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Published: | 23 Mar. 2025 |
Feature: Writing for Vision |
New Book From MacQ |
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Feature: Writing for Vision |
Kendall Johnson | Slanting Light: Voicing the New Wild, Part 6 of Writing for Vision Series [essay + six of Johnson’s artworks] |
◊ | Vision, conclusion of Writing for Vision Series [essay + two of Johnson’s artworks] |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Barbara Krasner | An Insomniac’s Horn of Plenty [poem], after a painting (1959) by Lee Krasner |
◊ | Dollar Princess on the Palazzo [poem], after a painting by Frederic Leighton |
◊ | Look at Me: Lena, Lenore, Lee [poem], after a painting (c. 1930) by Lee Krasner |
Joan Leotta | Adam offers apples to tempt the Land Girls as told to me by the London-born one. [haibun story], after a painting by Evelyn Mary Dunbar |
Lorette C. Luzajic | The White Rooms [flash fiction], after a painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi |
Gary S. Rosin | Winter Birdbaths [poem], after a photograph by Gerrie Paino |
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] |
Guy Biederman | Two Cups [micro-CNF] |
Katie Dozier | Review of Crazy Bitches by Roberta Beary [book review] |
Kendall Johnson | See Feature: Writing for Vision above. |
Alexis Rhone Fancher | Junk [CNF] |
Lew Watts | Roberta Beary’s Crazy Bitches [book review] |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Mikki Aronoff | The Cheerleader Joined Us for Lunch [micro] |
Guy Biederman | Séance Sisters [micro] |
Luanne Castle | Miss Alma Milligan [micro] |
Gary Fincke | Birthday Dolls [flash] |
◊ | Sight [flash] |
Spencer Keene | Emergency Exit [micro] |
Lorette C. Luzajic | The Night Swimmers [micro] |
Lorette C. Luzajic | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Daryl Scroggins | Story Power [flash] |
Daryl Scroggins | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Kathryn Silver-Hajo | Shooting Star [micro] |
*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, Tanka Prose, & Cheribun [prose + micro-poetry] |
Cynthia Anderson | A Little Dream |
Deb Baker | Kinship |
◊ | Online Shopping |
Roberta Beary | Tiny Love Story |
Margaret Dornaus | Power Outage |
◊ | Staking His Claim |
Keith Evetts | Suburbia [micro-haibun] |
Keith Evetts | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Joan Leotta | See Ekphrastic Works above for her haibun story. |
Bob Lucky | Weather Report |
Diana Raab | The Day After |
Kala Ramesh | The Cadence |
◊ | Mirage [tanka prose] |
Kala Ramesh | See also Micro-Poems below for her gembun terbalik. |
Gary S. Rosin | Keepers of the Flame [sequence: poem + cheribun] |
Carla Schwartz | Kintsugi |
◊ | Learning to Pose |
◊ | Missing |
Lew Watts | Anguilla anguilla |
◊ | Driftkikker [micro-haibun] |
Scott Wiggerman | Stripping Beyond Birthday Suits |
Rich Youmans | Time Capsule |
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art] |
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Yurena de Dios | Three Shahai [R] [photographs + haiku] |
Mark Meyer | Three Artworks [R] [shahai and haiga] |
◊ | Untitled Chaiga [R] [visual art + cherita variation] |
Gerrie Paino & Gary S. Rosin |
Collaborative Shahai [haiku + photograph] |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Humor & Wordplay |
Keith Evetts | Rediscovery of America [haibun story] |
Eric Lawson | The Hangry Sinkhole of Aiken County [poem] |
Kurt Luchs | Universal Ignorance [sonnet] |
Daryl Scroggins | Enjoy It Wisely [micro] |
◊ | Naming Rights [micro] |
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Micro-Poems |
Cynthia Anderson | Caught in the Act [split sequence] |
Eugene Datta | When She Said |
Keith Evetts | See Haibun, Tanka Prose, & Cheribun above. |
Kala Ramesh | Two Gembun Terbalik: |
◊ | first line: “a man” |
◊ | first line: “day’s end” |
Lew Watts | See Haibun, Tanka Prose, & Cheribun above. |
*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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Prose Poems |
John Bartell | We had an argument tonight |
Eugene Datta | Story |
Cherie Hunter Day | Pivot |
Robert L. Dean, Jr. | The Boxer |
Nancy Byrne Iannucci | Just as They Were About to Bloom |
Tom Laichas | About the Empire |
◊ | City of Nouns |
Kurt Luchs | First One at the Diner |
Simon Ravenscroft | Winter Sketch |
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Visual Arts |
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Part 1: | |
Yurena de Dios | See Haiga & Related Forms above. |
Kendall Johnson | Slanting Light: Voicing the New Wild [essay], which includes six of Johnson’s artworks: |
◊ | Above the Valley [mixed media on canvas] |
◊ | Cynthia [photo composite] |
◊ | Fire Songs [acrylic on canvas] |
◊ | Starry Night [photo composite] |
◊ | Tonal Ridgeline [acrylic on canvas] |
◊ | Wind Shear [acrylic on canvas] |
◊ | Vision [essay], which includes two of Johnson’s artworks: |
◊ | Fall Lightning [acrylic on canvas] |
◊ | For Our Sins [acrylic on canvas] |
Mark Meyer | See Haiga & Related Forms above. |
Gerrie Paino & Gary S. Rosin |
See Haiga & Related Forms above. |
Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works |
Evelyn Mary Dunbar | A 1944 Pastoral: Land Girls Pruning at East Malling [painting] |
Vilhelm Hammershøi | White Doors. Interior, 30 Strandgade. [painting, 1899] |
Frederick Leighton | Flaming June [painting, 1895] |
Gerrie Paino | Untitled (leaves frozen in a birdbath) [photograph, 2025] |
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