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Featured Poem: Passages

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

Featured Art: Abstract Lily Pond

July 24, 2024July 10, 2024 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

“Abstract Lily Pond” by Sigrun Buckley, Jacksonville Branch Acrylic on canvas, 11 x14 Artist’s Statement This will be part of my first exhibition at the Ponte Vedra Beach library, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sitting in Silence

July 18, 2024July 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

(Tanka) by Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large sitting in silence the fog of all this living slowly dissipates like clouds clearing at sunset like longing when it finds home

Featured Poem: Punctuated

July 12, 2024May 28, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch, Florida Mornings elude me. I don’t come alive till noon, but today, rising at 6AM, I headed to the marsh for a glimpse of ... Read more

Featured Poem: Arctic Summer

July 6, 2024May 28, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lynn Hansen Modesto Branch, California When brilliant light is dancing in Arctic summer skies kittiwakes bathe in icy pools, green or aqua blue in the land of midnight ... Read more

Featured Poem: Reflections

June 28, 2024June 29, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch In the mirror I call out to her. Her reflection, so youthful. Eager, hopeful. I call to her, warn her. It goes ... Read more

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