Logo, MacQueen's Quinterly
Listed at Duotrope
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Updated: 28 April 2024

Index of Contributors



-K-

[Back to Alpha Menu]
Name of Author Title of Work + [genre] Issue
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time [poem, ekphrastic] 17
Brian Kates Untitled Shahai (first line: “garden buddha”) [visual art: photo-poem] 20
Brian Kates and Cáit O’Neill McCullagh Untitled Shahai (first line: “raindrop”) [visual art: photo-poem] 20
Joel Thomas Katz On Time [prose poem] 22
Arvinder Kaur One senryu + one haiku [micro-poems: COVID-ku] 3
Teo Kefalopoulos Untitled [snapshot of Paulo Ernesto Silva holding Teo’s framed photograph Lost in Nothingness] 1
Frank Keim Beluga (sculpture, hand-carved wood) 23
Frank Keim To Carve This Whale (poem, narrative) 23
David J. Kelly Downstream [haibun] 22
David J. Kelly Subduction [haibun] 18
Adele Kenny Just Perhaps [R] [prose poem, ekphrastic] 7
Adele Kenny Then and What Happened [prose poem] 6
Adele Kenny December in the Trees [haibun] 6
Chris Kenny Twelve Twigs 2012 [artwork] 18
Brendon Kent One tanka [micro-poem: COVID-ku] 3
Elizabeth Kerlikowske At Tabor Hill [microfiction] 9
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Aubade [poem] 19
Elizabeth Kerlikowske The Docent [poem, ekphrastic] 18
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Elegy: Class Trip [microfiction] 1
Elizabeth Kerlikowske February [poem] 11
Elizabeth Kerlikowske First Lesson [prose poem] 22
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Fully Interlocking [prose poem] 5
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Goodwill and the Renaissance [microfiction] 11
Elizabeth Kerlikowske If my grandfather walked toward me with two arms, I wouldn’t recognize him [micro-CNF] 11
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Into the Oak [prose poem] 9
Elizabeth Kerlikowske The Logical Thing [prose poem] 5
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Low Budget Zoo [prose poem] 22
Elizabeth Kerlikowske The Pilot [microfiction] 12
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Quarantine at Gramma’s House [prose poem] 22
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Step-kids [prose poem] 1
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Ten Slices of Pandemic [poem] 5
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Their First Meeting [poem, ekphrastic] 20
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Trail Crew [prose poem, ekphrastic] 7
Elizabeth Kerlikowske Tribute to Mary Hatch [prose poem] 9
Elizabeth Kerlikowske What time does your heart have? [prose poem] 20
Chuck Kimmerle Four Stairs [photograph] 23
Chuck Kimmerle Rainbow and Dead Tree [photograph] 15
Susan King Two senryu [micro-poems: COVID-ku] 3
Maureen Kingston Anniversary [haibun] 18
Maureen Kingston Catfishing [prose poem] 3
Maureen Kingston Chocolate and Maple [haibun story, ekphrastic] 23
