Featured Poem: Grief
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By Andrea Walker Pensacola Branch, Florida Yesterday, an old friend died, big brother to several of us when we were teens. This morning as I walk, I am warmed ... Read more
Featured Poem: Trails of Kindness
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By Megha Sood Member-at-large I count the years as I walk past the trees lining my courtyard, counting them one by one neatly on my soft supple fingers. ... Read more
Featured Poem: We Gathered in the Garden
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By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch “The ladies,” we were called by the neighbors, our husbands, even our children. Noontime chores over, kitchens cleaned up, an hour welcome respite ... Read more
Featured Poem: Bare Branches
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large, California and Florida Have nothing to hide, they are truth-tellers. Keep promises that leaves will appear season after season, year after year. ... Read more
Celebrate National Poetry Month
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A Message from Claire Massey, NLAPW Poetry Editor April is the month to celebrate the power and potential of poetry to rock our world! Poems can widen eyes; broaden minds; ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Immigrant in 1900
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California The Immigrant in 1900 knows steerage and squalor, suspenders, shirts of heavy ticking; labors in a Lower East Side sweatshop filled with whirring ... Read more
Featured Poem: Lists
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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
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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 Poem: I Want The World I Used To Know
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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
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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