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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Date Published: 15 Sept. 2023

Contents: Issue 20

  Featured
Author/Artist

Fiction Ekphrastic Works Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Humor Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Essays, Etcetera Statistics Visual Arts Poetry & Hybrids Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Forms Humor Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Forms

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Featured Author/Artist
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Jane Salmons Five Microfictions:
From Bucharest to Monte Carlo, after a painting by Tamara de Lempicka: Autoportrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti)
The last night of the season in Capbreton [one-sentence story]
Dream Alice
Sunflower Girl
Twisted Willow
 
Jane Salmons Five Collage Artworks with Poems:
Crowd [prose poem]
Dream of Billy Casper
Girl Missing
Growing Flowers on Mars
In his jacket pocket
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Ekphrastic Works
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Roy J. Beckemeyer Façade [microfiction], after an etching by Edward Hopper
Karen George Edvard Munch’s The Girl by the Window, 1893 [poem] after a painting
Is She the Blue Bird of Paradise? [poem], after a painting by Konstantin Somov
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Their First Meeting [poem], after Mary Hatch’s painting The Last Bouquet
Nina Lindsay Strangers to Ourselves [poem], after still-life sculptures by Libby Black
Gary S. Rosin Portal [poem], after a photograph by Achim Korherr
 
Jane Salmons See Featured Author/Artist above.
 
Daryl Scroggins Diana’s Diversion [microfiction], after a painting by Marcel Duchamps
Haven [micro prose poem], after a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige
Marianne Szlyk Two Poems After Artwork by Maia Cruz Palileo:
“Before the Triptych”
“After the Triptych”
 
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]
Jude Dillon Triggered: A Pillow Book (Writing by Alexis Rhone Fancher, with art by Kenna Barradell) [book review, micro]
Michael Loveday The Fireflies Around Us by Kendall Johnson [book review, micro]
Jocelyn Rose Breathe [memoir]
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Fiction: Flash & Micro*
Dave Alcock Sycorax [micro]
 
Roy J. Beckemeyer See Ekphrastic Works above.
 
John Brantingham Messages [micro: drabble]
Friday [micro: drabble]
 
C. S. Dines See Humor below.
 
Louella Lester Memory Jogged [micro]
Only Stealing Bits [micro: drabble]
Switching Addictions [micro: drabble]
Taking Control [micro]
Until It’s Over and Over [micro]
Robert I. Mann Cameoed Against the Twilight [flash]
Lynn Mundell Friends [flash: one-sentence story]
 
Jane Salmons See Featured Author/Artist above for a quintet of her microfictions.
 
Daryl Scroggins Alexandria [micro]
Small Breaks in a Continuum [micro]
Daryl Scroggins See also Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Richard Stimac Rain Cover [micro]
 
Mary Hannah Terzino See Humor below for her flash fiction.
Stuart Watson See Humor below for his flash fiction.
 
*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]
Roberta Beary Dad Says
Peggy Hale Bilbro Time Warp
Lynn Edge Year of the Farrier [haibun story]
Keith Evetts Graham Greene’s Footsteps
The Haiku Spirit
Keith Evetts See also Humor below.
 
Jonathan Humphrey As For You, Lightning
Blue, the Moving Valley of His Wake
Tom and Anne [haibun story]
Kat Lehmann Event Horizon
Life Is a Highway
Materials and Methods
Sensory Deprivation Tank [anomalous]
Mark Meyer Texas Requiem
Mish (Eileen) Murphy Everything You Need to Know About Florida
Lorraine A Padden Those who are in favor [micro-haibun]
whatsoever star [micro-haibun]
Elisabeth Preston-Hsu Ache, with pollen and kink [burning haibun, Erotic]
Alexis Rotella Third Try
Alice Wanderer Puffing Billy
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Haiga & Related Forms [haiku + visual art]
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Brian Kates &
Cáit O’Neill
McCullagh
Untitled (“raindrop”) [collaborative shahai: haiku + photograph]
 
Brian Kates Untitled (“garden buddha”) [shahai: haiku + photograph]
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Humor
Roy J. Beckemeyer See Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Rose Mary Boehm In praise of smelly cheese [poem]
C. S. Dines Pilgrim’s Protest [microfiction]
Keith Evetts Echinoderms [poem]
Klecksography [haibun]
I’m All Right Jack [haibun]
Keith Evetts Untitled [I am the King’s Apostropher] [micro-poem]
Untitled [Three Epigrams] [micro-poems]
Gary Grossman Targeted Advertising [prose poem]
Kurt Luchs 2CV [poem]
Crime Prevention in Wheaton, Illinois [poem]
Bob Lucky An Unexpected Message [poem]
Ode to Cobwebs or, Maybe, Spiders, But Not the Cat [poem]
Patricia L. Scruggs Dracula Considers Solar Panels [poem]
Mary Hannah Terzino Saving the Turtles [flash fiction]
Stuart Watson Pope Wins Easter Egg Hunt [R] [flash fiction]
Jonathan Yungkans Make a Purple Prayer Out of Origami and Stuff It [prose poem]
 
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Micro-Poems
Sarah Das Gupta See Tanka Forms below.
Keith Evetts See Humor above.
 
