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Published: | 21 Apr. 2025 |
Featured Artists |
Content Warning: MacQueen’s Quinterly (aka MacQ) contains an eclectic range of literary and artistic works that may deal with difficult and emotionally charged topics. Thus, many works that appear in MacQ are suitable only for mature adults. However, an “[R]” after titles below simply indicates reprinted work (or, more accurately, republished work, since MacQ the journal is published online and not in print). Some of the more sexually explicit pieces may be designated as erotic, but not always. Overall, MacQ’s publisher prefers to avoid content warnings, because they tend to ruin surprises within the pieces. 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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Featured Artists |
Darlene O’Dell | Collaborative Shahai [with photograph by Arthur Rothstein] |
◊ | Portrait of a Young Artist [haibun] |
◊ | Three Shahai [photographs + haiku] |
◊ | Frostbite [haibun] |
Dan Olfe | Five Art Quilts [R]: |
◊ | Terra Incognita |
◊ | San Diego Library #1 |
◊ | The Broad Museum of Art |
◊ | Wave Topography |
◊ | Hillcrest Cinemas |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Cherie Hunter Day | Up Close [prose poem], after an etching by Chuck Close |
Judy Kronenfeld | Acculturation [poem], after a photograph by Vivian Maier |
Rick Mulkey | After Andrew Wyeth’s Crow Tree [poem] |
Cindy Rinne | Milky Way Rainbow [poem], after two paintings |
Gary S. Rosin | Bodie Blackout Window [poem], after a photograph by Chuck Kimmerle |
◊ | Mother, the Lines [poem], after a painting by Octavio Quintanilla |
◊ | Red, White, and Blue Inside [poem], after a photograph by Christopher Woods |
Daryl Scroggins | Offerings [microfiction], after a photograph by James H. Evans |
◊ | Reminders [microfiction], after a painting by Horace Pippin |
Karen A. VandenBos | Untamed [prose poem], after a painting by Jahar Dasgupta |
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] |
Dotty LeMieux | Conning Drinks with Crazy Jane at the Casablanca [CNF: micro-memoir] |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Guy Biederman | Face of the Enemy [micro] |
Luanne Castle | Garden Seasons [micro] |
◊ | Mail-Order Family History for Five Dollars [flash] |
Yurena de Dios | Nights [micro] |
Doug Jacquier | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
Alice Kinerk | Aging Shapeshifter Settles into Final Form [micro] |
Alice Kinerk | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Lorette C. Luzajic | Sick Bed Blues [flash] |
Daryl Scroggins | Salvage [flash] |
Daryl Scroggins | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Kathryn Silver-Hajo | 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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Haibun, Tanka Prose, & Related Forms |
Cynthia Anderson | The Psychic [tanka tale] |
Shawn Aveningo-Sanders | Minutes from the PTA Meeting |
◊ | The Tender Art of Regifting |
Roberta Beary | Bad Song Lyrics |
Cherie Hunter Day | The Color We Come From |
Margaret Dornaus | Auld Lang Syne |
◊ | Groundhog Day |
Richard Doyle | Bookending |
Jennifer L. Freed | Gravity |
Nikki Fryer | Effervescent [haibun, braided] |
Bob Lucky | See Humor & Wordplay below. |
Darlene O’Dell | See Featured Artists above. |
Carla Schwartz | Chicken of the Woods |
Carla Schwartz | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Lew Watts | Driftless |
◊ | Missing █ |
Mary White | All That Shines [haibun story] |
Mary White | See also Humor & Wordplay below. |
Scott Wiggerman | The Odds of Being Hit by a Meteor |
Rich Youmans | Woolworth’s |
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art] |
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Yurena de Dios | Two Shahai [R] [haiku + photographs] |
Richard Doyle & Michael Pfundner |
Collaborative Shahai [haiku + photograph] |
Kendall Johnson | Seeing the Shifting Wild: Six Visual Poems [hybrid artworks] |
Darlene O’Dell | See Featured Artists above. |
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Humor & Wordplay |
Robert L. Dean, Jr. | At the Zoo [poem] |
Doug Jacquier | Marriage and flying saucers [flash fiction] |
Alice Kinerk | Hallway Slip-and-Slide [flash fiction] |
