Featured Poem: Lists

March 10, 2023February 8, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara J. Dunham Pensacola Branch   On the nightstand to record stray thoughts, Kitchen table, things I bought, Pocket of robe, soon to be washed, Near the trash can, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Erasure

March 1, 2023February 8, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

  By Megha Sood, member-at-large   Thoughts of you are stitching an afternoon for me. Longing for you has shred it into pieces. Silence has morphed and shaped itself around ... Read more

Featured Art: Birth of Venus

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 Art of the Week, Featured Art

  “Birth of Venus” by Jane A. George, Pensacola Branch 4×5 watercolor   Artist Statement: “This image originated with my interest in the long history of life on Earth. Sea ... Read more

Featured Poem: I Want The World I Used To Know

February 16, 2023February 8, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Jane Gates Lies Pensacola Branch, Pensacola   I want the world I used to know The one that Was only mine,   Of comfort, Of queens, Of dolls, And ... Read more

Featured Poem: Winter’s Relics

February 10, 2023November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Virginia Nygard                      Vero Beach Branch   Across the barren snow-steeped ridge skeleton trees appear dry and bare yet seem to wake as I near the bridge and my heart ... Read more

Featured Poem: Ancient Roads  

January 30, 2023November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch   At Brú na Bóinne, Neolithic people walked on ancient roads through sacred Irish land toward prehistoric passage graves and ceremonial temples like Newgrange, where ... Read more

Featured Poem: To Be Trickster

January 16, 2023November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch   I sit under red maple where leaves appear gold. And the sky, gray, menacing   over all — even the holly and tiny ... Read more

Featured Art: Lovely Flow

January 3, 2023December 23, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art

Lovely Flow by Lidia Tohar, Boca Raton Branch 8×10 acrylic on canvas   Enduring the COVID-19 Pandemic by Painting Flowers By Lidia Tohar Painting flowers gave me a sense of ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Gathering

December 31, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch   Gather the children before the breaking dawn transfigures the sweetness of their youth and the lost laboring world, unsatisfied, brings their beauty to ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sally and The Light

December 22, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Louise Kantro Modesto Branch   Do you mind pulling over here? Sally asks. In a flash, the camera appears in her hand. I love this old house. And the ... Read more