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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Contents: Issue 8: June 2021 |
Featured Artist |
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Fiction
Flash (501–1,000 words) Micro (up to 500 words) |
Faction Announcements Bio Notes Nonfiction Visual Arts | Poetic & Hybrid Forms Ekphrastic Works Haibun Poems: Micro Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Prose |
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Announcements |
| Clare MacQueen | Editor’s Choice Award |
| ◊ | Statistics |
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Ekphrastic Works |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Twitter [prose poem], after painting by Paul Klee |
| Penelope Moffet | Shelter [poem, lineated], after photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie |
| Gary S. Rosin | [bridge] [micro-poem: haiku], after photograph by David Wimble |
| ◊ | [empty] [micro-poem: haiku], after sculpture by Cameron Hockenson |
| ◊ | Primordial [micro-poem: cherita], after photograph by Nathan Agostini |
| Charles D. Tarlton | Three Entangled Abstracts by Ann Knickerbocker [prosimetra]: |
| ◊ | Fellini Goes to Fanore, Ireland [R] |
| ◊ | Driving Through the Black Forest [R] |
| ◊ | A Bouquet for Manet [R] |
| Bill Waters | Swimming to Byzantium: A Parody [poem, lineated], after painting by Lorette C. Luzajic |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Women in Black [R] [poem, lineated], after painting by Marianne von Werefkin |
| 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]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Featured Artist |
| Claire Bateman | Dig [micro-fiction] |
| Claire Bateman | Four Prose Poems: |
| ◊ | Metaphorically Speaking |
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| ◊ | The Perforating Spider [R] |
| ◊ | Weathers [R] |
| Claire Bateman | Five Artworks: |
| ◊ | Untitled [1] [R] [alcohol inks] |
| ◊ | Untitled [2] [R] [acrylics] |
| ◊ | Untitled [3] [R] [ink] |
| ◊ | Untitled [4] [R] [wax] |
| ◊ | Untitled [5] [R] [acrylic] |
| Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Fiction: Flash (501–1,000 words, incl. title) |
| Douglas Cole | Paradise Now |
| David Jaggard | You Might as Well Just Get Down on Your Hands and Knees and Lick the Sidewalk |
| Linda Saldaña | One Winter Night |
| Robert Scotellaro | Squirm |
| Garrett Stack | A Friend From School |
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Fiction: Micro (up to 500 words, incl. title) |
| Claire Bateman | See Featured Artist above. |
| Roberta Beary | Bon Secours Mother & Baby Home |
| ◊ | Clapping Like Mad |
| Guy Biederman | Turn on the A/C |
| Susan Hatters Friedman | Gretel and Hansel, Retold in What-ifs |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | The Phantom of Flatwoods |
| Daryl Scroggins | No Signal |
| ◊ | Range Safety |
| ◊ | Returns |
| ◊ | Spiritus Mundi |
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Haibun [prose + haiku] |
| Margaret Dornaus | In-between |
| Bob Lucky | Intimations |
| dl mattila | Angling |
| Harriot West | Things I’ll Never Tell You |
| Alison Woolpert | Title VII |
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Nonfiction |
| Roberta Beary | Sunday Miscellany [micro-CNF] |
| Jill Doster Marcusse | No Madonna [micro-CNF] |
| C.C. Russell | Field Trip [micro] |
| Nicole Walker | Microtopography [R] [micro-essay] |
| Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Poems: Micro |
| Dawn Corrigan | Half Measures |
| Gary S. Rosin | For haiku and cherita, see Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Gary S. Rosin | For collaborative haiga, see Visual Arts below. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Two Cherita: |
| ◊ | “leaving the doctor” |
| ◊ | “the best part of waking up” |
| *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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Poetry: Lineated |
| Glen Armstrong | Two Poems: |
| ◊ | “Year of the Sea Monkey CVII” |
