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Featured Poem: Family Photos

By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Here they sit, all dressed up, with frozen poses hung side by side above the piano, registering disapproving looks. They are the ... Read more

Featured Poem: Autumn Leaves

September 28, 2024September 24, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Patrice M. Wilson Honolulu Branch These flaring reds, golden yellows, oranges, magentas are last novas of trees before they’re brown crinkled candidates for another kind of fire. ... Read more

Featured Poem: New Battles

September 18, 2024August 8, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch On battlefields of blood not very long ago, soldiers marching face to face were martyred blow by blow. Now cities burned at ... Read more

Featured Prose: Running with My Words

September 12, 2024July 29, 2024 Fiction and nonfiction, It's a Creative Business, NLAPW, Nonfiction

By Sara Etgen-Baker Dallas Branch When the alarm sounds, I want to continue sleeping. Instead, I slide out of the warm sheets and peek through the blinds. Graceful ... Read more

Featured Art: Gas Giant

September 4, 2024August 15, 2024 Art of the Week, Featured Art, Latest News, NLAPW

“Gas Giant” by Lucy Arnold, Golden Gate-Marin Branch 16×20 acrylic Artist’s Statement The planet in this poured acrylic painting resembles the gas giant, Jupiter. It is the second piece ... Read more

Featured Poem: Passages

August 29, 2024July 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Jane Lies Pensacola Branch Midnight blue silk Covered the heaven, Small beads of Silver Appeared, Sparkling brightly, Suppressing the darkness Of the sky, The silent orb Emerged, Veiled ... Read more

Featured Prose: Forever Sunday

August 20, 2024July 29, 2024 Creative Inspirational Wisdom, Fiction and nonfiction, NLAPW, Nonfiction

By R.D. Petti Sarasota Branch Sunday has come to have a whole new meaning for me. Traditionally revered as the day of rest, Sunday is the day we can ... Read more

Featured Poem: Teetering

August 15, 2024July 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Sometimes, I think life is like a tightrope, with all of us as walkers. We begin at the starting pole, full of wonder, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Masterpiece

August 7, 2024July 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-Large “She is working now…” — Jane Hirshfield, The Poet She is working now, the child at 5, kneeling at the glass table, a ... Read more

Featured Poem: My Words Slip

July 31, 2024July 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Annette Gagliardi Des Mones Branch from my lips, down the cleft of my chin, to hide beneath my left breast like shy children. They grow thin and dissipate ... Read more

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