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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Published: 6 June 2026

Contents: Issue 32

Featured
Author
  New Book
From MacQ
 
Fiction Ekphrastic Works Humor Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Essays, Etcetera Statistics Visual Arts Poetry & Hybrids Cheribun Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Humor Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems

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Featured Author
Jonathan Yungkans all the horses [poem, structured]
echo [prose poem], with Poet’s Commentary
Mountain Lions Prefer Organic Free-Range Carnivores [prose poem, humorous]
sometimes [poem, structured]
 
Jonathan Yungkans and Yelena Sidorova (streaks) [collaborative haiga]
(monoku by Yungkans and painting by Sidorova)
 
Jonathan Yungkans Excerpts from forthcoming e-chapbook, pour a frigid moon:
(I / might submit) [hay(na)ku chain]
Two Monostitches [micro-poems]
(saffron) [shahai: haiku + photograph]
 
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Cheribun [prose + cherita]
Deanna Benjamin The cellular distance of a touch
Colleen M. Farrelly #Still Compiling
Washed Away
Gary S. Rosin See Ekphrastic Works below.
Daryl Scroggins See Haibun below, for his sequence with two haibun and a cheribun.
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Ekphrastic Works
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Linda Nemec Foster The Infinity Pantoum, after limestone sculpture by Jason Quigno
Adele Gallogly The Feel of the Batter [haibun story, braided], after a painting by Ludwig Knaus
Bob Lucky Wounds [prose poem], after a medieval surgical diagram
Lorette C. Luzajic Breaking Up with Madonna [prose poem], after a painting by Jean Michel Basquiat
Tame [prose poem], after an ancient Egyptian sculpture
Venus de Punta Arenas [flash fiction], after a photograph by Joel Peter Witkin
Robbi Nester Shall I Call Her Night? [poem], after ESA/Webb photograph
Gary S. Rosin Old Cars [cheribun], after photograph by Robert Hecht
Still Standing [poem], after photograph by Chuck Kimmerle
Tracy Royce Do Not Let Dolores Host Book Club [microfiction], after a painting by Luis Egidio Meléndez
Incursion [microfiction], after a photograph of Dalí by George Platt Lynes
Daryl Scroggins A Changing of the Guard [microfiction], after a woodcut by Edward Calvert
Joshua St. Claire On Georgia O’Keeffe’s Black Iris [micro-haibun]
On Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Bolt [haibun story]
 
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]
Guy Biederman See Humor and Wordplay below.
Kendall Johnson Returning to Listen: Thinking About Method (Part 4 of Writing for Light series) [essay and artworks]
Daryl Scroggins A Brief Delay [micro-CNF]
See also Humor and Wordplay below.
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Fiction: Flash and Micro*
Part 1:  
 
Dave Alcock Our Bread [R] [microfiction]
Guy Biederman Cruciverbalist [microfiction]
Linda Nemec Foster A Woman from the North Country [microfiction]
 
Part 2: See Ekphrastic Works above for their:
 
Adele Gallogly [haibun story]
Lorette C. Luzajic [flash fiction]
Tracy Royce [microfictions]
Daryl Scroggins [microfiction]
Joshua St. Claire [haibun story]
 
Part 3: See Haibun below for their:
 
Roberta Beary [haibun story]
Gary Glauber
Chen-ou Liu
Bob Lucky
Brian O’Sullivan
Beverly A. Tift
Mary White
Scott Wiggerman
 
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. Word count of each piece includes the title and any epigraphs.
 
