Jonathan Ottke and Barbara Black
Jonathan Ottke Response The Warm Nights alteration Sun sets, the sexed flowers open. Far off, teenagers screech the songs of dead moths. The warm nights have altered them. They are hysterical with their …
16 Dec
Dante Jericho and Meg Max
Dante Jericho and Meg Max
Dante Jericho “Windows and Wings (Gifts from the Emptiness)” Response Horoscope for the Empty By Meg Max Inspiration piece You’ll feel a tug from the stars, a feeling that a plug …
16 Dec
Meg Max and Dante Jericho
Meg Max and Dante Jericho
Dante Jericho “Finding Our Orbits” Inspiration piece Luna and the Bears By Meg Max Response The world was not what it once was. When Jane and Rob were children, they’d been relatively …
15 Dec
Wendy Schneider and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Wendy Schneider and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Wendy Schneider Response Holiday Memories By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Cold pricks the nose and ears Cloudy skies and unwelcoming winds swirl As we rush, thinking of others Old friends present and …
15 Dec
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas and JoAnn Moore
MM Panas “Blue Vista” Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 12″x12″ Response The Gift By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece Cypress bow their crowns to the Pacific as fog ensconced hills make wholly inept attempts to …
15 Dec
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
MM Panas “Pink Snow” Inspiration piece For Possibilities By JoAnn Moore Response It is December. The world is snow tipped with darkness— especially the northern half— after all, it is winter. Songs and tidings attempt to mollify …
15 Dec
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke Inspiration piece As Camponotus* Is to Love By Barbara Black Response “The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.” E. O. Wilson A hidden entry, …
15 Dec
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Paper Wasp” Inspiration piece Sullen Season after Polistes dominula By Barbara Black Response Mist limns a still pond. Snails idle. Liminal. Pallid sun seeps into us. Silent minutes pass, as outside, moist …
15 Dec
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke “Red Roots” Inspiration piece Supper After Charles Simic By Barbara Black Response The old woman on the floor with a cleaver, its blades stained lurid pink. The cat on the counter …
14 Dec
Jules Rolfe and Amy Souza
Jules Rolfe and Amy Souza
Amy Souza “Found” Inspiration piece On the Wings of a Wish By Jules Rolfe Response When you a wish on the glowing candles of your birthday cake, on a dandelion puff, on …
14 Dec
Tyson West and Susan B.
Tyson West and Susan B.
Susan B. Collage Inspiration piece Mickey Squirel An elegy for me By Tyson West Response Most tragic love tales arise At a distance – fixed points chalked on the stage Glances at the paseo Among …
14 Dec
Amy Souza and Diane Mayr
Amy Souza and Diane Mayr
Diane Mayr La Langueur Inspiration piece Digital composition. Drawing by Edgar Degas, poem by Paul Verlaine. Less Than Anguish By Amy Souza Response Quiet rain, steady the kind you can get used to Rhythm …
14 Dec
Marsha Staiger and Kamika Cooper
Marsha Staiger and Kamika Cooper
Kamika’s Words Marsha Staiger Acrylic Response Bad Connection Kamika Cooper Inspiration Piece Those things you thought you knew just wouldn’t leave you alone clouded your vision so thoroughly you never found your way home you were …
13 Dec
Susan B. and Tyson West
Susan B. and Tyson West
Susan B. “Shadows” Response Dialogue in a Convent Garden By Tyson West Inspiration piece Sister Barbie: Mother Superior, Forsake did I the worldly pleasures of woman Shopping, cleaning up baby urine, puppy poop …
13 Dec
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones
and Matthew Levine
Matthew Levine “River’s Edge” Response Sing Along By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece Jimmy O’Hara was 15 when he met Joy Levy, his counselor at the summer camp the town …
13 Dec
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine and
Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine “Survivor” Inspiration piece One Bad Day By Robert Haydon Jones Response The pitch that broke Jimmy O’Hara’s left forearm was an ordinary fastball in the mid-80s hurled by a …
12 Dec
Heitzi Epstein and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Heitzi Epstein and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Linda M. Rhinehart Neas – Homeless (Photo enhanced with FastStone Image Viewer) Inspiration Response: Lone Survivor by Heitzi Epstein Once I lived within a house of rough planks. The home …
12 Dec
Marilyn Ackerman and Michelle Greco
Marilyn Ackerman and Michelle Greco
Origin Story By Michelle Greco Inspiration piece I’m from a neighborhood where kids put you in a schoolyard headlock in third grade. I’m from stained glass. Jesus looks down on everyone—melancholy. I’m from …
12 Dec
Aimee Fullman and Heidi Mordhorst
Aimee Fullman and Heidi Mordhorst
A l’heure Response piece by Aimee Fullman Predestine Inspiration piece by Heidi Mordhorst when does my eyes flashed before my life back when I was nothing nothing but a twinkle in the …
11 Dec
Tora Estep and Jone Rush MacCulloch
Tora Estep and Jone Rush MacCulloch
Tora Estep “Darkness and Light” Charcoal, oil paint, and pigment on paper Response How to Write a Poem By Jone Rush MacCulloch Inspiration piece Rise before dawn gathering words Those juicy, succulent images Aromatic …
11 Dec
Anne Nowselski and Cheryl Lavoie
Anne Nowselski and Cheryl Lavoie
Cheryl Lavoie Inspiration piece Apache Plums By Anne Nowselski Response That’s not their name, of course. Plumes, is the word. Fallugia paradoxa, if you want. They don’t grow here, not in the shade of …
10 Dec
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Barbara Black and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke Inspiration piece If I Leave a Space By Barbara Black Response He opened the sliding door to his balcony. Standing in the night air soothed him, made simple …
09 Dec
Kamika Cooper and Marsha Staiger
Kamika Cooper and Marsha Staiger
Dragon Fly Marsha Staiger Acrylic Inspiration Piece We Won’t Forget You Kamika Cooper Response There is history in these walls those who travelled through dense forest and across vast ocean, leaving their mark of the …
07 Dec
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Wendy Schneider
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Wendy Schneider
Wendy Schneider Inspiration piece Water Wonder By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Neck arching back and arms reaching for imagined rafters Into the miracle of shower after long day And nipples saluting the …
07 Dec
Cecilia Driscoll and Jane Hulstrunk
Cecilia Driscoll and Jane Hulstrunk
Jane Hulstrunk “Out for a walk” Inspiration Cecilia Driscoll Response “Wood Pause” in a mountain wood i learned to love the road pavement leading surely home along the golden vanishing i learned to love the …
Monthly Archives: December 2015