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Featured Art: Gallery Hopping

May 21, 2019April 16, 2019 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Connecticut Pioneer Branch Gallery Hopping, embroidered assemblage on felt, 13-inch square, framed Statement from Carol Nipomnich Dixon: I have been drawing, painting, photographing, and experimenting ... Read more

Featured Poem: Writer’s Block

May 19, 2019May 14, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch, Texas There I sit Done with trees Their rugged hide Their fallen leaves Ended the garden At mid-lawn With vibrant roses And firethorn ... Read more

Featured Poem: Slammed

May 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Cornelia DeDona Member-at-large, Kingston, New York I slammed my heart into love’s door bloodied and bruised it swelled on the other side of a reckoning exacted its price no ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Decision

May 14, 2019May 1, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Elizabeth Diane Martin Pikes Peak Branch, Colorado In turmoil and distrust In the midst of fear and confusion A decision to love Changed a wandering Wondering heart Into one ... Read more

Featured Art: 19th Century Lady

May 2, 2019April 16, 2019 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

Patricia Daly-Lipe, Jacksonville Branch, Florida 19th Century Lady, oil, 26 by 30 (includes frame) Statement from Patricia Daly-Lipe: The portrait is based on an old photo of a ... Read more

Featured Poem: Circle of Time

April 30, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Linda Farmer Ames Columbus Branch, Georgia I, mighty oak, have stood rooted here for greater than one hundred years, surrounded by brothers and sisters, all of Mother Nature’s children. ... Read more

Featured Poem: English Class

April 23, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Donna DeLeo Bruno Ft. Lauderdale Branch I stand before my teenage students Speaking of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Of Penelope, Ulysses’ faithful and long-suffering wife Who ... Read more

Featured Art: Confetti Mountain

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

Katie Turner, Central New York Branch Confetti Mountain, watercolor on paper, 18 by 24 inches Statement from Katie Turner: Exploring abstract patterns formed by nature is part ... Read more

Featured Poem: Love’s Little Park

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Bette J. Lafferty Tampa Branch, Florida It has been years since we first came to this little park, where young saplings with limbs so strong reached to the heavens ... Read more

Featured Art and Poem: Garden of Ethos

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

Oil on canvas (90 by 50) by Dianne Lynn Benanti, Palm Springs Branch, California Dianne Lynn Benanti is a self-taught artist who creates large scale contemporary works as well ... Read more

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