Catie Jarvis and Michelle Wallace
The Form of Tree Part I. Rules of Poetree Two roots spring from the ground. Call them A and B. One …
Jim Doran and Maureen O’Donnell
Jim Doran and Maureen O’Donnell
Response – the Fishwife, by Jim Doran Inspiration Piece by Maureen O’Donnell The Shadow of Saint-Quentin Maureen O’Donnell The fountain twisted high over a pool studded with tiles of …
Cheryl Leibovitz and DJ Asson
Cheryl Leibovitz and DJ Asson
Cheryl Leibovitz Unrequited Love Acrylic mixed media Response Night By DJ Asson Inspiration piece Quin knelt down by her chair, collapsed really. He knew he shouldn’t have drunk so much. But, it …
Mark Owen Martin and Sarah Krouse
Mark Owen Martin and Sarah Krouse
Music: Pavane for oboe, cello and harp by Mark Owen Martin They By Sarah Krouse A father and daughter sit across from each other at a table in the …
Cheryl Leibovitz and
Mark Owen Martin
Cheryl Leibovitz and
Mark Owen Martin
Cheryl Leibovitz Acrylic mixed media on paper Responses Music by Mark Owen Martin: Scherzo Inspiration piece . —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to …
Irene Plax and Brian MacDonald
Irene Plax and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald untitled Inspiration Piece Irene Plax untitled Response Every night of vacation we smoke cigarettes and they light up when we inhale. In the heat of the summer night, the …
Rusty Lynn and Neil Ellman
Rusty Lynn and Neil Ellman
Rusty Lynn “Unpredictable Spring” Response The Coming Spring By Neil Ellman Inspiration piece It’s supposed to happen Every spring— The dead branches Come alive again Burst with emerald green And glitter in the sun Like petalous stones. Every …
Paula Lantz and Quentin Paquette
Paula Lantz and Quentin Paquette
Paula Lantz Response — Coffee Ritual Quentin Paquette Inspiration Piece — Coffee Shop Hey,…Hey wake up won’t you? There’s a hand on your arm that provides a stationary point …
Brian MacDonald and Irene Plax
Brian MacDonald and Irene Plax
Brian MacDonald square one Response Irene Plax untitled Inspiration Piece The sun over me is so glorious it won’t shut up. Underneath me is the sea. It’s frightening, a world unto itself, …
Vita Sims and
Meghan MacNamara
Vita Sims and
Meghan MacNamara
Vita Sims Dreamscape 1 Mixed Media, 16 by 20 inches Response Just Past the Driveway By Meghan MacNamara Inspiration piece My parents kept a mail Jeep in the backyard, just past the …
Lisa Pimental and Tori Lane
Lisa Pimental and Tori Lane
Lisa Pimental the portal Mixed media on canvas Response piece Wingless by Tori Lane Inspiration piece Holding a green teapot, she sits in the silent patience of her unmoving wings – little kitchen angel …
Sukia and Dale Leffler
Sukia and Dale Leffler
Sukia Response Creating Art By Dale Leffler Inspiration piece A poem or piece of art makes us stop. …suspend time for just a little bit. It opens us up to see …
Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Jan Irene Miller
Cheryl Somers Aubin
and Jan Irene Miller
Jan Irene Miller Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches Inspiration piece Inside By Cheryl Somers Aubin Response In the distance, the building rises like a mountain out of …
Ann Marie Williams and Elizabeth Cordes
Ann Marie Williams and Elizabeth Cordes
Ann Marie Williams “Tangled Ocean Dreams” Response Ocean Dreams By Elizabeth Cordes Inspiration piece There is a long, luxurious hiss as the sun sinks into the ocean. The shimmering light of the extinguishing beast casts …
Marcella Wolfe
and Marty McGihon
Marcella Wolfe
and Marty McGihon
Marty McGihon WIND-UP DOLL Acrylic on paper Inspiration piece OPENING INTO COLOR By Marcella Wolfe Response We would take these colors for what they are if we could only know them: the color of a …
Doug Poms and
Mark Owen Martin
Doug Poms and
Mark Owen Martin
Music: Someone to Go to Brunch With, a Gymnopedie By Mark Owen Martin Inspiration piece Someone to Go to Brunch With By Douglas Poms Response I long for somebody Somebody to go …
Marty McGihon
and Marcella Wolfe
Marty McGihon
and Marcella Wolfe
Marty McGihon ON THE EDGE OF DISTRACTION Acrylic on paper Response RUNNING FROM COLOR By Marcella Wolfe Inspiration Piece She sits in a room nearly empty of color; claims she can’t write with any hue …
Nicole Harper and
Marla Deschenes
Nicole Harper and
Marla Deschenes
Nicole Harper Untitled Response Untitled By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece . Beneath the surface of harmony the dreamers sleep, This is when I come alive. The darkness hides the flaws Societal reject Cloaked in the black …
Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Jane Hulstrunk
Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk Where the Fairies Dance at Night Inspiration piece THE END OF THE AMERICAN ELEPHANTS By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response On the land mass now known as the continent of …
Marla Deschenes
and Nicole Harper
Marla Deschenes
and Nicole Harper
Nicole Harper Sonia and Dog Still Life Inspiration piece Red Sea By Marla Deschenes Response We watched them born into the time of oceans of oil And hoped dolphins might exist past …
Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Castle From My Nightmare Inspiration piece Fragments of a Dream By Annmarie Lockhart Response . locked in the turret of a dark cold castle made of rock thrown up on the steep …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Primal Urges Response ….. Wolf By Day By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece ….. His colors are exactly the snow, the tree bark, the underbrush. Crossing the brook he stops to look; blue jay to his …
Annmarie Lockhart
and Bobbie Troy
Annmarie Lockhart
and Bobbie Troy
Sheepskin Armor By Annmarie Lockhart Response (photo and poem) ….. It’s a pastoral scene: a Sunday drive, the Amish farm, cotton balls dot an emerald landscape on a clear-sky day. A picture …
Peg Bruhn and Grace Burns
Peg Bruhn and Grace Burns
Peg Bruhn After Her Watercolor Response A Drunken Invitation By Grace Burns Inspiration piece We invited her to stay at our house knowing she wouldn’t take us seriously. The invitation was conceived from a mixture …
Maureen O’Donnell
and Jim Doran
Maureen O’Donnell
and Jim Doran
Jim Doran Inspiration Piece The Naiads By Maureen O’Donnell Response A thunderstorm rages high above the glass-gray surface of the lake. Plink, plunk, plink in quick-time. Beneath the surface, the …