Maureen Kingston Cloudy With a Chance of Torture [prose poem] 14
Maureen Kingston Folly [prose poem] 2
Maureen Kingston Scriptura Continua [haibun story] 2
Maureen Kingston Solitary Genius [haibun, ekphrastic] 14
Maureen Kingston What’s the Buzz [haibun story] 23
Emilee Kinney The muck ditch [prose poem] 10
Dana Kinsey Fly Girls [prose poem] 16
Marianne Kipp Puff [micro-CNF] 23
Marianne Kipp Something Big [flash fiction] 23
Paul Klee Landscape with Yellow Birds [painting] 18
Paul Klee The Twittering Machine [painting] 8
Arthur Klepchukov afterglow [microfiction] 6
Arthur Klepchukov Dialing Islands [flash fiction] 6
Gustav Klimt The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze [painting] 1
Ann Knickerbocker Crane [painting, mixed-media] 5
Ann Knickerbocker Three Artworks: les Peupleraies (2018) [digital art: asemic writing with photograph]; Saintish (1995) [collage, mixed-media]; and The Ample Rhine (2016) [painting, mixed-media] 7
Ann Knickerbocker Three Entangled Abstracts: Fellini Goes to Fanore, Ireland (2018), Driving Through the Black Forest (2018), and A Bouquet for Manet (2017) [paintings, mixed-media] 8
Ann Knickerbocker Thursday Night Thunderstorm [painting, mixed-media] 3
Mark Knight Because I Could Not Stop for Death [micro-poem] 18
Tricia Knoll In the Drawer [haibun] 21
Tricia Knoll The White Hydrangea with a Voice Disability Prepares for the Devotions of Lauds [poem: cento] 21
Claire Koehler Will [poem: WaltMarie] 18
Margaret Koger Ream of Sky [micro-poem] 21
Margaret Koger Winter Wings [haibun, anomalous] 21
Jozie Konczal The First Sense [prose poem] 13
Norbert Kovacs Monsieur Antoine’s Visit [microfiction, ekphrastic] 16
Norbert Kovacs Winter Field [microfiction] 14
Carol Parris Krauss We Will Continue to Kondo [poem] 18
Judy Kronenfeld Animal Knowledge [poem] 14
Judy Kronenfeld Anti-Pastoral [poem, ekphrastic] 16
Judy Kronenfeld Brief Impromptu Meditation [poem] 11
Judy Kronenfeld City Benches in the Sun [poem] 23
Judy Kronenfeld Confidence [poem, ekphrastic] 23
Judy Kronenfeld Crumpled Man on the Sidewalk, 1953 [poem, ekphrastic] 19
Judy Kronenfeld The Day Before My Swiftly-Scheduled Back-to-Back MRIs, I Think of Mother and Her Houseplants [poem] 18
Judy Kronenfeld Final Dissolve by Aquamation [poem] 8
Judy Kronenfeld Freeze [poem, ekphrastic] 16
Judy Kronenfeld Naked vs. Nude [poem] 21
Judy Kronenfeld Two Little Girls, Face to Face [poem, ekphrastic] 19
Michel Steven Krug Drape [poem] 11
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi After the Rain [painting] 5
Kathryn Kulpa Five Things I Remember from the Anthropocene Age [flash fiction] 14
Kathryn Kulpa Halo [microfiction] 1
Kathryn Kulpa Oregon Trail [microfiction] 14
Kathryn Kulpa Slip [flash fiction] 4
Kathryn Kulpa War Bride [microfiction] 4
Lavinia Kumar Cape Cod [poem, ekphrastic] 18
Lavinia Kumar “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity” [prose poem] 23
Sal Taylor Kydd Watching Pins [photogravure] 21

