Featured Poem: Love’s Little Park
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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
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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
Featured Poem: A Friend’s Gift
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Grady Sue Loftin Saxon Alabama Birmingham Branch I looked up just as she slipped through the open doorway of the hospital waiting room that was filled with my ... Read more
Featured Poem: Naked Bruises
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Kim Beardsley-Garrison Palm Springs Branch The naked eye chooses to believe What the mind chooses to ignore. Pretend smiles and positive words Proclaim a happy mood, But not all bruises ... Read more
Featured Art: Water, Water, Everywhere
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Bonnie J. Smith, Santa Clara Branch; textile, 74 x 63 Over the years, Bonnie J. Smith watched as the California drought lowered the level of the San Luis Reservoir in ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sea Oats
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Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch Tall and slender the sea oats bow to one another without breaking. Something in their sandy shoes allows them to tilt from their toes, ... Read more
Featured Art: Spring
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Anne Yates, Portland Branch, Oregon Acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, 8×10 Anne Price Yates is a West Coast neo-impressionist artist working in oil, acrylic, and watercolor. She was drawing people by ... Read more
Featured Poem: Blizzard
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Carolyn AuneMinnesota Branch Ah, the late January malaise. How about a rip-roaring blizzard To break the monotony! How about a blizzard so grand and fierce That it ... Read more
Your Poems Wanted!
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By Karen McAferty Morris, Poetry Editor I’ve been poetry editor since November 2018, and I love to open my email and see poetry submissions. If you’ve been thinking of submitting ... Read more
Featured Poem: Skin
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Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch, California I just read that the African spiny mouse has the thinnest skin in the world. That’s interesting. I thought I did. And ... Read more