Monthly Archives: March 2014

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Stelling

Tyson West Response Entertaining Your 60s By Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration Piece Do you ever miss the simpler days one room baggage among crumpled beds war plots over bad coffee on every street corner …

 

Elizabeth Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Stelling
and Tyson West

Tyson West Inspiration piece Just Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Response It’s gone quiet this afternoon like all others on the late no lasting days of pit-patter rain. With that, …

 

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Tyson West and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Elizabeth Akin Stelling “Bystander” Inspiration piece You Can’t Buffalo Me By Tyson West Response Sister Elizabeth, you can’t tell me You got bison in New Jersey ‘ceping maybe in a couple of …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Tyson West

Elizabeth Akin Stelling “Disabled Guardian Angel” Response A Call to Souls By Tyson West Inspiration piece The darkened pine grove On the west bank of the mountain river Conceals the brick walls Of …

 

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg

Steppin Out Judy Weinberg Inspiration Piece Landfall Grace Burns Response We swim in an ocean of drama with no hope for respite floundering and splashing to stay afloat certain to be sucked under by whirlpools …

 

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Judy Weinberg and Grace Burns

Response Photograph Broken Dreams By Judy Weinberg   Inspiration The Hollow Husband by Grace Burns He shouted his devotion for her for all to hear and declared her a luminous angel whom …

 

Amanda C. Brainerd and Jennifer Cooreman

Amanda C. Brainerd and Jennifer Cooreman

Response piece by Amanda C. Brainerd Inspiration piece What Song Will You Sing?: Moving Through Hopelessness by Jennifer Cooreman My sister and I didn’t fight, but if we …

 

Jane Souza Hulstrunk and Caroline Davies

Jane Souza Hulstrunk and Caroline Davies

Photograph by Jane Souza Hulstrunk Icy Morning Inspiration Piece Caroline M. Davies “Ice prints” Response Ice prints Each winter my brother and I would wait for the tell-tale signs. Jack and Jill Frost’s pitter-patter of …

 

Lisa Kilhefner and Sharon Murphy

Lisa Kilhefner and Sharon Murphy

Lisa Kilhefner Response Sharon Murphy Hay Wire Inspiration piece You are roughly made and unsophisticated. Decrepit. Hewn and hallowed out. The barn may have burnt down because we used you for temporary repairs. Frayed and …

 

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

Kaylee Savage-Wright     Damaged Goods- Lisa Nielsen   He insinuates himself into my breath, ravaging my desire for freedom Just to maintain takes every ounce of sorrow, is our newest game but only …

 

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

  Bridget Fahey O’Brien Inspiration Piece Snow Waltzing Annmarie Lockhart Response Mind Over Matter this poem is not about snow no matter how the flakes pile up at the door, or the way a …

 

Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Annmarie Lockhart and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

  Bridget Fahey O’Brien Response Ferry Drive-by Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece Once Again, I’m Sick for Superbowl spit and bitten my viewpoint always birdless and occasionally hopeless but never, ever helpless even when the song floats unsung the …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard Response The Inevitable Forward oils and water based inks on layers of canvas and tissue that are affixed to canvas Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece I Came to Bring …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

  Kaylee Savage-Wright Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Damaged Goods He has insinuated himself into my breath, ravaging my desire for freedom Just to maintain takes every ounce of sorrow, is our newest game but …

 

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

  Kaylee Savage-Wright Inspiration Piece A la Folie Lisa Nielsen Response Bliss Hisses Its Whisper You want me to wear you like a cape, for the rest of my days. I take that enticement …

 

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Inspiration Piece Self-Infliction multi-media (oils, pastels, collage, canvas affixed to foam board) Lisa Nielsen Response Glistening Like Whitewash The molten lava of your ambiguous soul reaches across the counter to …

 

Adam Cornford and Jay Young Gerard

Adam Cornford and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard “Energy Diptych” Response Black Energy Black inhuman plumes of entropy ascend from bombed Iraq wells and exploded tanker cars in Quebec Great black snake sways its many-eyed …

 

Marcia Russell and Diane Mayr

Marcia Russell and Diane Mayr

Play On Diane Mayr Inspiration Piece Sonnet 1 – Play On! Marcia Russell Response If to my younger self I’d give advice – Don’t waste a single moment in regret. Be happy you …

 

Diane Mayr and Marcia Russell

Diane Mayr and Marcia Russell

Between Diane Mayr Response In Honor of my Sister, Debbie, Whose Light Shines On… Marcia Russell Inspiration piece I felt like a 100-­watt light bulb dimming to 20 watts. ‘Chemo-­‐brain’ made …

 

Helen Lewis and Marilyn Ackerman

Helen Lewis and Marilyn Ackerman

Marilyn Ackerman “Moons” Inspiration piece A New Beginning By Helen Lewis Response It was during Adam’s shift that the ship came within sensor range of the next planet. As usual, he …

 

Helen Lewis and Kirsten Brady

Helen Lewis and Kirsten Brady

Kirsten Brady “Conductor” Inspiration piece Renaissance Man By Helen Lewis Response Giovanni Gabbiano was a true Renaissance man. Not that he ever used that term to describe himself – he’d never …

 

Aimee Fullman and Urmilla Khanna

Aimee Fullman and Urmilla Khanna

Aimee Fullman “Juicy Chicken” Response A Juicy Chicken By Urmilla Khanna Inspiration piece Year 1955 When the Passenger train crunched its brakes and stopped at Deori, a small village in Chattisgarh, India, …