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Vol. 38, No. 1 of The MacGuffin comes with a double-shot of Poet Hunts past and present. Beginning on p. 101, we feature Guest Judge Indigo Moor’s selections from Poet Hunt 26: Grand Prize Winner Patrick Wilcox and Honorable Mentions Camille Carter and Karen Hones. Following is a five-poem feature of 2022’s Poet Hunt 27 Guest Judge Lynne Thompson. We recently featured all of these writers in a YouTube reading. The ocean surrounding this Poet Hunt island comprises of our usual selections of prose and poetry, along with the postcard views of another island, Cuba, through Bruce Katz’s evocative watercolors.

8: M.A. Schaffner – The Enduring Ordinariness of Streets
9: James Macmillen – Vaccination Centre
10: Deborah Bachels Schmidt – Arroyo Seco Thunderstorm
11: John Zedolik – Anesthetic Education
12: Margaret B. Ingraham – Bodies of Light
13–19: Bruce Cohen – Home Run Derby
20: Chrissy Martin – In warm winter I miss something
21: Chrissy Martin – That summer we only drove with our windows down,
22: Chrissy Martin – I am writing about my father again.
23: Susan L. Leary – Now That My Mother Has Apologized
24: Karl Meade – Winter Mining
25: Kathleen Meadows – Auntie’s Visit
26: Susan L. Leary – Grief, without Design—
27–29: Angela Bean – Artifacts
30–34: Jessie Carson – Silk and Fandango
35: Karl Meade – Night Fall
36–37: Carla Schwartz – Father on His Driveway
38: Eloise Klein Healy – Flurry of Speaking
39: Eloise Klein Healy – Pleasantry
40: Eloise Klein Healy – The Day Torn 41: Adam Chiles – Widow
42–43: Anthony DiMatteo – The Favor
44–55: John Picard – World’s Greatest Tap Dancer
56: Teresa Milbrodt – Matchmaker
57: Teresa Milbrodt – Honoratus
58: Hanna Pachman – If You Have a Chronic Illness, Let’s Get Married Dot Com
59–64: Felicia Cameron – Petty Theft
65–69: Daniel Webre – Lindale
70: Sarah C. Brockhaus – Auld Lang
71: Ken Holland – All the Pretty Girls
72: J. Stephen Rhodes – Alive
73–82: Tom Eubanks – Painting Animals
83: James McKee – Postcards from Weimar
84–85: Derek Mong – The Internet Troll
86: David Brehmer – Another Routine Traffic Stop
87–94: Randy F. Nelson – Remembrance Night 95–96: Bill Kitcher – Elena’s Perfect Smile
97: Bruce Katz – Blue Wall
98: Bruce Katz – Bike Delivery
99: Bruce Katz – Grackle Dance
100: Bruce Katz – Dominoes
101–103: Indigo Moor – An Introduction to the Selected Poems of Poet Hunt 26
104: Poet Hunt 26 Finalists and Semifinalists
106–108: Patrick Wilcox – City approves demolition of library
109: Camille Carter – Mother on the Steps of St. Peter’s Church
110–111: Karen Hones – Dementia Pugilistica
113: Lynne Thompson – Last Elegy for the Red Dress
114: Lynne Thompson – In America’s Mirror
115: Lynne Thompson – My Body Leaning Into
116: Lynne Thompson – My Einsteinicity
117: Lynne Thompson – Approach, memory
119–125: David James – Interviews Redux
126: Alison Luterman – Ghosts
127: Marjorie Maddox – Ante Meridiem/Post Meridiem
128: J. Stephen Rhodes – On Learning How to Fly
129–136: Michael Garcia Bertrand – Sun Kid
137–139: Emanuele Pettener – Little Yellow Shoes
140–141: Kevin Grauke – A Triptych of Saints
141: Kevin Grauke – Salome Makes Her Unsteady Way
142: J. Stephen Rhodes – Saints
143–149: Judith Saunders – Dad and the USPS
150–151: Marci Rae Johnson – Questionable Baggage
152: Mary Beth Hines – The Planter
153: J. Scott Price – Steady as She Goes
154: James McKee – What’s Not to Like?
155–160: Contributor Notes

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