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Featured Poem: The Fallen Bird

Marcy Von Kohorn Vero Beach Branch (a true story) Looking out the large glass window Thoughts so very far away Sunlight dancing on the flowers A carpet of grass ... Read more

Featured Poem: Blue Hues

May 18, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Dorothy Kamm Vero Beach Branch, Florida How many names exist For all the hues of blue? Is azure the sky blue Of mid-day, Cloudless and intense? ... Read more

Featured Ekphrastic Art and Poem: Leap Across Rooftops

May 13, 2021April 8, 2021 Art of the Week, Featured Art, Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

This art and poem are a collaboration by poet Louise Kantro and artist Vicki Boese, whose works were part of Modesto Branch’s ekphrastic show, “Women in America: An Artistic Celebration ... Read more

Featured Poem: Lost

May 4, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara Sillery Cape Cod Branch Lost: Big Girl Panties. If found return to bawling woman in closet. Fair Warning: If unrecoverable, naked woman may roam the streets. ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Cent’ry from Now

April 29, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Inger McPhail Washington, D.C. Branch A cent’ry from now It will not matter What kind of car I drove What kind of house I lived in, How ... Read more

Featured Art: Flight of Fancy

April 20, 2021April 8, 2021 Art of the Week, Featured Art, Latest News, NLAPW

“Flight of Fancy,” by Lorraine Gabbert Mixed media, 10×12 Text by Patricia Dennis Another multi-talented woman joins the Santa Clara County Branch. Welcome, Lorraine Gabbert! Joining in letters, Gabbert is ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Art We Have to Master

April 14, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lorraine Walker Williams Southwest Florida Branch Dying is the art we have to master. It seems to say—not death; Late love settles into us as spring ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sunset

April 6, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

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 ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sine Qua Non

March 24, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Dawn Huntley Spitz Sarasota Branch Florida My superannuated corpus suffers maladies amorphous. It wishes time would just resign and longs for yesterweek. It views with feelings radical ... Read more

Featured Poem: Dreamer

March 18, 2021February 20, 2021 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Annette C. Sanders Dallas Branch, Texas Dreams fly in and out Of my mind like wingless birds Whispering little scenes The likes I’ve never heard Visions dancing ... Read more

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