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Featured Poem: Water Girl

By Margaret L. Hanna Central Ohio Branch As tall as my viburnum bush Stone girl stands Empty water well at her side. She waits. Cement bucket at her bare ... Read more

Featured Poem: Golden Hope

October 7, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lori Zavada Pensacola Branch It sounds like God hurling boulders to Earth, but they never land. I wake to the thunder, and think of you. Blasting ... Read more

Featured Poem: Too Many Zucchini? Just Call Grandma

September 27, 2022August 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch Our garden’s growing dinosaur food! The vines are invading our yard! I use one to “call” my grandma. She says she ... Read more

Featured Art and Poems from Ekphrastic Collaboration

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 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 poets Karen Hansis Baker and Loretta Ichord and artist Georgia Herrick, whose works were part of Modesto Branch’s ekphrastic show, “Women in ... Read more

Featured Poem: Challenging the Soul

September 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

A blitz poem* by Catherine Horn and Linda Hortick Greenwich Branch, Connecticut Read about the two poet’s collaboration for this poem. Writing poetry opens my soul Writing poetry is ... Read more

Featured Poem: Here I Am

September 1, 2022August 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Dorothy Kamm Vero Beach Branch, Florida As the sun skims above the treetops lining the east, the Dawn Chorus begins: HERE I AM! HERE ... Read more

Featured Poem: Dare To

August 17, 2022August 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch Sing when the world is sorry play when the worries crowd in jump when the rewards are over our heads clap when our ... Read more

Featured Art: Free Willy

August 12, 2022August 18, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

“Free Willy” by Tammy Seymour, Fort Lauderdale Branch 16×20 watercolor on Yupo paper Tammy Seymour expresses the wet and wild experiences of nature in watermedia. “Painting with watercolors, acrylics, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Check Mate

August 5, 2022June 2, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Kay Helgerson Atlanta Branch “All’s fair,” they say, “in love and war,” Thus our mottos were the same, He playing chess, a game of war While I played ... Read more

Featured Art: Luminous Leaves

July 28, 2022August 18, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art, NLAPW

“Luminous Leaves,” altered photo by Polly Curran, Sarasota Branch (Florida) Over the past year, Polly Curran stepped out of her comfort zone to explore different techniques, bringing an ... Read more

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