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Date Published: 29 Jan. 2023

Contents: Issue 17

  Feature: Self-Care
for Creators, II

Fiction Ekphrastic Works Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Haibun Stories Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Ekphrastic Works Essays, Etcetera Feature: Self-Care
for Creators, II
Statistics Visual Arts
Poetry & Hybrids Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga & Hybrids Poems: Micro Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems

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Feature: Self-Care for Creators, Part 2
Kendall Johnson A Conversation with Tony Barnstone: Writing Difficult Material (Part I) [interview]
Writing to Heal, Part 2: Diving Deep [essay]
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Ekphrastic Works
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Roy J. Beckemeyer The Fifth Way [prose poem], plus Author’s Commentary
Robert L. Dean, Jr. A Well-Lighted Place [prose poem], after a photograph by Jason Baldinger
Old Style [prose poem], after a photograph by Jason Baldinger
Joanne Durham The Only Familiar Thing [poem, lineated]
Worker Painting the Spire of the Eiffel Tower [poem, lineated]
Scott Ferry a pear and a flashlight [R] [poem, lineated], after a painting by Leilani Ferry
Hazel Hall The Kongouro from New Holland [poem: sonnet], after a painting by George Stubbs
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time [poem, lineated]
Joan Leotta A Scene of Chaos [prose poem], after a painting by Rubens
Lisa Molina Cages [prose poem]
Lorraine A Padden The Impressionist Wing [micro-poem sequence], after paintings by Degas, Manet, Monet, and Renoir
Ann Quinn Orchard in Blossom (Apricot Trees) [prose poem], after the painting by Vincent van Gogh
Gary S. Rosin Four Micro-Poems [haiku]
Susan Tekulve Painting Light [poem, lineated], after a painting by Peter Graham
Judith Terzi Fountain [poem, lineated]
 
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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Essays, Etcetera
Kendall Johnson See his works under Feature: Self-Care for Creators, Part 2 above.
Janet MacMillan Rives Living in Our Kitchen [flash memoir]
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Fiction: Flash & Micro* (+ Haibun Stories)
Roberta Beary In Praise of the Youngest [micro]
The Body in the Bed [micro]
The Super Power of Lipstick [haibun story]
Guy Biederman Fred [micro]
Misplaced [micro]
Gloria Frym Could Have Been [micro]
Peter Geier A Man, a Car, a Woman [flash]
Mary Grimm Don’t Look [micro]
Ken Hogarty Your Name Linked to a Horrific Disease? [flash]
Bob Lucky Waiting for Godot to leave [haibun story]
Todd Mercer The Tenth Visit Is Free [micro]
The Flip Stops Here [micro]
C.C. Russell First Position [micro]
Jane Salmons Takotsubo Syndrome [flash]
Daryl Scroggins How’s Anybody Going to Know [micro]
Mon Santa [micro]
Page Torn from a Graphic Novel [micro]
Daryl Scroggins See also Poetry: Lineated below.
Charmaine Smith River Music [haibun story]
Stuart Watson The Big One [flash]
 
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles!
 
Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Haibun [prose + haiku]
Roberta Beary See Beary’s haibun story under Fiction above.
Andrea Eldridge Slush [anomalous haibun]
Hazel Hall Returned Soldier [anomalous haibun]
Bob Lucky Verisimilitude
Bob Lucky See also his haibun story under Fiction above.
Subir Ningthouja Bond
Sally Quon Do You See What I See?
Kala Ramesh The Waves
Thirst
Kala Ramesh See also Haiga & Hybrids and Poems: Micro below.
Charmaine Smith See her haibun story under Fiction above.
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Haiga & Hybrids [poetry + visual art]
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Kala Ramesh Untitled [another dam]
Jan S. Rosin &
Gary S. Rosin
Untitled [Wind Turbines] [shahai, aka
photo-poem]
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Poems: Micro
Cynthia Anderson Three Micro-Poems [haiku]
Lorraine A Padden See Ekphrastic Works above.
Sally Quon Honey Bee
Kala Ramesh Pressed Palms [micro-tanka prose with monostitch]
Gary S. Rosin See Ekphrastic Works 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
Rebekah E. Bartlett English Still Life, French Nature Morte
Planet 9 from Outer Space
The World Is Too Much With Us
Ruth Bavetta Elegy for Aunt Katie
Ace Boggess Fire Fox
Sarah Carleton Lonesome
Soft Landing
Robert L. Dean, Jr. See Ekphrastic Works above.
Joanne Durham See Ekphrastic Works above.
Scott Ferry i realize that for the 20 years [R]
when looking through a window at a landscape
Scott Ferry See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Hedy Habra On Chinese Ink Brush Painting [micro-poem sequence]
Hazel Hall See Ekphrastic Works and Haibun above.
Tanya Ko Hong Comfort Woman [R] [sequence of six poems]
Lori Howe An Incomplete List of All Exotic States of Matter [cadralor]
Opals and Other Edible Jewels [cadralor]
Jennifer Kahnweiler See Ekphrastic Works above.
Terry Jude Miller run
Diane Lee Moomey Coloratura
Wildlife Refuge
Patricia Nelson Why the Seer Speaks of War and Monsters
Robbi Nester California
Ann Quinn Steinway
Elizabeth Rivers Laundry
Route 73 with Pigeons
Janet MacMillan Rives How to Arrange a Child’s Hands
Janet MacMillan Rives See also Essays, Etcetera above.
Mary Rohrer-Dann In Praise of Dreams
Robert Eugene Rubino Being Sandy Irvine
Dead Pelicans
Daryl Scroggins Bird Impressions
Charles D. Tarlton Echoes in the Stones
Reading Li Po
Charles D. Tarlton See also Prose Poems below.
Susan Tekulve Geodes
Table
Susan Tekulve See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Judith Terzi See Ekphrastic Works above.
Ruth Weinstein The Poet in the Trees [for Robbi Nester]
Jonathan Yungkans Like the Cubist Diary of a Brook, plus Poet’s Commentary
Jonathan Yungkans See also Prose Poems below.
 
Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Prose Poems
Roy J. Beckemeyer See Ekphrastic Works above.
Robert L. Dean, Jr. See Ekphrastic Works above.
Kika Dorsey Their Wings on Fire
Joan Leotta See Ekphrastic Works above.
Lisa Molina See Ekphrastic Works above.
LeeAnn Pickrell Purple
Ann Quinn Roseate Spoonbill
Ann Quinn See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Charles D. Tarlton A Kind of Crusoe
Jonathan Yungkans Answering Neruda [A Quartet of Prose Poems: 5, 25, 28, and 32]
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Visual Arts
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Part I.  
 
Leilani Ferry Pear [R] [painting]
Sally Quon Sally, the Red-Tailed Hawk [R] [photograph]
 
Part II.  
 
Jason Baldinger See entries for Robert L. Dean, Jr. under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Edgar Degas See Lorraine A Padden under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Peter Graham See Susan Tekulve under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Edouard Manet See Lorraine A Padden under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Claude Monet See Lorraine A Padden under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Kala Ramesh See Haiga & Hybrids above.
 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir See Lorraine A Padden under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Gary S. Rosin &
Jan S. Rosin
See Haiga & Hybrids above.
 
George Stubbs See Hazel Hall under Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Vincent van Gogh See Ann Quinn under Ekphrastic Works above.
 

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