Channie Greenberg and Rusty Lynn
Rusty Lynn “A Bloomin’ Flower Icon” Inspiration piece Cultivar By Channie Greenberg Response Following the apocalypse, when the moon was no longer regarded as a commodious prison, but was lauded as …
Diane Mayr and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Diane Mayr and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Diane Mayr “A Scheme of Green” Response Cabin Time By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Opening the chalet door The forest looms encircling all And I dot like in the scheme of green Sluice into …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Diane Mayr
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr “All Night Long” Inspiration piece Cat Rap By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Grandma Pussycat in a straight-backed chair Playing guitar meows fill the air all night long since she’s nocturnally set Meow …
Elizabeth Steinglass
and Marilyn Ackerman
Elizabeth Steinglass
and Marilyn Ackerman
Marilyn Ackerman Inspiration piece What If? By Elizabeth Steinglass Response What if the Earth was small as a beach ball, light enough to toss and catch and tuck in your lap? What if it was so …
Kamika Cooper and MM Panas
Kamika Cooper and MM Panas
MM Panas “Take Back the Night” acrylic paint, charcoal, collage on paper 22” x 30″ Inspiration piece Keep the Night By Kamika Cooper Response cannot take back what was not mine to begin …
Isabella Cassini and Amy Souza
Isabella Cassini and Amy Souza
Isabella Cassini “Orbit” Response Orbit By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Everywhere is here and there and nowhere and nowhere you can be at once You must choose a path— calendula scent of the sea Like those signs with seven arrows pointing every which …
Brigitte Nowers and Amy Souza
Brigitte Nowers and Amy Souza
Brigitte Nowers Response Faith Poem By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Between resistance and faith lies the bulk of human existence. I don’t trust anyone who spends all their time on …
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Greg Lippert They Shoot Horses, Don’t They Response The Derby By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration Jimmy O’Hara had bet more than fifty Kentucky Derbies from afar. However, he had never seen …
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert Reflection Inspiration piece WW11 By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy O’Hara was a couple of months shy of turning four when World War 11 began about three weeks before …
Jules Rolfe and Seth Leamer
Jules Rolfe and Seth Leamer
Seth Leamer Still Still Life Inspiration Piece Faceless Independence by Jules Rolfe Response Daddy, I thought you created me to be small. A small and faceless doll to serve masters who only craved …
Jenny Forrester and Jane Hulstrunk
Jenny Forrester and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response You should’ve seen me when I first bloomed. All the colors and the strength against the storm. I had it all. And then …
Seth Leamer and Jules Rolfe
Seth Leamer and Jules Rolfe
Seth Leamer “Wayward Bound” Acrylic 10″ x 16″ Response Feel Fetter (Found Poem) By Jules Rolfe Inspiration piece System clear. Conversation choices Far is the same time next year I repeat. We both provide choices. The A …
Holly Hinkle and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Holly Hinkle and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Holly Hinkle “Surfing the Internet, Drinking Coffee on a Dreary Rainy Morning” Oil, 12″ x 12″ Response Slide Journey By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slide journey from the tawdry to the …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “Aerial: Take No Prisoners” Response Reconciliation Baby By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece A misshapen attempt at reconciliation Brought you here I can’t possibly tell you this, your existence Borne of not …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Another Door Opens” Inspiration piece One Door Closes By Lisa Nielsen Response Parched tobacco shreds crumble in my little fingers as I rummage through handbags, carefully translating loose …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Holly Hinkle
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Holly Hinkle
Holly Hinkle Inspiration piece Woman Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Piece What anger in these eyes or perhaps indignation not a first world problem me thinks her shoulders suggest an argument that is weighty a …
Melisa Peterson Lewis and Channie Greenberg
Melisa Peterson Lewis and Channie Greenberg
Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece Baby Bird By Melisa Peterson Lewis Response Poppy’s hands cupped the naked baby bird as it rolled, unable to brace itself in her shifting grip. Her …
Channie Greenberg and Melisa Peterson Lewis
Channie Greenberg and Melisa Peterson Lewis
Channie Greenberg Response Café Lizard By Melisa Peterson Lewis Inspiration piece It was a hot summer. Rust-colored rocks and dirt met dark green cactuses and brush. Sal’s staff enjoyed the …
Anne Nowselski and Amy Souza
Anne Nowselski and Amy Souza
Anne Nowselski Response District Taco By Amy Souza Inspiration piece We got tacos at 7 and by 9 asked, Is this it? The dog slept on the floor, back pressed against …
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Detritus Has No Soul” Response I Stood, Longing By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece I stood on the edge past the yellow line and the train’s rush daring your anger to push …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “My Rock and My Redeemer” Inspiration piece Loneliness on a Bitter Sunday By Lisa Nielsen Response I, drifted between gravestones and angel statues, fingering the carved wings; my chest stretched by …
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Greg Lippert “Summer of Jimmy” Inspiration piece The Good Humor Man By Robert Haydon Jones Response There were 83 children under 16 living in 17 houses on Jimmy O’Hara’s lane. Jimmy …
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Greg Lippert “You Don’t Know What Sad Is” Response Nelson at Spithead By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Little, 5-year-old, Jimmy O’Hara was about to be murdered and there was nothing …
Cathy Stevens Pratt and Kamika Cooper
Cathy Stevens Pratt and Kamika Cooper
Cathy Stevens Pratt Response Assumptions By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece don’t make assumptions about how i am feeling based on how i look for all that you know i have become hallowed out empty yet …
Lisa Kilhefner and Jackie Wood
Lisa Kilhefner and Jackie Wood
Jackie Wood Inspiration piece Pick up by Lisa Kilhefner Response Pick me, pick me, pick me Pick me up Pick up, pick up, pick up and go. Pick me up and don’t put me …