Category Archive: SPARK 11

26 Feb

Sukia and Adam Cornford

Sukia and Adam Cornford

Sukia Response   TO SEE THE BLACK ANGEL at the time of the war in Gaza, 2008-9 Adam Cornford Inspiration To see the Black Angel not descending from heaven but risen still incandescent out of …

 
By Sukia
Comments Off on Sukia and Adam Cornford
26 Feb

Elizabeth Stelling and Marybeth Carshaw

Elizabeth Stelling and Marybeth Carshaw

Marybeth Carshaw- Healing Angel Inspiration Piece The Last Wish I Made Before Midnight by Elizabeth Stelling Response A latent snow flake began to sparkle on my window sill. March’s rushing …

 
By elizabethstelling
Comments Off on Elizabeth Stelling and Marybeth Carshaw
26 Feb

Sukia and Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Sukia and Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Sukia Response ETERNITY AT THE DRIVE-IN abridged novel excerpt, DOUBLE OUT AND BACK by Lisa Lipkind Leibow Amelia Schwartz’s sister Judith arrived for a special night out – just the …

 
By Sukia
Comments Off on Sukia and Lisa Lipkind Leibow
26 Feb

Marybeth Carshaw and Elizabeth Stelling

Marybeth Carshaw and Elizabeth Stelling

Marybeth Carshaw – Growth Response Twenty Minutes From Galway To Dublin by Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Dublin is calling our names Remember how funny it seemed To be on the wrong side …

 
By elizabethstelling
Comments (1)
26 Feb

Susan Gordon and Jennifer Brewer

Susan Gordon and Jennifer Brewer

JENNIFER BREWER Crocus, Coleus, Succulent, Begonia Susan Gordon Response Crocus, coleus, succulent, begonia Slam bam, thank you, mam. The colors punched me out: pink; yellow; magenta; yellow, again; red, blue, …

 
By susanekg
Comments (2)
26 Feb

Gary Hewitt and Cat Ross

Gary Hewitt and Cat Ross

Cat Ross Inspiration piece Gary Hewitt Response piece Journey’s end I see tone of ethereal bells, Dangling beneath Jagged Rawkie, Who sings tune of golden thunder, I float away on legs electric, Holding on …

 
By kingsraconteur
Comments Off on Gary Hewitt and Cat Ross
26 Feb

Lauren B. Flax and Anne Welch

Lauren B. Flax and Anne Welch

Lauren B. Flax Response Anne Welch An Offering Inspiration Piece wise ones rest high upon the jeweled tree breaking the silence only to whisper the words ‘write everyday’ so let this one small poem be an offering to …

 
By laurenbflax
Comments (1)
26 Feb

Lauren B. Flax and Amaryllis Holloway

Lauren B. Flax and Amaryllis Holloway

Lauren B. Flax Response Appreciate Time Amaryllis Holloway Inspiration Piece Caught up in the day to day routine life is so busy, so frenetic there is no time, no time to visit friends no …

 
By laurenbflax
Comments Off on Lauren B. Flax and Amaryllis Holloway
26 Feb

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Nancy Claeys

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Nancy Claeys

Nancy Claeys Direction Inspiration piece . Wind’s Gift By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Response One evening every weathervane from ancient barn to little church released a rooster into dusk from high upon its metal perch. Farm wives tossed …

 
By Amy Souza
Comments Off on Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Nancy Claeys
26 Feb

Amy Moffitt and Annie Welch

Amy Moffitt and Annie Welch

Annie Welch “Girl in a Box” Inspiration Piece _____________________ _____________________ What You Cannot Change Is A Cage With No Key Amy Moffitt Response Piece _____________________ At night, laying in her bed she watches the shadows …

 
By amymoffitt42
Comments (1)
26 Feb

Joanna Lee and Julia Latein-Kimmig

Joanna Lee and Julia Latein-Kimmig

untitled, charcoal & acrylic on canvas Julia Latein-Kimmig inspiration piece ….. Girl’s Daydream in Cross-Section Joanna Lee response All I wanted was a cat. Something both fluffy and self-reliant. But that needed …

 
By dottoressa.joanna
Comments (3)
26 Feb

Jewel Beth Davis and Judy Weinberg

Jewel Beth Davis and Judy Weinberg

A cabin, a net, and a bush ease the way for Cass’s journey.

