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| Issue 26: | 1 Jan. 2025 |
| Haiku: | 10 words |
| + Visual Art: | Photograph |
Poem by Gary S. Rosin
Photograph by Michael A. Blanchette
the Beaver Moon
outshines Nubble Light
a shoal of clouds
—Inspired by this photograph:
November Moon (2024) copyrighted © by Michael A. Blanchette*
All rights reserved. Appears here with artist’s permission.
*Publisher’s Note:
Photograph posted to Blanchette’s Facebook page on 17 November 2024, with the caption “last super-moon of the year ... Long Sands Beach, York, Maine” (link retrieved on 24 December 2024):
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1114496466701572&set=a.209282733889621
Michael A. Blanchette
(Mike) is a New England-based photographer who lives in New Hampshire (USA) and specializes in nature and landscape photography. His images exude a sense of tranquility, mystery, and simplicity. He aims to produce images that soothe the mind with beauty. His photos have appeared in books by The National Geographic Society and historian Eric Jay Dolan, in numerous music videos by prolific composer Tim Janis, and in magazines such as Digital Photographer, Mother Earth News, GEO Voyage, and Landscape Photography Magazine.
Artist’s website: https://www.michaelblanchette.com/
Michael Blanchette Photography on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/michaelblanchettephotography
And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blanchettephotos/
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Golden Lights, photograph by Michael A. Blanchette which inspired a poem by Gary S. Rosin, and the pairing of photograph and poem then inspired the special Christmas Eve issue of MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 10X, 24 December 2021).
Gary S. Rosin
is a Contributing Editor of MacQueen’s Quinterly. His poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary reviews and anthologies, including Chaos Dive Reunion (Mutabilis Press, 2023); contemporary haibun (Volume 17, Red Moon Press, 2022); Concho River Review; The Ekphrastic Review; Sulphur River Literary Review; Texas Poetry Calendar; and Visions International.
Two of his ekphrastic poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017). Rosin is the author of two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990) and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum, 2008). His poems “Black Dogs” and “Viewing the Dead” were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Night Wind, ekphrastic poem by Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 15, September 2022); nominated for Best of the Net 2024
⚡ Black Dogs, poem by Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 12, March 2022), which was subsequently nominated by MacQ for the Pushcart Prize.
See also Two Readings: “Apparition” and “Black Dogs” by Rosin for Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 at the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas (20 September 2014).
⚡ Out of the Haze, collaborative haiga with photograph by George Digalakis and poem by Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 8, June 2021); nominated for, and selected for publication in, Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022)
⚡ Featured Poet: Gary S. Rosin in Issue 7 of MacQ (March 2021)
⚡ Crossing Kansas in The Wild Word (7 February 2020); includes audio of Rosin reading his poem
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