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11 Sep

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Darice Jones and Quinzee the Artist

Quinzee the Artist “Wade” Inspiration piece Submerged By Darice Marcella Jones Response Submerged The earth was scorched And I couldn’t bare to look at our seeds Even though I was well aware of the …

 
By DJ The Griot
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03 Mar

Dale Leffler and Sharon A Murphy

Dale Leffler and Sharon A Murphy

Sharon A Murphy Spring’s Arrival Mixed media Response Till Spring Sings By Dale Leffler Inspiration piece   Now there is nothing no words on the wing no voice in the wind no color at the berm. Only …

 
By Sharon Murphy
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03 Mar

Jewel Beth Davis
and Jennifer Fendya

Jewel Beth Davis
and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Mystery of the Peregrine Falcon By Jewel Beth Davis Response A dead bird lay in my path as I stepped out onto my wood planked porch. …

 
By Amy Souza
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01 Jun

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley and Amy Souza

Cristal Brawley Response No One Said a Pandemic Would Feel This Lonely By Amy Souza Inspiration piece TV people on a TV blanket watch TV stars then break into song Absence …

 
By Amy Souza
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01 Jun

Jennifer Fendya and
Marisa Bevington

Jennifer Fendya and
Marisa Bevington

Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Everyone Hurting By Jennifer Fendya Response Everyone …..hurting everyone too …..tight and …..heavy, too weary and …..oppositional, each one seeking an exit …..stage left stage right This angry snake …..(clutch it hard now, sharp …..talons grasping) biting the …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Urmilla Khanna
and Channie Greenberg

Urmilla Khanna
and Channie Greenberg

Channie Greenberg “Abstracted Hillside” Inspiration piece Radha’s Dream By Urmilla Khanna Response Radha’s eyelids flickered ever so slightly as she turned on to her side and pulled the soft comforter over …

 
By Amy Souza
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31 May

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

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 …

 
By statenislandlisa
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30 May

Erika Cleveland and Channie Greenberg

Erika Cleveland and Channie Greenberg

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 …

 
By Erika Cleveland
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13 Mar

Jennifer Fendya
and Jenny Forrester

Jennifer Fendya
and Jenny Forrester

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 …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Mar

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Cathy Stevens Pratt

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Cathy Stevens Pratt

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 …

 
By Amy Souza
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and Cathy Stevens Pratt
10 Mar

Cathy Stevens Pratt
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Cathy Stevens Pratt
and KJ Hannah Greenberg

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 …

 
By Amy Souza
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08 Mar

Anya Drapkin and Darice M. Jones

Anya Drapkin and Darice M. Jones

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 …

 
By DJ The Griot
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01 Jun

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Seth Leamer

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Seth Leamer

Seth Leamer Inspiration piece Kaorog’s Companion By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Kaorog regarded his tentacles. They were turning purple. Whereas that hue was lovely, it was, simultaneously, an indicator of …

 
By Amy Souza
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31 May

Channie Greenberg and Melisa Peterson Lewis

Channie Greenberg and Melisa Peterson Lewis

Channie Greenberg Response Café Lizard By Melisa Peterson Lewis Inspiration piece It was a hot summer. Rust-colored rocks and dirt met dark green cactuses and brush. Sal’s staff enjoyed the …

 
By Melisa Peterson Lewis
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30 Nov

Leslie Grollman and Ipek Davaz

Leslie Grollman and Ipek Davaz

Ipek Davaz Inspiration piece De, UnBecoming By Leslie Grollman Response De. She liked to be called ‘De’ (pronounced ‘dee’). She spoke in a language of ‘de’s. Every word started with ‘de’. …

 
By leslieg
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20 Sep

Victoria Nessen and
Jenny Forrester

Victoria Nessen and
Jenny Forrester

Victoria Nessen Response Untitled By Jenny Forrester Inspiration piece I dream I ordered a kitten snake online. It comes in a box, curled – snake body with a hard plastic …

 
By Amy Souza
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Jenny Forrester
07 Jun

Alyscia Cunningham and Brian MacDonald

Alyscia Cunningham and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Spark by Alyscia Cunningham Response At first you grasped me tenderly, Caressed my core vivaciously, Piece-by-piece, created me, To light our cosmic galaxy. Formed my inner soul perfectly, And topped my …

 
By Alyscia Cunningham
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07 Mar

Tracey Riehl and Kirsten Weeks

Tracey Riehl and Kirsten Weeks

Kirsten Weeks Inspiration piece Evolution By Tracey Riehl Response I was plucked from the Void. The Void is gentle, peaceful and serene. Exchange of thought and growing upon our assumptions, was …

 
By Amy Souza
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10 Sep

Lisa Kilhefner and Alyscia Cunningham

Lisa Kilhefner and Alyscia Cunningham

  Lisa Kilhefner Response   Alyscia Cunningham Inspiration piece A Woman I Am Unique natural curve, The moon strong urge, Our monthly red cycle, Make moody feelings psycho. Body fit for birth, Creating life here on earth, Because …

 
By lisakilhefner
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13 Jun

Marie Kelly and Lisa Kilhefner

Marie Kelly and Lisa Kilhefner

Lisa Kilhefner Inspiration piece Splay By Marie Kelly Response membrane of memory: cells cast together from a sense of urgency, muscle-memory, soul-memory memory of hand on throat, abduction of thighs, couldn’t wait for timetables …

 
By lisakilhefner
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03 Jun

Diane Mayr and Eleanor Marie Lattner

Diane Mayr and Eleanor Marie Lattner

Diane Mayr “What I Know” Response “The Silent Valley” By Eleanor Marie Lattner Inspiration piece The Silent Valley There is a cavalry from afar; I can hear their haunted hooves when they search the …

 
By Diane Mayr
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11 Dec

Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine

Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine

Matthew Levine “Post Tropical” Inspiration piece Fox Time By Robert Haydon Jones Response Jimmy stood behind a bush with his boys just outside the cage and waved and …

 
By Matthew Levine
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04 Dec

Cara James and
Gay Guard-Chamberlin

Cara James and
Gay Guard-Chamberlin

Gay Guard-Chamberlin Open Window Inspiration Piece   No Thing by Cara James Response no thing is ever remembered, embodied in its old form, in anger or lust embalmed. no, things are buried deep where they feed the …

 
By Cara James
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09 Jun

Tora Estep and Amy Rogers Nazarov

Tora Estep and Amy Rogers Nazarov

“Untitled” (in progress) Tora Estep Oil on canvas Response My Post Adoption Depression By Amy Rogers Nazarov Inspiration piece The vision always began the same way: I’d be leaving my house cradling …

 
By Amy Souza
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07 Jun

Tracey Riehl and
KJ Hannah Greenburg

Tracey Riehl and
KJ Hannah Greenburg

Tracey Riehl “Survive and Thrive” Response Not Noticed By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece It’s funny how miseries go unnoticed by authorities. Such was the case when my family moved and …

 
By Tracey Riehl
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