Laura Shovan and Nicholas Clark
The next year (Click link for WAV file) By Nicholas Clark Inspiration piece Confluence of the Leaves After “The Next Year,” Nicholas Clark By Laura Shovan Response In autumn rain a pair of …
23 Sep
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Diane Mayr
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr Inspiration “Murphy Fix” Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Response “Taking Stock” Taking Stock Dubble Bubble! Lollipop! Junior Mints! Milky Way! Reeses! Skittles! M & Ms! It’s Halloween! My favorite day! Treasure fills our fuzzy rug. Tootsie Rolls march …
23 Sep
Amy Souza and Jack Hernandez
Amy Souza and Jack Hernandez
Jack Hernandez Time for Song Inspiration piece On the occasion of walking my dog in the early morning rain By Amy Souza Response I’m looking for a sign. Almost always for …
23 Sep
Amanda C. Brainerd and Marla Deschenes
Amanda C. Brainerd and Marla Deschenes
Amanda C. Brainerd Response piece Inspiration Piece Commute by Marla Deschenes Naked fingers of the trees Reaching for the sky Aflame with the Sunrise Their cars rush by me As I sit in the death …
23 Sep
Nikolas Lotze and Jane Hulstrunk
Nikolas Lotze and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Sinew & Granite Nikolas Lotze Response Reflections distorted by refraction’s kept away and cold by granite stature only existing in varying degrees of a stranger’s actuality, using moth to extinguish flame; lest we …
23 Sep
Tony Joyce and Steve Safaty
Tony Joyce and Steve Safaty
Steve Safaty Inspiration piece Tony Joyce Response Waiting . . . The time is here, And the time is now For you to come to me Ready for your setting son To be …
23 Sep
Diane Mayr and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Diane Mayr and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Diane Mayr Heat Response Campfire By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece Flames are horses nickering flickering quickly over ash. Sparks in dark new horses gallop manes and tails aflash. Riding night so strong so bright they canter into coal. Leaving smoky cinders leaving hoof prints on …
23 Sep
Helen Lewis and Pharoah Bolding
Helen Lewis and Pharoah Bolding
Pharoah Bolding Inspiration piece Dead man falling By Helen Lewis Response Angelo’s going to die. Of course, we’re all going to die some day; it’s just a matter of when and …
23 Sep
Gary Hewitt
and Lisa Kilhefner
Gary Hewitt
and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Friend By Gary Hewitt Response Shoes are never the best of pillows. Graham straightens and rubs the back of his neck. His head throbs from dehydration. …
22 Sep
Marcela Horness and Nicholas Clark
Marcela Horness and Nicholas Clark
Marcela Horness Epiphany Acrylic on canvas Response (In)decision By Nicholas Clark Inspiration piece You are a milky haze of stars… …..an old, weathered bike chain a familiar slowing, gears grinding, choking on decayed teeth resisting movement, …
22 Sep
Julia Trimboli and Lisa Leibow
Julia Trimboli and Lisa Leibow
Julia Trimboli Response Story Excerpt By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Inspiration piece On the top deck of the ferry, wind whipped through Brad’s hair as he sat on a bench, recalling …
22 Sep
Mary-Antonia Lombardi
and Lisa Nielsen
Mary-Antonia Lombardi
and Lisa Nielsen
Mary-Antonia Lombardi Letting Go Acrylic on paper Response What Once Saved Me By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece You were a boarder jetstreaming on the milky way, valiantly negotiating tributaries of the universe for the best …
22 Sep
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
and Liz Mathews
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
and Liz Mathews
Liz Mathews iPad Art Rage Experiment Inspiration piece Wild Horses By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Response Across the terracotta sands they flash — part wind, part dream. Black manes and tails etching the …
22 Sep
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
and Ana Goncalves
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
and Ana Goncalves
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Super Nova (Nikon Coolpix 4300 photo enhanced with GIMP) Response The Universe Within Us By Ana Goncalves Inspiration piece Within you I stand, And within, You stand before …
22 Sep
Quentin Paquette
and Caroline A. Evey
Quentin Paquette
and Caroline A. Evey
Caroline A. Evey Inspiration piece Cemetery By Quentin Paquette Response I’d gotten up and headed out just like I do every work day. Which is to say that’s what time …
22 Sep
Fiona Avocado
and Marla Deschenes
Fiona Avocado
and Marla Deschenes
Fiona Avocado Response (Click images to enlarge) Geese Marla Deschenes Inspiration Piece But who else will cry for the geese That the truck ran over in its haste To get to wherever it …
22 Sep
Caroline A. Evey
and Quentin Paquette
Caroline A. Evey
and Quentin Paquette
Caroline A. Evey this lesson i pledge Response Writing on Hands — First Scar By Quentin Paquette Inspiration piece I think it’s odd that it’s still there. It’s especially visible in the …
22 Sep
Caroline A. Evey and Matt Lurie
Caroline A. Evey and Matt Lurie
Doorways and Discoveries By Caroline A. Evey Response ON DISCOVERIES By Matt Lurie Inspiration When I see the parakeet bundled like a bouqet in the 2 pm parking lot I put down my business cards lay them …
22 Sep
Melissa Pasanen and Mary Lucas
Melissa Pasanen and Mary Lucas
Melissa Pasanen Old Highway iphone photo treated in CameraPlus Response A Summer Morning in Michigan By Mary Lucas Inspiration piece The summers of my childhood were spent in Michigan. We would drive …
22 Sep
Rachel Morton and Claire Guyton
Rachel Morton and Claire Guyton
Rachel Morton Love Hurts Clay Response Love with a Limp By Claire Guyton Inspiration piece At a table too small to hold them, a man and a woman are arguing about flying …
22 Sep
Ruth Stacey and
Brian MacDonald
Ruth Stacey and
Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Ruth Stacey Response Apricot is the colour of a setting ball of flame, my beloved, and the fruit can be tasted this way: follow the wet footprints on the tiles, they …
22 Sep
Ruth Stacey and Laura Shovan
Ruth Stacey and Laura Shovan
Ruth Stacey Response Feel What I’m Singing Found Poem By Laura Shovan Inspiration piece Someone asked me the other day, they said, Etta, you know you had a rollercoaster of a life. But if …
22 Sep
Nina Simon and Brian MacDonald
Nina Simon and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Gathering By Nina Simon Response Piece There’s a spark in the room tonight. Its glow casts me into the shadows of invisibility sealing my wine-coated lips into silence as …
21 Sep
Liz Mathews and
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Liz Mathews and
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Liz Mathews Response Finale By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Inspiration piece The roll of waves over the rocks created the sound of applause. A silent figure stood like a lone …
21 Sep
Matt Lurie and Caroline A. Evey
Matt Lurie and Caroline A. Evey
Caroline A. Evey Inspiration piece Wood and Clay By Matt Lurie Response In a school for the doomed, a woman faces a window. Someone slips a note beneath a desk. …
Monthly Archives: September 2012