Author: Amy Souza

13 Apr

Barbara Bever and Sukia

Barbara Bever and Sukia

Sukia Inspiration piece Packing for the Future By Barbara Bever Response The pain in my back, the crick in my neck and the pinch in my shoulder are begging me …

 
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09 Apr

Rusty Lynn and Marla Deschenes

Rusty Lynn and Marla Deschenes

Rusty Lynn Night Visions Mixed media on paper, 11 x 14 inches Response Crickets By Marla Deschenes Inspiration Piece The quiet is broken only by the sound of crickets and the cars going …

 
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09 Apr

Agnieszka Rawa and Yolanda Palis

Agnieszka Rawa and Yolanda Palis

Yolanda Palis Inspiration Piece Truth By Agnieszka Rawa Response Smothered by words Submissively silent Imprisoned inside Seemingly frail And while they speak of another You hide in my belly Weakened by lies Veiled in confusion Losing ground Defying the …

 
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09 Apr

Yolanda Palis and Agnieszka Rawa

Yolanda Palis and Agnieszka Rawa

Yolanda Palis Response The Time Warrior By  Agnieszka Rawa Inspiration piece In the Sierras out West A giant still stands From times prehistoric With strong massing limbs Of rust-reddish bark And scars in its armor From …

 
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03 Apr

Lee Transue and
Lisa Marie Basile

Lee Transue and
Lisa Marie Basile

God of War by Lee Transue (MP3) Response God of War By Lisa Marie Basile Inspiration piece I am Mixcoatl, do you not see? Where your tongue travels up into my red and …

 
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30 Mar

Sheri Leseberg and Paula Whitacre

Sheri Leseberg and Paula Whitacre

Sheri Leseberg Response The First Week of Life By Paula Whitacre Inspiration piece “In my new robe this morning – someone else.” —Basho, 1644-1694 This someone is a mother who has just given birth. She …

 
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30 Mar

Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Lauren Silberman

Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Lauren Silberman

Lauren Silberman Inspiration piece Destiny By Cheryl Somers Aubin Response She looks at the light trying to force its way into her room around the shades, strands of light like …

 
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30 Mar

Frann Haykin and Vita Sims

Frann Haykin and Vita Sims

Vita Sims Inspiration piece A Dream Accomplished By Frann Haykin Response She switched off the car engine, And gazed out at the view. Drawing close to the mountains Was what she’d come here …

 
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27 Mar

Maureen O’Donnell and Brian MacDonald

Maureen O’Donnell and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece The long last train By Maureen O’Donnell Response She sat on a bench at the train station, long neck stretched like an ostrich’s: upright now, ready …

 
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27 Mar

Kumani Gantt and Gabriel Shanks

Kumani Gantt and Gabriel Shanks

Gabriel Shanks Inspiration Piece Kumani Gantt Response What Shakti Said to an Expanding Universe In the next adaptation pigs will fly. I promise you that. Ah Shiva, don’t you remember – something …

 
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27 Mar

Amy Souza and
Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Amy Souza and
Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Amy Souza Acrylic and tulle on paper Response Lessons From a Squirrel By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Inspiration piece Ms. Ward asks, “Do you know why you’re here?” Cody removes her MP3 earbuds …

 
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27 Mar

Amy Souza and Adam Cornford

Amy Souza and Adam Cornford

Amy Souza Acrylic, charcoal, and tinfoil on canvas Response Sardine Machine (Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest) By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece They shoal in sweep formation, swarming gleam with tail-flick wave through smooth …

 
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27 Mar

Vita Sims and Lauren B. Flax

Vita Sims and Lauren B. Flax

Vita Sims Sunrise Acrylic, 16 x 20 inches Response Untitled By Lauren Flax Inspiration Piece This love, a roughly knitted blanket tangles between my bare feet as I lay awake and unravel like a lopsided …

 
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27 Mar

Vita Sims and Frann Haykin

Vita Sims and Frann Haykin

Vita Sims Relationships Watercolor on yupo, 20″ x 26″ Response Touch And Go (A poetic tale) By Frann Haykin Inspiration piece Sometimes we write a story; like the daylight beyond a door. Where bonded …

 
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27 Mar

Lisa Reutzel and Cara Mayo

Lisa Reutzel and Cara Mayo

Cara Mayo Inspiration Piece Summerhill Park By Lisa Reutzel Response I was only seven years old when Momma died, but I still remember the last time I saw her, standing …

 
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27 Mar

Paula Whitacre and Sheri Leseberg

Paula Whitacre and Sheri Leseberg

Sheri Leseberg Inspiration piece Paris By Paula Whitacre Response Her: Madame de Simoneau. Thin-necked, tall, aristocratic. A young widow whose husband was killed in a motorboat accident when they lived …

 
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27 Mar

Dale Leffler and Rosemary Luckett

Dale Leffler and Rosemary Luckett

Rosemary Luckett Held Inspiration Piece Held By Dale Leffler Response I was held in your loving eyes at the very beginning, my genesis. I was watched over as I developed, failed, fallen …

 
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26 Mar

Jay Smith and Matthew Taylor

Jay Smith and Matthew Taylor

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18 Mar

Cassie Premo Steele
and Jim Doran

Cassie Premo Steele
and Jim Doran

Jim Doran Bottles, Books and a Bed Detail of Inspiration Piece This test is over By Cassie Premo Steele Response Three most dangerous things for a woman: bottles, books, and a …

 
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18 Mar

Nick Winkworth
and D. Quentin Paquette

Nick Winkworth
and D. Quentin Paquette

Nick Winkworth At the Still Point Response At the Still Point By D. Quentin Paquette Inspiration Piece “Physics, really? I never would have guessed it.” What’s that supposed to mean? “I don’t …

 
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18 Mar

D. Quentin Paquette
and Nick Winkworth

D. Quentin Paquette
and Nick Winkworth

Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece Bedford, Take Two By D. Quentin Paquette Response Since the early morning, I’ve been sitting by the front window. Winter light makes it through leafless …

 
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18 Mar

Cyndle Plaisted Rials
and Michelle Wallace

Cyndle Plaisted Rials
and Michelle Wallace

Michelle Wallace Tree of Life in Deep Ellum Mixed media Inspiration Piece The Air Between the Leaves is the Spirit By Cyndle Plaisted Rials Response The tree of life appeared in outline …

 
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18 Mar

Nick Winkworth and Amy Moffitt

Nick Winkworth and Amy Moffitt

Nick Winkworth Response Para D By Amy Moffitt Inspiration Piece It is amazing how things change. I know it’s not amazing to other people… to other people the day to day to …

 
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18 Mar

Amy Moffitt and Nick Winkworth

Amy Moffitt and Nick Winkworth

Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece Carnival By Amy Moffitt Response There’s a promise in every set of flashing, twinkling, colorful lights. There’s someone saying: “Follow me”, past the flickering shapes, through the haloed glow. There’s …

 
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15 Mar

Susan Kerr and Jewel Beth Davis

Susan Kerr and Jewel Beth Davis

Susan Kerr Response Talking With the Dead By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration Piece My friend Janna and I talk about our mutual friend Peter all the time. He’s dead. “Can you …

 
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