-L-

[Back to Alpha Menu]
Name of Author Title of Work + [genre] Issue
Yahia Lababidi For George Floyd [poem] 4
Yahia Lababidi [Selected Aphorisms] [nonfiction] 4
Yahia Lababidi Your Love [micro-poem] 4
J.R. Lancaster Reclining Nude on Sofa: Tribute to Amedeo Modigliani [painting: mixed-media figurative + artist’s commentary] 1
Madeleine Lascelle Joe Tuesday [flash fiction] 3
Craig Latker A female Western giant echneumon (Megarhyssa nortoni) [illustration, pen and ink] 14
David Lawton Herbs, Mama, Herbs! [poem] 14
David Lawton Uisce [poem] 5
Gary LeBel Bricks [prose poem] 6
Gary LeBel Husband [poem] 6
Gary LeBel Madrigal [poem] 6
Gary LeBel Through a Hole in the Afternoon I Smelled Montale’s Lemons [artwork, assemblage] 6
Lars Leber Untitled [Twin Lakes, CO] [photograph] 16
Stellasue Lee A Ferocity of Mind Lives Here in Silence [poem] 6
Stellasue Lee Be Happy! Be You! [poem] 20
Stellasue Lee For Birds Sing Sometimes Without Purpose [poem] 6
Stellasue Lee Lying in a Darkened Room at Night Letting the Past Live Through Me [poem] 12
Stellasue Lee On the Playground with Edward Hirsch [poem] 12
Stellasue Lee Scavenging What Remains (plus Poet’s Note: “How can I make it new”) [poem] 20
Janine Lehane Folly Mountain [haibun] 16
Janine Lehane Southern Peninsula [haibun] 16
Janine Lehane Swimming Test, Merewether Baths [poem] 16
Kat Lehmann April [haibun] 3
Kat Lehmann Clay Body [haibun] 21
Kat Lehmann Crossing [haibun, braided] 11
Kat Lehmann Embodying the In-Between [haibun, braided] 12
Kat Lehmann Energy Shift in the Storage Shed [haibun, braided] 14
Kat Lehmann Event Horizon [haibun] 20
Kat Lehmann Falls Into Light [haibun] 22
Kat Lehmann For Whom [haibun] 18
Kat Lehmann Hiraeth [haibun] 12
Kat Lehmann Home Making [haibun] 18
Kat Lehmann Inner Rising [haibun, braided] 14
Kat Lehmann Insecure Network [haibun] 22
Kat Lehmann Life Is a Highway [haibun] 20
Kat Lehmann Long Exposure [haibun] 11
Kat Lehmann Materials and Methods [haibun] 20
Kat Lehmann Melting Clock [haibun] 10
Kat Lehmann Mermaids [haibun] 12
Kat Lehmann My Nose Is Its Own Country [haibun] 21
Kat Lehmann Riding Into Shore [haibun] 9
Kat Lehmann Sensory Deprivation Tank [haibun, anomalous] 20
Kat Lehmann Sensory Revelation Tank [haibun] 10
Kat Lehmann Setting the See-Saw [haibun, braided] 14
Kat Lehmann & Bryan Rickert Lehmann’s Auto Enterprises [micro-poem: split sequence] 10
Kat Lehmann & Bryan Rickert swatting flies [micro-poem: woven tan renga] 18
K. Alan Leitch Props [flash fiction] 4
Dotty LeMieux Dead Letter Office [lyrical memoir] 19
Dotty LeMieux False Spring [haibun] 16
Dotty LeMieux Fired [micro-CNF] 23
Dotty LeMieux Holding Pattern [prose poem, ekphrastic] 1
Dotty LeMieux I Remember: Me and Glenn [prose poem] 12
Dotty LeMieux I Remember: The Bin Laden Girls, September, 2001 [prose poem] 1
Dotty LeMieux If You’re Black, Get Back [micro-CNF] 23
Dotty LeMieux Masks [prose poem] 6
Dotty LeMieux Memorial Day [prose poem] 8
Dotty LeMieux The Night the Bathroom Ceiling Collapsed [micro-CNF] 23
Dotty LeMieux On the Day the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on the Case That Might Overturn Roe v. Wade [haibun] 12
Dotty LeMieux Spring Trip to Mazatlán [CNF] 16
Dotty LeMieux Super Burger [micro-CNF] 23
Dotty LeMieux Y2K: A Memory [prose poem] 2
Tamara Lempicka Autoportrait (Self-Portrait with Green Bugatti) [painting] 20
Maximilian Lenz One World (1899) [painting] 13
Joan Leotta A Scene of Chaos [poem, ekphrastic] 17
Joan Leotta A Tin Box [prose poem] 22
Joan Leotta An Outstretched Arm Hides the Truth [micro-CNF] 22
