Featured Poem: Teetering
Featured Poem, NLAPW
By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Sometimes, I think life is like a tightrope, with all of us as walkers. We begin at the starting pole, full of wonder, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Masterpiece
Featured Poem, NLAPW
By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-Large “She is working now…” — Jane Hirshfield, The Poet She is working now, the child at 5, kneeling at the glass table, a ... Read more
Featured Poem: My Words Slip
Featured Poem, NLAPW
By Annette Gagliardi Des Mones Branch from my lips, down the cleft of my chin, to hide beneath my left breast like shy children. They grow thin and dissipate ... Read more
Featured Art: Abstract Lily Pond
Featured Art, NLAPW
“Abstract Lily Pond” by Sigrun Buckley, Jacksonville Branch Acrylic on canvas, 11 x14 Artist’s Statement This will be part of my first exhibition at the Ponte Vedra Beach library, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sitting in Silence
Featured Poem, NLAPW(Tanka) by Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large sitting in silence the fog of all this living slowly dissipates like clouds clearing at sunset like longing when it finds home
Read moreFeatured Poem: Punctuated
Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW
By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch, Florida Mornings elude me. I don’t come alive till noon, but today, rising at 6AM, I headed to the marsh for a glimpse of ... Read more
Featured Poem: Arctic Summer
Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW
By Lynn Hansen Modesto Branch, California When brilliant light is dancing in Arctic summer skies kittiwakes bathe in icy pools, green or aqua blue in the land of midnight ... Read more
Featured Poem: Reflections
Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW
By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch In the mirror I call out to her. Her reflection, so youthful. Eager, hopeful. I call to her, warn her. It goes ... Read more
Featured Art: A Minty Morning
Featured Art, Latest News, NLAPW“A Minty Morning” by Meg Krakowiak, Sarasota Branch Acrylic, 36 x 48 Learn more about the artist at megkrakowiakstudios.com.
Read more
Featured Poem: An Event of Astronomical Proportions
Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW
By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California One summer night over twenty years ago a once-in-a-lifetime meteorite streaked across the entire sky over Yosemite Valley, creating the illusion of daylight ... Read more