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Published: 4 February 2024

Contents: Issue 22


  Feature: Self-Care
for Creators, VI

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

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Feature: Self-Care for Creators, Part 6: Writing to Heal
Kendall Johnson Incendiaries [essay, plus five artworks]
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Ekphrastic Works
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Farah Ali Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, 1885 [poem: tanshi sequence], after the painting
Mikki Aronoff Fairest of All [microfiction], after a painting by Gertrude Abercrombie
La Primavera [microfiction], after Romaine Brooks
Red [microfiction], after a painting by Alvar Jonson
Joan Leotta An Outstretched Arm Hides the Truth [micro-CNF], after a vintage B&W snapshot
Gary S. Rosin Endgame [micro-poem], after a photograph by Richard Hunter
Judith Terzi Héritage [poem], after a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
 
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]
John Brantingham Now You Are a Missing Person by Susan Hayden [book review]
Bella Mahaya Carter Dandelions [micro-CNF]
Roseanne Freed Where’s Jeffrey? [CNF: memoir]
Kendall Johnson See Feature: Self-Care for Creators, VI above.
Angela Townsend See Humor/Wordplay below for her lyric essay on metaphors versus story.
Aruni Wijesinghe Playback [CNF: memoir]
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Fiction: Flash & Micro*
Dave Alcock Foxes [micro: dribble]
Overlooked [micro: dribble]
Mikki Aronoff Swimming with the Blind Fish [micro]
Mikki Aronoff See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Tina Barry It’s Ed Sullivan’s Fault [micro]
Outliers [micro]
Guy Biederman Precious Artifact Repairs [micro]
Bella Mahaya Carter Susan’s Comet [micro]
Terri L. French See Haibun below for two of her haibun stories.
Ethan Geiger Along Cat [micro]
Max Perkins Trigger Toe [micro]
Jessica Purdy The Heirloom [micro]
Daryl Scroggins Space [micro]
The One and the Many [micro]
Janey Skinner Departure is another way of arriving [micro]
Not pizza [micro]
Watercolor [micro: dribble]
 
*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 or senryu]
Terri L. French Adrift
Cleansed [haibun story]
Trashed [haibun story]
Hazel Hall On an unmarked grave [anomalous haibun, aka sonku (sonnet + senryu)]
Kendall Johnson The Desert Sea Suite [haibun story + painting]
David J. Kelly Downstream
Kat Lehmann Falls Into Light
Insecure Network
Bob Lucky On the Division of Labor
Marietta McGregor Hand-me-down
Mark Meyer Prologue to an Epilogue
Alexis Rotella After My Mother’s Burial [micro-haibun]
Lew Watts Snug
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Haiga Forms [haiku + visual art]
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Scott Ferry &
Gary S. Rosin
(this gnarled tree) [shahai: micro-poem + photograph]
Scott Ferry &
Gary S. Rosin
[Three Untitled Shahai]:
(eye in the green)
(passing clouds)
(this dogwood shoot)
Vicki Miko (three o’clock high) [shahai: micro-poem + photograph]
Vicki Miko See also Humor/Wordplay below.
Daryl Scroggins (accumulating) [shahai]
Richa Sharma (arriving) [shahai]
(vibrating) [shahai]
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Humor/Wordplay
 
