Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist
Quinzee the Artist “Wade” Inspiration piece Submerged By Darice Marcella Jones Response Submerged The earth was scorched And I couldn’t bare to look at our seeds Even though I was well aware of the …
Quinzee The Artist and Darice Jones
Quinzee The Artist and Darice Jones
Quinzee the Artist Response Clay By Darice Marcella Jones Inspiration piece Out front They called to me from their homes And asked if I would stand out front and face the world on …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Amy Souza Inspiration piece City Sponge By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response A big sponge—I slurp up the city Borne on concrete streets Shaded by looming skyscrapers The never-ending hustle and bustle Slinked into my …
Upasana Mitter and KJ Hannah Greenberg
Upasana Mitter and KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg “Pea Shoots” Inspiration piece one song supposedly about a cat (nothing more)(nothing less) By Upasana Mitter Response I’m prone to making cardboard dollhouses. the summer of 2017, pea shoots …
Tora Estep and Andrea Dye
Tora Estep and Andrea Dye
Tora Estep “Tribute to Lady Day” 18 in. x 24 in., acrylic on watercolor paper Response To Be a Singer By Andrea Dye Inspiration piece If I didn’t make myself cringe that …
Betty Nichols and Amy Moffitt
Betty Nichols and Amy Moffitt
Betty Nichols Response Middle By Amy Moffitt Inspiration piece They don’t mention the lists… the fluttering, cluttering memorials to obligations and dreams, the false hope of control… they don’t say you’ll be chasing and …
Eve Hyde and Amy Souza
Eve Hyde and Amy Souza
Eve Hyde Response Time and Its Kin By Amy Souza Inspiration piece High noon, no shadow: How you know when a duel begins A street lamp at midnight: How you know …
Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones
Quinzee the Artist and Darice Jones
Quinzee the Artist “The Download” Inspiration piece In the Time of You As Me By Darice Jones Response The day I accepted that you were me, and I you The path broadened Power …
Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist
Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist
Quinzee The Artist Untitled Pencil Drawing Response 15 Horizons in Ultra Space By Darice Jones Inspiration piece These two beautiful beings prefer to be called my daughters In all their manifold non-binary …
Dale Leffler and Jonathan Ottke
Dale Leffler and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Matteo” Inspiration piece Mateo Muchacho Words By Dale Leffler Response He waits for you like a lover attentively sad on the couch. His eyes convey his longing, loneliness, as his shoulders slouch. Never …
Marcela Kogan and Jennifer Fendya
Marcela Kogan and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Footsteps By Marcela Kogan Response I spend most of my days alone peering out people’s legs from the wrought-iron window of my daylight basement room. The …
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Amy Souza Response Listed Sh*t By Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece A few months ago, I wrote down all the things that are wrong with me. The notion came after a particularly …
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley Response Home Not Home By Amy Souza Inspiration piece A childhood surrounded by water Mayflower offspring, Azorean pioneers I didn’t belong (or did I?) to the city Of cobblestone streets with Widow’s …
Marisa Bevington and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Marisa Bevington and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Marisa Bevington Response Breeze By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece The Breeze like tiny wings lifts wisps of hair on end and Sips the heat from sun screened arms As the sea breathes …
Andrea Dye and Tora Estep
Andrea Dye and Tora Estep
Tora Estep Inspiration piece The Nocturnal Monk By Andrea Dye Response Sleepless nights led Monk outdoors to learn what the sun may never know. Feeling lost for his place in …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marisa Bevington
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marisa Bevington
Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Does She Step Out? By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Sleeping yurts dot the land plane As inhabitants step out Wondrous colors and sweet light stain All looking forward, looking …
Amy Moffitt and Betty Nichols
Amy Moffitt and Betty Nichols
Betty Nichols Inspiration piece Old Dominion Drive By Amy Moffitt Response The last time I drove this road, I was singing at the top of my lungs to the full moon, Singing …
Jewel Beth Davis
and KJ Hannah Greenberg
Jewel Beth Davis
and KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece Colored Arrows By Jewel Beth Davis Response The archers lined up with their bows, their faces grim. The arrows flew through the air with feathers comprised …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jewel Beth Davis
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jewel Beth Davis
KJ Hannah Greenberg Response My Small Skinny Self By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece A film-like scene plays in my mind repeatedly. I see my mother as she was then …
Fernanda Valentino
and Bianca Schrader
Fernanda Valentino
and Bianca Schrader
Bianca Schrader Ojos de Dios Acrylic on wood Inspiration piece Eye of God Watch Over Me By Fernanda Valentino Response Along the path that is this life Our journey winds and turns As we …
Bianca Schrader
and Jone Rush MacCulloch
Bianca Schrader
and Jone Rush MacCulloch
Jone Rush MacCulloch “Portals” Inspiration piece Windows By Bianca Schrader Response There’s many different ways to be, stand out in a crowd, be as still as a tree. No longer burdened, now I …
Lisa DeShantz-Cook and Jane Rennalls
Lisa DeShantz-Cook and Jane Rennalls
Jane Rennalls Mixed media Inspiration piece Rituals for the Living By Lisa Deshantz-Cook Response Promise me these things. No, wait. Promise yourself these things: That you will celebrate the raucous and impossible …
Jane Rennalls and Lisa DeShantz-Cook
Jane Rennalls and Lisa DeShantz-Cook
Jane Rennalls Mixed media Response Ode to a July Moon By Lisa DeShantz-Cook Inspiration piece I love you better in the empty sky, in bones of rivers, spiny drops of lake spray …
Jennifer Fendya and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jennifer Fendya and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jennifer Fendya Response Olympic Skate By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slide, glide, Twist and leap Ice crunches bends are deep Stepping free and music sings Skaters fly on cashmere wings Silken costumes sharp …
Amy Rogers Nazarov and Angi Lewis
Amy Rogers Nazarov and Angi Lewis
“Laundry Song in G” By Amy Rogers Nazarov Response Capo 4, C position Verse 1 C G D G That bulb burned out last winter C G D The dust is piled high C …