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	Janice Elkins Title: Three Prostitutes Medium: Acrylic painting Inspiration: "Armitage Street" by David Hernandez "Chicago's Armitage Street is an area I knew quite well. David Hernandez's poem not only inspired the Three Prostitutes but also partially propelled me intor doing a major series on the city." Waiting for the elevated train during a pale afternoon I looked down on Armitage Street full of quaint old buildings up-scale stores and fashionable mothers pushing white-walled baby carriages on well-heeled sidewalks ....
Audrey Warnimont Brown Title: Calling the Soul Medium: Oil painting Inspiration: Poetry by William Blake Calling the lapsed Soul And weeping in the evening dew, That might control the starry pole And fallen, fallen light renew! Turn away no more Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The wat'try shore Is giv'n thee till break of day.
	Kathleen Marie Garness Tide: The Hound of Heaven Medium: Three-dimensional mixed media Inspiration: Frances Thompson's poem, "The Hound of Heaven"
Hedda P Saltz / Brenda S. Watkins Both Hedda and Brenda are artists and writers. Titles: "I Want to Blaze" (poem by Watkins)/ Dazzle the Day (mixed media by Saltz) Titles: "Glaucoma (poem by Saltz)/ Glaucoma (monoprint by Watkins) Saltz Inspiration: "This poem ("Glaucoma) was written in 1999 during a time when my glaucoma was progressing. I was losing vision and afraid of blindness. In November of 1999 I had successful eye surgery! There has been no further vision loss, and I continue to create detailed paintings and jewelry designs."
	Sallie Wolf Title: The Artist's Garden: A Work in Progress Medium: Mixed media drawings and a three-dimensional mixed media sculpture Inspiration: Workshops at Dr. Pat Allen's Studio Pardes in Oak Park "These pictures are not illustrations and this text is not the finished story, but by drawing pictures and writing about them, I am discovering a story that has been locked inside me for six or seven years. The germ of the idea came when an art teacher of mine described her new house, which she said was a really ugly yellow brick bungalow. I was intrigued with the idea of buying a house that you didn't like in a neighborhood which you also felt was ugly, sterile and unwelcoming. And I wondered in what ways an artist might transform an ugly house. For a long time I thought I was going to write a picture book, but, as I have begun to discover the story, it is more complex and challenging in content than most picture books are allowed to be. I am still in the process of discovering this story by drawing the pictures that come to me like presents."
A1 De Genova / Rick Smith Title: "Sweet Belly" (poem)/ Sweet Belly (mixed media) Smith Inspiration: "This poem was an easy choice for me because it is at once intensely sensual, intimate and rich with visual imagery. Its reference to Greek mythology lends it a timeless quality, and allows me to use classical elements, which are a source of inspiration for my work. But, most of all, this poem is an unabashed paean of love, a tribute from a man to the love of his life."
	Laura Myntii Title: Stealth Mother Medium: Mixed media Insiration: Poem titled: "Stealth Mother" by Marisol Rivera

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