Featured Poem: Gifts of Loss
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By Lynn M. Hansen Modesto Branch, California 1st Place Marion Doyle Poetry Award, 2020 They warned me it would be gone. It would take fourteen days for ... Read more
Featured Poem: This Enchanted Chaos
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By Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts There is a message in the trees in June as basswood branches flail in reckless wind, and drenching rain thrashes leaves, ... Read more
Fetured Poem: Cave
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By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida He was an Army warrant officer in Vietnam, often assigned reconnaissance, the scary, dirty work on the ground. When darkness ... Read more
Featured Art: Phoenix Song
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“Phoenix Song” by Kat Heckenbach, Tampa Branch Mixed Media Tampa Branch member Kat Heckenbach started doing mixed media art after a friend and fellow artist spent an ... Read more
Featured Poem: Remembering Paumonok
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By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch, Texas Note: Paumonok is the name the American Indians gave to Long Island. Is it still as I remember Suns golder ... Read more
Featured Poem: Admiration
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By Lori Joseph Member-at-Large While aboard the Breezin’ Thru, Captain Tilghman Hemsley III handed me a photo of one of his paintings in progress. Tilghman asked me to ... Read more
Featured Art: Ahh, North Rim Grand Canyon
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Ahh, North Rim Grand Canyon by Risa Waldt, member at large Watercolor (20 x 20) A native Tucsonan, Risa Waldt grew up in the desert and soaked up visions ... Read more
Featured Poem: Pop’s Figs
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By Martha Steger Member-at-Large As early-morning patricians we have only to go a few steps beyond the back porch – ah, the Romans’ porticus – to pluck drooping red-brown Brahmin fruit ... Read more
Featured Poem: November
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By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida November exhales her chilly breath, blowing hard, a prelude to December’s icy grip. Teasingly, she blends with fall’s sunshine and warmth, ... Read more
New Fiction/Nonfiction Editor Joins The Pen Woman
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By Sarah Honenberger Greetings from new Fiction and Nonfiction Editor Sarah ‘Sally’ Honenberger. Over the last decade, the talented and creative Virginia Pen women have inspired me to reimagine ... Read more