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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Published: | 30 Aug. 2024 |
Contents: Issue 24
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New Chapbook From MacQ |
Cheribun Galore! Challenge Results |
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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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Cheribun Galore! Challenge Results |
| Clare MacQueen | Results of MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #2 (with links to the following 14 cheribun) |
| Oz Hardwick | “Last Ride in the Dead Zone” – First Place Winner |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | “The Gardener’s Caesura” – Second Place Winner |
| Tina Barry | “Three Lovers I Never Had” – Third Place Winner [cheribun story] |
| Roberta Beary | “A Narrator’s Qualms in Quest of They/Them Pronouns” – Special Mention: Q-whimsy Award 😄 |
| Short-Listed Finalists (unranked): | |
| Cynthia Anderson | “So Many Days” |
| Tina Barry | “Cemetery, Castine, Maine” |
| Peggy Bilbro | “In Then Out” |
| Margaret Dornaus | “Under the Flower Moon” |
| Arvilla Fee | “Unmended” |
| Maria M. Palumbo | “Adopted” |
| Garrett Stack | “Cardinal” |
| Dick Westheimer | “What the Gods Have Decided” |
| Marceline White | “Quindaro, Kansas” |
| Scott Wiggerman | “Brothers by Blood” |
| Note: More than a dozen long-listed finalists from this Challenge will be published in Issue 25 of MacQueen’s Quinterly at the end of September 2024. For the full list of all finalists, please see Results. | |
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Ekphrastic Works |
| 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. | |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Cheribun...Results above. |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | The Black Dog [microfiction], after painting by Egon Schiele |
| Marjorie Maddox & Karen Elias |
Three Collaborations: |
| ◊ | Dispersion [poem], plus Three Wishes [photograph, etymphrastic] |
| ◊ | The Sound of Silence: Curlew Rendition [poem], plus Last Light [photograph, etymphrastic] |
| ◊ | Years Later at the Junk Yard [poem], plus Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! [photograph, etymphrastic] |
| Robbi Nester | Flamingo in Lake Natron, Northern Tanzania [poem], after photograph by Nick Brandt |
| Karl Plank | Precarity [poem], after watercolor by Georgia O’Keeffe |
| ◊ | Sky Above Clouds [poem], after photograph by Joanne Wong of artwork by Georgia O’Keeffe |
| Gary S. Rosin | Soli(d)tude [poem], after photograph by Christopher Woods |
| ◊ | Weeping Willow [poem], after photograph by Per Harald Olsen |
| Daryl Scroggins | Abundance, Once [micro-poem, cherita], after woven basket by Pomo tribe of Indigenous Americans |
| ◊ | Richly Appointed [prose poem], after furnishing fabric by Princess Marie Christine d’Orléans |
| ◊ | Weight of a River [prose poem], after painting by John Singer Sargent |
| 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 | Perhapsing [micro-CNF] |
| George Franklin | 10 Things I Learned as a Guest Editor [R] [essay] |
| Kendall Johnson | Grounding: What Land Art Tells Us of the Long Walk Home; Part 2 of Writing for Vision Series [essay + five of Johnson’s artworks] |
| Ce Rosenow | Haibun: A Writer’s Guide [book review] |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| Anne Anthony | Picking Sides: Tulsa, 1921 [micro] |
| Anne Anthony | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Jennifer Dickinson | Tigers Don’t Need Wishes [micro] |
| Jennifer Dickinson | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Travis Flatt | Gladiator [flash] |
| Jeff Friedman | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Peter Jastermsky | Work-Life Balance [micro] |
| Hilary King | The Wedding Guest’s Date [micro] |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Dawn Miller | Border [micro] |
| Marybeth Rua-Larsen | The Tap Room, 1959 [micro] |
| Daryl Scroggins | A Misdirection [micro] |
| ◊ | Late Ambitions [micro] |
| Daryl Scroggins | See also 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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Haibun [prose + haiku or senryu] |
| Cynthia Anderson | Ships of the Desert |
| Doug Anderson | The Photographer |
| Roberta Beary | Grief: The Uncut Version |
| Lynn Edge | Tipping Point |
| Terri L. French | Foramen Ovale |
| Kat Lehmann | Alone on Another Planet |
| ◊ | Baby Toe [anomalous] |
| ◊ | Same Old Flower |
| Bob Lucky | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
| Lew Watts | Lifelines |
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Humor & Wordplay |