Keith Evetts A Trio of Poesies [includes two micro-poems]
Paranoia [tanka prose]
[Untitled] (there’s poetry in a rotting rutabaga)[poem, lineated]
Sharon Ferrante Six Micro-Poems [senryu]
Ann Fisher America Invasive [prose poem]
Peter Jastermsky A Day in the Life [prose poem]
It’s Those Simple Things [prose poem]
Life on Ice [prose poem]
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Low Budget Zoo [prose poem]
Bob Lucky On the Tenacity of Love [prose poem]
Vicki Miko (directions) [shahai: micro-poem + photograph]
Angela Townsend Sinews [lyric essay, flash-length]
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Micro-Poems
Farah Ali Gaslight [split sequence]
Cynthia Anderson Badlands [split sequence]
Syllabus [split sequence]
Keith Evetts Small Image Collider [tercet sequence]
Keith Evetts See also Humor/Wordplay above.
Sharon Ferrante Three Micro-Poems
Two Cherita
Sharon Ferrante See also Humor/Wordplay above.
Jennifer Gurney [Untitled] [micro-poem: quintain]
[Untitled] [senryu] and photograph
Stella Pierides Four Senryu
Two Haiku + B&W photograph
Gary S. Rosin See Ekphrastic Works and Haiga Forms above.
Alexis Rotella 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
Farah Ali See Ekphrastic Works above.
Cynthia Anderson Alive
Cynthia Anderson See also Micro-Poems above.
Tina Barry Worried Wool
Rose Mary Boehm Ghosts in the Deep
Rohan Buettel Mount Stromlo
Sarah Carleton Free Time
Marcus Elman Because the World Is Spinning
Ann Fisher What Frogs Know
Hazel Hall See Haibun above for her sonku (sonnet + senryu)
Tamara Madison A Fine Specimen
Introduction
Hard Labor
Tinnitus
Gabrielle Myers Messejana Message #18
Stephen Nelson See Visual Arts below for his visual poetry.
Daryl Scroggins Again the Lighthouse Dream
Garden Time [cherita sequence]
Judith Terzi See Ekphrastic Works above.
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Prose Poems
Roberta Beary Bonfire Day
Roy J. Beckemeyer Coyote Dreams
Guy Biederman The Eighth Dwarf
Bella Mahaya Carter Lost and Found
Kika Dorsey Sunyi
Marcus Elman No Hay Palabras
Too Late
Ann Fisher See Humor/Wordplay above.
Gary Grossman Covering the Beds
Paul Ilechko From Fragments for Ken Smith
Peter Jastermsky See Humor/Wordplay above.
Joel Thomas Katz On Time
Elizabeth Kerlikowske First Lesson
Quarantine at Gramma’s House
Elizabeth Kerlikowske See also Humor/Wordplay above.
Joan Leotta A Tin Box
Bob Lucky See Humor/Wordplay above.
Jessica Purdy Headline: Female Octopuses Throw Things at Irritating Males and That’s So Relatable
Mad(wo)man Across the Water
The brown house that can kill you
Alexis Rhone Fancher As my son lies dying
Slippery Slope
Aruni Wijesinghe Mise en place
Jonathan Yungkans As Though a Door Were Enough to Stop the Average Person
Copacetic
POV
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Tanka Prose
Keith Evetts Félicité Perpétue
Keith Evetts See also Humor/Wordplay above.
Michael H. Lester A Growing Collection of Foul Deeds
Rich Man, Poor Man
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Visual Arts
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Part 1 of 3:  
 
Stephen Nelson [VisPo Trio] [visual poetry, aka asemic writing]
 
Part 2 of 3:  
 
Roger Cullman A fork in the road [photograph]
 
Scott Ferry &
Gary S. Rosin
See Haiga Forms for their shahai.
 
Jennifer Gurney See Micro-Poems for her photograph with senryu.
 
Kendall Johnson Desert Sea [painting]
 
Kendall Johnson See also Feature: Self-Care for Creators, VI for additional artworks.
 
Vicki Miko See Haiga Forms for her shahai.
 
Stella Pierides See Micro-Poems above for her photograph with haiku.
 
Gary S. Rosin
& Scott Ferry
See Haiga Forms for their shahai.
 
Daryl Scroggins See Haiga Forms for his shahai.
 
Richa Sharma See Haiga Forms for her shahai.
 
Part 3 of 3: Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works:
 
Romaine Brooks La Primavera [painting]
Richard Hunter Sacrificial Pawn [photograph]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir La loge (The Theatre Box) [painting]
Vincent van Gogh The Potato Eaters [painting]
 
 
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