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Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Judy Weinberg Response Black Friday Grace Burns Inspiration piece A warehouse of wonders beckons me with magnificent megaliths of merchandise - plasma screens game systems laptop computers clusters of clothing and enough food to feed a small country. I want …

 

Annmarie Lockhart and Ray Sharp

Annmarie Lockhart and Ray Sharp

Still Life, circa 1976 By Annmarie Lockhart Response (poem and photo) . mosquito spray and chlorine and hissing lights reflecting off baselines and yellow scuff, pong, scuff, pong, scuff, scuff, “out!” one summer of …

 

Bob Moore and Bonnie Lebesch

Bob Moore and Bonnie Lebesch

Bonnie Lebesch Transparent    I was married once, to Maxine, she died of cancer seven years ago, after just five years of marriage.   After enduring the empty …

 

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Omnipresent Response Ruminations By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece . Rumi asks: What is your life about anyway? Nothing but a struggle to be someone, Nothing but a running from your own silence. . freedom …

 

Brian MacDonald and Amanda Miska

Brian MacDonald and Amanda Miska

Brian MacDonald Response Consumption — Amanda Miska Inspiration Piece I miss the days of that studio apartment on 4th Avenue.  Both just out of grad school, we basked in …

 

Ainsley Allmark and dani harris

Ainsley Allmark and dani harris

Ainsley Allmark Response dani harris my one true love Inspiration Piece .. she is part of me as much as the heart which beats in my chest .. she gives me life as much as …

 

Maureen O’Donnell and Val Bonney

Maureen O’Donnell and Val Bonney

Val Bonney, “Neural Pathways.” Inspiration Piece Maureen O’Donnell, “The List.“ Response Even in her twenties she used to stand in front of the mirror and pluck out grey hairs. …

 

Joanna Lee and Julia Latein-Kimmig

Joanna Lee and Julia Latein-Kimmig

untitled, charcoal & acrylic on canvas Julia Latein-Kimmig inspiration piece ….. Girl’s Daydream in Cross-Section Joanna Lee response All I wanted was a cat. Something both fluffy and self-reliant. But that needed …

 

Amanda Miska and Brian McDonald

Amanda Miska and Brian McDonald

Brian McDonald, Durick Library Student Inspiration Piece Flesh and Blood by Amanda Miska Response 1. Flesh Jane was always larger than life:  big blue doe eyes and a heart of gold.  …

 

Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Greg Lippert ID Response ID By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece It was 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning when the phone rang. No big deal. Looking …

 

Jean Gordon and Amaryllis Holloway

Jean Gordon and Amaryllis Holloway

Jean Gordon There is hope in the beginning of a new day Response Giving  By: Amaryllis Holloway Inspiration piece So many in our community need assistance   The mother who is struggling to …

 

Lisa Marie Basile
and Nick Winkworth

Lisa Marie Basile
and Nick Winkworth

Origins By Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece Sky Burial By Lisa Marie Basile Response This was day three, Sunday, August. The soft steam of earth rises quietly over the water. He sees …

 

Bonnie Lebesch and Cat Ross

Bonnie Lebesch and Cat Ross

Bonnie Lebesch, “Ed McMahon Said ‘Yes,’ But I Said No”, acrylic on panel

 

BR Belletryst and Jozelle Dyer

BR Belletryst and Jozelle Dyer

BR Belletryst Strays Response Lena (coda). By Jozelle Dyer Inspiration piece Lena wanted a baby.  It was a problem.  Heather didn’t want children and—more—she didn’t understand Lena’s desperate desire to have …

 

John Lewis and Helen Whittaker

John Lewis and Helen Whittaker

“Be Like Jesus” Song by John Lewis Be Like Jesus Response Group By Helen Whittaker Inspiration piece Hey, buddy, is this seat taken? Mind if I sit down? Thanks. Is that the …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Amy Alley

KJ Hannah Greenberg
and Amy Alley

Amy Alley Inspiration piece Unveigled among the Rows: Rotations of Moonlit Bleeding By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response We dance; menarche, menses, menopause, womanly brinell weathered, meted out Through monthly doses, jocund …

 

Michelle Wallace and
Rus VanWestervelt

Michelle Wallace and
Rus VanWestervelt

Michelle Wallace “Flow” Response Alice Flows By Rus VanWestervelt Inspiration piece Sunset nears. The …

 

Kim Dollar and Michelle Wallace

Kim Dollar and Michelle Wallace

Michelle Wallace Inspiration piece More Than My Parts By Kim Dollar Response I’ve been bitten and I’ve been slapped Held more children than fit in my lap Had my belly round and …

 

Janet Yandik and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Janet Yandik and
KJ Hannah Greenberg

Janet Yandik Response An Adolescent’s Didactic Lament: Round Pegs, Square Holes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece You teach no circles, explain no diameters, work radii-free, While my growth’s never a …

 

Mark Owen Martin and Sarah Krouse

Mark Owen Martin and Sarah Krouse

Music: Pavane for oboe, cello and harp by Mark Owen Martin  They By Sarah Krouse  A father and daughter sit across from each other at a table in the …

 

Vita Sims and
Meghan MacNamara

Vita Sims and
Meghan MacNamara

Vita Sims Dreamscape 1 Mixed Media, 16 by 20 inches Response Just Past the Driveway By Meghan MacNamara Inspiration piece My parents kept a mail Jeep in the backyard, just past the …

 

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Jane Hulstrunk

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Where the Fairies Dance at Night Inspiration piece THE END OF THE AMERICAN ELEPHANTS By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response On the land mass now known as the continent of …

 

Urmilla Khanna
and Jane Hulstrunk

Urmilla Khanna
and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Divinity By Urmilla Khanna Response Divinity is a patchwork of squares and hexagons. It is yellow and blue and indigo and purple. It is paisley woven …

 

Cheryl Leibovitz
and Helen Whittaker

Cheryl Leibovitz
and Helen Whittaker

Cheryl Leibovitz Response Perfect By Helen Whittaker Inspiration piece I always thought my perfect date would go like this (well more or less): we’d fly to Paris in his jet, he’d wear a …

 

Amy Souza and
Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Amy Souza and
Lisa Lipkind Leibow

Amy Souza Acrylic and tulle on paper Response Lessons From a Squirrel By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Inspiration piece Ms. Ward asks, “Do you know why you’re here?” Cody removes her MP3 earbuds …