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Author: Kamika Cooper

Kamika Cooper enjoys weaving ideas, hopes, fears, and her most vivid dreams into works of greatly exaggerated fiction. Her poems and stories often find women and love as the focal point. She is an avid reader, and her favorite authors include the late Octavia E. Butler and Taylor Stevens. She is a Washington, D.C. native currently living with her wife in Baltimore County Maryland.

02 Mar

Darice Jones and Kamika Cooper

Kamika Cooper “earlybyrd” digital photography Inspiration piece Morning Twilight By Darice Shatteen-Jones Response I woke up at dark thirty (as we call the deep night in some parts of our African diaspora) …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 40
Tags: darice shatteen-jones, digital photography, earlybyrd, Kamika Cooper, morning twilight, spark 40
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02 Mar

Kamika Cooper and Darice Jones

Kamika Cooper “currentsurfer” digital photography Response This Time Around By Darice Shatteen-Jones Inspiration Piece I wanted to be the bird But I was the air Expanding everything that pulled me in Holding things up Without being …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 40
Tags: currentsurfer, darice shatteen-jones, digital photography, Kamika Cooper, spark 40, this time around
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01 Mar

Kamika Cooper and Cathy Stevens Pratt

Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece Greed By Kamika Cooper Response she arose from waves powerful and mountainous a sight to behold she threw her head back hair cascading wildflowers seeds and sustenance we opened our mouths feasting …

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Filed under: SPARK 40
Tags: Cathy Stevens Pratt, greed, Kamika Cooper, spark 40
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02 Dec

Kimberly DeMucha Kalil
and Kamika Cooper

“Rebirth” Kimberly DeMucha Kalil alcohol ink on 5×7 Yupo paper Response Harmless By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece sometimes little girls will place themselves in harm’s way chasing little boys sometimes little boys will engage in harmful …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 39
Tags: alcohol ink, harmless, Kamika Cooper, kimberly demucha kalil, rebirth, spark 39, yupo paper
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02 Dec

Kamika Cooper and
Kimberly DeMucha Kalil

“Genesis” Kimberly DeMucha Kalil alcohol ink on 9×12 Yupo paper Inspiration piece Creator By Kamika Cooper Response i am a childless mother of creations born from color and brush shades of myself have bent and curved …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 39
Tags: alcohol ink, creator, genesis, Kamika Cooper, kimberly demucha kalil, spark 39, yupo paper
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09 Jun

Kamika Cooper and Victoria Nesson

Victoria Nesson “Green I” Inspiration piece Envie’s Ivy by Kamika Cooper Response Envie didn’t drive a sleek, black luxury car or live in a swanky community with manicured lawns. She didn’t …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK37
Tags: Envie's Ivy, flash fiction, Green I, Kamika Cooper, spark 37, Victoria Nesson
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03 Mar

Amy Moffitt and Kamika Cooper

“Hey Hey Baltimore” (Music) By Amy Moffitt Response http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Hey-Hey-Baltimore.mp3 Hello Baltimore By Kamika Cooper (Poetry and digital photography) Inspiration piece i’ve heard a lot of bad things about you heard you set them …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 36
Tags: Amy Moffitt, digital photography, Hello Baltimore, Hey Hey Baltimore, Kamika Cooper, music and poetry, Spark 36
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03 Mar

Kamika Cooper and Amy Moffitt

Whereever You Go There You Are by Amy Moffitt music and digital photography Inspiration piece http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Whereever-You-Go-There-You-Are.mp3 Here I Am by Kamika Cooper Response here i am but it’s time to go long before my …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 36
Tags: Amy Moffitt, digital photography, Here I Am, Kamika Cooper, music and poetry, Spark 36, Whereever You Go There You Are
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18 Dec

Patty Gordon and Lizzie Parker

Patty Gordon The Process Response Regret is a Process By Lizzie Parker Inspiration piece I started things I shouldn’t have. Things I thought I was supposed to do, even if or perhaps …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 35
Tags: Lizzie Parker, Patty Gordon, Regret is a Process, Spark 35, The Process
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10 Dec

Lizzie Parker and Patty Gordon

Patty Gordon Inspiration piece Not Enough P.C.R.W By Lizzie Parker Response I do not see a star-spangled banner of red white and blue only anger embarrassment and disappointment lashed by selfish greed …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 35
Tags: Lizzie Parker, Not Enough P.C.R.W, Patty Gordon, Spark 35
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09 Dec

Kamika Cooper and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Photography Inspiration piece Shaper by Kamika Cooper Response come on and shape me bend and me make me come alive use your hands to mold me i know you’ll blow me up …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 35
Tags: Brian MacDonald, Kamika Cooper, Shaper, Spark 35
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10 Sep

Kirsten Weeks and Kamika Cooper

Kirsten Weeks collage with graphite, acrylic, paper, water crayons, and paint film Response Contain Yourself By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece please contain yourself don’t spill your chaos in my space when you rearrange …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 34
Tags: Kamika Cooper, Kirsten Weeks, Spark 34
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10 Sep

