Featured Art: Beyond the Bend
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Celebrate National Poetry Month
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A Message from Claire Massey, NLAPW Poetry Editor April is the month to celebrate the power and potential of poetry to rock our world! Poems can widen eyes; broaden minds; ... Read more
Featured Poem: I Want The World I Used To Know
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By Jane Gates Lies Pensacola Branch, Pensacola I want the world I used to know The one that Was only mine, Of comfort, Of queens, Of dolls, And ... Read more
Featured Poem: Word Angels
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By Louise Kantro Modesto Branch Like a dancer beginning the dance lightly on your ballet slippers you float, swoop, glide on your magic carpet across lines and white spaces. ... Read more
Featured Poem: Pain
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By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch ‘A number between one and ten?” He asks in flat voice as though that’s all it is. A number. Pain is more ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Step
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By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral, Florida Branch She emerges from the rehab center like a wounded bird let loose into the sky after being nursed back to health. ... Read more
Featured Poem: Water Girl
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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
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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
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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
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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