Joan Leotta My Aunt Never Liked Modigliani [essay, ekphrastic] 18
Joan Leotta My Canary [poem, ekphrastic] 18
Joan Leotta My Window, My Morning View [prose poem, ekphrastic] 14
Anita Lerek Jazz Paradiso [poem, ekphrastic] 12
Anita Lerek Return Blue [poem, ekphrastic] 12
Louella Lester Bonanza Blindness [microfiction] 23
Louella Lester Memory Jogged [microfiction] 20
Louella Lester Only Stealing Bits [microfiction: drabble] 20
Louella Lester Reading the Dead [microfiction] 23
Louella Lester Switching Addictions [microfiction: drabble] 20
Louella Lester Taking Control [microfiction] 20
Louella Lester Tiny and Sharp [microfiction] 12
Louella Lester Until It’s Over and Over [microfiction] 20
Michael H. Lester A Growing Collection of Foul Deeds [tanka prose] 22
Michael H. Lester Cut to the Quick [haibun] 21
Michael H. Lester Familiar Yet Forgotten [tanka prose] 21
Michael H. Lester Rich Man, Poor Man [tanka prose] 22
Michael H. Lester Trouble in the Attic [haibun] 11
Michael H. Lester Two senryu [micro-poems: COVID-ku] 3
Michael H. Lester You Know, It Don’t Come Easy [tanka tale] 11
Michael H. Lester and Vicki Miko A Painful Reminder [tanka tale, responsive] 21
Michael H. Lester and Vicki Miko A Place Among the Dingos, Jack Rabbits, Diamondbacks, and Vagabonds [tanka tale, responsive] 20
Michael H. Lester and Vicki Miko Not All Good Things Come in Threes [tanka tale, responsive] 20
Michael H. Lester and Vicki Miko Settling In for the Night [tanka tale, responsive] 21
Michael H. Lester and Vicki Miko What Happens in the Desert [tanka tale, responsive] 20
John Levy Untitled [photograph of hummingbird] 1
John Levy Untitled [photograph of pigeons] 9
John Levy Untitled [photograph: B&W abstract] 13
John Levy Untitled [photograph of women viewing Derain painting] 15
John Levy Untitled [photograph of papier mâché piñata forms] 19
C. L. Liedekev Hidden Canyon Trail, Zion [poem, ekphrastic] 7
C. L. Liedekev In the Land of Wolf and Owl [poem] 11
Nina Lindsay Crave [poem] 20
Nina Lindsay New year [poem] 20
Nina Lindsay Strangers to Ourselves [poem, ekphrastic] 20
Ellaraine Lockie After the Rain [poem] 7
Ellaraine Lockie Early Riser [poem, ekphrastic] 1
Ellaraine Lockie Epistolary [poem] 13
Ellaraine Lockie London Lodging [micro-poem] 7
Ellaraine Lockie Picture of Passion [poem, ekphrastic] 3
Ellaraine Lockie Poets at Any Price [poem] 7
Ellaraine Lockie Small Town New York City [poem] 10
Ellaraine Lockie The Hidden Life of a Hat [poem] 11
Ellaraine Lockie The Semantics of Suicide [poem] 13
Ellaraine Lockie & Alexis Rhone Fancher Sky Spoof [photo-poem] 3
Ellaraine Lockie & Phyllis Ross Pollage Number 92 [haiga hybrid: collage of poem and handmade paper + watercolor and embroidery] 1
Michael Loveday The Fireflies Around Us by Kendall Johnson [book review] 20
Skyler Lovelace & Robert L. Dean, Jr. Piatt Street, 1965 [photo-poem] 13
Linda Lowe The Deluge [microfiction] 23
Linda Lowe The Next Street Over [microfiction] 23
Linda Lowe On the Cul-de-sac [microfiction] 23
Kurt Luchs 2CV [poem] 20
Kurt Luchs Acid [poem] 12
Kurt Luchs Coffee [poem] 20
Kurt Luchs Confessions of a Tree-Hugger [flash fiction] 7
Kurt Luchs Crime Prevention in Wheaton, Illinois [poem] 20
Kurt Luchs Homunculus [poem, ekphrastic] 12
Kurt Luchs Inheritance [poem] 20
Kurt Luchs Lives of the Gods [prose poem] 7
Kurt Luchs Sweet Mystery of Life [microfiction] 12
Kurt Luchs The President of Nothing [flash fiction, humorous] 21
Bob Lucky 4th Grade Poetry Lesson: Haiku [poem] 10
Bob Lucky A Beautiful Cacophony but a Din Nonetheless [haibun] 10
