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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Contents: Issue 7: March 2021 |
Featured Artist Featured Poet |
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Content Warning: MacQueen’s Quinterly (aka MacQ) contains an eclectic range of literary and artistic works, many of which are suitable only for mature adults. However, an “[R]” after titles below simply indicates reprinted works (or, more accurately, republished works, since MacQ publishes online and not in print). 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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Announcements |
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| Clare MacQueen | Intro: MacQ is for Quilts |
| Clare MacQueen | Editor’s Choice Award |
| ◊ | Results: The Chains Writing Challenge |
| ◊ | Statistics |
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Creative Nonfiction (CNF), Essays, Etc. |
| Roberta Beary | See Ekphrastic Works below. |
| John Olson | See Ekphrastic Works below. |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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| Section I: | |
| Roberta Beary | Blue Flower Braided [CNF] |
| Adele Kenny | Just Perhaps [R] [prose poem], with visual art by John Everett Millais |
| John Olson | Black Desire [R] [micro-essay] |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Featured Poet below. |
| Christine Stewart-Nuñez | Elemental Lesson [poem, lineated]; collaboration, with visual art by Brian T. Rex |
| ◊ | Summer of Smoke [ghazal]; collaboration, with visual art by Brian T. Rex |
| Christine Stewart-Nuñez | Site Planning [poem, lineated]; collaboration, with visual art by Pauline Aitken |
| Charles D. Tarlton | Gertrude Stein in Oil [prosimetra] |
| ◊ | The Falconer’s Glove [prosimetra], with visual art by John Tarlton |
| Note: If you’re interested in submitting ekphrastic works to us, wonderful! We hope you’ll take a few minutes to read our tips in KYSO Flash, Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide for Verbalizing Art, which include additional examples of what we’re looking to publish here in MacQueen’s Quinterly as well. | |
| Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates republished works (aka reprints). | |
| Section II: | The Chains Writing Challenge |
| Clare MacQueen (Publisher) |
A few details |
| Cindy L. Sheppard (Photographer) |
The Chains That Free Us [photograph] |
| Winner, Photographer’s Choice: | |
| C.L. Liedekev | Hidden Canyon Trail, Zion [poem] |
| Winner, Publisher’s Choice: | |
| Guy Biederman | Lovers of a Bygone Era [flash fiction] |
| Finalists: | |
| Cynthia Anderson | Trail Chains [poem] |
| deb y felio | [Untitled Cherita Sequence] [micro-poem] |
| Elizabeth Kerlikowske | Trail Crew [prose poem] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | The Thin, Terrifying Edges Between Things [poem] |
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Featured Artist |
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| Clare MacQueen | Intro: MacQ is for Quilts |
| Jan S. Rosin | Quilting: A Form of Meditation [photo essay with fabric art] |
| ◊ | Red Thread |
| ◊ | Homespun Diamonds [R] |
| ◊ | Arabesque Jewels |
| ◊ | Keep Looking Up [R] |
| ◊ | Variants |
| ◊ | Pandemic Posies [R] |
| Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates republished works (aka reprints). | |
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Featured Poet |
| Gary S. Rosin | Emergence [R] [poem, lineated] and |
| ◊ | Butterfly Iris No. 2 [photograph] |
| Gary S. Rosin | Raven [R] [ekphrastic poem, lineated + photograph] |
| Gary S. Rosin | A Medley of Seven Poetic Works: |
| ◊ | “she walks from the store” [haiku] |
| ◊ | “pink ribbons” [kyoka] |
| ◊ | “thoughts and prayers” [senryu] |
| ◊ | Valentine surprise [haiga] |
| ◊ | “a helicopter” [senryu] |
| ◊ | “broken smoke alarm” [senryu] |
| ◊ | “this tulip sings” [haiku] |
| Gary S. Rosin | Kinetic Pointillism [ekphrastic micro-poem] with photograph [R] by James Crombie |
| Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates republished works (aka reprints). | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| See also Fiction: Hybrids below. | |
| Guy Biederman | See The Chains Writing Challenge above. |
| Jeff Burd | Indian Car [flash] |
| Luanne Castle | A Trio of Linked Micro-Stories: |
| ◊ | “From the kitchen you enter” |
| ◊ | “Fluffy gray kittens” |
| ◊ | “From my locked bedroom,” |
| Kurt Luchs | Confessions of a Tree-Hugger [flash] |
| Robert I. Mann | What is between everything [flash] |
| Niles Reddick | Hayride [micro] |
| ◊ | Licking the Beaters [micro] |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | He Never Saw His Real Daughter Until That Night [micro + photograph] |
| ◊ | Late Laura [micro + photograph] |