| Anne Anthony | “Lived Happily Ever After” Currently Out of Stock; Please Select a Different Ending [microfiction] |
| Tina Barry | See Cheribun...Results above for her cheribun story. |
| Roberta Beary | See Cheribun...Results above for her cheribun story. |
| Jennifer Dickinson | Small, But Mighty [flash fiction] |
| Jeff Friedman | Air Guitar [prose poem] |
| ◊ | During sex, [microfiction] |
| Harry Griswold | Oh, Moon [R] [poem] |
| Bob Lucky | That Ship Has Sailed Again [haibun story] |
| Daryl Scroggins | Overheard [micro-drama] |
| Rebecca Surmont | Kitchen Calamity [poem] |
| *Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Micro-Poems |
| Cynthia Anderson | Deluge [split sequence] |
| ◊ | Turtles All the Way Down [split sequence] |
| Kala Ramesh | Two Tanka Doha |
| Gary S. Rosin | steps.So [cherita terbalik] |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kathryn J. Stevens | ...like a sudden wind [senryu sequence] |
| *Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the former 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, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. | |
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Poetry: Lineated |
| Cynthia Anderson | Not Quite |
| Cynthia Anderson | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| Nadia Arioli | Afterglow | John Brantingham | Teaching Kurt Vonnegut in Prison |
| ◊ | This Evening’s Conversations About Frankl |
| ◊ | Tonight’s Parole |
| CS Crow | Proselyte |
| Billie Dee and Kathryn J. Stevens |
Mnemosyne |
| Marcus Elman | Two Poems: “Belong to Light” and “Snowy Egrets on Santa Monica Bay” [from his debut chapbook] |
| Terri L. French | Winging It [duostitch sequence] |
| Harry Griswold | Name on the Wall |
| Harry Griswold | See also Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Gary Grossman | A Backflip of Language |
| ◊ | How to Crush a Car |
| Marjorie Maddox | See Ekphrastic Works above for her collaborations with artist Karen Elias. |
| Jane Edna Mohler | Quiet! |
| ◊ | Unstoppable |
| Karl Plank | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kala Ramesh | Breath on Breath [tanka sutra, aka tanka thread] |
| Kala Ramesh | See also Micro-Poems above. |
| Kathryn J. Stevens | See Micro-Poems above. |
| Rebecca Surmont | Olives |
| Rebecca Surmont | See also Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Thomas A. Thomas | A Certain Freedom |
| ◊ | My First Octopus |
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Prose Poems |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | City of the Fallen |
| ◊ | Laughing and Crying and Other Martial Arts |
| Marcus Elman | See Poetry: Lineated above. |
| Linda Nemec Foster | There’s a Woman Selling Dead Sea Premier Beauty Salts and She’s Angry... |
| ◊ | When My Daughter Swallowed Mercury |
| Jeff Friedman | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
| Gary Grossman | Rising at 5:47 AM |
| Oz Hardwick | The Limits of Translation |
| ◊ | Night of the Living |
| ◊ | No Smoking |
| ◊ | Quicksand |
| Peter Jastermsky | Self-Deflection |
| ◊ | Small Town Talk |
| ◊ | Stella by Starlight Orders a Melancholy |
| Hilary King | Local Sky |
| ◊ | The Old Man and the Repaved Road |
| Bob Lucky | Natural Selection |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Snow Fall |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | Happy Birthday to Me [prose poem, Erotic] |
| Daryl Scroggins | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Garrett Stack | Nocturne for cardiac ablation #4 |
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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 |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Cheribun...Results above for his photograph and ekphrastic poem. |
| Karen Elias | See entries for Marjorie Maddox and Karen Elias under Ekphrastic Works above for Elias’s photographs. |
| Kendall Johnson | See Essays, Etcetera above for his essay with five of his artworks. |
| Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works |
| Nick Brandt | Untitled [R] [B&W photograph, 2013], calcified flamingo in Tanzania’s Lake Natron |
| Per Harald Olsen | Sørgepil i pollentiden (Weeping willow in pollen season) [R] [photograph] |
| Princess Marie Christine d’Orléans | Jeanne d’Arc [R] [furnishing fabric, 1839-40] |
| Pomo tribe, indigenous Americans | Burden Basket [R] [woven plant fibers, 1870-80] |
| John Singer Sargent | Water Carriers on the Nile [R] [oil on canvas, 1891] |
| Egon Schiele | Four Trees [R] [oil on canvas, 1917] |
| Christopher Woods | Winged Tree [R] [photograph, 2024] |
| *Note: The “[R]” after titles in the Table of Contents indicates republished works (aka reprints). | |
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