Dotty LeMieux | I See the Buddha on Top of the Soft Drink Machine in the Tire Store [poem] |
◊ | Just Another Penis Poem [micro-poem] |
j.lewis | Classical Education |
Bob Lucky | Godfrey [haibun story] |
◊ | Oh What a Beautiful Morning [haibun] |
Darlene O’Dell | See Featured Artists above. |
Carla Schwartz | Feeling Used [haibun] |
Kathryn Silver-Hajo | Pillow Talk [flash fiction] |
Mary White | Out of Bounds [haibun story] |
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Micro-Poems |
Melissa Allen | See first entry for Jonathan Yungkans under Poetry: Lineated below. |
Cynthia Anderson | Running on Empty [split sequence] |
◊ | Ties That Bind [split sequence] |
Maya Daneva | See second entry for Jonathan Yungkans under Poetry: Lineated below. |
Melissa Dennison | Eight Haiku |
Dotty LeMieux | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
Devin Wilson | We used to make out like crazy / in the front seat of my ’79 Monte Carlo |
*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 |
Mikki Aronoff | The Crossing |
Shawn Aveningo-Sanders | Dinner With Francesca |
John Peter Beck | Katie’s Snowman |
Roy Beckemeyer | Chromatic Aberration |
Rose Mary Boehm | The Mood Turns |
◊ | Water Bears |
John Brantingham & Shaymaa Mahmoud |
From a collaborative series of poems written in tandem: |
◊ | “Air Travel” |
◊ | “Meta/Physics” |
◊ | “Totality” |
◊ | “Circumnavigation” |
Robert L. Dean, Jr. | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
Scott Ferry | 11. (my daughter weeps...) |
Jennifer L. Freed | My Father’s Race |
◊ | What He Did |
Madeleine French | Walking Past Bromeliads at the Botanical Garden |
Nikki Fryer | Secrets of the Cubby Hole |
Elizabeth Kerlikowske | Dementia, Year Four |
◊ | We Haven’t Said Everything Yet |
Judy Kronenfeld | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Dotty LeMieux | See Humor & Wordplay above. |
j.lewis | listener |
◊ | momma mary |
j.lewis | See also Humor & Wordplay above. |
Tamara Madison | Overcast |
◊ | Painted Lady |
◊ | Rufus |
Mary McCarthy | Respite |
◊ | You Promised |
Rick Mulkey | Kansas |
◊ | My Mother Woke Early to Can Apples and Jam |
Rick Mulkey | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Garth Pavell | Grand Jury |
Alexis Rhone Fancher | Making Lemonade: The Sister Pantoums: |
◊ | “‘Why can’t you just be happy for me?’” |
◊ | “My Sister’s Finally Thin Enough—” |
◊ | “Terminal: My Sister’s Diagnosis” |
◊ | “My Sister Languishes (Smile)” |
◊ | “When We FaceTime My Sister Comes Back to Life” |
Cindy Rinne | Endure |
Cindy Rinne | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Daryl Scroggins | Unique [sic] Again [cherita sequence] |
Devin Wilson | The dog burns off by mid-morning [poem] |
Devin Wilson | See also Micro-Poems above. |
Jonathan Yungkans | in the blink an eye [title is a micro-poem by Melissa Allen] |
Jonathan Yungkans | stepping on my shadow bereavement handshakes [title is a micro-poem by Maya Daneva] |
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Prose Poems |
Guy Biederman | Asphalt Worthy |
Cherie Hunter Day | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Madeleine French | Ode to Butter Lettuce |
Gary Grossman | Cohabitation |
Karen VandenBos | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
Ping Yi Yee | Bonemeal |
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Visual Arts |
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Part 1: | |
Yurena de Dios | See Haiga & Related Forms above. |
Richard Doyle & Michael Pfunder |
See Haiga & Related Forms above. |
Kendall Johnson | See Haiga & Related Forms above. |
Darlene O’Dell | See Featured Artists above. |
Dan Olfe | See Featured Artists above. |
Cindy Rinne | Three Fiber Artworks [R]: |
◊ | Bees Hum |
◊ | Follow Your Path |
◊ | Wheels of Thought |
Part 2: | Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works [R] |
Chuck Kimmerle | [Bodie ghost town window] [photograph] |
Horace Pippin | Cabin in the Cotton [painting] |
Octavio Quintanilla | Mother, the Line [painting] |
Christopher Woods | Don’t Tread on Me [photograph] |
*Note: An “[R]” after a section above indicates republished works (aka reprints). |
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