The MacGuffin
The MacGuffin - Vol. 40, No. 1 (November 2024)
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We’re celebrating forty years of The MacGuffin with the launch of vol. 40.1! Celebrate with poetry from perennial MacGuffin fan-favorites Rebecca Foust, Poet Hunt 26 winner Patrick Wilcox, and Pushcart Prize awardee Jim Daniels; along with stories from Stephen A. Geller and Mary Lotz. We look toward the future with authors new to our pages: hit the mat in Tim Loperfido’s WWE-inspired epic, pay a three-poem visit to Susanna Rich’s Grandmother Mumchy, and take a relaxing, if somewhat hectic, family trip to the pool in Maureen D. Hall’s “The Pool.” With a hometown art spread of woodcuts by Ernest Fackler.
8: Patrick Wilcox ¬– Every Bucket List Is a Suicide Note
9: Patrick Wilcox – A Portrait of the Artist as 9th Grade Report Card
10¬–19: Tim Loperfido – The Making of Corey Alonzo
20: Jennifer LeBlanc – And all of a sudden,
21: Jennifer LeBlanc – Duplex: Hoping to End
22: Jennifer LeBlanc – Ira, Wrath
23: Sheila E. Murphy – Squeezebox
24–34: Virginia Watts – Lives
35: Clarissa Grunwald – At the Walters Art Museum
36: Bryana Joy – What Anne Brontë Did
37: Bryana Joy – What Delilah Did
38: Bryana Joy – What Guinevere Did
39: Bryana Joy – She’s Got the Whole World in Her Hands
40: Derek N. Otsuji – Philodoria: A Conservation Love Story Ending in a Line from Elizabeth Bishop
41–47: Stephen A. Geller – Tchaikovsky’s Piano
48: Rochelle Jewel Shapiro – Dear Body
49: Richard Levine – Hollowed Out by Fire
50–51: Andrew Garvin – Wildfire
52: Andrew Garvin – In the Courthouse
53–55: Allison Maschhoff – The Smell of Death
56–57: Zach Keali’i Murphy – The Middle
58: Marjorie Maddox – The View
59: Marjorie Maddox – Traditional Finn Dancing at the Community Center
60: Denise Utt – Ice Man
61: Claire Scott – Microchimerism
62–69: Mary Lotz – An April Evening
70–71: Melissa Ostrom – Near Miss
72: Charlie Brice – For Allen Ginsberg
73: Charlie Brice – Pancakes
74: Shelly Reed Thieman – Ancestral Stew
75: Shelly Reed Thieman – Fortune Cookies 76–79: Jake La Botz – March 15
80: Meredith Davies Hadaway – My Mother as Fragrance
81: Lois Marie Harrod – Identification
82: Stephanie Coyne DeGhett – Weeds
83–93: James Caton – Whiteout
94: Susanna Rich – Grandmother Mumchy dresses me in red—
95: Susanna Rich – Glass Piggy Bank
96: Susanna Rich – A Gift of Early Rising
97: Ernest Fackler – Freighters
98: Ernest Fackler – Birch Forest II
99: Ernest Fackler – Cloud
100: Ernest Fackler – River Landscape
101–103: Quentin Parker – Equate
104–106: Phillip Sterling – Weather Bad Enough to Keep You Indoors
107: Rebecca Foust – Ruins
108–109: Sarah Parmet – I Dreamt of Orchids That Night
110: James Owens – Some Shoes for Anna Marie
111: James Owens – First Migration After the World Ends
112: Richard Schiffman – Monarchs
113–114: Helen Raica-Klotz – Willing Suspension of Disbelief
115–121: Miles Parnegg – Colds
122: Patricia Gray – Taste of a Girl’s Knee
123: Amanda Seney – Day 8,332, with Beets
124–125: Amanda Seney – This Is How We Learn
126: Sara Burge – Stop
127–133: Dann Wonser – Duck
134: Ellen June Wright – But I have promises to keep,
135: Bradley R. Strahan - “Promises, Promises!”
136–137: William Snyder – Those Days Between
138: Heather Sellers – Slab Weep
139: Heather Sellers – On Flourishing in Winter
140–148: Maureen D. Hall – The Pool
149: Jim Daniels – Foot on the Foot on the Pedal
150–151: Jim Daniels – Donuts in Detroit
152–153: Jim Daniels – Let There Be Light
154: Michael Terry – It is four of us and a dog
155–160: Contributor Notes