Bob Lucky A Note to Edna [haibun] 1
Bob Lucky A Posthumous Lesson From My Mother [haibun] 7
Bob Lucky A Reminder [haibun] 21
Bob Lucky An Epistemological Aside [haibun] 14
Bob Lucky An Explanation of the Postcard From the Serengeti [prose poem] 23
Bob Lucky An Unexpected Message [poem] 20
Bob Lucky Are We There Yet? [haibun] 15
Bob Lucky The Armchair Daoist Channels the Mad Farmer [micro-haibun] 15
Bob Lucky The Armchair Daoist Gets Itchy Feet [haibun] 14
Bob Lucky At the Doctor’s Office [prose poem] 2
Bob Lucky Bar Talk [haibun] 11
Bob Lucky Beachside Café Observations [haibun] 9
Bob Lucky Charles D. Tarlton, Touching Fire: New and Selected Ekphrastic Prosimetra [review] 1
Bob Lucky Conspiracy [prose poem] 10
Bob Lucky Coping [haibun] 11
Bob Lucky Dear AI Abby [prose poem] 1
Bob Lucky Fame [haibun] 15
Bob Lucky The Grammar of Boredom [haibun] 11
Bob Lucky The History of The Shelled Pea Cookbook [haibun story] 12
Bob Lucky If every day’s a new day, [haibun] 4
Bob Lucky If I Could Find the Words to Say What I Feel, I Wouldn’t Talk So Much: Notes Towards a Manifesto [prose poem] 13
Bob Lucky In a Brown Study [haibun story] 2
Bob Lucky Intimations [haibun] 8
Bob Lucky The Light Becomes Us [prose poem, ekphrastic] 13
Bob Lucky Like a fly at the end of a frog’s tongue [haibun] 5
Bob Lucky the marble statue with his marble eyes [poem] 10
Bob Lucky The Meaning of It All [haibun] 19
Bob Lucky Missing [prose poem] 15
Bob Lucky My cousin and I [haibun story] 12
Bob Lucky Ode to Cobwebs, or, Maybe, Spiders, But Not the Cat [poem] 20
Bob Lucky The Old Man Tells Us Again [haibun story] 23
Bob Lucky On the Division of Labor [haibun] 22
Bob Lucky On the Geography of Love [prose poem] 19
Bob Lucky On the Importance of Make-up Sex [prose poem] 18
Bob Lucky On the Tenacity of Love [prose poem] 22
Bob Lucky One Does One’s Best [poem] 23
Bob Lucky One senryu [micro-poem: COVID-ku] 3
Bob Lucky One Version of Romance Gone Awry [haibun] 12
Bob Lucky Oneiric Event #3 [haibun] 10
Bob Lucky The Party [haibun] 10
Bob Lucky Possible Answers [poem] 11
Bob Lucky Preface to Canto IV of The Three Virgins of Rosenberg, Texas [tanka tale] 5
Bob Lucky Pussy Cat Survives Trip Through Airport X-Ray Machine [haibun] 3
Bob Lucky Running Out of Time [haibun] 18
Bob Lucky Sartorial Relapse [haibun] 6
Bob Lucky Scribble Away [haibun sequence] 13
Bob Lucky Shit (an adjective; a noun; a verb), a Sonnet [poem] 4
Bob Lucky Silence [tanka prose] 3
Bob Lucky Some Things That Should Be Borne in Mind [prose poem] 23
Bob Lucky Somewhere in Texas [haibun] 15
Bob Lucky Spring Is in the Fucking Air [haibun] 23
Bob Lucky Strangled Dreams [prose poem: prose ghazal] 15
Bob Lucky Swan Song [poem] 9
Bob Lucky This Is No Joke [prose poem] 15
Bob Lucky This Old Man, He Dreams Too [haibun] 16
Bob Lucky To the Elderly Parents Having Coffee With Their Offspring [haibun] 21
Bob Lucky Two Left Feet [haibun] 21
Bob Lucky Verisimilitude [haibun] 17
Bob Lucky Vox Clamantis in Deserto [prose poem] 7
Bob Lucky Waiting for Godot to Leave [haibun story] 17
Bob Lucky Why I Started Lifting Weights [microfiction] 9
Gavin Lucky apologies [prose poem] 7
Gavin Lucky notice [prose poem] 5
Gavin Lucky plateau [prose poem] 7
Gavin Lucky undertaking [prose poem] 6
Nancy Ludmerer After the Play [microfiction] 4
Nancy Ludmerer Messages From Messina [flash fiction] 14
Nancy Ludmerer Open Wide [flash fiction] 11
Nancy Ludmerer Quiet Enjoyment [microfiction] 4
Nancy Ludmerer You Will Meet a Handsome Stranger [microfiction] 4
