de Arita (Puna, Argentina) [R] [photograph] |
| ◊ | Untitled photograph (from South Sudan) [R] [photograph] |
| Hugo Simberg | The Wounded Angel [R] [oil on canvas, 1903] |
| Elaine Soulé | Great Egret Departing [photograph] |
| Vincent van Gogh | Green Wheat Fields, Auvers [R] [oil on canvas, 1890] |
| ◊ | Sunflowers [R] [oil on canvas, 1889] |
| Yves Vaugeois | Mexico, 26/03/2024 [R] [photograph] |
| Christer Widegren | Snow... [R] [photograph] |
| *Note: The “[R]” after titles in the Table of Contents indicates republished works (aka reprints). | |
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