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Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

Kaylee Savage-Wright Inspiration Piece A la Folie Lisa Nielsen Response Bliss Hisses Its Whisper You want me to wear you like a cape, for the rest of my days. I take that enticement …

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Inspiration Piece Self-Infliction multi-media (oils, pastels, collage, canvas affixed to foam board) Lisa Nielsen Response Glistening Like Whitewash The molten lava of your ambiguous soul reaches across the counter to …

Adam Cornford and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard “Energy Diptych” Response Black Energy Black inhuman plumes of entropy ascend from bombed Iraq wells and exploded tanker cars in Quebec Great black snake sways its many-eyed …

Marcia Russell and Diane Mayr

Play On Diane Mayr Inspiration Piece Sonnet 1 – Play On! Marcia Russell Response If to my younger self I’d give advice – Don’t waste a single moment in regret. Be happy you …

Diane Mayr and Marcia Russell

Between Diane Mayr Response In Honor of my Sister, Debbie, Whose Light Shines On… Marcia Russell Inspiration piece I felt like a 100-watt light bulb dimming to 20 watts. ‘Chemo-‐brain’ made …

Helen Lewis and Marilyn Ackerman

Marilyn Ackerman “Moons” Inspiration piece A New Beginning By Helen Lewis Response It was during Adam’s shift that the ship came within sensor range of the next planet. As usual, he …

Helen Lewis and Kirsten Brady

Kirsten Brady “Conductor” Inspiration piece Renaissance Man By Helen Lewis Response Giovanni Gabbiano was a true Renaissance man. Not that he ever used that term to describe himself – he’d never …

Aimee Fullman and Urmilla Khanna

Aimee Fullman “Juicy Chicken” Response A Juicy Chicken By Urmilla Khanna Inspiration piece Year 1955 When the Passenger train crunched its brakes and stopped at Deori, a small village in Chattisgarh, India, …

Dante Jericho and Matthew Andrews

Dante Jericho Inspiration piece You Have To Be By Matthew Andrews Response You build yourself a home, a life, a dream In comfort made from sweat and work and blood Yet something …

Amy Souza and Seth Leamer

Seth Leamer “Mylar Dirge” Digital Response Elm Street By Amy Souza Inspiration piece This is what it’s like, boy, so keep your eyes open. Where did that voice come from? Sounds like Mr. …

Amy Souza and
Barbara Duarte Esgalhado

Object World, Part I Barbara Duarte Esgalhado Response Crema By Amy Souza Inspiration piece That dog’s eyes make me sad coffee won’t stop grinding I’m completely stuck need more hot water The axe doesn’t know where …

Caroline Harrison and Elizabeth Wexler

Caroline Harrison “Heartstrings” Watercolor and ink on paper Response Heart Pieces By Elizabeth Wexler Inspiration piece Thump-thump, thump thump I feel my heart beating Sometimes it speeds up… Other times, I have to put my …

Jennifer Haig Cooreman
and Tony Ellis

Tony Ellis Inspiration piece Hanna’s Wanderings By Jennifer Haig Cooreman Response From the time she could walk, Hanna explored her world. Before she went out, her parents buckled her into …

Barbara Bever and Jules Rolfe

Jules Rolfe Giving Hands Inspiration piece Lake Effect Barbara Bever Response The cold broom of Canada’s winter sweeps across Lake Erie and dumps a dustbin of powdery snow …

Jane Hulstrunk and
Terah Van Dusen

Jane Hulstrunk Response Cave Dweller By Terah Van Dusen Inspiration piece I tiptoe back into my cave here I know no love and my dreams are slaves the walls they’re painted with a man and child that have no …

Jane Hulstrunk
and Lisa Lynn Biggar

Jane Hulstrunk Response Celebration By Lisa Lynn Biggar Inspiration piece Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. ~ from The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley This …

Paula Kaiman and
Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece Disconnection By Paula Kaiman Response “Your primary problem,” said the healer, “is that, energetically, your head is disconnected from your body. In other words, you’re not …

Uma Gowrishankar
and Aimee Fullman

Blown Away Aimee Fullman Inspiration piece Lay Out By Uma Gowrishankar Response The story of earth is cycle of becoming. Path of light enters the eye at birth, exits in column of water, surfaces, breaks through sheet of silence to …

Aimee Fullman and Kathleen Jordan

An Eye Towards Winter by Aimee Fullman Inspiration Piece Brushed Blue by Kathleen Jordan Like a lint Roller the wind Picks up leaves and earth and the tiny delicate last …

Rebecca Parker and
Uma Gowrishankar

“Buried Alive” Rebecca Parker Response Inspiration pieces: Prayer By Uma Gowrishankar Life is a large poem, I live out day by day, words strung as prayer beads. The warm seeds from the …

Aimee Fullman
and Uma Gowrishankar

Aimee Fullman Response Inspiration Pieces: Prayer By Uma Gowrishankar Life is a large poem, I live out day by day, words strung as prayer beads. The warm seeds from the ancient tree …

Greg Lippert & Robert Haydon Jones

Tora Estep and Adam Cornford

Tora Estep Oil on canvas Response Arroyo By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece The house says ours but with its wide rooms and windows waving slow tree shadows I don’t seem to know …

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Judy Weinberg They Always Sat Together Inspiration piece Double Identity By Grace Burns Response The Young One stared into her mirror to search for someone other than herself. The Aged One, she imagined, …

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg Response Mary By Grace Burns Inspiration piece she stands alone amidst the ugliness, destruction and chaos she stands alone always upright, never faltering she stands alone and prays not for her own plight but for those whom she …