An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections.
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Haibun [prose + haiku]
Stephen A. Allen Holiday Season
Cynthia Anderson Day in the Life
Why I Don’t [micro-haibun]
Tina Barry Bad Advice
Roberta Beary What Ernest Overheard Gertrude Say to Alice in Furs [haibun story]
Lynn Edge Replacement
Colleen M. Farrelly #Decoding Perimenopause
Love Redefined
Thomas Festa Discourse on the Manner of Being Aflame
Dream Scroll
Jared Frank 21st-century inner peace [micro-haibun]
Screens of the Dead
See also Humor and Wordplay below.
Adele Gallogly See Ekphrastic Works above.
Gary Glauber Different Strokes [haibun story]
Rachel Greve Niagara
Universal
Elizabeth Kerlikowske The Last Class
Barbara Krasner Leftovers
Kat Lehmann Points Along the Spiral Path
Chen-ou Liu Brushed in Time [haibun story]
Bob Lucky The Promise of Dark Skies [haibun story]
See also Humor and Wordplay below.
Mark Meyer Rotten Eggs
Isabella Mori ... and up again
[this space is empty] [micro-haibun]
Eve Müller Conflagration
Brian O’Sullivan Liars [haibun story]
Sherry Reniker The Aphant in the House
Tracy Royce Labor Day [micro-haibun]
On the Trail
Carla Schwartz 11/22/63
After the Fly, If Only He’d Swallow the Horse
Radio Silence
Daryl Scroggins Precursory Divinations [micro-haibun]
Retreat [micro-haibun]
Three Museums [hybrid sequence, with two haibun and a cheribun]
Sheila Sondik Extracurricular
Pathetic Fallacy
Joshua St. Claire Noctanthesis
See also Ekphrastic Works.
Beverly A. Tift Coffee with Frieda Kahlo [haibun story]
Where Stone Remembers
Margaret Walker Always
Lew Watts First Voice
Mary White Threshold [haibun story]
Scott Wiggerman Why Some American Adolescents Only Succeed at Suicide [haibun story]
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art]
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Jonathan Yungkans See Featured Author above for his shahai and collaborative haiga.
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Humor and Wordplay
Guy Biederman My New Coffee Name [micro-CNF]
Jared Frank a practical koan [haibun]
deep reflections [haibun story]
Bob Lucky Last Call [haibun story]
Daryl Scroggins The Lucky Stroll [micro-CNF]
Jonathan Yungkans See Featured Author above for his humorous prose poem.
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Micro-Poems*
Cynthia Anderson See Haibun above.
Jared Frank See Haibun above.
Gary S. Rosin See Poetry: Lineated below.
Daryl Scroggins Six Micro-Poems [cherita terbalik]:
(more / my mother says)
(more like—to age)
(old raven on a fence post)
(engine of death)
(comet the size of)
(I alone left)
Daryl Scroggins See also Haibun above.
Joshua St. Claire See Ekphrastic Works and Haibun above for his micro-haibun.
Jonathan Yungkans See Featured Author above for his monostitches, hay(na)ku chain, and shahai.
 
*Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the former 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. Individual haiku, senryu, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. (Sequences of such micro-poems do have titles.)
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Poetry: Lineated
Robbi Nester See Ekphrastic Works above.
Gary S. Rosin Two Pond Poems [untitled haiku plus “Pond Dreams”]
See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Rebecca Simone Schmitz Life in the Key of No
The Twins
Jonathan Yungkans See Featured Author above.
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Prose Poems
Deanna Benjamin Rose yogurt
Guy Biederman Missed
Linda Nemec Foster The Four Cardinal Virtues as Models in a Vanity Fair Photo Shoot
Bob Lucky The Cult
See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Lorette C. Luzajic See Ekphrastic Works above.
Alexis Rhone Fancher The Girl in the Photo Took No Photos
Rebecca Simone Schmitz My Vermont
Jonathan Yungkans See Featured Author above.
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Visual Arts
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Part 1:
 
Scott Ferry Five silhouette self-portraits [photographs]
 
Kendall Johnson See Essays, Etcetera above for his essay which includes seven of his artworks.
 
Jonathan Yungkans See Featured Author above for his collaborative haiga (with Yelena Sidorova) and his shahai (“saffron”).
 
Part 2: Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works:
 
Ancient Egyptian Basalt torso of Pa-Maj [R] (350-300 BCE) [sculpture]
 
Edward Calvert The Return Home [R] (1830) [woodcut on paper]
 
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA NGC 1333 [R], Embryo Nebula in Perseus Constellation [photograph]
 
Jean-Honoré Fragonard Le Verrou (The Bolt) [R] [painting]
 
Robert Hecht Paint Scratches on Old Car, Sandy [photograph]
 
Chuck Kimmerle Spring Snow, Bodie [B&W photograph]
 
Ludwig Knaus Mud Pies [R] (1873) [painting]
 
Luis Egidio Meléndez Still Life with Small Pears, Bread, Flask, Bowl, and Dry Leaves (1760) [R] [painting]
 
Unknown [Young woman with bracelet] [R] [B&W photograph], from The Girl in the Photo series of poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher
 
Unknown [Young woman with tree] [R] [B&W photograph], from The Girl in the Photo series of poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher
 
Unknown Wound Man [R] (late 14th century CE through 15th century), an umbrella title for several variations of surgical diagrams
 
 
Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections.
 
 
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