Featured Poem: Final Analysis (A True Story)
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By Carol White Boca Raton Branch “We’ll be slicing into your head, Mrs. White It shouldn’t hurt much, please look at the light There’s a drain in your brain ... Read more
Featured Poem: Family Photos
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Here they sit, all dressed up, with frozen poses hung side by side above the piano, registering disapproving looks. They are the ... Read more
Featured Poem: Autumn Leaves
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By Patrice M. Wilson Honolulu Branch These flaring reds, golden yellows, oranges, magentas are last novas of trees before they’re brown crinkled candidates for another kind of fire. ... Read more
Featured Poem: New Battles
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By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch On battlefields of blood not very long ago, soldiers marching face to face were martyred blow by blow. Now cities burned at ... Read more
Featured Prose: Running with My Words
Fiction and nonfiction, It's a Creative Business, NLAPW, Nonfiction
By Sara Etgen-Baker Dallas Branch When the alarm sounds, I want to continue sleeping. Instead, I slide out of the warm sheets and peek through the blinds. Graceful ... Read more
Featured Art: Gas Giant
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“Gas Giant” by Lucy Arnold, Golden Gate-Marin Branch 16×20 acrylic Artist’s Statement The planet in this poured acrylic painting resembles the gas giant, Jupiter. It is the second piece ... Read more
Featured Poem: Passages
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By Jane Lies Pensacola Branch Midnight blue silk Covered the heaven, Small beads of Silver Appeared, Sparkling brightly, Suppressing the darkness Of the sky, The silent orb Emerged, Veiled ... Read more
Featured Prose: Forever Sunday
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By R.D. Petti Sarasota Branch Sunday has come to have a whole new meaning for me. Traditionally revered as the day of rest, Sunday is the day we can ... Read more
Featured Poem: Teetering
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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
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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