The MacGuffin
The MacGuffin - Vol. 40, No. 3 (August 2025)
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Sculptor Pascal Piermé is featured in an expanded (and expandable!) art feature to cap off our fortieth volume in print. Returning contributor Max Blue offers a review of an obscure film by French auteur Jacques, and Ron McFarland revisits what is undoubtedly Vivaldi’s most famous work. Go for a ride with Angela Townsend’s “Out to Dinner,” but do pull off for a pit stop to get the car’s-eye view in Colby Vargas’s “Beast Runs Multidisciplinarian Laura Vogt bridges poetry and prose in a two-part mini feature, and Kuo Zhang bridges cultures in a bilingual household to close the issue.
8: Christopher Ankney – What Does Hope Look Like?
9: Sophia Deianni Rollins – The Year of the Salmon
10: Richard Krohn – Bridgeton, NJ
11: Richard Krohn – Silent e
12: Jennifer Markell – Cobalt 13: Carolyn Lieberg – Golf Wars
24: Marc Janssen – Shadows of a Klamath River Gorge
26: Marc Janssen – When the Middle School Choir Performed on the Steps Inside the Oregon State Capitol
27: Linda Laderman – in your attic
28: Colleen S. Harris – Ophelia Haunts Hamlet via Pantoum
29: Colleen S. Harris – Some Days the Crow
30: Gary McDowell – When There’s Nothing Left to Say, Apologize
31: Harvey Silverman – Kid Stuff
33: Jessica Treadway – Undefeated
41: Carol Casey – Asymmetry
42: Fred Shaw – Making Fire at a Camp in Forest County
44: Fred Shaw – Building the Bathroom at a Camp in Forest County
45: Cloris Shi – Self-Portrait in Recovery
46: Cloris Shi – Movement, California
48: Colby Vargas – Beast Runs
49: Audrey Xi – Sometimes I forget
57: Anneliese Finke – Caroline
58: Channing Huang – Downstream from the Hospital
59: Lisa Charnock – MCI #2
60: Janet Belding – Imperfect Curvature of the Eye
61: Jacob Butlett – Speak to Me
73: Rita Plush – Love in the Time of Toilet Paper
75: Ron McFarland – L’inverno
76: Liana Kapelke-Dale – 11:11
77: Liana Kapelke-Dale – Warrior
78: Keith Pilapil Lesmeister – To the Farmer in Ridgeway, Iowa
79: Megan Turner – Submerged
88: Mary Jo Firth Gillett – Prickly
89: Mary Jo Firth Gillett – Eight,
90: Laura Vogt – On the 1980s Floral Chintz Sofa
91: Laura Vogt – Three Words for What We’ve Lost
96: Liz N. Clift – Falling
97: Pascal Piermé – Origines Blue Dream 2
98: Pascal Piermé – Origines Ama 4
100: Pascal Piermé – Recherche du Noir 1
102: Pascal Piermé – Love Game 1
103: Max Blue – An Appeal to Unreason: On L’essai, the Banned Film of Jacques
113: Gwen Ackerman – Who’s Okay? Is Anyone Okay?
118: Lana Hechtman Ayers – Necessary Jazz
120: Steve Denehan – Immortal
121: Steve Denehan – Waiting for the Sea
122: Hannah Kesling – But had you been a bird
123: Vanessa Blakeslee – She’s Not There
131: Selene Ross – Static in the Heavens
142: samodH Porawagamage – My Answer,
143: samodH Porawagamage – My Rain,
144: Jean Anne Feldeisen – Love at seventy-five
145: Alison Watson – Love on a Psych Ward
150: Angela Townsend – Out for Dinner
152: Bruce Bailey – Night Shift
153: Bruce Bailey – Passport
154: Josey Zeunges – Elizabeth Stride, Hypothetically
155: Kuo Zhang – When My Kids Start to Speak English
156: Contributor Notes