| ◊ | “Year of the Sea Monkey CVIII” |
| Steve Deutsch | Rereading |
| Kika Dorsey | Swallowtails |
| ◊ | This Empty Space |
| Scott Ferry | Bolsa Chica Gun Club |
| ◊ | endorphin |
| ◊ | they say |
| William Heath | Louis’ Basque Corner |
| ◊ | G.I. Joe in Naples, 1944 |
| Judy Kronenfeld | Final Dissolve by Aquamation |
| Penelope Moffet | Bird-Bits |
| Penelope Moffet | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Erin Murphy | Three Demi-Sonnets: Poetry 101 |
| ◊ | “Caesura” |
| ◊ | “Haiku” |
| ◊ | “Slant Rhyme” |
| Erin Murphy | Three Demi-Sonnets: Taxonomies |
| ◊ | “Needles” |
| ◊ | “Churning” |
| ◊ | “Full Disclosures” |
| Megan Nevels | Self-Portrait as Ancestry.com |
| LeeAnn Pickrell | Seconds |
| Kevin Ridgeway | So Proud to Live, So Proud to Die |
| Robert Eugene Rubino | Giving Thanks to Your Trash Collectors |
| Bill Waters | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Cadralor for Rachael |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See also Ekphrastic Works and Poems: Micro above. |
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Prose Poems |
| Claire Bateman | See Featured Artist above. |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Spacemen [R] |
| Margaret Dornaus | Rewriting History: After Learning of Her Death |
| Linda Nemec Foster | Dijon Mustard in a Toothpaste Tube, Switzerland |
| ◊ | The Irish Guest at the Wedding in Krakow |
| ◊ | The Priest’s Garage |
| Dotty LeMieux | Memorial Day |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Lucky Peace |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | See also Ekphrastic Works and Fiction: Micro above. |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | Below our bedroom window [R] [erotic] |
| Daryl Scroggins | Knocking |
| Note: An “[R]” above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Tanka Prose |
| Claire Everett | In Brief: 10 April 2021 |
| Charles D. Tarlton | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Visual Arts |
| Please do not copy images and/or image URLs from this website without written permission from the copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, all works in MacQueen’s Quinterly are copyrighted by their respective artists and authors. Thank you for respecting copyrights. | |
| Nathan Agostini | [Lightning Giant] [R] [photograph] |
| Claire Bateman | See Featured Artist above. |
| Tess Davenport | Two Artworks: |
| ◊ | Portrait for Dad [R] [digital painting] |
| ◊ | Portrait for Aunt Barb [R] [digital painting] |
| George Digalakis and Gary S. Rosin |
Untitled Haiga [photograph + haiku] |
| ◊ | Out of the Haze [haiga: photograph + senryu] |
| Cameron Hockenson | Control Tower [R] [environmental sculpture] |
| Paul Klee | The Twittering Machine [R] [painting] |
| Ann Knickerbocker | Three Entangled Abstracts
by Ann Knickerbocker (ekphrastic prosimetra by Charles D. Tarlton): |
| ◊ | Fellini Goes to Fanore, Ireland [R] [mixed-media painting] |
| ◊ | Driving Through the Black Forest [R] [mixed-media painting] |
| ◊ | A Bouquet for Manet [R] [mixed-media painting] |
| Lorette C. Luzajic | Swimming to Byzantium [R] [painting] |
| Gary S. Rosin and George Digalakis |
Untitled Haiga [haiku + photograph] |
| ◊ | Out of the Haze [haiga: senryu + photograph] |
| Karen Forstad Weiderman | Five Art Quilts (plus Artist’s Commentary): |
| ◊ | Around the Block [R] |
| ◊ | Blue Waters—Maine to Maui [R] |
| ◊ | Kayaking on Knickerbocker Lake [R] |
| ◊ | Maine—The Way Life Should Be [R] |
| ◊ | Multiplying Hexagons [R] |
| Marianne von Werefkin | Women in Black [R] [painting] |
| David Wimble | Sea Cliff Bridge [R] [photograph] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Landmark’s Nuart Theater [R] [photograph] |
| William Zote | Three Haiga: |
| ◊ | autumn wind [R] [haiku + watercolor] |
| ◊ | oldies FM [R] [haiku + hand-sketch with real flower petals] |
| ◊ | terrace garden [R] [haiku + photograph with pencil and chalk art] |
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