| *Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Micro-Fiction, no more than 500 words. These word-counts do include titles! | |
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Fiction: Hybrids |
| Cynthia Anderson | Formerly Known as Ion [haibun story] |
| Glenn G. Coats | Intercessor [haibun story] |
| Jonathan Humphrey | NASA Gives Spiders, Insects LSD [haibun story] |
| David C. Rice | Next Court Date in Six Months [tanka tale] |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
| See also Fiction: Hybrids above. | |
| See also Featured Poet above and Micro-Poems below, for cherita, haiku, senryu, kyoka, etc. | |
| Sharon Auberle | Musca Domestica [R] |
| Matthew Caretti | Drinking Pálinka With Attila |
| Glenn G. Coats | Headstream |
| Claire Everett | Milestones |
| Jonathan Humphrey | Wild Persimmons |
| Kelly Jensen | Pandemic Wine |
| Bob Lucky | A Posthumous Lesson From My Mother |
| Stella Pierides | Lullaby [R] |
| Alexis Rotella | Another Morning |
| Lew Watts | They say I have my mother’s eyes [R] |
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Micro-Poems* |
| Cynthia Anderson | Three Senryu: |
| ◊ | “blowing snow” |
| ◊ | “there is no spoon—” |
| ◊ | “wishful thinking—” |
| deb y felio | See The Chains Writing Challenge above. |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Three Cherita: |
| ◊ | “as the story goes” [R] |
| ◊ | “morning sun” [R] |
| ◊ | “tall pine” [R] |
| Jonathan Humphrey | A Thread the Color of Night [haiku sequence] |
| Ellaraine Lockie | London Lodging [R] |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Featured Poet above. |
| Alexis Rotella | A Medley of Seven Poetic Works: |
| ◊ | “Chewing” [kyoka] |
| ◊ | “Family portrait” [senryu] |
| ◊ | “The night” [kyoka] |
| ◊ | Paris moon [R] [haiga] |
| ◊ | “New lover” [senryu] |
| ◊ | “It tells me” [senryu] |
| ◊ | “This mask” [senryu] |
| Martin Settle | Two Micro-Poems: |
| ◊ | “smooth stream” [haiku] |
| ◊ | “the sun is up” [haiku] |
| *Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (which is the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the 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, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. | |
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Poems, Lineated |
| Doug Anderson | Forgive Me, It’s the Vaccine Talking [R] |
| Jack Cooper | Green Confidence [R] |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Borrowed Time |
| Gary Glauber | Ancestry and You |
| C.L. Liedekev | See The Chains Writing Challenge above. |
| Ellaraine Lockie | After the Rain |
| ◊ | Poets at Any Price [R] |
| Katharyn Howd Machan | Odd Numbers |
| Rena Priest | Live Nude Girl’s Favorite Thing to Feel [R] |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Featured Poet above. |
| Alexis Rotella | The Good Neighbor [R] |
| Christine Stewart-Nuñez | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Julie Weiss | The Day I Don’t Tell My Children About the Capitol Attack |
| ◊ | The Elephant in the Room |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Rincon Point, Six A.M. |
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Prose Poems |
| Jack Cooper | Triangle [R] |
| Kika Dorsey | Colorado in Spring [R] |
| Adele Kenny | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Elizabeth Kerlikowske | See The Chains Writing Challenge above. |
| Kurt Luchs | Lives of the Gods |
| Bob Lucky | Vox Clamantis in Deserto |
| Gavin Lucky | plateau |
| ◊ | apologies |
| John Olson | Body and Soul [R] |
| Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates republished works (aka reprints). | |
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Tanka Prose |
| David C. Rice | See Fiction: Hybrids above. |
| Charles D. Tarlton | Spanish Chestnuts |
| ◊ | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Visual Arts |
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| Pauline Aitken | Dendron [drawing] |
| James Crombie | Starling Murmuration Over Lough Ennell [R] [photograph] |
| Ann Knickerbocker | Three Artworks: |
| ◊ | les Peupleraies (2018) [R] [digital art: asemic writing with photograph] |
| ◊ | Saintish (1995) [R] [mixed-media collage] |
| ◊ | The Ample Rhine (2016) [R] [mixed-media painting] |
| John Everett Millais | Ophelia [R] [painting] |
| Brian T. Rex | St. John’s Abbey [photograph] |
| ◊ | Main Avenue to Court House [laser scan] |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | Father and Daughter [photograph] |
| ◊ | Bumpy Night [R] [photograph] |
| ◊ | See also Intro: MacQ is for Quilts for two of her photographs. |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Featured Poet above for his haiga and photographs. |
| Jan S. Rosin | See Featured Artist above. |
| Alexis Rotella | Paris moon [R] [haiga] |
| Cindy L. Sheppard | The Chains That Free Us [photograph] |
| John Tarlton | Testing the Hypothesis [R] [mixed-media painting] |
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