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Published: 21 Apr. 2025

Contents: Issue 28

Featured Artists  
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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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
[prose + micro-poetry]
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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