Richard L. Matta The Good Host [split sequence]
 
Lorraine A Padden See Haibun above.
 
LeeAnn Pickrell February 3
 
Daryl Scroggins See Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Joshua St. Claire Bell Pepper
 
*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
Roy J. Beckemeyer Sanctification [R]
Seppuku [R]
Amrita Skye Blaine born of darkness
the tube [R]
Rose Mary Boehm Eyewitnesses
Open and Shut
Rose Mary Boehm See also Humor above.
 
Robert L. Dean, Jr. In Which the Dark and I Come to Terms
Steve Deutsch Memories
Margaret Duda My Father’s Tears [R]
Karen Greenbaum-Maya Comeback [R]
Miss Irene
Nothing Special...
Gary Grossman Barred Owls
Tante Sophie’s Schnapps Glasses
Lori Howe Nacre [cadralor]
Resonance Frequencies [cadralor]
 
Elizabeth Kerlikowske See Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Stellasue Lee Be Happy! Be You!
Scavenging What Remains [+ Poet’s Note]
Nina Lindsay Crave
New year
Nina Lindsay See also Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Kurt Luchs Coffee
Inheritance
Kurt Luchs See also Humor above.
 
Bob Lucky See Humor above.
 
LeeAnn Pickrell Daylight Savings Time
Resistance (June, Week 4)
LeeAnn Pickrell See also Micro-Poems above.
 
David B. Prather Fall Field Crickets
Snake-Mimic Caterpillar
Monarch vs. Viceroy
Laura Ann Reed Dillon Beach
Where the Heart Is Fattened
 
Gary S. Rosin See Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Jane Salmons See Featured Author/Artist above for a quintet of her poems with collages.
 
Patricia L. Scruggs An ego is not an egg
Fire Dance for Santa Cruz
The Pear Trees Have Erupted
Patricia L. Scruggs See also Humor above.
 
Richard (Dick) Westheimer The Poetic Impulse of the Dead Not Forgotten
John Wheway A Folio of Vermeer’s Paintings
 
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Prose Poems
Guy Biederman A Small Dark Light
Shadow Question
John Brantingham When the Earth Is Quiet
Karen Greenbaum-Maya Pony Girl
Gary Grossman For the Girl at the Athens Comic Fair With the Crematorium Advertising Tote
Gary Grossman See also Humor above.
 
Elizabeth Kerlikowske What time does your heart have?
 
Jane Salmons See Featured Author/Artist above for a quintet of her microfictions.
Daryl Scroggins See Ekphrastic Works above.
 
Susan Starbird Cheated
Jonathan Yungkans But Anyone Engaged in the Business of Swapping Purity for Depth Will Understand What I Mean
Only a Poodle Separates This Life from the Next
Yet Not So Dirty, Surely Not in the Spiritual Sense
Jonathan Yungkans See also Humor above.
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Tanka Forms
Sarah Das Gupta Four Micro-Poems [kyoka and tanka]
Michael H. Lester
and Vicki Miko
From Shadows of the Saguaro: The Wiles of Cactus Annie May and Bad Jack Muldoon [a series of responsive tanka tales]:
Not All Good Things Come in Threes
What Happens in the Desert
A Place Among the Dingos, Jack Rabbits, Diamondbacks, and Vagabonds
Tony Steven Williams So glad to be here [tanka prose]
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Visual Arts
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Part I.  
 
Sam Gordon I Am This Abled [folk art: quilt]
 
Geri Hahn Three Fiber Artworks:
Girls From Mars
The Colors of a 12-String Guitar
Girls Just Want to Have Fun, with a Nod to Cindy Lauper, Miriam Shapiro, Judy Chicago, Ariel Pink, and the 140,000,000 Women with Genital Mutilation
 
Brian Kates See Haiga & Related Forms above for two photo-poems.
 
Jane Salmons See Featured Author/Artist above for five collages.
 
Debbie Strange From the series What We Make of Language, Three Collage Artworks:
20: “into the open book of sky”
22: “midnight’s torn pages”
18: “the grammar of shadows”
 
Part II. Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works:
 
Mary Hatch The Last Bouquet [painting]
Utagawa Hiroshige Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (1857) [woodblock print]
Tamara de Lempicka Autoportrait (Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti) (1928) [painting]
Edvard Munch The Girl by the Window (1893) [painting]
Konstantin Somov Blue Bird (1918) [watercolor painting]
 
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