Lumitone Photography How an Automat Works [photograph: vintage postcard, Horn & Hardart] 1
Hannah Lund A Prayer for Abe Lincoln [CNF] 5
Lorette C. Luzajic The Apocalypse of Sister Gertrude Morgan [CNF, ekphrastic] 16
Lorette C. Luzajic The Arrangement [microfiction] 23
Lorette C. Luzajic Billy, Don’t Lose My Number [prose poem, ekphrastic] 5
Lorette C. Luzajic The Bird Cage [flash fiction, ekphrastic] 18
Lorette C. Luzajic The Blood Diamond [prose poem, ekphrastic] 1
Lorette C. Luzajic Blue and Gold for Ukraine [painting, mixed-media] 18
Lorette C. Luzajic Carousel of Stories [painting, mixed media] 19
Lorette C. Luzajic Ceviche [prose poem, ekphrastic] 2
Lorette C. Luzajic The Chechia Makers [microfiction] 6
Lorette C. Luzajic Christmas in July [microfiction, ekphrastic] 13
Lorette C. Luzajic Clean [flash fiction, ekphrastic] 9
Lorette C. Luzajic Figment [prose poem, ekphrastic] 1
Lorette C. Luzajic First Bluegrass Lesson [prose poem, ekphrastic] 5
Lorette C. Luzajic Four Seasons, after lithographs by Alphonse Mucha [prose poem, ekphrastic] 14
Lorette C. Luzajic Four Visual Artworks: Borderline Marilyn; Let Yourself Forget How Your Story Began; Morning Glory; and Mysteries [paintings, collage, mixed-media] 2
Lorette C. Luzajic Frost [flash fiction] 23
Lorette C. Luzajic The Glass Swan [prose poem, ekphrastic] 9
Lorette C. Luzajic Gypsy Bisque [prose poem, ekphrastic] 1
Lorette C. Luzajic The Hairdresser [flash fiction] 15
Lorette C. Luzajic Hopscotch [prose poem, ekphrastic] 14
Lorette C. Luzajic Kenophobia [flash fiction] 15
Lorette C. Luzajic Las Ramblas [prose poem] 15
Lorette C. Luzajic Lucky Peace [prose poem] 8
Lorette C. Luzajic The Man Who Married a Pizza [flash fiction] 16
Lorette C. Luzajic Midnight Train [prose poem, ekphrastic] 13
Lorette C. Luzajic The Neon Raven [flash fiction, ekphrastic] 5
Lorette C. Luzajic Night Sax in Mexico City [prose poem, ekphrastic + painting, mixed-media] 9
Lorette C. Luzajic Patience, and Other Virtues That I Lack [CNF] 20X
Lorette C. Luzajic The Phantom of Flatwoods [microfiction] 8
Lorette C. Luzajic Pho [prose poem] 6
Lorette C. Luzajic The Poetry of Darkness [prose poem, ekphrastic] 12
Lorette C. Luzajic Promiscuity [microfiction, ekphrastic] 5
Lorette C. Luzajic The Psychic [prose poem, ekphrastic] 13
Lorette C. Luzajic Shamrock [microfiction] 23
Lorette C. Luzajic The Shawarma King [prose poem, ekphrastic] 9
Lorette C. Luzajic The Sirens [prose poem, ekphrastic] 2
Lorette C. Luzajic Swimming to Byzantium [painting] 8
Lorette C. Luzajic The Triaminic Man [flash fiction, ekphrastic] 14
Lorette C. Luzajic Twitter [prose poem, ekphrastic] 8
Lorette C. Luzajic The Unforgettable Fire [prose poem] 12
Lorette C. Luzajic Virgin [microfiction, ekphrastic, erotic] 18
Lorette C. Luzajic Vore [flash fiction] 23
 

 

Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Broken links?

Please contact: MacQuinterly [at] gmail [dot] com

Many thanks for taking time to help us keep this site up-to-date.

 
Copyright © 2019-2024 by MacQueen’s Quinterly and by those whose works appear here.
Logo and website designed and built by Clare MacQueen; copyrighted © 2019-2024.
⚡   Please report broken links to: MacQuinterly [at] gmail [dot] com   ⚡

At MacQ, we take your privacy seriously. We do not collect, sell, rent, or exchange your name and email address, or any other information about you, to third parties for marketing purposes. When you contact us, we will use your name and email address only in order to respond to your questions, comments, etc.