Product Description

The Fall 2017 issue of The MacGuffin appears as a postcard from Michigan, its cover bearing a photo of the Upper Peninsula’s Big Bay Lighthouse, captured by Michigan’s own Monte Nagler. However, this issue features work outside of our home-state as well, from as close as Wisconsin—see B.J. Best’s one-pager on stuffed animal surgery on p. 73—and as far as Ukraine—Anastasiya Chuleyda’s narrative of a down-on-her-luck nurse. Rounding out this issue are poets new to our pages, with four poems from Jane Costain and two by both Frances Mac and Dan MacIsaac, among others.

In this issue:

5: Jane Costain – Interiors
6: Ken Craft – Reading James Wright
7-10: Terril L. Shorb – Reading the Libraries of Two Worlds
11-16: Mary Clemens – Outer Space
17-25: Tom Larsen – The End of Benny
26: John Palen – Freed Slave Cemetery, Texas
27: Ken Haas – War
28-30: Pat Wadsworth – The Japanese Captain
31-33: Ted Radakovic – Restaurant Lessons
34-35: Lauren Scharhag – Male Nude
36: Monte Nagler – Flower Cart
37: Jane Costain – Olympia
38-44: Elizabeth Rosen – Crow
45-51: Elizabeth Genovise – The Cousins
52-53: Lori Horvitz – My Father’s Mug
54: Frances Mac – Roma
55-64: Shannon Wick – Night on Talisman Bridge
65-70: Charles Grosel – Bar Band, Circa 1976
71: Daruis Atefat-Peckham – My Affectionate Nickname: Bear
72: Monte Nagler – Moonlight Silhouettes
73: B. J. Best – Second Shift at the Hospital for Stuffed Animals
74-84: Henk Hopman – Going Down to Riverton
85-91: Linda Klein Means – The Lady on the Seine
92: Rosalind Kaliden – I Turn, Turn, Turn, Turn
93-100: Anastasiya Chuledya – The Breast
101: Monte Nagler – Monument Valley
102: Frances Mac – Summer
103-112: Stacy Austin Egan – The Last Dare
113-114: Rachel Greenberg Spicer – I will share my shame with you
115-125: Joseph Harris – Don’t Let Them Win
126-131: Jimmy J. Pack Jr. – Corroded Cotton Vines
132: Jane Costain – Penelope at Breakfast
133-141: Amanda Noble – The Lesson
142: David Flynn – An Elderly Couple
143-151: Mary Lynn Reed – Phantom Advances
152: Dan MacIsaac – Degas’ Woman Combing Her Hair, 1897
153: Dan MacIsaac – Renoir’s Danse à la Campagne (1883)
154: Jeff Newberry – The Bottom-Fisher’s Prayer
155: Jane Costain – Il Dolce Far Niente
156-159: Contributor Notes

Edition 33Binding Paperback