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MacQ Books
Titles appear below in reverse chronological order by date of publication. Please note that MacQ does not consider unsolicited book manuscripts.
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Sinkhole: The Sister Pantoums Poems and photographs by Alexis Rhone Fancher* Cover design by James Fancher in collaboration with Alexis Rhone Fancher Publisher: MacQ Release date: 15 January 2026 ISBN: 979-8-3495-7020-9 6x9 inches // 44 pages Reviewed by Gary Lemons in Issue 31 of MacQueen’s Quinterly |
 Cover photograph © by Alexis Rhone Fancher* |
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| * Sinkhole is available from Amazon and other online booksellers, and signed copies are available directly from the poet. Please contact Alexis via her website or Facebook. | ||
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Writing for Vision: Voicing the New Wild Essays, poems, and artworks by Kendall Johnson Publisher: MacQ Release date: 22 August 2025 ISBN: 979-8-3493-5937-8 6x9 inches // 138 pages Release announced in Issue 29 of MacQueen’s Quinterly Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2026 |
 Cover art: Red Moon Rising © by Kendall Johnson |
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Crazy Bitches (selected haibun 2004-2024) By Roberta Beary With visual art by Kevin Beary Publisher: MacQ Release date: 8 March 2025 ISBN: 979-8-3305-6606-8 6x9 inches // 130 pages Release announced in Issue 27 of MacQueen’s Quinterly Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2026 |
 Cover art: Widow with Shawl © by Kevin Beary |
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Prayers for Morning: Twenty Quartets Prose poems by Kendall Johnson, Kate Flannery, and John Brantingham With visual art by Kendall Johnson Publisher: MacQ Release date: 25 December 2024 ISBN: 979-8-3306-1238-3 6x9 inches // 62 pages Release announced in MacQ News Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2025 |
 Untitled cover art © by Kendall Johnson |
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The Light I Want to Keep Flash literature by Daryl Scroggins With photographs by Cindy Scroggins, and Daryl Scroggins* Publisher: MacQ Release date: 20 December 2024 ISBN: 979-8-3304-7904-7 6x9 inches // 250 pages Release announced in MacQ News |
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* Cover image by Mobilus in Mobili was reproduced from Flickr under license: CC BY-SA 2.0. |
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Because the World Is Spinning Poems and prose poems by Marcus Elman With artworks by Michel Costiou Publisher: MacQ Release date: 1 September 2024 ISBN: 979-8-3302-1072-5 6x9 inches // 50 pages Release announced in Issue 24 of MacQueen’s Quinterly Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2025, under two categories: Poetry and first-time author |
 Art © by Michel Costiou* |
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* Cover art: ink drawing (2023), Danse d’automne (Autumn Dance) by Michel Costiou; copyrighted © ADAGP 2024 by the artist. |
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Writing to Heal: Self-Care for Creators Essays, poems, and visual art by Dr. Kendall Johnson Publisher: MacQ Release date: 1 May 2024 ISBN: 979-8-8692-0312-0 6x9 inches // 126 pages Release announced in Issue 23 of MacQueen’s Quinterly Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2025, and selected for the long list of Category Finalists.* |
 Cover art: Untitled painting (Melting Into Air Series) © by Kendall Johnson |
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| * More than 2500 books are typically nominated each year for the EHBA, and fewer than ten percent of nominees become finalists. The award committee considers Category Finalists a distinction of merit and in 2008, they began officially announcing those titles. The 2025 Long List includes 163 titles; given the total of 24 categories, that’s an average of seven finalists in each category. | ||
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Triggered: A Pillow Book Poetry and prose by Alexis Rhone Fancher* Visual art by Kenna Barradell Publisher: MacQ Release date: 7 November 2023 ISBN: 978-1-0882-9628-8 6x9 inches // 58 pages Cover art, All Poets Are Naked, is an etymphrastic** painting copyrighted © by Kenna Barradell. |
 Teaser cover wrap by James Fancher* |
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This is a very naughty hybrid chapbook filled with inappropriate poems, flash fiction, and visual art guaranteed to trigger your inner vamp. A three-way between Mojave Desert poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher, Vancouver (BC) artist Kenna Barradell, and NC editor and publisher Clare MacQueen, this collaboration demolishes boundaries and honors the fierce goddess in us all. | ||
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* Triggered is available from Amazon and other online booksellers, and signed copies are available directly from the poet. Please contact Alexis via her website or Facebook. ** Creating visual art in response to poetry or other forms of writing is called etymphrasis, a term coined by artist, writer, and educator Jane Edberg. To learn more, see Kendall Johnson’s interview of Edberg and John Brantingham, whose book My Dead presents Brantingham’s poetry and Edberg’s etymphrastic artwork in response, in Issue 19 of MacQueen’s Quinterly: Art and Writing in This Age of Isolation... (August 2023). |
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