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Abigail Vaughan and Bette Hileman

Abigail Vaughan “Dunes” Paper sculpture 17 x 11 x 3 inches Response Dunes By Bette Hileman Inspiration piece . Show me a quiet place behind the dunes where wind does not blow, and that will be …

Kirsten Brady and Helen Lewis

Kirsten Brady “Michelangelo’s Motor” Response A Visit to the Sistine Chapel, 1511 By Helen Lewis Inspiration piece You’ll find my master on the scaffold there: Flat on his back, with paint streaks …

Amy Souza and Seth Leamer

Seth Leamer “Meat Goat” Inspiration piece From “A Brief History of the Seventeenth Conflict” By Amy Souza Response First reference to the meat goat can be found in the 26th century, …

Amy Souza and
Barbara Duarte Esgalhado

Barbara Duarte Esgalhado Inspiration piece Worrying Lack of Context By Amy Souza Response The man next door is shaped like a vee, his bottom so skinny it’s a wonder …

Caroline Davies and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Response Blue Birds By Caroline Davies Inspiration piece You used to wait for them to return, ‘Blue birds’ you called them, before you could say ‘Swallow’ ‘Blue Birds Back’ was …

Barbara Martin and Denise Marois-Wolf

Barbara Martin Happy Place (collage, ink) Response Denise Marois-Wolf The Space Between Us Inspiration piece My sister is across the table, shifting her gaze from my face to my hands. She …

Marcela Kogan and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Pimental Inspiration piece Surprising Green By Marcela Kogan Response CHAPTER 1 Color forbidden in my all—all that is dark and impenetrable. Grass did not grow in the fields of my …

Denise Marois-Wolf and Barbara Martin

Barbara Martin Dig Deeper Inspiration Piece Afternoon at the Place de la Concorde By Denise Marois-Wolf By the time the tour group reaches the Place de la Concorde, …

Lisa Pimental and Marcela Kogan

Lisa Pimental, 345 Response Marcela Kogan, Coveting My Son’s Tutor Inspiration piece I am sitting in my car, waiting for my son to come out of his tutor’s house, …

Sharon A. Murphy
and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Sharon A. Murphy Response Brushed Blue By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Like a lint Roller the wind Picks up leaves and earth and the tiny delicate last petals of summer Rolling …

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Sharon A. Murphy

Sharon A. Murphy Inspiration Piece Wheels Down By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Why me ? as fate points its indelible finger Perhaps wrong finger, perhaps pointing wrong way Feelin’ small and trapped Just …

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West Response Entertaining Your 60s By Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Do you ever miss the simpler days one room baggage among crumpled beds war plots over bad coffee on every street corner …

Elizabeth Stelling
and Tyson West

Tyson West Inspiration piece Just Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Response It’s gone quiet this afternoon like all others on the late no lasting days of pit-patter rain. With that, …

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Elizabeth Akin Stelling “Bystander” Inspiration piece You Can’t Buffalo Me By Tyson West Response Sister Elizabeth, you can’t tell me You got bison in New Jersey ‘ceping maybe in a couple of …

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling “Disabled Guardian Angel” Response A Call to Souls By Tyson West Inspiration piece The darkened pine grove On the west bank of the mountain river Conceals the brick walls Of …

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Steppin Out Judy Weinberg Inspiration Piece Landfall Grace Burns Response We swim in an ocean of drama with no hope for respite floundering and splashing to stay afloat certain to be sucked under by whirlpools …

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Response Photograph Broken Dreams By Judy Weinberg Inspiration The Hollow Husband by Grace Burns He shouted his devotion for her for all to hear and declared her a luminous angel whom …

Amanda C. Brainerd and Jennifer Cooreman

Response piece by Amanda C. Brainerd Inspiration piece What Song Will You Sing?: Moving Through Hopelessness by Jennifer Cooreman My sister and I didn’t fight, but if we …

Jane Souza Hulstrunk and Caroline Davies

Photograph by Jane Souza Hulstrunk Icy Morning Inspiration Piece Caroline M. Davies “Ice prints” Response Ice prints Each winter my brother and I would wait for the tell-tale signs. Jack and Jill Frost’s pitter-patter of …

Lisa Kilhefner and Sharon Murphy

Lisa Kilhefner Response Sharon Murphy Hay Wire Inspiration piece You are roughly made and unsophisticated. Decrepit. Hewn and hallowed out. The barn may have burnt down because we used you for temporary repairs. Frayed and …

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

Kaylee Savage-Wright Damaged Goods- Lisa Nielsen He insinuates himself into my breath, ravaging my desire for freedom Just to maintain takes every ounce of sorrow, is our newest game but only …

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Inspiration Piece Snow Waltzing Annmarie Lockhart Response Mind Over Matter this poem is not about snow no matter how the flakes pile up at the door, or the way a …

Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Response Ferry Drive-by Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece Once Again, I’m Sick for Superbowl spit and bitten my viewpoint always birdless and occasionally hopeless but never, ever helpless even when the song floats unsung the …

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard Response The Inevitable Forward oils and water based inks on layers of canvas and tissue that are affixed to canvas Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece I Came to Bring …

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

Kaylee Savage-Wright Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Damaged Goods He has insinuated himself into my breath, ravaging my desire for freedom Just to maintain takes every ounce of sorrow, is our newest game but …