Darice Jones and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr Inspiration piece The Water That’s Left By Darice Jones Response Killer in child’s pose with angel wings and belly tight with venom. The rest of the world would still …
Amy Souza and Kay Syrad
Amy Souza and Kay Syrad
Amy Souza “Stolen Moments” Monoprint and ink on notebook paper Response Afternoon Out By Kay Syrad Inspiration piece I think nothing here, lying on the stones, listening to the water’s twillup …
Tracey Riehl and
Barbara Lynne Black
Tracey Riehl and
Barbara Lynne Black
Tracey Riehl Response Why You Should Wear Gloves at Night By Barbara Lynne Black Inspiration piece …..“Don’t give delicate children black currant jam.” …..from The Best Way Book, No. 3., 1200 …
Morgan Fox and Urmilla Khanna
Morgan Fox and Urmilla Khanna
Morgan Fox “Business as Usual” Response Urmilla Khanna A Senior Moment Inspiration Piece When I first wake up, I do one or two of the following: go for a walk, sit …
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Lisa Nielsen “Static Between Stations” Response My Dear Old Familiar By Jay Young Gerard Inspiration piece My Dear Old Familiar* *with apologies to Toni Morrison I now think that perhaps I have always …
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Lisa Nielsen “The Lake Has Two Faces” Inspiration piece The Beautiful Ugly By Jay Young Gerard Response Joan Crawford had blue eyes. Her real name was Lucille LaSueur. She was a …
Jules Rolfe and Brian MacDonald
Jules Rolfe and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration Unfortunate by Jules Rolfe Response It’s unfortunate you say that the rain is dripping down the window crowding the sound of the waves on the beach ad we …
Diane Mayr and Robin R. Peace
Diane Mayr and Robin R. Peace
Diane Mayr “A Hiss” Response Digital collage (“Self Portrait with Charlotte Berend and a Glass of Champagne” by Lovis Corinth; lithograph by Pierre Bonnard). #149 By Robin R. …
Dante Jericho and Meg Max
Dante Jericho and Meg Max
Dante Jericho “Windows and Wings (Gifts from the Emptiness)” Response Horoscope for the Empty By Meg Max Inspiration piece You’ll feel a tug from the stars, a feeling that a plug …
Meg Max and Dante Jericho
Meg Max and Dante Jericho
Dante Jericho “Finding Our Orbits” Inspiration piece Luna and the Bears By Meg Max Response The world was not what it once was. When Jane and Rob were children, they’d been relatively …
Wendy Schneider and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Wendy Schneider and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Wendy Schneider Response Holiday Memories By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Cold pricks the nose and ears Cloudy skies and unwelcoming winds swirl As we rush, thinking of others Old friends present and …
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas “Blue Vista” Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 12″x12″ Response The Gift By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece Cypress bow their crowns to the Pacific as fog ensconced hills make wholly inept attempts to …
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
MM Panas “Pink Snow” Inspiration piece For Possibilities By JoAnn Moore Response It is December. The world is snow tipped with darkness— especially the northern half— after all, it is winter. Songs and tidings attempt to mollify …
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke Inspiration piece As Camponotus* Is to Love By Barbara Black Response “The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.” E. O. Wilson A hidden entry, …
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Paper Wasp” Inspiration piece Sullen Season after Polistes dominula By Barbara Black Response Mist limns a still pond. Snails idle. Liminal. Pallid sun seeps into us. Silent minutes pass, as outside, moist …
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Red Roots” Inspiration piece Supper After Charles Simic By Barbara Black Response The old woman on the floor with a cleaver, its blades stained lurid pink. The cat on the counter …
Jules Rolfe and Amy Souza
Jules Rolfe and Amy Souza
Amy Souza “Found” Inspiration piece On the Wings of a Wish By Jules Rolfe Response When you a wish on the glowing candles of your birthday cake, on a dandelion puff, on …
Tyson West and Susan B.
Tyson West and Susan B.
Susan B. Collage Inspiration piece Mickey Squirel An elegy for me By Tyson West Response Most tragic love tales arise At a distance – fixed points chalked on the stage Glances at the paseo Among …
Amy Souza and Diane Mayr
Amy Souza and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr La Langueur Inspiration piece Digital composition. Drawing by Edgar Degas, poem by Paul Verlaine. Less Than Anguish By Amy Souza Response Quiet rain, steady the kind you can get used to Rhythm …
Marsha Staiger and Kamika Cooper
Marsha Staiger and Kamika Cooper
Kamika’s Words Marsha Staiger Acrylic Response Bad Connection Kamika Cooper Inspiration Piece Those things you thought you knew just wouldn’t leave you alone clouded your vision so thoroughly you never found your way home you were …
Susan B. and Tyson West
Susan B. and Tyson West
Susan B. “Shadows” Response Dialogue in a Convent Garden By Tyson West Inspiration piece Sister Barbie: Mother Superior, Forsake did I the worldly pleasures of woman Shopping, cleaning up baby urine, puppy poop …
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine “River’s Edge” Response Sing Along By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Jimmy O’Hara was 15 when he met Joy Levy, his counselor at the summer camp the town …
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine “Survivor” Inspiration piece One Bad Day By Robert Haydon Jones Response The pitch that broke Jimmy O’Hara’s left forearm was an ordinary fastball in the mid-80s hurled by a …
Heitzi Epstein and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Heitzi Epstein and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas – Homeless (Photo enhanced with FastStone Image Viewer) Inspiration Response: Lone Survivor by Heitzi Epstein Once I lived within a house of rough planks. The home …