Kamika Cooper and Kirsten Weeks

Kirsten Weeks acrylic and graphite on paper Inspiration piece Sunset Bound By Kamika Cooper Response released into the sunset we spun and danced and laughed wildly like children who just learned to run …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 34
Tags: Kamika Cooper, Kirsten Weeks, Spark 34
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18 Jun

Darice Jones and Brigitte Nowers

Brigitte Nowers Inspiration Piece Inkling By Darice Jones Response There were sparkly little insights she had now that she didn’t then At this point, they seemed to tether her spirit to …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 33
Tags: Brigitte Nowers, Darice Jones, Inkling, SPARK 33
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05 Jun

Lauren Carney and Kamika Cooper

Lauren Carney “Garden of One” ink, paint, pen, and pencil mixed media Response One Woman By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece I am one woman the one who won your love and captured your …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 33
Tags: Garden of One, Kamika Cooper, Lauren Carney, mixed media, One Woman, SPARK 33
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03 Jun

Kamika Cooper and Lauren Carney

Lauren Carney “Dynamic” ink, paint, pen, and pencil mixed media Inspiration piece A Cure for the Best By Kamika Cooper Response Mark Carter died. People in town attended his funeral and brought …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 33
Tags: A Cure for the Best, Dynamic, Kamika Cooper, Lauren Carney, mixed media, SPARK 33
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10 Mar

Kamika Cooper and Robin R. Peace

Kamika Cooper “Becoming Literate” Digital Illustration Response #149 By Robin R. Peace Inspiration piece A few hours ago Something was nestled in my womb It started off small I never really noticed it at all But then …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 28
Tags: #149, Becoming Literate, Digital Illustration, Kamika Cooper, Robin R Peace, Spark 28
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10 Mar

Robin R. Peace and Kamika Cooper

Kamika Cooper “Soul Survivor” Digital Illustration Inspiration piece Sole Survivor By Robin R. Peace Response Is it a victory if you’re the only one of your species left? I was of a …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 28
Tags: Digital Illustration, Kamika Cooper, Robin R Peace, Sole Survivor, Soul Survivor, Spark 28
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14 Dec

Marsha Staiger and Kamika Cooper

Kamika’s Words Marsha Staiger Acrylic Response Bad Connection Kamika Cooper Inspiration Piece Those things you thought you knew just wouldn’t leave you alone clouded your vision so thoroughly you never found your way home you were …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 27
Tags: Bad Connection, Kamika Cooper, Kamika's Words, Marsha Staiger, Spark 27
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09 Dec

Kamika Cooper and Marsha Staiger

Dragon Fly Marsha Staiger Acrylic Inspiration Piece We Won’t Forget You Kamika Cooper Response There is history in these walls those who travelled through dense forest and across vast ocean, leaving their mark of the …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 27
Tags: Dragon Fly, Kamika Cooper, Marsha Staiger, Spark 27, We Won't Forget You
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07 Sep

Kamika Cooper and Erika Schnatz

Cat Burglar Erika Schnatz Line Art Inspiration Piece We Saw You Coming Kamika Cooper Response we saw you coming quickly stepping lively with all those ill begotten riches stolen gold, rubies, time, minds, and …

By Kamika Cooper
Filed under: SPARK 26
Tags: Cat Burglar, comic, Comics, Erika Schnatz, Kamika Cooper, Line Art, Spark 26, We Saw You Coming
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04 Jun

Kamika Cooper and Lisa Pimental

Geraniums Lisa Pimental Acrylic on wood Inspiration piece Paths We Laid Kamika Cooper Response we used to be linear raised up from the village seeds our great-grandmothers spat we were bathed in Spring rains …

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Filed under: SPARK 25
Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Kamika Cooper, Lisa Pimental, SPARK 25
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04 Jun

Lisa Pimental and Kamika Cooper

Done Lisa Pimental Acrylic on wood Response Can’t Say Love Kamika Cooper Inspiration Can’t say that another has ever made me feel this way I float on hopes and dreams of her like …

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Filed under: SPARK 25
Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Kamika Cooper, Lisa Pimental, SPARK 25
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28 Feb

Kamika Cooper and Lauren Rutten

Lauren Rutten “Of the Body/Not the Body” series – 001 Photography Inspiration piece Self-Healing By Kamika Cooper Response Here in silent warmth I try to understand where I begin and where I end Trying …

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Filed under: SPARK 24
Tags: Kamika Cooper, Lauren Rutten, Photography, Spark 24
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06 Dec

Kamika Cooper and Tora Estep

Little Birds No. 2 Tora Estep Inspiration piece The Bluest Bleu Kamika Cooper Response The winters were getting colder, though the summers lasted longer, and the birds who usually took flight …

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Filed under: SPARK 23
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