Product Description

The MacGuffin’s Spring 2017 issue features new poetry by this year’s Poet Hunt Contest judge, Naomi Shihab Nye, and perennial MacGuffin favorites Barbara Crooker and Linda Nemec Foster. Helping to cap off the poetry in this issue is Joseph Powell’s “The Last Bee.” Whether it is a snapshot in time or something more ominous is left to the reader to decide. This issue’s NonFiction includes work by Beau Ewan, as well as John Davidson’s account of Bob Dylan’s 1965 Newport show. All of this, along with our usual spread of Fiction, is sandwiched within cover art by Jacqueline Alcántara.

In this issue:

5: Lynn DeTurk – Barefoot Breakfast
6: Jessica Goody – Bruegel’s Bride
7-8: Laurie Blanton – Baby Shower
9-17: Sue Repko – To Suckle on Fear
18-24: Edward Shaw – Bad Vlad
25: Barbara Crooker – Blue
26: Barbara Crooker – Melancholia
27: Barbara Crooker – Seventieth Birthday
28-31: William Crawford – The 18 Minute Rule Throws Jimmy Pro For a Loop in Gotham City
32: Judith Sornberger – Turning the Calendar to February
33-41: Emma Burcart – Peeling Away
42-52: Robbie Maakestad – A Potsherd
53-63: DC Evans – The Backward Trials
64-69: Edward Francisco – Confession
70-73: Margaret Kowalski – Klezmer People
74-75: John Davidson – Bob Dylan at Newport, 1965: It Wasn’t Like That
76-81: Beau Ewan – Happy’s Place
82: Meredith Kunsa – Anza-Borrego Badlands
83: Meredith Kunsa – Take It All
84: Susan Nisenbaum Becker – Yule Log
85: Naomi Shihab Nye – Biography
86: Naomi Shihab Nye – Emily
87: Naomi Shihab Nye – Bamboo Mind
88: Naomi Shihab Nye – Bully
89-90: Sharon Goldberg – Butt Ugly
91-92: S.W. Campbell – Judgment Day
93-95: Jeanie Mortensen – Historically Speaking
96: Blanche M. Jenkins – Cool Breeze
97: Jacqueline Alcántara – In a Land
98: Jacqueline Alcántara – Camping Icon
99-108: Paula Danovsky – The Back Paw
109: Leland Seese – Moving Day
110: Jeffrey Alfier – Neptune City: A Winter Memoir
111-120: Aida Zilelian – Where the Wind Howls
121: Katacha Díaz – Summer at Bloomies
122-131: TJ Davis – Identity Theft
132-133: Teresa Vanairsdale – Before the Lupine Blooms
134-138: Mark Brazaitis – Falling
139-144: Monique Gagnon German – The Gambit Game
145-150: Ijeoma Umebinyuo – Blood Stained Streets
151: Sarah Brown Weitzman – Monet in Winter
152: Joseph Powell – The Last Bee
153: Linda Nemec Foster – The Young Girl in Her Father’s Garden
154-157: Contributor Notes

Edition 33Binding Paperback