SPARK 18

Category Archive: SPARK 18

Work from SPARK 18: November 30 – December 7, 2012

09 Dec

Michele Thomas and Ray Sharp

Response Michele Thomas, Artist “Swansong penultimate” by Michele Thomas Inspiration Ray Sharp, Poet I dream you drenched in river light I dream you drenched in river light hazy opalescent matutinal flickery moth …

By Amy Souza
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09 Dec

Amanda C. Brainerd and Meghan E. Hunt

Response piece Amanda C. Brainerd Inspiration piece A Love Letter Home, Wherever that May Be By Meghan E. Hunt She wonders, briefly and in solitary moments, if you can miss …

By amandamuses
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09 Dec

Robbi Nester and Lavina Blossom

Lavina Blossom Inspiration piece What They Found Robbi Nester Response In the stories we have passed down forever on steles and carved stones, on paper and skins worn thin by the hands …

By rknester
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09 Dec

Lavina Blossom and Robbi Nester

Lavina Blossom, Needs Response Making Whole Hive Mead The hive was dying anyhow: the queen laid only sterile eggs, though scouts still scanned the fields for purple beesbread, almond trees in bloom. The …

By ldblosso
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09 Dec

Cecilia Driscoll and Evelyn Ihrke

Evelyn Ihrke Inspiration Piece Life Layers Pantoum Cecilia Driscoll Response In the layers of your life in the branching and flowing you dance, almost invisible lit by fire or stars. In the branching and …

By cr.driscoll
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09 Dec

Cynthia Grady and Nick Winkworth

Beneath the Balcony Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece Lingering Light Cynthia Grady Response I remember the sun-baked warmth of an afternoon, where no birdsong could be heard, not a winged-creature buzzed, I stood becalmed, …

By nickwinkworth
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09 Dec

Nick Winkworth and Cynthia Grady

The Poetry of Baking Nick Winkworth Response In This Kitchen Cynthia Grady Inspiration Piece The kitchen is where my ambitions stir. Hopes rise like bread dough atop the fridge in cornered warmth (punch it down, it …

By nickwinkworth
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09 Dec

Karen Jakubowski and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr Unfinish’d Poet Inspiration piece Fleur-De-Lis By Karen Jakubowski Response Monday morning arrives Scorched spark of yellow hope Rolls in like a dime-store sun Sultry eyes spill ocher beams Arms laden with …

By Diane Mayr
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09 Dec

Diane Mayr and Karen Jakubowski

Diane Mayr One Size Fits Most Response 2012: Mankind’s Paradise Lost By Karen Jakubowsi Inspiration piece Fishers of paradise cast lines outward seek happiness in external pursuits. Thriving on thieving and …

By Diane Mayr
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09 Dec

Traci Robison and Heitzi Epstein

Heitzi Epstein Inspiration piece The Muradun Mask By Traci Robison Response The Muradun mask rested in a simple black box lined with eiderdown and dried blossoms. Daes smelled crushed marigold …

By tjrob24
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09 Dec

Jean Stark and Marla Deschenes

Jean Frank Stark Response Sandy By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece 820 miles wide and full of fury We trick ourselves into thinking we are so large We think these homes can stand up …

By jstark250488
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09 Dec

Jean Frank Stark and Sandy Coleman

Sandy Coleman Inspiration piece Believing By Jean Frank Stark Response As a child I knew a power that as an adult I learned to hide. I know that the use …

By jstark250488
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08 Dec

Amanda Miska and Caroline Evey

Caroline Evey, “back to you” Inspiration Piece Almost Whole by Amanda Miska Response He is leaving again, and it’s times like these that I’m glad the heart isn’t just a …

By amanda.miska
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08 Dec

Evelyn Ihrke and Cecelia Driscoll

Evelyn Ihrke “It’s Sunday Morning” Response It’s Sunday Morning By Cecilia Driscoll Inspiration piece Surely it is not escape I seek as I retreat to a distant floor book, paper, pen in hand. I …

