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Featured Art: Sepia Tree

January 7, 2022January 3, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

“Sepia Tree” by Susan S. Buzzi, Fort Lauderdale Branch (Florida) Large-format film, 24 x 30 inches Artist’s Statement: I see myself as a social barometer with the goal to ... Read more

Featured Poem: Gifts of Loss

December 28, 2021January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lynn M. Hansen Modesto Branch, California 1st Place Marion Doyle Poetry Award, 2020 They warned me it would be gone. It would take fourteen days for ... Read more

Featured Poem: This Enchanted Chaos

December 22, 2021January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts There is a message in the trees in June as basswood branches flail in reckless wind, and drenching rain thrashes leaves, ... Read more

Fetured Poem: Cave

December 14, 2021January 3, 2022 NLAPW

By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida He was an Army warrant officer in Vietnam, often assigned reconnaissance, the scary, dirty work on the ground. When darkness ... Read more

Featured Art: Phoenix Song

December 9, 2021November 2, 2021 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

“Phoenix Song” by Kat Heckenbach, Tampa Branch Mixed Media Tampa Branch member Kat Heckenbach started doing mixed media art after a friend and fellow artist spent an ... Read more

Featured Poem: Remembering Paumonok

December 1, 2021January 3, 2022 NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch, Texas Note: Paumonok is the name the American Indians gave to Long Island. Is it still as I remember Suns golder ... Read more

Featured Poem: Admiration

November 23, 2021January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lori Joseph Member-at-Large While aboard the Breezin’ Thru, Captain Tilghman Hemsley III handed me a photo of one of his paintings in progress. Tilghman asked me to ... Read more

Featured Art: Ahh, North Rim Grand Canyon

November 17, 2021October 8, 2021 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

Ahh, North Rim Grand Canyon by Risa Waldt, member at large Watercolor (20 x 20) A native Tucsonan, Risa Waldt grew up in the desert and soaked up visions ... Read more

Featured Poem: Pop’s Figs

November 11, 2021January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Martha Steger Member-at-Large As early-morning patricians we have only to go a few steps beyond the back porch – ah, the Romans’ porticus – to pluck drooping red-brown Brahmin fruit ... Read more

Featured Poem: November

November 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida November exhales her chilly breath, blowing hard, a prelude to December’s icy grip. Teasingly, she blends with fall’s sunshine and warmth, ... Read more

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