Author: Amy Souza

05 Sep

Elizabeth Cordes
and Gwynne Mason

Elizabeth Cordes
and Gwynne Mason

Gwynne Mason He Said He Was No Longer Interested In Me Handmade plant fiber papers made and decorated by the artist, mounted on a handmade silk tapestry, mixed media. Inspiration Piece Sea …

 
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05 Sep

Lauren B. Flax and Jane Hulstrunk

Lauren B. Flax and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration Piece Lauren B. Flax Response Piece Flight There are so many ways of taking flight Paper wings turn glassy in the glare of summer day Silky wings fold thickly …

 
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05 Sep

Neil Ellman and Frank Gibson

Neil Ellman and Frank Gibson

Castle with Sun By Frank Gibson Inspiration Piece A Goddess Once By Neil Ellman Response Where a fortress stood Beside the alien sea Arrogant towers Turrets pointing To the sky As if in prayer Defend their gods And …

 
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05 Sep

Carl Rauscher and BR Belletryst

Carl Rauscher and BR Belletryst

Woodland Sprite By BR Belletryst Inspiration Piece Sunset By Carl Rauscher Response She appeared in my room after the nurse departed and sat on the edge of the bed, her …

 
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05 Sep

Phyllis Weissman
and BR Belletryst

Phyllis Weissman
and BR Belletryst

Photograph By BR Belletryst Inspiration Piece For the Love of Liana By Phyllis Weissman Response Liana stood on the deck of her beautiful home waiting for the love of her life, …

 
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05 Sep

Maureen O’Donnell
and Christina Brockett

Maureen O’Donnell
and Christina Brockett

View Through The Geraniums By Christina Brockett Inspiration Piece Perspective By Maureen O’Donnell Response Piece Jack The dinghy rocks gently under his weight.  Jack nestles into the small cockpit, meant for one …

 
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04 Sep

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Janet Yandik

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Janet Yandik

Janet Yandik Inspiration piece Vitreous Recollections: That Summer’s Glaze By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Familiar delight, miniature cyncephalus, Who expertly sidestepped a butterfly-looking leaf, Amidst further crunchy, colorful tree debris, While scuffling new …

 
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04 Sep

Kim Dollar and Michelle Wallace

Kim Dollar and Michelle Wallace

Michelle Wallace Inspiration piece More Than My Parts By Kim Dollar Response I’ve been bitten and I’ve been slapped Held more children than fit in my lap Had my belly round and …

 
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04 Sep

Jewel Beth Davis and Theresa Kulstad

Jewel Beth Davis and Theresa Kulstad

What the flak am I doing on this Lude-forsaken planet?

 
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04 Sep

Douglas Pugh and Janet Yandik

Douglas Pugh and Janet Yandik

Janet Yandik Inspiration piece Painted lady By Douglas Pugh Response you are the quiet one hanging in the background at summers party sipping and dipping where nectars melt hides best no raucous trills like karaoke jays, no …

 
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04 Sep

Jayme Cawthern
and Amanda Miska

Jayme Cawthern
and Amanda Miska

Jayme Cawthern, Untitled-oil pastel, graphite & gouache on bristol Response Piece Blasphemy by Amanda Miska Inspiration Piece If we are created in God’s image, does that make God a masochist? Because …

 
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04 Sep

Amanda Whitener and Donna Gagnon

Amanda Whitener and Donna Gagnon

Amanda Whitener Girl with Birds Inspiration piece An Examination of Amanda Whitener’s “Girl with Birds” in Words by Donna Gagnon Response Examination #1 The sky was full of crows. Normally, my mother could …

 
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04 Sep

Amanda Miska and Jayme Cawthern

Amanda Miska and Jayme Cawthern

Jayme Cawthern, untitled Inspiration Piece The Bibliophile Files by Amanda Miska Response A conversation from the floor of a living room that looks more like a small library, every wall …

 
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04 Sep

Myfanwy Fox and Kapulco

Myfanwy Fox and Kapulco

Twiggy Moon by Kapulco inspiration piece The Moon’s Names by Myfanwy Fox response The moon has many guises – silver, harvest, man-in-the, full, new – and as many stories, folktales. There are no evil …

 
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04 Sep

Alisa Bliss and Margaret Mair

Alisa Bliss and Margaret Mair

A Beach Story Above, the inspiration piece by Margaret Mair. Following, the inspired response by Alisa Bliss: Castles in the Sand:  Beach in Three Perspectives She comes to the …

 
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04 Sep

Christina Brockett
and Maureen O’Donnell

Christina Brockett
and Maureen O’Donnell

Shades of Gray By Christina Brockett Response The Point By Maureen O’Donnell Inspiration Piece Thank god, it was finally raining.  Mom’s mutter floated through the narrow channel between kitchen and the …

 
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04 Sep

Christina Brockett
and Donna Kendall

Christina Brockett
and Donna Kendall

Fractured Union By Christina Brockett Response Beneath the Ailing Cypress By Donna Kendall Inspiration Piece In the morning, before the shots rang out, Giordi Baldini told his wife, Chiara, that he …

 
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04 Sep

Cheryl Leibovitz and
Indrina Kanth

Cheryl Leibovitz and
Indrina Kanth

Cheryl Leibovitz Blue Flowers Response Untitled By Indrina Kanth Inspiration piece Nia received the note in the mail. It was from her stepmother, and it was just that – a note …

 
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04 Sep

Janet Yandik and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Janet Yandik and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Janet Yandik Response An Adolescent’s Didactic Lament: Round Pegs, Square Holes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece You teach no circles, explain no diameters, work radii-free, While my growth’s never a …

 
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04 Sep

Quentin Paquette and Rusty Lynn

Quentin Paquette and Rusty Lynn

Rusty Lynn 7 come 11 Inspiration Piece To The Country By Quentin Paquette Response Those clouds are dark like a curtain ahead.  Looks like it might rain. (“Rain?  Really?  I don’t think …

 
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04 Sep

Janet Yandik and Douglas Pugh

Janet Yandik and Douglas Pugh

Janet Yandik Response Winter fog on the hill By Douglas Pugh Inspiration piece Spectred farewells  hang between the boughs winter leaking slowly back to it’s skies misted in reluctant parting trailing slick where lingering grip clung onto gnarled old …

 
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04 Sep

Dani Harris and Lisa Pimental

Dani Harris and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Pimental the portal Mixed media on canvas Inspiration piece this is the portal and the place that is always here, fitting the wings you wear but cannot as yet …

 
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04 Sep

Donna Kendall and
Christina Brockett

Donna Kendall and
Christina Brockett

Christina Brockett Silent Witness Inspiration Piece Abiding Venus By Donna Kendall Response From where she’s poised in her Third Age, Glimpses into her heart, Confessions scrawled, memories sketched, Vows consumed, depleted, gone – Tiny laughter, …

 
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04 Sep

Rus VanWestervelt
and Michelle Wallace

Rus VanWestervelt
and Michelle Wallace

Michelle Wallace Inspiration Piece Rus VanWestervelt More Than Words Response “I know you keep saying you are nothing, but I find that very hard to believe.” They rode on the subway …

 
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04 Sep

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Gated Summer Inspiration piece . Beyond the Locked Gate By Annmarie Lockhart Response . You always went first through every opened door, so tell me about that last one, the one that’s locked …

 
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