 
By Bugjewel
Comments (4)
26 Feb

Cat Ross and Douglas Pugh

Cat Ross and Douglas Pugh

Blade for Blade Cat Ross, response piece Douglas Pugh, inspiration piece *Learning* it is the fold of walls, straight-backed, lined in assemblage there will be mumbled prayers, words that mean nothing – …

 
By catwithacee
Comments (1)
26 Feb

Christina Brockett and Elizabeth Stelling

Christina Brockett and Elizabeth Stelling

Christina Brockett Response Twenty Minutes From Galway To Dublin by Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Dublin is calling our names Remember how funny it seemed To be on the wrong side of the …

 
By elizabethstelling
Comments (2)
26 Feb

Cat Ross and Gary Hewitt

Cat Ross and Gary Hewitt

Self Portrait, St. Louis 1 Cat Ross, response piece Gary Hewitt, inspiration piece House of Six At the house of six I spotted a steroid mouse. He ran furiously away …

 
By catwithacee
Comments (1)
26 Feb

Elizabeth Stelling andChristina Brockett

Elizabeth Stelling andChristina Brockett

Christina Brockett Inspiration Piece If I Take the Wings of the New Morning By Elizabeth Stelling Response I know we said no one would leave this place, until we were …

 
By elizabethstelling
Comments Off on Elizabeth Stelling andChristina Brockett
26 Feb

Quentin Paquette and Lynne Heiser

Quentin Paquette and Lynne Heiser

Lynne Heiser Inspiration Piece By the Window — Quentin Paquette Response “Where are you coming back from?” Watching the dawn break. (Sorry, by the way.  I thought for sure you’d be …

 
By quentin_paquette
Comments Off on Quentin Paquette and Lynne Heiser
26 Feb

Amanda Miska and Brian McDonald

Amanda Miska and Brian McDonald

Brian McDonald, Durick Library Student Inspiration Piece Flesh and Blood by Amanda Miska Response 1. Flesh Jane was always larger than life:  big blue doe eyes and a heart of gold.  …

 
By amanda.miska
Comments Off on Amanda Miska and Brian McDonald
26 Feb

Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker

Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker

Lizzie Parker Inspiration piece   Metro Outlaw by Charisse Cecil Response I am an outlaw. If you ride the Metro rail, you understand me. I have to sit there: in the designated seat for the disabled. Those …

 
By crcecil
Comments Off on Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker
26 Feb

Nancy Smith and Phyllis Weissman

Nancy Smith and Phyllis Weissman

Womb Heart Response piece to Inspiration Piece: Valentina and Valentino By: Phyllis Weissman Valentina Love didn’t always hate February 14th. Her Bah Humbug attitude began almost two …

 
By nlsmith
Comments (1)
26 Feb

Nancy Smith and Annette Mcleod

Nancy Smith and Annette Mcleod

Diana in France with Dandelions Response Piece Inspiration Piece: To walk Annette McLeod My throat feels seared, like trying to breathe in the devil’s own sauna. In …

 
By nlsmith
Comments Off on Nancy Smith and Annette Mcleod
26 Feb

Priya Chhaya and Nancy Claeys

Priya Chhaya and Nancy Claeys

Nancy Claeys Inspiration Piece It Has A Face Priya Chhaya Response I’m standing at the corner of a field Transfixed Her face, framed by—off set eyes Holding a promise of a once-fulfilled life Now …

 
By ppchha
Comments (2)
26 Feb

Amanda C. Brainerd and Irene Plax

Amanda C. Brainerd and Irene Plax

Amanda C. Brainerd Response Untitled by Irene Plax Inspiration piece Beneath the grey winter light from the enormous overhead window, Nadine felt many things cease to matter. It …

 
By amandamuses
Tagged
Comments Off on Amanda C. Brainerd and Irene Plax
26 Feb

Douglas Pugh and Cat Ross

Douglas Pugh and Cat Ross

Cat Ross Inspiration piece Gone fishing by Douglas Pugh Response there are no scales in the blue there is only perspective, the soar of a cranked wing, the spill of therms and pressure, wind and lift mechanics …

 
By dougpugh
Comments Off on Douglas Pugh and Cat Ross
26 Feb

Lisa Lynn Biggar and Ana Goncalves

Lisa Lynn Biggar and Ana Goncalves

Ana Goncalves   Windermere Horse Inspiration piece Celebration by Lisa Lynn Biggar Response I took a different path.  Normally, I jog down the path that leads to the public park …

 
By Lisa Lynn Biggar
Comments Off on Lisa Lynn Biggar and Ana Goncalves