KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya
Inspiration piece
Lief
By KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
Happiness, after all, buds when verisimilitudes and truth form
Matching pairs, when most weet of feelings become integrated,
When both straths and …
Jennifer Fendya and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Jennifer Fendya
Response
Death by Children
By KJ Hannah Greenberg
Inspiration piece
That morning marked the nineteenth during which Lani was troubled by fever. What had begun as an “innocent” …
Ash Martins and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
To the Buoy, and Beyond
By Ash Martins
Response
If I swim to the buoy, I’ll have someplace to hold onto, if I want. But, I …
Anya Mayer and Kamika Cooper
Anya Mayer
“Summer Daze”
Ink on paper
Repsonse
This is for
By Kamika Cooper
Inspiration piece
this is for
attentive eyes and rich brown skin
reminding me of afrika and heart home
i must have …
Kamika Cooper and Anya Mayer
Anya Mayer
“Rainbow Moon Fish”
watercolor with India ink on handmade Tibetan paper
Inspiration piece
Out of Our Element
By Kamika Cooper
Response
told us to stay home
but we did not
taking rockets …
Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza
Amy Souza
Inspiration piece
Alone with the Sea
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response piece
Alone with the sea, the warm sand massaging the feet
From the wonder wander of the traveling …
Tora Estep and Shannon Brown
Tora Estep
“Resisting Expansion”
Collage and acrylic on watercolor paper
Response
Re: Things Governing the Size of My Universe
By Shannon Brown
Inspiration piece
The lenses that I look through, that tell …
Jonathan Ottke and
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Jonathan Ottke
BirdParenthesis
Ink on Paper
Response
The Garden
Kathleen Finn Jordan
Inspiration
At last we’re all back here again
The Wall encircling us safe
The birds, the rain, the flowers pose
As the …
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 …
Amy Souza and Cristal Brawley
Cristal Brawley
Inspiration piece
Talking to the Dead
By Amy Souza
Response
1. They don’t care about salmonberries or our fear of needles overcome. We hope they miss us but …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Darice Jones
“Sharing This Space With You”
Graphic pixel play
Response
Reflections at the End of a School Year
By Sarah Pizer-Bush
Inspiration piece
We sit together and remember precious moments that …
Darice Jones and Sarah Pizer-Bush
Sarah Pizer-Bush
“Retreat”
Inspiration piece
Beyond Shapes Like Globes
By Darice Jones
Response
We sent our elder’s souls into the bodies of small furry animals as a way to observe the …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Sarah Pizer-Bush
“Ritual”
Response
The New Elements Cloak
By Darice Jones
Inspiration piece
I kept bending.
You were on a bender
Drinking my light like it was Facundo Paraiso and coke
I mistook the …
Sarah Pizer-Bush and Darice Jones
Darice Jones
“My Echo”
Inspiration piece
Blues Diary 2022
By Sarah Pizer-Bush
Response
Spent winter months cloaked in blues again. So many feelings suppressed. Sediment. Layers of loneliness, grief, rage, and …
Leslie Grollman and Jennifer Fendya
Jennifer Fendya
“Broderick Park, Niagara”
Inspiration piece
Ushering the Moon Into the Lake
By Leslie Grollman
Response
A yellow comfy chair
from the Saturday Flea
perfect for teatime and tossing
seeds to the birds:…….gull…….duck…….sparrow
perfect …
KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
“Vote. Fight.”
Collage and watercolor
Inspiration Piece
Ideate
By KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
In circumambulating ideas, folks tend toward imagining, actually conceiving
Bits and bobs that cleek outliers such that …
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 …
Marisa Bevington
and Jennifer Fendya
Marisa Bevington
Response
After the End Times
By Jennifer Fendya
Inspiration piece
I imagine you dead.
You gave your car
to her your house
I have your wedding photo album
in a plastic bag …
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Linda Mitchell
“Silences”
Response
Silences
By Jone MacCulloch
Inspiration piece
A moonless sky tonight
The phone in the hall doesn’t ring
Commas drift like clouds
Weather’s changing, my scar knows
The phone in the hall …
Linda Mitchell
and Jone MacCulloch
Jone MacCulloch
“Solstice Blessings”
Inspiration piece
Blessings for Solstice
By Linda Mitchell
Response
Today solstice blessings be upon us
Today we leap from moon to sun
Today three times ‘round the byre
Today light …
Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jonathan Ottke
Jonathan Ottke
“Swimming in the Blue Lilies, Blue Tara”
Inspiration piece
Swimming in Blue Lilies
By Kathleen Finn Jordan
Response
Dive and swivel and spread arms wide
And swiff and snuzzle the …
Madona Tyler LeBlanc and
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
“Slings and Arrows”
Collage and watercolor
Response
Bee Cop
By KJ Hannah Greenberg,
Inspiration piece
Minh Vu adjusted his mesh hat and veil. The material allowed in air, but …
Jonathan Ottke and Lisa Kilhefner
Jonathan Ottke
Response
Unlearn Me
By Lisa Kilhefner
Inspiration piece
Unlearn me,
please un-know me,
unsee this world
through my swollen eyes.
Unlearn the way you have to detach,
Un-run with me.
I’m un-knowable as her,
as …
Jennifer Fendya,
Madona Tyler LeBlanc,
and Jenny Forrester
Jennifer Fendya
“Offering”
Response
Madona Tyler LeBlanc
Inspiration piece (movement video)
Jenny Forrester
Inspiration piece (writing)
I finally woke up, understanding there are people who only love dead people, there are people …
JoAnn Moore and MM Panas
Reflecting
By MM Panas
Acrylic on paper 3′ x 8′
Inspiration piece
Reflections of the Season
By JoAnn Moore
Response
Riotous spring colors erupt
through the landscape,
after weeks of mid-winter warmth,
safe in their …