By Karen McAferty Morris, Poetry Editor I’ve been poetry editor since November 2018, and I love to open my email and see poetry submissions. If you’ve been thinking of submitting ... Read more

Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch, California   I just read that the African spiny mouse has the thinnest skin in the world. That’s interesting. I thought I did. And ... Read more

Dorothy KammVero Beach, Florida     Most mornings I pray when I drink coffee but today I’m watching seven grackles at the edge of a neighbor’s roof puff up their ... Read more

Anne Bonner Cape Canaveral Branch as the old lady stares into space slender twig bent and broken I remember Mama a beautiful young blossom role model in days past admonishing ... Read more

Val Weaver Des Moines Branch, Iowa Pictures of me… taken in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s show me always with a cigarette in my hand held between the fore and middle ... Read more

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

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

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