Jay Young Gerard “ReEmergence” Response scenes from an italian restaurant By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece you’ve grown smaller from last I saw you, he is larger than your prize that house you coveted has bars he takes …
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Stability Not Stabile-ity By Diane Mayr Response “The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.” — Alexander Calder It looked …
Erika Cleveland “Your Dog was Dead. You, Likewise, Were Almost Dead.” Response Another Day By Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece Minute upon minute, the days creep. It is not so much that looking …
Erika Cleveland “Things Weighing on My Mind” Inspiration piece The Weighty Decades of Yehudis Blau By Channie Greenberg Response Yehudis sighed as she pulled at her cuticle. When she was a …
Amy Souza Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece My brother and I loved Johnny Cash, singing Ring of Fire. Loud. Over and over. It’s decades later now. We grew apart in …
Amy Souza Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I wish you would’ve listened while I was water and you were sand. It hurt to fly into the center alone, to …
Jone MacCulloch Response Notes in a Locker By Margaret Simon Inspiration piece I forgot …..who she wanted to become. …..A note dropped into a locker …..scribbled in cursive, …..curly letters to sign her name. I …
Timmy McKay “Mariposa” Inspiration Mariposa (Butterfly) Alight By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Sharp contrasting color blocks Butterfly alight True authentic brush strong In a field quite tight Each shaft caught on contoured plane Boundaries without fear No …
Jennifer Fendya “Sheep Go to Heaven” (2010) Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I live in heaven with multi-verse gods, ghosts and aging cats, sitting in a tree house, watching bright …
Jennifer Fendya “The Spark of Self-Recognition” Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece On the porch, windowed, green painted, white trim, I’d screwed hooks every whichawhere and there were flowers hanging upside …
Stephanie Ross Inspiration piece I SKINNED MY KNEE ON THE WAY TO PARIS By Stefanie A. Shilling Response I skinned my knee on the way to Paris. It wasn’t the bulging …
Elizabeth Burke Inspiration piece A Lamp Unto the World By Ray Sharp Response Each of us, in their own way, is called to heal the world, to gather up the light scattered in …
Jone MacCulloch Inspiration piece How Do We Stand? By Margaret Simon Response I go to Lady Bird Johnson Grove to be among these giant trees. Fenced forest of ten thousand branches diffuses blue …
Elizabeth Burke Response The Old Gods By Ray Sharp Inspiration piece The old gods spoke through the crows in the trees, the tongue of the flame, the wind that stirred the ashes, but I …
Betty Nichols Inspiration piece Sit With Yourself By Margaret Simon Response The chicory radicchio is said to be the ultimate crunch in your daily salad, rich in vitamin K. This red dagger isn’t …
Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece Here to There By Amy Souza Response Can you get from here to there? Abandon that tree limb For the next phase Grass to sky to building to …
Cathy Stevens Pratt Response Mind of Bees By Amy Souza Inspiration piece You must have a mind of bees To keep you company on quiet days That stretch unending toward decades alone Your …
Betty Nichols Response Egret Blues By Margaret Simon Inspiration piece It’s a tryin’ time to be a symbol of peace Tryin’ during this time to be peace full of a sad song …
Jennifer Fendya “Going Somewhere” Inspiration piece Jenny Forrester Response I’m leaving. You, throngs of people who’ve become The Man under the guise of sticking it to Him. ‘Twas ever thus …
Jennifer Fendya “Cuspy” Response Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece A millennial/gen-y cuspy ecology graduate who should know better, wipes off the baby goats with towels. The mother goat in the video …
Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece If You Call Me Again By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response “If you call me again, I will report you,” I say with impatience, as I …
Cathy Stevens Pratt Response Herr Mittemeister By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece A bird whistles. Herr Herman Mittemeister hums an accompaniment. His voice shines. Likewise, his hair and nails are neatly …
Jonathan Ottke “We” Pen, ink, paper Response Ancestral Mantra By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece we hope you live we hope you thrive we hope you find the strength to fight and speak your mind we hope …
Anya Drapkin “Rain Dance” Ink & crayon on paper Response Piqued on Ashby By Darice M. Jones Inspiration Piece Ayele heard the “bop, bop, bop” of the drums as she drove by From …
Anya Drapkin “Nesting” Inspiration piece Leaping Through Elements of You By Darice M. Jones Response Limbic Ikande was a curious African child born the heart of the often sunny but much …