Michelle Greco and
Jenny Cutler Lopez

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
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

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

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
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

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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
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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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 and
Diane Margaret Miller

Jan Irene Miller Response Out There By Diane Margaret Miller Handwritten image story Inspiration piece ____________________________ Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to the person who …

 

Uma Gowrishankar and Lisa Kilhefner

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, …