Featured Poem: O Pandora

October 7, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

  By Monita Soni Huntsville Branch, Alabama   When Zeus created you, “O Gifted One,” Athena clad your innocence in a silver gown, Taught your hands to weave and stitch ... Read more

Featured Poem: Clouds

September 30, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

  By Anne-Marie Derouault Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida   Today I watched the clouds. Which particular set of circumstances Found me lying down in this precise place In the middle ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Covering

September 22, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch, California   Over its frame my skin alligators downward and outward long unstopping skinny lines so close to each other drooping, sagging into ... Read more

Featured Art: Bette Miller at the Keyboard

September 15, 2020November 29, 2020 Art of the Week, Featured Art

“Bette Miller at the Keyboard” by Patricia Lipe, Jacksonville Branch (Florida) Oil (20×16) From the artist: “We lost Bette Miller last January. She was a beloved and talented member of ... Read more

Pen Women Press Is Recruiting for Talent Pool

September 10, 2020 Latest News, NLAPW

— From Lucy Arnold, Publications Chair Pen Women Press (PWP) is the publishing imprint of the National League of American Pen Women, Inc. PWP differs from a vanity press in ... Read more

Featured art: Plum Blossom

August 31, 2020November 29, 2020 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

  “Plum Blossom” by Marcy Von Kohorn, Vero Beach Branch (Florida) Watercolor on rice paper (22×30)   Artist’s Statement Because I have to stay at home to avoid the coronavirus, ... Read more

Featured poem and musical composition: Daunting is the Woman

August 26, 2020 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Greenwich Branch member Ida Angland has created this original poem and musical composition, titled “Daunting is the Woman,” to honor the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Grand Dames

August 19, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

  By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch   Towering ladies with withered arms stretch toward the sky, wearing tattered remnants of summer and fall.   Long outstretched fingers dangle feathered moss, ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Waltz, the Hammer

August 11, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

  By Sarah Collins Honenberger  Chesapeake Bay Branch, Virginia   It should be easy. Concede, comply, and still the enemy advances without concern for anyone or anything, a killer on an ... Read more

Featured Art: Seeding

August 5, 2020November 29, 2020 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

    “Seeding” by Debra Collins, Diablo-Alameda Branch (California) Cut charcoal paper, 16 x 20   “Seeding” is a piece that was shown on the Sierra Club’s national website early ... Read more