Featured Poem: Painted Lady

June 18, 2022June 2, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch, California   While searching for the perfect face I found suntan, beige, warm brown and brown They all looked the same Never the ... Read more

Featured Poem: Classic Blue  

June 7, 2022June 2, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California   It’s one of the last photos in our white Hallmark album – both of us running away from the church, heads down, smiling, ... Read more

Featured Art: Hocking Hills

June 6, 2022June 7, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

“Hocking Hills” by Robie Benve, Central Ohio Branch 12×16 paper and acrylic on canvas Robie Benve is a mixed media painter working with acrylics, paper, ink (and more) to create ... Read more

Featured Poem: My Morning Routine

May 21, 2022May 20, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Megha Sood Member-at-large     My fingers tracing those invisible unetched dreams on my table some skewed and some forgotten by the cruel bouts of merciless time   Time ... Read more

Introducing Claire Massey, New Poetry Editor

May 14, 2022May 9, 2022 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW

By Claire Massey It’s a great honor to join the editorial team of The Pen Woman as your new poetry page editor. Former editor Karen McAferty Morris contributed much to ... Read more

Who Am I?

May 6, 2022April 26, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

By Vera Ripp Hirschhorn Boca Raton Branch, Florida   I am the toddler jumping up and down, waving my arms and shouting Da! Da! in my playpen upon seeing my ... Read more

Featured Art: Rhythm of the MRI

May 2, 2022March 27, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art

    “The Rhythm of the MRI Scanner” Digital art by Diana de Avila, Sarasota Branch (Florida)   From the Artist: “Ba-da-da-da-da-da-dahhhhhhhh, click, click, click, click, click. Waaaaap, waap, waaaaap, waap, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sending Out

April 22, 2022April 23, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Christina Laurie Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts     “Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, the enemy attacked.” —anonymous                       Our windowsills were wet                   from ... Read more

Sunset

April 19, 2022March 27, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

By Marcy Von Kohorn Vero Beach Branch, Florida   Darkened palm trees spread their fingers against the pale pink of the sky Ripples skip across the water reflecting a spiritual ... Read more

Send Us Your Poems from the Biennial Competition

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Karen Morris Poetry editor Did you enter one of the Biennial Letters poetry contests this year? In the latest Biennial Letters competition, there were 350 submissions (a record!), and ... Read more