KJ Hannah Greenburg and Yolanda Palis
Yolanda Palis
Inspiration Piece
Plucking
By KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
Softly, like feathers falling from an unsullied carcass,
Arbitrary, raspberry sentiments dislodge, plummet, once more while
Catching a ticket to humanity’s vitrine …
Tori Lane and Marsha Staiger
Marsha Staiger
Graft series, CB Rake
Acrylic mixed media on canvas
Inspiration Piece
Through Blinds
By Tori Lane
Response
Gloves and snow covered jeans
drip on the tile while I stare
through crooked venetian …
Theresa Kulstad
and Caroline Davies
Theresa Kulstad
Collage on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Response
Blizzard
By Caroline Davies
Inspiration Piece
Ice is tightening its grip.
It wants the world all white.
It remembers Mammoths
their heavy tread making the …
Irene Plax and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Watercolor on mat board
4 x 4 inches
Inspiration Piece
Untitled
By Irene Plax
Response
The baby fell in the water and his sister went in after him.
She opened her …
Yolanda Palis and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald
Inspiration Piece
Cinquain
By Yolanda Palis
Response
Eating
berries, apples–
knife on gold encrusted
plates for Dad and Mom, I recall
famine.
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Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Snowy Madison Avenue
Inspiration Piece
City Snowscape (Remembered)
By Annmarie Lockhart
Response
That winter had to be
the coldest up north
we’d lived together,
the only winter
I could talk you
into moving …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart
Bridget Fahey O’Brien
Mano a Mano
Response
Birthday Gift
By Annmarie Lockhart
Inspiration Piece
A sheet of white paper,
a stretched white canvas
series of silent scenes,
fingers poised above ivory keys
expecting
the unwritten words,
the …
Manny Beltran and Annmarie Lockhart
Manny Beltran
Eve’s Rib
Response
East of Eden
By Annmarie Lockhart
Inspiration Piece
I feel these miles of
space
between us
as an ache
in my heart
just above
and to the left
of my still-sore
rib, bruised from
when …
Annmarie Lockhart and Manny Beltran
Manny Beltran
Sea Watcher
Inspiration Piece
Lost and at Sea
By Annmarie Lockhart
Response
The waves bring in the tide
and its relics, sea glass
and starfish, the same way
it took first you, …
Cara Mayo and Lisa Reutzel
Cara Mayo
Watercolor
Response
White
By Lisa Reutzel
Inspiration Piece
Whenever I think about my father, white is the color I remember. Everything in that room was white. White curtains, white …
Cara Mayo and Indrina Kanth
Cara Mayo
Watercolor
Response
Fire in the Sky
By Indrina Kanth
Inspiration Piece
The space shuttle explodes while we’re waiting in the Planned Parenthood. Peter Jennings is conferencing a NASA engineer …
Chandra Garsson and J. Daniel Grant
Chandra Garsson
Ouroboros
Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 inches
Response
I Am Happy for Now
By J. Daniel Grant
Inspiration Piece
I told my roommate twice that I’m happy. Really happy. …
Jean Gordon and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald
Inspiration Piece
Picnic by the River
By Jean Gordon
Response
Bread is spread with mustard
Stuffed with ham and cheese
Packed with drinks in a cooler
And set on the backseat
Meandering …
Sukia and Barbara Bever
Sukia
Response
This I Know
By Barbara Bever
Inspiration Piece
Stately oaks and maples cast cool shadows over the boulevard. Manicured hedges border the edges of well-mown lawns, embracing frame …
Peg Bruhn and Marge Amey
Peg Bruhn
When It Is My Child
Watercolor, 10 x 14 inches
Response
Perspective
By Marge Amey
Inspiration Piece
It is 1968. He is my husband. He is a Marine Corps helicopter …
Matthew Taylor and Jay Smith
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Indrina Kanth and Cara Mayo
Cara Mayo
In the Woods
Inspiration Piece
The Clearing
By Indrina Kanth
Response
She met him in the wood when she was young, when she first moved to the house on …
Ray Sharp and Al Rudkin
Al Rudkin
The Cobb (or The Sea Wall)
Inspiration piece
The Cobb
By Ray Sharp
Response
How many times I have come down to the sea
with an unquiet mind!
From Lyme Regis, …
Al Rudkin and Ray Sharp
Al Rudkin
Snow Angel
Response
Snow Angel
By Ray Sharp
Inspiration Piece
Have you ever been mesmerized
by snowflakes bright against the night
like a billion white moths
like pieces of the clouds
kissing your …
Jim Tretick and Lisa Ventrella
JimTretick
Response
I received the inspirational piece from Lisa Ventrella. I interpreted the story as someone getting lost in artwork. I found this house and this church, …
Ashley Seitz Kramer and Rachel Morton
Rachel Morton
Hand-Built Clay
Inspiration Piece
Ashley Seitz Kramer
Response
FEVER/ISH
…………for Ignaz Semmelweis, 1818-1865
He is with a patient now—a woman wet
…with fever & flooding & there is
blood & soon …
Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker
Charisse Cecil
Unperceptive Glances
Collage/Acrylic, 8 x 10 inches
Response
Surface
By Lizzie Parker
Inspiration Piece
surface
still is easy
rolling off rain
down paths of disciplined suffering
toward release as bliss
and attuned
projecting unperceptive glances
overlooking divided …
Amy Souza and Irene Plax
Amy Souza
Untitled
Acrylic and collage on canvas,
15 x 30 inches
Response
Untitled
By Irene Plax
Inspiration Piece
Beneath the grey winter light from the enormous overhead window, Nadine felt many things …
Lauren B. Flax and Vita Sims
Vita Sims
Yellow Room at Balla Cragga
Inspiration Piece
Burning
By Lauren B. Flax
Response Piece
The cool slats of wood under my feet as I rose from bed anchored me …
Jewel Beth Davis and Susan Kerr
Susan Kerr
Inspiration Piece
Swimming Up
By Jewel Beth Davis
Response
So it’s a dream?
…….No, not a dream exactly.
A vision?
…….Maybe. No. I don’t know. I’m not asleep. It feels like …