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Featured Poem: The First Snowfall Prediction

Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large, Maine Thirty minutes after the weatherman’s prediction The snow commences to fall December 9th at 12:30 Pretty delicate flakes Waft to the cold ground Covering ... Read more

Featured Poem: Furious, Too

December 6, 2018December 5, 2018 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch (after reading fury by Lucille Clifton) Mama’s hand delivers rhymed and metered stanzas natural as blue trumpets of a morning glory vine unfolding ... Read more

Featured Poem: Warm Sunday Afternoon, Thanksgiving Weekend

November 29, 2018November 28, 2018 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem

Judy Crystal Greenwich Branch In Byram Park West wind whispers, branches dance Glimpse of sun-burnished water Through the red and orange leaves Promise of winter beauty Young man, ... Read more

Featured Art: Forgotten Treasure

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

Mary Lou Griffin Diamond State Branch, Delaware Forgotten Treasure: Grandma’s Bedroom Chair Pastel, 8 x 10 I never got to know Leocadia Wielgorecki, my mother’s mother. She died several years ... Read more

Pen Women Artists, Submit Your Art to be Featured!

November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 Art of the Week, NLAPW

Active, associate and allied art professionals, you are invited to submit your work for publication in the Pen Woman and on the NLAPW website! As the new art editor, I ... Read more

Featured Poem: Canvas of Life

September 24, 2018September 21, 2018 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Barbara Clarke Atlanta Chapter Life’s journey is played out beginning on the upper part of the canvas bright colors are intermingled at the entrance of a new soul. Love ... Read more

Featured Poem: Genetically Modified

September 10, 2018September 21, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Cornelia DeDona Member at Large, New York It was December of 2012. Dad was almost eighty. Dementia had erased his hunger. He’d subsisted the last few years on cheap cereal ... Read more

Check out the highlights from the 49th Biennial in Des Moines

August 7, 2018August 6, 2018 Latest News, NLAPW

Did you miss this year’s Biennial in Des Moines? Pensacola, Florida, Pen Woman Anne Baehr captured the best moments in a video. See what you missed!

Featured Poem: The Nature of Waiting

August 3, 2018August 2, 2018 Featured Poem

Jenny Santana Iowa City Branch I sit on a park bench quiet and still watching the ants scurry hurriedly along the pavement and above me the sparrows fly puncturing ... Read more

Poem of the Week: Truth

July 11, 2018July 10, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large (Maine) Middle English “trewthe,” from Old English “trēowth” — fidelity; akin to Old English “trēowe” — faithful — before 1100s “You can’t handle the truth,” ... Read more

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