Jenny Forrester and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya
“Fire Department”
Inspiration piece
Jenny Forrester
Response
My capacity for self-destruction has been breathtaking. I’ve found people who’ve helped me destroy myself, people with destructive ideas, violent behavior, …
Jennifer Fendya and Jenny Forrester
Jennifer Fendya
“Eat My Words”
Response
Jenny Forrester
Inspiration piece
I see you spreading bad news, misinformation, lies, because it’s cool to spread bad news, misinformation, and lies. You’re a …
Jewel Beth Davis
and Margi Smith
Margi Smith
Inspiration piece
Working the Magic
By Jewel Beth Davis
Response
Sylvester stood around a large table made of waterlilies and pearls many, many leagues under the ocean surrounded …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine
“Whispering Pines”
Response
The Best Christmas Tree Ever
By Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration piece
When Jimmy O’Hara decided on his Christmas tree at the outdoor lot at Home Depot, …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine
“Longshore, late in the season at 17”
Inspiration piece
Golf By His Lonesome
By Robert Haydon Jones
Response
Rob knew this golf course very well. It was close to …
Sarah Priestman and Marisa Bevington
Marisa Bevington
Inspiration piece
Resolute
By Sarah Priestman
Response
She’d waited before. Waited outside shul for her father, who’d refused to be rushed since racing from his burning Lithuanian village. …
Marisa Bevington and Sarah Priestman
Marisa Bevington
Response
A Visit from Mom
By Sarah Priestman
Inspiration piece
It’s an overcast Sunday; more Edinburgh than Arlington on what should be a sunny Memorial Day weekend. I …
Mary Lee Hahn
and Victoria Nessen
Victoria Nessen
“Finding Your Way”
Inspiration piece
Six Weeks One Summer
By Mary Lee Hahn
Response
1985
After the first job,
before the second degree.
Between.
Blue Highways
South — tobacco fields
West — Navajo Nation
North — …
Amy Souza and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Amy Souza
“Trail Closed”
Response
Covidian Dreams
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration piece
As the isolation and distancing young tree like grows
……and burgeons spitting flowers of solitary time into lysoled air
The …
Meg Max and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr
“The Elephant and the Jester”
Inspiration piece
A Visit to the Circus
By Meg Max
Response
It was easy to lead her home.
She was willing to accept peanuts
from you, …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
Everything Will Be O.K.
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response
The explosion of the isolation will soon come
…
Diane Mayr and Meg Max
Diane Mayr
“Terra in Cognita”
Response
Meg Max
Motherhood in Maps
Inspiration piece
Motherhood In Maps
Enjoy every second of this, here’s your map
a grocery list, forgotten.
They grow up so fast, here’s …
Channie Greenberg and Erika Cleveland
Erika Cleveland
“Night Vision”
Goauche and watercolor crayon in handmade book
Inspiration piece
Fecundity
By Channie Greenberg
Response
Amal, Carrie, Gertrude, Hilary, Joanne, Linda, Maribelle, Princess, and Suzanne became gravid at the …
Erika Cleveland and Channie Greenberg
Erika Cleveland
“A Select Group of La Casa Nostra
Wives Had Aspired to Take Down ISIS”
Goauche and watercolor crayon in handmade book
Response
Do Good or Feel Good
By Channie …
Donna JT Smith and Karen Schmitz
Karen Schmitz
“Simplicity”
Inspiration piece
The Legacy
By Donna JT Smith
Response
Any fabric she embraced
Succumbed to her control;
Every needle with her touch
Realized their starring role.
Thistledown would fill the air
Late-summer on …
Colleen Anderson and Dominic Mazzilli
Colleen Anderson
Response
Market Street
By Dominic Mazzilli
Inspiration piece
Market Street. The pulsating heart of town throbbed with wealth and an everlasting flow of people in, but not necessarily …
Chandra Achberger and Amy Moffitt
Chandra Achberger
Calm Chaos
Chemigraph, 5×7 on 1970s Kodak Photo Paper
Response
Home
By Amy Moffitt
Inspiration piece
All I ever see these days is the dust
and the fur, and some …
Amy Moffitt and Chandra Achberger
Chandra Achberger
Inspiration piece
Never
By Amy Moffitt
Response
You may forget me,
(you have, in so many ways
and so many times
forgotten me so completely)
but I will never forget you…
kneeling in …
Betty Nichols and Jenny Forrester
Betty Nichols
Response
Cherish
By Jenny Forrester
Inspiration piece
I cherish the Bluebird of My Happiness. Beyond myself and even beyond The River, The Writing, The Story of My Story. …
Jenny Forrester and Betty Nichols
Betty Nichols
Inspiration piece
I Am Six Souls
By Jenny Forrester
Response
I’m paper to your tree, grass to your leaves, monster to your color, lines and curves and blue. …
Robert Haydon Jones and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke
Inspiration piece
Crow
By Robert Haydon Jones
Response
Eustace had always been a Crow. He had also always been a male Human. Part of Eustace would always dangle. …
Jonathan Ottke and Robert Haydon Jones
Jonathan Ottke
Response
Jiggle Memorial
By Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration Piece
The idea of his wife suddenly dropping dead, say, just as she was leaning over toward him to ladle …
Kamika Cooper and Chandra Achberger
Chandra Achberger
Inspiration piece
“Will You Come?”
By Kamika Cooper
Response
The journey to Restoration Valley had taken two and a half days. The weather had been perfect: clear skies, …
Amy Moffitt and Lisa Pimental
Lisa Pimental
“345”
Inspiration piece
Why You Should Drift
By Amy Moffitt
Response
Look.
The lemon-yellow butterfly
has fluttered by and gently
returned and
dipped its head deep
into the morning glory blossom
again, and again.
Listen.
The bird …
Rusty Lynn and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Rusty Lynn
“Bubbling Sea”
Response
Listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Captain, and thinking……
Take This Stranger From My Boat
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration piece
Dreaming of drifting in a …