Michelle Greco and
Jenny Cutler Lopez
Michelle Greco
“Explosive Bloom”
Gouache in Sketchbook
Response
My Girl Angel Is As Shallow As Sin
By Jenny Cutler Lopez
Inspiration piece
I meet Angel by the metal payphone outside 7-11. I stroll …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Afternoon Delight
Inspiration Piece
Things They Didn’t See
By Annmarie Lockhart
Response
She didn’t see:
the time it took to flatten and stack the boxes
that carried onions, broccoli, bean …
Annmarie Lockhart and
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Power in the Clouds
Response
Ladder
By Annmarie Lockhart
Inspiration piece
Maybe if we climb high enough
above the clouds like Dorothy,
beyond the noise of Babel,
the tastes of the …
Agnes Marton and Amy Tingle
Amy Tingle
Inspiration piece
Some
By Agnes Marton
Response
Some petals are ambitious,
life and lifelike,
keen to attack, build purging
barriers when needed,
always at cruising altitude,
eager to respond.
Some petals are lost,
feel misfit, …
Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen
Jay Young Gerard
Puppy
Inspiration piece
Both Sides of That Face
By Lissa Nielsen
Response
I’ve been talking out both sides of my mouth,
compromising the urge to flee
with the imitation of …
Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard
Holes Aren’t Necessarily Round
Response
The Holes in Our Story
By Lisa Nielsen
Inspiration piece
They say you never really know how
damaged someone is until you try to …
Terah Van Dusen
and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner
Inspiration piece
The Way of a Woman
By Terah Van Dusen
Response
Once, early on in our
relationship I shared a
hotel room with my man
three of his buddies
There were two …
Patricia Hayward and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Patricia Hayward
Response
Conversations at the Hirschorn
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration
Bulbous figures play in “Conversation”
Sculpted into liquid stone expressions daring us
To recall the light, the airy, and malicious …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Cheryl Lavoie
Cheryl Lavoie
Giverny
Watercolor
Inspiration piece
Giverny Ever Alive
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response
Burst of opening flowers shroud a country house
Petals, tiny fingers, giving birth to brush
Paint leaching color from the …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Patricia Hayward
Patricia Hayward
Pen and ink
Inspiration piece
Black on White
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response
The scribble,
the smudge of ink and paper fighting with each other
in a frenzy of activity, agitation, …
Lisa Kilhefner and
Terah Van Dusen
Lisa Kilhefner
Response
So I Am a Woman
By Terah Van Dusen
Inspiration piece
So I am a woman
occupying a square
a circle a triangle
a rectangle a glob
of space
of air
of spit
or …
Diane Mayr and Rick Clark
Diane Mayr
Howlers
Response
Looking Up Looking Down Looking
By Rick Clark
Inspiration piece
I recognize the man in the moon tonight–
He scowls down on me,
or perhaps on all of us,
the …
Urmilla Khanna and
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Spring
Photo taken with Galaxy 5s, enhanced with GIMP
Inspiration piece
A Cabin in the Woods
By Urmilla Khanna
Response
I am an A-frame cabin situated in the …
Amy Moffitt and Hannah Greenberg
Inspiration Piece (song): Freedom – by Amy Moffitt
Natural Death
© KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
Leaves, such brightly-colored textiles,
Patched together like other final gifts,
A shroud of fallen moments, times gone,
Rest …
Margaret Mair and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner
Inspiration piece
Let Me Nestle
By Margaret Mair
Response
Let me nestle
In these soft curves,
Hide in these hazy hollows,
Bask in this mellow light,
Burrow into these
Darkened shadows,
Look out through …
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
and Urmilla Khanna
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Tribute
Photo collage enhanced with Gimp
Response
Tribute to My Teachers
By Urmilla Khanna
Inspiration piece
My teacher Joanne has treated me to a great celebratory lunch at an Italian …
Jenny Cutler Lopez
and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner
Inspiration Piece
Truman’s House of Flowers
By Jenny Cutler Lopez
Response
I leave a late, cold spring to fly to central Alabama where the grass is already a …
Jonathan Ottke and Lily Stejskal
Jonathan Ottke
Response
Special Places
All places have their memories,
Places now and those of long ago.
In each place are glimpses of the past,
Some happy, and some woe.
Memories grow …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Pop Art
Inspiration Piece
Post No Bills
Annmarie Lockhart
Response
Words don’t tell the story
any better than pictures,
icons and fantasies.
Black paint on yellow brick
evokes a tintype telegraph
but fuchsia
swirled …
Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
East River Run
Response
Winter Station, Heading North
Annmarie Lockhart
Inspiration Piece
Tonight, drunk on rum
that will not freeze and water
that will not burn
a friend told me
that iced …
Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones
Animated image here: Breathe
Breathe
by Greg Lippert
Inspiration
Force of Nature
by Robert Haydon Jones
Response
This is about a heinous, rape-murder.
If I were writing this expecting to get money for …
Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert
Flying
by Greg Lippert
Response
Yonder
by Robert Haydon Jones
Inspiration
His first flight happened while he was sleeping – and although he had long nursed a quiet terror of bedtime …
Diane Margaret Miller
and Jan Irene Miller
“Containing Flow”
Jan Irene Miller
Acrylic on paper
Inspiration piece
Motion Wisdom
By Diane Margaret Miller
Response
I have been here many moons on this earth, and even the concept of living …
Jan Irene Miller and
Diane Margaret Miller
Jan Irene Miller
Response
Out There
By Diane Margaret Miller
Handwritten image story
Inspiration piece
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Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to the person who …
Uma Gowrishankar and Lisa Kilhefner
Lisa Kilhefner
Inspiration piece
The First Lesson
By Uma Gowrishankar
Response
Seven grains, that was all. Chewed tastelessly
in clear saliva. The coat of husk snagged
his lucent lotus stem of throat, …