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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Contents: Issue 14: August 2022 |
Featured Book: Dear Vincent |
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Fiction
Ekphrastic Works
Flash (501–1,000 words) Micro (up to 500 words) |
Faction Bio Notes Nonfiction Statistics Visual Arts | Poetic & Hybrid Forms Cheribun Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Forms Poems: Micro Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Prose |
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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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Featured Book: Dear Vincent |
| Kendall Johnson | From Dear Vincent: A Psychologist Turned Artist Writes Back to Van Gogh [R] [epistolary + visual art]: |
| ◊ | [Contrasts], after The Harvest, a painting by Vincent van Gogh |
| ◊ | [Fishing Boats], after Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer by Van Gogh |
| ◊ | [Bloom], after Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888) |
| Kate Flannery | The One Necessity [review of Dear Vincent] |
| Kendall Johnson | On the Occasion of Your Latest Reveal [epistle], after hidden self-portrait of Van Gogh |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Cheribun [prose + cherita] |
| Kendall Johnson | Utah |
| Kala Ramesh | The Percolator |
| Daryl Scroggins | A Confluence of Distractions |
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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. | |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | Megarhyssa [poem, lineated], after pen-and-ink illustration by Craig Latker |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Second Sight [R] [poem, lineated], after snapshot of poet’s mother |
| Kendall Johnson | Epistles to Dalí II [haibun] |
| Kendall Johnson | See also Featured Book: Dear Vincent above. |
| Maureen Kingston | Solitary Genius [haibun], after a painting by Edward Hopper |
| Joan Leotta | My Window, My Morning View [prose poem], after a painting by Henri Matisse |
| Lorette Luzajic | Four Seasons [prose poem], after four lithographs by Alphonse Mucha |
| ◊ | Hopscotch [prose poem], after works by painter and sculptor Antoni Tàpies |
| ◊ | The Triaminic Man [flash fiction], after a painting by Jan Matejko |
| Robert I. Mann | Two Girls With Jobs [prose poem], after a painting by Edward Hopper |
| Robbi Nester | Dancing White Egret [poem, lineated], after a photograph by Philippe Rouyer |
| Gary S. Rosin | Out of Their Hands [poem, lineated], after a kinetic sculpture by Tamara Kvesitadze |
| Charles D. Tarlton | Forbidden Fruit [poem, lineated], after a painting by Sakai Hōitsu |
| ◊ | Peintingu [poem, lineated], after a painting by Sakai Hōitsu |
| Jonathan Yungkans | Others Have Come and Gone and Wrought No Damage [poem, lineated], after a painting by René Magritte |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
| 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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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
| Dave Alcock | Out [micro] |
| Sandra Arnold | The end of the rainbow [flash] |
| Guy Biederman | I Won’t Be Long [micro] |
| Eva Eliav | Bird [micro] |
| ◊ | Carrying a Baby [micro] |
| ◊ | Labyrinth [micro] |
| ◊ | Turtle [micro] |
| Gary Grossman | Mindfulness [micro] |
| Norbert Kovacs | Winter Field [micro] |
| Kathryn Kulpa | Five Things I Remember From the Anthropocene Age [flash] |
| ◊ | Oregon Trail [micro] |
| Nancy Ludmerer | Messages From Messina [flash] |
| Lorette Luzajic | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Daryl Scroggins | Silent Might [micro] |
| John Sheirer | Two Microfictions: “Everyday Ironies I and II” |
| *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 [prose + haiku] |
| Cynthia Anderson | Territory |
| Kari Gunter-Seymour | That Plus Fifty Cents [haibun story] |
| Peter Jastermsky | Two Micro-Haibun: |
| ◊ | “Boneyard” |
| ◊ | “Size Wise” |
| Kendall Johnson | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Maureen Kingston | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kat Lehmann | Two Braided Haibun: |
| ◊ | Energy Shift in the Storage Shed |
| ◊ | Setting the See-Saw |
| Kat Lehmann | Inner Rising [woven haibun] |
| Bob Lucky | The Armchair Daoist Gets Itchy Feet |
| ◊ | An Epistemological Aside [micro-haibun] |
| Peter Newton | Megafauna |
| ◊ | Modern Gothic [haibun story] |
| Kala Ramesh | Warp and Weft |
| Norman Silver | Drimsel |
| Sydney Solis | Pomegranates |
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Haiga & Hybrids [poetry + visual art] |
| 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. | |
| Kala Ramesh | knowingly [tanka art] |
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Nonfiction |
| Kate Flannery | Reaping the Whirlwind: An Interview with Kendall Johnson and John Brantingham [R], a discussion of their book A Sublime and Tragic Dance: Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project |
| Kate Flannery | See also Featured Book: Dear Vincent above. |
