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 …
Jackie Wood and Lisa Kilhefner
Jackie Wood and Lisa Kilhefner
Jackie Wood Response Knockout By Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece I don’t fight fair. I don’t fight at all. Once I tried but the punching bag looked more like a water balloon, and one hit from him was …
Amy Souza and Anne Nowselski
Amy Souza and Anne Nowselski
Anne Nowselski Inspiration piece Butterfly By Amy Souza Response Butterflies don’t worry about attachment When they wrestle away the cocoon to Soar wispy but not frail The woman who discovered their life cycle Was …
Darice Shatteen-Jones and Evelyn Ihrke
Darice Shatteen-Jones and Evelyn Ihrke
The Galaxy and The Fall by Evelyn Ihrke Response Our Fated Fall written by Darice Shatteen-Jones Inspiration Piece I am a climber Epicurean by nature And also by choice Thick, curvy, thewy …
Evelyn Ihrke and Darice Shatteen-Jones
Evelyn Ihrke and Darice Shatteen-Jones
Evelyn Ihrke “Horizon from Angola to Canada” Inspiration piece Sonje Lavi By Darice Shatteen-Jones Response We landed here, back here I suppose, on a Sankofa vessel. Sankofa vessels are made of …
Diane Mayr and Janet Buell
Diane Mayr and Janet Buell
Janet Buell Ravens in Snow watercolor and colored pencils on watercolor paper. 6” x 8” Inspiration piece Diane Mayr Ravens in Snow: three cherita Response Ravens in Snow: three cherita we humans must …
Jules Rolfe and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jules Rolfe and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jules Rolfe Response piece Short Poem Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece I love the short poem It draws the picture Sculpts the moment Captures the feeling… Leaving beauty, awe, tears or chuckles In its wake I …
Urmilla Khanna and Darice Jones
Urmilla Khanna and Darice Jones
The Match outer photographs and collage by Darice Shatteen-Jones (model: Teondre Newman) Response Excerpt from Boundaries of the Wind a memoir by Urmilla Khanna Inspiration Piece The following week, …
Darice Jones and Urmilla Khanna
Darice Jones and Urmilla Khanna
Today photographed by Darice Shatteen-Jones Inspiration Piece The Bench written by Urmilla Khanna Response “You mind if I share the bench with you Henry?” she asked. The word Henry …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Jules Rolfe
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Jules Rolfe
Jules Rolfe Inspiration piece Patterned View Kathleen Finn Jordan Response piece Evening falls and footfalls tred the path along the beach Expanse of water wraps around as eyes like arms spread, …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Linda Sorrells-Smith
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Linda Sorrells-Smith
Linda Sorrells-Smith “Watching” Oil on canvas Inspiration piece The Laughing Man’s Eyes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response piece The laughing man’s eyes, like so many high Falutin drum rolls, brightened before …
Linda Sorrells-Smith and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Linda Sorrells-Smith and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Linda Sorrells-Smith “Enviromantle” Response Ebony pencil on paper Nonetheless, Encouraged State By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece In rippled lands, brutality’s strictures no longer reign. There, pyres swell sky over ocean, smoke away …
Darice Jones and Kamika Cooper
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) …
Kamika Cooper and Darice Jones
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 …
Janet Buell and Diane Mayr
Janet Buell and Diane Mayr
Janet Buell February Couture Sennelier soft pastels on black paper. 6” x 8” Response Diane Mayr February Dusk Inspiration piece February Dusk Dusty rose embroidered in ice blue. The designing moon peers proudly upon a gown resplendent with crystals. “Will you let me …
Ann Quinn and Anya Drapkin
Ann Quinn and Anya Drapkin
Anya Drapkin Inspiration piece You By Ann Quinn Response They’ll pull you into pieces thighs legs breasts they’ll lump you with vices money booze women they’ll call you a toy doll or …
Kamika Cooper and Cathy Stevens Pratt
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 …
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Jan Irene Miller
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
and Jan Irene Miller
Jan Irene Miller Inspiration piece Dear Cow By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Response Dear Cow, I still dream about you. It may not make sense, but some days for some reason I smell …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
“Christmas Eve”Matthew LevineResponse The Best Christmas Tree EverBy Robert Haydon JonesInspiration piece When Jimmy O’Hara decided on his Christmas tree at the outdoor lot at Home Depot, …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
“South Norwalk Nocturne”Matthew LevineInspiration piece Life Goes OnBy Robert Haydon JonesResponse He was a child, then for a very brief while, he was a little boy, and then, …