Author: Amy Souza

10 Dec

Sandy Coleman and Tyler Brewington

Sandy Coleman and Tyler Brewington

“Tropical Dream” By Sandy Coleman Response Hawaii By Tyler Brewington Inspiration piece In the language there is life, in the language there is death. I wanted an ambitious renovation of the …

 
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10 Dec

Ray Sharp and Michele Thomas

Ray Sharp and Michele Thomas

Response Ray Sharp, poet The Compassion of Robin Red-breast Robin Red-breast, kindly bird who sang when Jesus preached The Word Alit upon the cross of wood the day he did his …

 
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09 Dec

Michele Thomas and Ray Sharp

Michele Thomas and Ray Sharp

Response Michele Thomas, Artist “Swansong penultimate” by Michele Thomas  Inspiration   Ray Sharp, Poet   I dream you drenched in river light I dream you drenched in river light hazy         opalescent         matutinal flickery moth …

 
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08 Dec

Amy Souza and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Amy Souza and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Amy Souza Response Wherever You Are By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece You left a box of kittens. I brought it home with me. I bottle-fed those kittens and loved them tenderly.   I …

 
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28 Sep

Irene Plax and Tora Estep

Irene Plax and Tora Estep

Tora Estep Sumptuous Bird, oil on canvas Inspiration piece   Irene Plax Response Ms. Marimba was sent in to be the Kindergarten co-teacher, but unfortunately for her, Miss D was there …

 
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26 Sep

Tora Estep and Irene Plax

Tora Estep and Irene Plax

Tora Estep Response   Gain Muscle! Twelve Workouts for a Slimmer, More Energetic You! 5 Workday Meals to get you through the week! It was too early for Allison …

 
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26 Sep

Gabby Holden
and Hildie S. Block

Gabby Holden
and Hildie S. Block

Gabby Holden Response (Click for larger image) N.O.M.E. By Hildie Block Inspiration piece “That was the best game we’ve ever had!” Her eyes were shining as the setting sun …

 
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25 Sep

Nicholas Clark and Laura Shovan

Nicholas Clark and Laura Shovan

La Epifania Mojada (Click link for WAV file) By Nicholas Clark Response Feel What I’m Singing Found Poem By Laura Shovan Inspiration piece Someone asked me the other day, they said, …

 
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23 Sep

Sandy Coleman and Laura Shovan

Sandy Coleman and Laura Shovan

Sandy Coleman “Elsewhere” Response The Map By Laura Shovan Inspiration piece She emptied her son’s backpack after the bus put up its wheelchair lift and drove away, after she rolled him up the ramp …

 
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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 …

 
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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 …

 
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06 Jul

Irene Plax and Rob Hunter

Irene Plax and Rob Hunter

Rob Hunter “Doors” Inspiration piece Irene Plax Response Two police officers came to the door looking for my wife. They were smug but in our community people respect the cops, …

 
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12 Jun

Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones

Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones

Matthew Levine “Come Here, Go Away” Response Ruination By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Staying awake isn’t easy. You can do your life awake or asleep – the number of days …

 
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12 Jun

Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine

Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine

Matthew Levine “View From a Place I Knew” Inspiration piece The Blindness of Yearning By Robert Haydon Jones Response Gloria Pagano, a squat, morose, acne-scarred, single mother in her early thirties …

 
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04 Jun

Sandy Coleman and Claire Guyton

Sandy Coleman and Claire Guyton

  Sandy Coleman “Vanishing Act” Response Like the Chicken She Is By Claire Guyton Inspiration piece You, there, the lady in the pale green…. Yes, you! Come on down! Instead I sat down …

 
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03 Jun

Sukia and Helen Lewis

Sukia and Helen Lewis

Sukia Response Getting the Job Done By Helen Lewis Inspiration piece 4:30 pm Tony sits behind the executive desk in his office, perched on the edge of the high-backed leather chair. …

 
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02 Jun

Tora Estep and Sharon Deegan

Tora Estep and Sharon Deegan

Tora Estep “In the Garden” Response Sharon Deegan Inspiration piece Are you ready to face the feast my soul companion? Pull off the boots made for silent marching through the night? Well …

 
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02 Jun

Amy Souza and
Sean Callahan

Amy Souza and
Sean Callahan

Sean Callahan “Head Full of Bees” Inspiration piece Even Bees Dream of Paris By Amy Souza Response Truth is plural, you said. My truth, your truth, theirs. All of us are right, but …

 
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17 Mar

Neil Ellman and
Jack Hernandez

Neil Ellman and
Jack Hernandez

Jack Hernandez “A Song of Endurance” Inspiration piece My Lonely Bones By Neil Ellman Response Smother me under your weight. Drink me in. My lonely bones cannot escape. My eyes cannot forget your face. Why have yours forgotten mine? Why do …

 
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28 Feb

Ray Sharp and Sandy Coleman

Ray Sharp and Sandy Coleman

Sandy Coleman Inspiration piece Ray Sharp Response Calypso By Ray Sharp Cerulean blue hat in a tangerine sky, My pussy cat my chocolate cream pie. Orange sliced fat-a-ways segments clock the hours, Chopin polonaise slow dance …

 
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26 Feb

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman Response piece Beyond the Horizon Mixed media on canvas Ray Sharp Inspiration piece BIRDS There must be birds beyond the horizon. We feel their wings beating in the wind, hear their murmured conversations roll …

 
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14 Dec

Neil Ellman and
Nick Winkworth

Neil Ellman and
Nick Winkworth

Nick Winkworth Inspiration piece When the Celebration Ends By Neil Ellman Response We littered the streets with broken glass remnants of the night before the eve of a holiday none of us could name making …

 
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14 Dec

Susan Gordon and
Annie Perconti

Susan Gordon and
Annie Perconti

Annie Perconti Inspiration piece On Seeing By Susan Gordon Response I am ravished; I am without eyes, my hair is hard-wired to strike. From a distance I am a white seductive, come-hither …

 
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13 Dec

MM Panas and JoAnn Moore

MM Panas and JoAnn Moore

“Paradise Lost” MM Panas Acrylic, charcoal on canvas 24″x48″ Response   Shadows of Decay By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece   Like recurring mold on the roof’s eave that creeps houseward,   symptoms of decay are everywhere. Non-native ivy suffocates   the …

 
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13 Dec

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman Letting Go Response Shades of Gray By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece I wrote you a poem in a small and even script words like bird tracks in wet sand but I inked them …

 
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