| Kendall Johnson | Linking Sacred Moments: Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash by Michael Loveday [book review] |
| Nancy Parshall | Into the Mow [flash memoir] |
| Daryl Scroggins | Necessities [micro memoir] |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Poems: Micro |
Cynthia Anderson | Two Micro-Poems: |
| ◊ | “[body of water]” [cherita] |
| ◊ | “[stoic]” [cherita terbalik] |
| Eva Eliav | [swaying] |
| Peter Jastermsky | See Haibun above. |
| Bob Lucky | See Haibun above. |
| *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 |
| Section 1 of 2: | |
| Cynthia Anderson | See Poems: Micro above. |
| Roy J. Beckemeyer | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Eva Eliav | See Poems: Micro above. |
| Robbi Nester | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Gary S. Rosin | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Charles D. Tarlton | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Section 2 of 2: | |
| Angela Carole Brown | Withheld |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Cruel and Unusual |
| Robert L. Dean, Jr. | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Steve Deutsch | Menagerie |
| Pauli Dutton | Passion in the Descanso Gardens |
| Scott Ferry | Four Poems: “4/7” and “5/12” and “5/13” and “5/15” (plus four untitled photographs) |
| George Franklin | Funeral Rites |
| ◊ | Orphic Mysteries |
| Roseanne Freed | The tree which moves some to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others only a green thing |
| Karen Greenbaum-Maya | Comeback |
| Gary Grossman | Daylilies |
| Kari Gunter-Seymour | Bad Company |
| Dianna Mackinnon Henning | My Heart’s Not a Casual Affair, |
| ◊ | Fold your tears into peace signs. |
| Paul Ilechko | Long Migration |
| Judy Kronenfeld | Animal Knowledge |
| David Lawton | Herbs, Mama, Herbs! |
| Betsy Mars | Bricklayers |
| Penelope Moffet | Thumbprint |
| Lorraine A Padden & Alan Peat | White Marble [rengay variant] |
| Laura Ann Reed | Heat |
| ◊ | Unspoken |
| ◊ | To a Sister I Didn’t Know |
| Kevin Ridgeway | Bob Dylan Was Here |
| Robert Rubino | The Ninja Turtles Pajamas Gambit |
| ◊ | When Meditation Was All the Rage |
| Deborah J. Shore | Crossing |
| ◊ | Purging [R] |
| VA Smith | On Not Buying the Peaches |
| John L. Stanizzi | One Too Many Mornings |
| Susan Tekulve | Hospitality |
| ◊ | Socks |
| Julie Weiss | Once Upon a Lie |
| ◊ | Story I Don’t Tell My Son on Our Way Home From the Emergency Room |
| Aruni Wijesinghe | Kidney-shaped pool |
| ◊ | Ouroboros |
| Jonathan Yungkans | That We Have Come to Construe as a Landscape [duplex] |
| ◊ | As the Ocean Makes Grasses, and in the Process Refurbishes a Lighthouse [duplex] |
| Jonathan Yungkans | See also Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint). | |
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Prose Poems |
| Guy Biederman | A Descent of Woodpeckers |
| ◊ | There’s a Name for That |
| Lavina Blossom | Out for a Walk |
| Rick Christiansen | Baby Teeth |
| Maureen Kingston | Cloudy With a Chance of Torture |
| Joan Leotta | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Lorette Luzajic | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kathleen McGookey | Little Gold Door |
| ◊ | Two Prose Poems: “Cloud Report, 4/19/22” and “Cloud Report, 5/24/22” |
| Rachel Neve-Midbar | Younger Men |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | How to Eat an Artichoke [erotic], plus two of her photographs |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | See also Visual Arts below. |
| Daryl Scroggins | Leonardo |
| Aruni Wijesinghe | Feed |
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Tanka Prose [prose + tanka] |
| Marietta McGregor | Star bright |
| Kala Ramesh | See Haiga Forms above for her tanka art. |
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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. | |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher | Six Photographs [R] |
| Salvador Dalí | See entry for Kendall Johnson under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Scott Ferry | See his entry under Poetry: Lineated above. |
| Sakai Hōitsu | See entries for Charles D. Tarlton under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Edward Hopper | See entry for Robert I. Mann under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Craig Latker | See entry for Roy J. Beckemeyer under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| René Magritte | See entry for Jonathan Yungkans under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Jan Matejko | See entry for Lorette C. Luzajic under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Alphonse Mucha | See entry for Lorette C. Luzajic under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Kala Ramesh | See Haiga Forms above for her tanka art. |
| Philippe Rouyer | See entry for Robbi Nester under Ekphrastic Works above. |
| Vincent van Gogh | See entries for Kendall Johnson under Featured Book: Dear Vincent above. |
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