By wordsworks
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08 Dec

Caroline A. Evey and Amanda Miska

meet me at the window by Caroline A. Evey Response Immobility by Amanda Miska Inspiration Piece This is what we never set into motion: Lunch that turned into dinner that turned into …

By Evey
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08 Dec

Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Pimental Inspiration Piece Not Quite Fire & Brimstone By Lisa Nielsen Response I thought my mistakes would amount to more than killing time, so I pretend it’s all tragic happenstance …

By statenislandlisa
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08 Dec

Caroline A. Evey and Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson The Iraqi Woman Inspiration piece the same questions By Caroline A. Evey Response there were so many things that were foreign to me– the sights, the smells, the food, the …

By Evey
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08 Dec

Susan McIntyre and Claire Walker

Susan McIntyre The Small Things Grow Art quilt Response The Small Things By Claire Walker Inspiration piece Think of those seeds we pushed in the ground, the way the beans sprouted from practically …

By omabluebird
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08 Dec

Lisa Kilhefner and Pamela Nash

Lisa Kilhefner Response Pamela Nash Inspiration Stalker: A Love Story EXT – ALLIE’S APARTMENT – DAY ALLIE, a 30-something young urban professional, hipsterwannabe type, locks her apartment door, crosses her fingers in …

By lisakilhefner
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08 Dec

Guillermo Warley and Pharoah Bolding

Pharoah Bolding Inspiration piece Full Moon By Guillermo Warley Response Little Johnny was the undisputed champion of the world. He mastered all varieties of computer games and had racked up …

By guillermo.warley
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08 Dec

Amy Souza and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Amy Souza Response Wherever You Are By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece You left a box of kittens. I brought it home with me. I bottle-fed those kittens and loved them tenderly. I …

By Amy Souza
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08 Dec

Kate Johnson and Caroline Evey

Kate Johnson Response untitled poem #5 if, in fact, life was about: being irrational.. or making choices based on emotion.. i would be with you. you dont fit in to this small …

By kadyj78
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08 Dec

Liz Steinglass and
Tatyana Ostapenko

Red Dress Tatyana Ostapenko Inspiration piece Red Dress By Liz Steinglass Response 1. I remember I had to have it, Sensing somehow It was already mine, Sewn to my heart Torn from me and Set in the window For …

By Liz.Steinglass
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08 Dec

Adam Cornford and JoAnn Gilles

JoAnn Gilles Inspiration Piece Cave The red sandstone roof is imprinted with millennia of flickers …………………………..moiré of soot and sunset …………..Posthistoric cave …

By adamfcornford
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08 Dec

Claire Walker and Susan McIntyre

Susan McIntyre Blue Planet (felted wool) Inspiration piece Origins Claire Walker Response piece In the beginning there was you and me and only the water’s expanse. We were drawn to that seam that …

By clairelouise47
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Category Archive: SPARK 18

Michele Thomas and Ray Sharp

Amanda C. Brainerd and Meghan E. Hunt

Robbi Nester and Lavina Blossom

Lavina Blossom and Robbi Nester

Cecilia Driscoll and Evelyn Ihrke

Cynthia Grady and Nick Winkworth

Nick Winkworth and Cynthia Grady

Karen Jakubowski and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr and Karen Jakubowski

Traci Robison and Heitzi Epstein

Jean Stark and Marla Deschenes

Jean Frank Stark and Sandy Coleman

Amanda Miska and Caroline Evey

Evelyn Ihrke and Cecelia Driscoll

Caroline A. Evey and Amanda Miska

Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Pimental

Caroline A. Evey and Katherine Johnson

Susan McIntyre and Claire Walker

Lisa Kilhefner and Pamela Nash

Guillermo Warley and Pharoah Bolding

Amy Souza andAmy Ludwig VanDerwater

Kate Johnson and Caroline Evey

Liz Steinglass andTatyana Ostapenko

Adam Cornford and JoAnn Gilles

Claire Walker and Susan McIntyre

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