Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard
Jay Young Gerard “Contusa” Inspiration piece I Felt Something, For A Minute By Lisa Nielsen Response Me half smiling, layering out my scars like pinafores, You leave your fingerprints on me. Go …
Amy Souza and Ash Martins
Amy Souza and Ash Martins
Amy Souza Response Grief Is Part I By Ash Martins Inspiration piece Time slows down, stops entirely, then somehow starts again in the moments you transition from this life to your next Grief is so unbelievably heavy It …
Gary Hewitt and Jonathan Ottke
Gary Hewitt and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Two Stars have a conversation” Inspiration piece Orion’s Boote By Gary Hewitt Response “I am the brightest.” Alnilam raised a nebulous eye at the unwarranted disturbance. Who the hell invited …
Leslie Grollman and Rusty Lynn
Leslie Grollman and Rusty Lynn
Rusty Lynn The Great Spirit Is Everywhere Inspiration piece After Accretion By Leslie Grollman Response Little Rover beeps to himself …
Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Amy Souza and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Amy Souza Response August Strokes By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slipping into the liquid aqua glassed pool These are the days of leisure swims Summer season — autumn of life The swish …
Heather Hartman and Amy Souza
Heather Hartman and Amy Souza
Heather Hartman Response Orbit By Amy Souza Inspiration piece Everywhere is here and there and nowhere you can be at once Like those signs with seven arrows pointing every which way Big town – Small town – The moon – You …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jennifer Fendya
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Lief By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Happiness, after all, buds when verisimilitudes and truth form Matching pairs, when most weet of feelings become integrated, When both straths and …
Jennifer Fendya and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Jennifer Fendya and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Jennifer Fendya Response Death by Children By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece That morning marked the nineteenth during which Lani was troubled by fever. What had begun as an “innocent” …
Ash Martins and Amy Souza
Ash Martins and Amy Souza
Amy Souza Inspiration piece To the Buoy, and Beyond By Ash Martins Response If I swim to the buoy, I’ll have someplace to hold onto, if I want. But, I …
Anya Mayer and Kamika Cooper
Anya Mayer and Kamika Cooper
Anya Mayer “Summer Daze” Ink on paper Repsonse This is for By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece this is for attentive eyes and rich brown skin reminding me of afrika and heart home i must have …
Kamika Cooper and Anya Mayer
Kamika Cooper and Anya Mayer
Anya Mayer “Rainbow Moon Fish” watercolor with India ink on handmade Tibetan paper Inspiration piece Out of Our Element By Kamika Cooper Response told us to stay home but we did not taking rockets …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Amy Souza Inspiration piece Alone with the Sea By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response piece Alone with the sea, the warm sand massaging the feet From the wonder wander of the traveling …
Tora Estep and Shannon Brown
Tora Estep and Shannon Brown
Tora Estep “Resisting Expansion” Collage and acrylic on watercolor paper Response Re: Things Governing the Size of My Universe By Shannon Brown Inspiration piece The lenses that I look through, that tell …
Jonathan Ottke and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jonathan Ottke and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jonathan Ottke BirdParenthesis Ink on Paper Response The Garden Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration At last we’re all back here again The Wall encircling us safe The birds, the rain, the flowers pose As the …
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza
Cristal Brawley Response No One Said a Pandemic Would Feel This Lonely By Amy Souza Inspiration piece TV people on a TV blanket watch TV stars then break into song Absence …
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Talking to the Dead By Amy Souza Response 1. They don’t care about salmonberries or our fear of needles overcome. We hope they miss us but …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones “Sharing This Space With You” Graphic pixel play Response Reflections at the End of a School Year By Sarah Pizer-Bush Inspiration piece We sit together and remember precious moments that …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Retreat” Inspiration piece Beyond Shapes Like Globes By Darice Jones Response We sent our elder’s souls into the bodies of small furry animals as a way to observe the …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Ritual” Response The New Elements Cloak By Darice Jones Inspiration piece I kept bending. You were on a bender Drinking my light like it was Facundo Paraiso and coke I mistook the …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Darice Jones “My Echo” Inspiration piece Blues Diary 2022 By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response Spent winter months cloaked in blues again. So many feelings suppressed. Sediment. Layers of loneliness, grief, rage, and …
Leslie Grollman and Jennifer Fendya
Leslie Grollman and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya “Broderick Park, Niagara” Inspiration piece Ushering the Moon Into the Lake By Leslie Grollman Response A yellow comfy chair from the Saturday Flea perfect for teatime and tossing seeds to the birds:…….gull…….duck…….sparrow perfect …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Madona Tyler LeBlanc
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Madona Tyler LeBlanc “Vote. Fight.” Collage and watercolor Inspiration Piece Ideate By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response In circumambulating ideas, folks tend toward imagining, actually conceiving Bits and bobs that cleek outliers such that …
Jennifer Fendya and
Marisa Bevington
Jennifer Fendya and
Marisa Bevington
Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Everyone Hurting By Jennifer Fendya Response Everyone …..hurting everyone too …..tight and …..heavy, too weary and …..oppositional, each one seeking an exit …..stage left stage right This angry snake …..(clutch it hard now, sharp …..talons grasping) biting the …
Marisa Bevington
and Jennifer Fendya
Marisa Bevington
and Jennifer Fendya
Marisa Bevington Response After the End Times By Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece I imagine you dead. You gave your car to her your house I have your wedding photo album in a plastic bag …
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Linda Mitchell “Silences” Response Silences By Jone MacCulloch Inspiration piece A moonless sky tonight The phone in the hall doesn’t ring Commas drift like clouds Weather’s changing, my scar knows The phone in the hall …