Author: Amy Souza

15 Sep

Lisa Pimental and Dani Harris

Lisa Pimental and Dani Harris

Lisa Pimental Response i weep in silence By Dani Harris Inspiration piece •    alone in the night •    i weep in silence •    brushing the warm tears •    from my face. ::   ::   :: •   …

 
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11 Sep

Norma Tennis and
Helen Whittaker

Norma Tennis and
Helen Whittaker

Norma Tennis Metamorphosis Response Helen Whittaker Inspiration piece Stepping out of the shower I catch a flash of turquoise in the steamed-up mirror. I wipe a clear patch. The towel falls to the floor like …

 
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11 Sep

Elizabeth Wexler
and Annie Gedicks

Elizabeth Wexler
and Annie Gedicks

Annie Gedicks On the Walls Inside Her Head Inspiration piece Sitting By Elizabeth (Betsy) Wexler Response She had an itch on her nose. Was she allowed to scratch it? she wondered …

 
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10 Sep

Michelle Wallace and Kim Dollar

Michelle Wallace and Kim Dollar

Michelle Wallace, “Friendship” Response …

 
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10 Sep

Tori Lane and Rachel Morton

Tori Lane and Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton Outcropping Inspiration piece Home By Tori Lane Response In the beige and white matter of the brain, I get it, but it refuses to settle, sink down the line of my spine, travel …

 
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09 Sep

Rusty Lynn and Quentin Paquette

Rusty Lynn and Quentin Paquette

Rusty Lynn Life at the Edges Response D. Quentin Paquette Inspiration piece The lights flicker, and there’s a shudder and there’s movement again, you seem to weigh a bit more …

 
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09 Sep

Helen Whittaker
and Norma Tennis

Helen Whittaker
and Norma Tennis

Norma Tennis Inspiration piece A teller of tales By Helen Whittaker Response ‘You’ll never guess who I had on the back of my camel last week,’ said Abubakar Karim Urabi, …

 
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09 Sep

Phillipp Mellon and Kathy Doran

Phillipp Mellon and Kathy Doran

Phillipp Mellon Response Mother Eagle By Kathy Doran Inspiration piece Wide wings a silhouette against the sky’s blue dome Pushing off from your nest as you scout food to bring home The …

 
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08 Sep

Amy Souza and Tom W. Lewis

Amy Souza and Tom W. Lewis

Amy Souza In the midst of life, we are in death Digitally manipulated photograph of found object sculpture (tree stump, garden detritus, wax crayons) Response Deerfly terrorizes By Tom Lewis Inspiration piece The …

 
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08 Sep

Adam Cornford and Annie Gedicks

Adam Cornford and Annie Gedicks

Annie Gedicks In the Valley of Unknowns, 2006 Inspiration piece . In the valley of unknowns the asking woman is queen For her the x’s and y’s form unsteady skeletal ladders into …

 
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08 Sep

Frank Gibson and DJ Asson

Frank Gibson and DJ Asson

Frank Gibson Response A Break in the River By DJ Asson Inspiration piece The woman’s pale blue summer dress matched the hair ribbon of the child walking by her side.  …

 
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08 Sep

Margot Eyring
and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Margot Eyring
and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Margot Eyring Collage Response Plunge By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Piece Recall: the deep waters Edge of cliff looking and then Anticipating the rush into the depths Poised, set, off into the steep fall Into …

 
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08 Sep

Annie Gedicks and Adam Cornford

Annie Gedicks and Adam Cornford

Annie Gedicks Response Fool’s Paradise By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece

 
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08 Sep

Nick Winkworth and Kristen Luft

Nick Winkworth and Kristen Luft

Nick Winkworth This Day Of Ideal Weather Response Annals of An Arctic Tern By Kristen Luft Inspiration piece Above the sedge-bearded inlet, on a mighty gust of wind headed easterly, there …

 
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07 Sep

Margaret Mair and Alisa Bliss

Margaret Mair and Alisa Bliss

Poetry by Alisa Bliss, original art by Margaret Mair

 
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07 Sep

Michelle Wallace and
Rus VanWestervelt

Michelle Wallace and
Rus VanWestervelt

Michelle Wallace “Flow” Response Alice Flows By …

 
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07 Sep

Kristi Conley and Marla Deschenes

Kristi Conley and Marla Deschenes

Kristi Conley Resilient Creatures Meet Technology Response Information Technology By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece The click of the keyboard fills the otherwise silent house This house without heart Without softest whispers to twitch …

 
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06 Sep

Grace Burns and David Berman

Grace Burns and David Berman

What’s Wrong with Right Now_(mp3) By David Berman Inspiration piece Above and Below By Grace Burns Response Party above – Bursts of burnt orange, indigo blue and glowing green illuminate the horizon with their …

 
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06 Sep

Jane Hulstrunk and Lauren B. Flax

Jane Hulstrunk and Lauren B. Flax

Jane Hulstrunk Response Hive By Lauren B. Flax Inspiration Piece They assured me that the hive was dead. With each strike of the sledgehammer, pieces of plaster fall away from …

 
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06 Sep

Marla Deschenes and Kristi Conley

Marla Deschenes and Kristi Conley

Kristi Conley Pianos Inspiration piece Forgotten Music By Marla Deschenes Response Forgotten music The casualties of faster, cooler cars Rock star hair, and screeching tight guitars. Casualties of nothing more Than popular and whim. The sunshine …

 
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06 Sep

Val Bonney and Amanda Whitener

Val Bonney and Amanda Whitener

Amanda Whitener Inspiration piece Forever Perfect Val Bonney Response There was a standard, before you left, of perfection surpassing all other degrees of beauty held to be perfect. Plump-cheeked flesh more downy-soft than any peach and rosebud lips; eyes …

 
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06 Sep

Frank Gibson and Neil Ellman

Frank Gibson and Neil Ellman

Frank Gibson Response Evolution By Neil Ellman Inspiration piece When there is no life In empty seas Desolation lives With possibilities Of single cells That multiply Becoming multitudes Becoming eyes and mouths From fins that swim To feet that …

 
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06 Sep

Dale Leffler and Greg Adkins

Dale Leffler and Greg Adkins

Greg Adkins Dale Leffler Response Piece Hand Over Hand So there it is, the challenge do I still have the hand strength, shoulder strength, the strength of will? Hand over hand, do …

 
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06 Sep

Greg Adkins and Dale Leffler

Greg Adkins and Dale Leffler

Greg Adkins Dale Leffler Inspiration Piece My Path My path has not been straight. I have stumbled over many stones, lost my way too often to share without shame and …

 
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06 Sep

Theresa Kulstad and
Jewel Beth Davis

Theresa Kulstad and
Jewel Beth Davis

Withdrawal By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece When the Blue Angel walked into the throne room to check on the Creator, he was concerned to see Him reclining …

 
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