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Published: 23 Mar. 2025

Contents: Issue 27

Feature:
Writing for Vision
  New Book
From MacQ
 
Fiction Ekphrastic Works Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Essays, Etcetera Statistics Visual Arts Poetry & Hybrids Ekphrastic Works Haibun & Related Haiga & Related Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems

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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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Poetry: Lineated
Lana Hechtman Ayers Eagle Has Landed & Risen &
Lucky in Love?
Rainbow Sky Over Your Headstone
Eugene Datta Shirts in a Laundry Van
Gary Grossman Murmuration
Nancy Byrne Iannucci Real Men Do Manly Things
Elly Katz The Body Mom Made
Dream in a Cylinder of Pressurized Oxygen
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Fallen From Each Other’s Graces
Barbara Krasner See Ekphrastic Works above.
Judy Kronenfeld Heart Healing
Eric Lawson See Humor & Wordplay above.
Kurt Luchs Some Cats
Kurt Luchs See also Humor & Wordplay above.
Bob Lucky Choices
Rick Mulkey The Seamstress
Winter Solstice
Jake Onyett What If I Can’t Find You in Heaven?
Simon Ravenscroft Beach Scene
Alexis Rhone Fancher I Was Hovering Just Below the Hospital Ceiling, Contemplating My Death [R]
Gary S. Rosin Imagine Me Inside a Snow Globe
Gary S. Rosin See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Nancy Sobanik Poem in Which I Shift
The Third Rail Waits
Crystal Taylor Scales
Violets
Ping Yi Yee The Cat Sat on the Tarmac
 
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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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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