NLAPW Poem of the Week

a new weekly poem by the women writers of the NLAPW

Poem of the Week: New Cut in the Woods

June 6, 2016November 30, 2016 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Martha Steger, Lifetime Member-at-Large, Richmond, Virginia Imagine an unattended baby-seat strapped to a tree for thrush-eggs’ nourishment but sabotaged by cowbirds’ sinister deposits in this tiny home held together by spiders’ webs ... Read more

Poem of the Week: After reading “After”

June 1, 2016November 30, 2016 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

After reading “After” by Octavio Paz Diane McDonough, Cape Cod Branch After telling myself no day after day, the way mother did when asked if I could do ... Read more

Flash Fiction “Non-musical anthem”

April 24, 2016November 30, 2016 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Non-musical Anthem A proactive member of the human community, each day for me is testimony to renewal, commitment and recovery. As the fertile earth awaits new growth, my journey anticipates ... Read more

Poem of the Week–Cream

March 31, 2016 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Cream My mother stands in the kitchen pouring cream over sliced bananas, cream skimmed from the top of a milk bottle delivered that morning, her flowered housedress hangs loose on ... Read more

Poem of the Week–Black Feather

January 21, 2016 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Black Feather Not four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, but rather thousands, falling from the sky in Arkansas. Drum fish decomposing in adjacent waterways. All gone. And now ... Read more

Poem of the Week–Differences

September 10, 2015 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Differences Don’t divide the people, we insist… There is a way, to peacefully coexist. But still I see two sides concerning this. What is power up to will they tell? ... Read more

Poem of the Week–Atlas

September 3, 2015January 5, 2017 Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Atlas The first one I actually saw was In bronze standing in front of Rockefeller Center The others are pictures in books – flat and one dimensional Of course, ... Read more

Poem of the Week–Joshua Tree

August 27, 2015 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

JOSHUA TREE REVISITED Ageless rocks stand like desert monuments, Trees with spiky arms reach toward the sky. Roads snake into endless wilderness Distant views bemuse the eye. Sandy trails slice ... Read more

Poem of the Week–Mere Things, & Helen Holt service

August 13, 2015August 27, 2015 Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Memorial Service for Helen Holt Sat, August 15, 11am – 2pm The National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20016 Mere Things Mere things don’t matter, or so ... Read more

Art of the Week (At Repose with Mitsy) and Poem of the Week (Cuba)

July 16, 2015 Art of the Week, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Art of the Week Click on the image to see it larger. Poem of the Week Cuba Amalia, but we called her Molly The first and only Cuban I have ... Read more

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