Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Center and Right Reflected” Inspiration piece The Art of Loneliness By Lisa Nielsen Response The art of loneliness festoons out in rows of hope’s castaways Not a single impediment left …
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “Coming and Going” Response Tempering the Loss By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece I look in that same spot I last saw you: a rickety chair on a rickety porch, your …
Cara James and
Gay Guard-Chamberlin
Cara James and
Gay Guard-Chamberlin
Gay Guard-Chamberlin Open Window Inspiration Piece No Thing by Cara James Response no thing is ever remembered, embodied in its old form, in anger or lust embalmed. no, things are buried deep where they feed the …
Seth Leamer and Jacob Kawecki
Seth Leamer and Jacob Kawecki
Seth Leamer “The Nightly Visitor” Digital artwork Response Her By Jacob Kawecki Inspiration piece This ring and that billowing dress serve as a reminder to your straightness, your deepness, and seeing that blue gem over that …
David Mendes and Amy Souza
David Mendes and Amy Souza
Amy Souza Acrylic and graphite on paper Inspiration piece Desert Rising By David Mendes Response Not a minute too soon, The hectic jazz of the world– The swoon of its siren notes, The blaring …
Tora Estep and Karen Lee Lewis
Tora Estep and Karen Lee Lewis
Tora Estep Study for snow figure, pencil, charcoal, and oil paint on watercolor paper Response Pointillism By Karen Lee Lewis Inspiration piece Her thoughts pixilate. She speaks in pin points and …
Leslie Grollman and Diane Mayr
Leslie Grollman and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr Inspiration piece Overpass By Leslie Grollman Response We will meet in a café you will be studying For an exam, it looks like, astronomy My intent deep into a notebook You …
Diane Mayr and Leslie Grollman
Diane Mayr and Leslie Grollman
Diane Mayr “Sock Ideologies” Response my heart fell out / an aftermath By Leslie Grollman Inspiration piece Because Zachary Schomburg’s poem ‘Haircuts’ & the performance of it at Poetry Press Week …
Amy Souza and David Mendes
Amy Souza and David Mendes
Amy Souza Mixed water media Response Comity’s Parting By David Mendes Inspiration piece Here am I, full of heart, Supine and muscles stretched Against what cushioned earthen bank Was carved beside the deep and …
Alyscia Cunningham and Tracey Riehl
Alyscia Cunningham and Tracey Riehl
Tracey Riehl Inspiration piece Alyscia Cunningham “Pathway” Response As I walk through the valley, My mind signals rally, Deliberating COMBAT for countless of tallies. Mind wars turned gloomy, High hopes parted through me, Alone was …
Anne Rutland and Jonathan Ottke
Anne Rutland and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “On the Bridge” Inspiration piece Night Trains By A.S.Rutland Response Commuting standing room only strap hanging phone gazing swaying with the rocking train gazing at the light strings slowly unwinding on the bridge across the water. Yet …
Lavinia Magliocco
and Brian MacDonald
Lavinia Magliocco
and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Chairs Enduring Thanksgiving Break, Four Haikus By Lavinia Magliocco Response At least five hurried to escape, leaving their chairs askew, facing out. A single window – barely a world beyond …
Cara James and Cathy Stevens Pratt
Cara James and Cathy Stevens Pratt
Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece Below By Cara James Response fins on the surface make your heart beat to the sound of Jaws clenched in wonder. dolphins are dangerous like men are dangerous. their smooth bodies …
Amanda Meyer and Kathleen Jordan
Amanda Meyer and Kathleen Jordan
Amanda Meyer Pop Response Memorial Day in France By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece The time was spring The day was fresh The railroad clicked and clucked The bag was filled with wine and …
David Taranto and Brian MacDonald
David Taranto and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Jesus of Prometheus By David Taranto Response Oh, they must not have been saved to begin with. Pry yourself from the grip of Christ. You are the object so heavy He …
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “And Then What Happened” Inspiration Piece and then what happened By Lisa Nielsen Response A girl pretends to be asleep, her mother runs barefoot across the lobby of the …
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard “Calm Up” Response Gravel strewn like breadcrumbs By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece Broken cement sprouts chrome and glass and angles reminiscent of Kandinsky Thru the looking glass below sketchy unfinished sidewalks welcome …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Amanda Meyer
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Amanda Meyer
Amanda Meyer “Spring Rain and Kite Strings” Inspiration piece Kitestrings By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Kite strings like slings of stars Wallop the hand and sting the sky Air puffs and spits of …
Lisa Kilhefner and Adam Cornford
Lisa Kilhefner and Adam Cornford
Lisa Kilhefner Response Sardine Machine (Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest) By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece They shoal in sweep formation, swarming gleam with tail-flick wave through smooth curve like a wrist volplaning pivots, …
Gabriel Stelian-Shanks
and Jane Hulstrunk
Gabriel Stelian-Shanks
and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece The Symptoms (The Signs) By Gabriel Stelian-Shanks Response Right as you woke the pale blooms opened as if you were sun As if they knew dew rose on your skin before the day …
Terah Van Dusen and Brigitte Nowers
Terah Van Dusen and Brigitte Nowers
Brigitte Nowers Inspiration piece Invasion By Terah Van Dusen Response There were just four of us left shape shifters children and men women and children __ at night we sat watching the winged-rats take flight casting the …
Cathy Stevens Pratt
and Cara James
Cathy Stevens Pratt
and Cara James
Cathy Stevens Pratt Response In the Distance By Cara James Inspiration piece In the distance is a boy at the end of a string at the end of a kite at the end …
Jan Irene Miller and Leslie Grollman
Jan Irene Miller and Leslie Grollman
Jan Irene Miller “Soft Neck” Acrylic multimedia on paper Response It’s About the Wonder, Isn’t It By Leslie Grollman Inspiration piece I am not the head I have nor the thoughts that …
Margaret Mair and Diane Mayr
Margaret Mair and Diane Mayr
Margaret Mair Echoes Colored pencil on paper Response Insanity at the DMV By Diane Mayr Inspiration piece Having my picture taken over and over and each time expecting to see someone else. ————————————— Note: All of the art, …
Seth Leamer and Becca Biggs
Seth Leamer and Becca Biggs
Seth Leamer Hidden Meanings Watercolor/gouache Response Estelle By Rebecca Biggs Inspiration piece She has a new name now a Tibetan Monk softly placed it on our tongues and then used it to call her …