Juleen Johnson “That Winter” Inspiration piece Straight Out Game By Amy Souza Response Fire ring of truth Burnt edges Crumbled into dirt Like words on White metal Tindered Don’t run closer Shake the touch That winter Before summer Didn’t matter ——————————————- Note: All …
Amy Souza “Lisboa” Response Miss Adventures (Travel Journal Selections) By Morgan Fox Inspiration piece July 8, 2014 1:17pm Prikid Café, 2nd level (Reykjavik, Iceland) Bus Driver: That’s our opera house. It’s ugly. (slight pause) Driver: And that’s …
Diane Mayr “I Try Not to Act Bitter” Response Sometimes I Lie By Amy Souza Inspiration piece I picked snap peas in the rain and Dan said I looked miserable No difference …
Matthew Levine “Rip Tide” Response By The Sea Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Jimmy O’Hara often wept as the crash boat banged through the chop Sunday nights returning him …
Matthew Levine “Post Tropical” Inspiration piece Fox Time By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy stood behind a bush with his boys just outside the cage and waved and …
Lizzie Parker — Split — digital photo Response Jennifer Fendya Inspiration Piece Enantiodromia Even now a nation tumbles into old drama Religion offered mankind immortality, almost Each new atom – no! the …
Diana K Sharp “I’m Right Here” water color and mixed media Response The Lunchroom Hildie S Block Inspiration piece —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …
Diana K Sharp Inspiration piece Stained Glass Hildie S Block Response The painting means something. What, I’m not quite sure. Something, the colors, the lines. It was just on …
TORA ESTEP, BLINDED BY THE GODDESS Inspiration piece KAREN LEE LEWIS Response Ground Truth after Tora Estep’s “Blinded by the Goddess” We are one, after all, you and I, together we …
Lizzie Parker – Narrow Lane Inspiration Piece Jennifer Fendya Response The Anthropocene They came and knocked on our doors this morning, each one asking, “Will you rise and fall in with us? …
Nancy Ramsey Protect Response Trust © KJ Hannah Greenberg drkarenjoy@yahoo.com Inspiration I signed out AMA, against medical advice. At thirty-five weeks, the baby’s lungs were mature. My phobia of hospitals and of …
Nancy Ramsey Freedom Inspiration Piece Umland © KJ Hannah Greenberg drkarenjoy@yahoo.com Response In a habitable attic, a grey woman looks at albums. Her candle flicks light and shadow on yesterdays. Under the circumstances, her …
Jennifer Fendya — “that kind of girl” — digital photo Response Terah Van Dusen Inspiration Piece The Way of a Woman Once, early on in our relationship I shared a hotel room with my …
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration Piece Terah Van Dusen Response Bird Song I drove myself far down the Requa way I wanted to see myself fly I shooted right there from the seat in my car I …
Rising by Seth Leamer Inspiration Piece Ascendent by Jacob Kawecki How terrible the sight of two red winged Star gods flying from the sea; Breaking asunder the ocean surface, …
Tracey Riehl Response Secretly Satisifed By Alyscia Cunningham Inspiration piece Between these lips, holds secrets of times she creeped it. Bored of repetitivity, she freed herself of captivity. Silenced yet free, as she, satisfies her …
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 “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 …
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 “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 …
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 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 …
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 “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 Mixed water media, digitally enhanced 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 …