Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Greg Lippert They Shoot Horses, Don’t They Response The Derby By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration Jimmy O’Hara had bet more than fifty Kentucky Derbies from afar. However, he had never seen …
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert Reflection Inspiration piece WW11 By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy O’Hara was a couple of months shy of turning four when World War 11 began about three weeks before …
Jules Rolfe and Seth Leamer
Jules Rolfe and Seth Leamer
Seth Leamer Still Still Life Inspiration Piece Faceless Independence by Jules Rolfe Response Daddy, I thought you created me to be small. A small and faceless doll to serve masters who only craved …
Jenny Forrester and Jane Hulstrunk
Jenny Forrester and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response You should’ve seen me when I first bloomed. All the colors and the strength against the storm. I had it all. And then …
Seth Leamer and Jules Rolfe
Seth Leamer and Jules Rolfe
Seth Leamer “Wayward Bound” Acrylic 10″ x 16″ Response Feel Fetter (Found Poem) By Jules Rolfe Inspiration piece System clear. Conversation choices Far is the same time next year I repeat. We both provide choices. The A …
Holly Hinkle and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Holly Hinkle and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Holly Hinkle “Surfing the Internet, Drinking Coffee on a Dreary Rainy Morning” Oil, 12″ x 12″ Response Slide Journey By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slide journey from the tawdry to the …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “Aerial: Take No Prisoners” Response Reconciliation Baby By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece A misshapen attempt at reconciliation Brought you here I can’t possibly tell you this, your existence Borne of not …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Another Door Opens” Inspiration piece One Door Closes By Lisa Nielsen Response Parched tobacco shreds crumble in my little fingers as I rummage through handbags, carefully translating loose …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Holly Hinkle
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Holly Hinkle
Holly Hinkle Inspiration piece Woman Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Piece What anger in these eyes or perhaps indignation not a first world problem me thinks her shoulders suggest an argument that is weighty a …
Melisa Peterson Lewis and Channie Greenberg
Melisa Peterson Lewis and Channie Greenberg
Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece Baby Bird By Melisa Peterson Lewis Response Poppy’s hands cupped the naked baby bird as it rolled, unable to brace itself in her shifting grip. Her …
Channie Greenberg and Melisa Peterson Lewis
Channie Greenberg and Melisa Peterson Lewis
Channie Greenberg Response Café Lizard By Melisa Peterson Lewis Inspiration piece It was a hot summer. Rust-colored rocks and dirt met dark green cactuses and brush. Sal’s staff enjoyed the …
Anne Nowselski and Amy Souza
Anne Nowselski and Amy Souza
Anne Nowselski Response District Taco By Amy Souza Inspiration piece We got tacos at 7 and by 9 asked, Is this it? The dog slept on the floor, back pressed against …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Detritus Has No Soul” Response I Stood, Longing By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece I stood on the edge past the yellow line and the train’s rush daring your anger to push …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “My Rock and My Redeemer” Inspiration piece Loneliness on a Bitter Sunday By Lisa Nielsen Response I, drifted between gravestones and angel statues, fingering the carved wings; my chest stretched by …
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Greg Lippert “Summer of Jimmy” Inspiration piece The Good Humor Man By Robert Haydon Jones Response There were 83 children under 16 living in 17 houses on Jimmy O’Hara’s lane. Jimmy …
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert “You Don’t Know What Sad Is” Response Nelson at Spithead By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Little, 5-year-old, Jimmy O’Hara was about to be murdered and there was nothing …
Cathy Stevens Pratt and Kamika Cooper
Cathy Stevens Pratt and Kamika Cooper
Cathy Stevens Pratt Response Assumptions By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece don’t make assumptions about how i am feeling based on how i look for all that you know i have become hallowed out empty yet …
Lisa Kilhefner and Jackie Wood
Lisa Kilhefner and Jackie Wood
Jackie Wood Inspiration piece Pick up by Lisa Kilhefner Response Pick me, pick me, pick me Pick me up Pick up, pick up, pick up and go. Pick me up and don’t put me …
Jackie Wood and Lisa Kilhefner
Jackie Wood and Lisa Kilhefner
Jackie Wood Response Knockout By Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece I don’t fight fair. I don’t fight at all. Once I tried but the punching bag looked more like a water balloon, and one hit from him was …
Amy Souza and Anne Nowselski
Amy Souza and Anne Nowselski
Anne Nowselski Inspiration piece Butterfly By Amy Souza Response Butterflies don’t worry about attachment When they wrestle away the cocoon Soar wispy but not frail The woman who discovered their life cycle Was ridiculed …
Darice Shatteen-Jones and Evelyn Ihrke
Darice Shatteen-Jones and Evelyn Ihrke
The Galaxy and The Fall by Evelyn Ihrke Response Our Fated Fall written by Darice Shatteen-Jones Inspiration Piece I am a climber Epicurean by nature And also by choice Thick, curvy, thewy …
Evelyn Ihrke and Darice Shatteen-Jones
Evelyn Ihrke and Darice Shatteen-Jones
Horizon from Angola to Canada photographed by Evelyn Ihrke Inspiration Piece Sonje Lavi written by Darice Shatteen-Jones Response We landed here, back here I suppose, on a Sankofa vessel. …
Diane Mayr and Janet Buell
Diane Mayr and Janet Buell
Janet Buell Ravens in Snow watercolor and colored pencils on watercolor paper. 6” x 8” Inspiration piece Diane Mayr Ravens in Snow: three cherita Response Ravens in Snow: three cherita we humans must …
Jules Rolfe and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jules Rolfe and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jules Rolfe Response piece Short Poem Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece I love the short poem It draws the picture Sculpts the moment Captures the feeling… Leaving beauty, awe, tears or chuckles In its wake I …
Urmilla Khanna and Darice Jones
Urmilla Khanna and Darice Jones
The Match outer photographs and collage by Darice Shatteen-Jones (model: Teondre Newman) Response Excerpt from Boundaries of the Wind a memoir by Urmilla Khanna Inspiration Piece The following week, …