Featured Poem: Ancient Roads  

January 30, 2023November 10, 2022 Featured Poem

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch   At Brú na Bóinne, Neolithic people walked on ancient roads through sacred Irish land toward prehistoric passage graves and ceremonial temples like Newgrange, where ... Read more

Featured Poem: To Be Trickster

January 16, 2023November 10, 2022 Featured Poem

By Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch   I sit under red maple where leaves appear gold. And the sky, gray, menacing   over all — even the holly and tiny ... Read more

Featured Art: Lovely Flow

January 3, 2023December 23, 2022 Featured Art

Lovely Flow by Lidia Tohar, Boca Raton Branch 8×10 acrylic on canvas   Enduring the COVID-19 Pandemic by Painting Flowers By Lidia Tohar Painting flowers gave me a sense of ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Gathering

December 31, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem

By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch   Gather the children before the breaking dawn transfigures the sweetness of their youth and the lost laboring world, unsatisfied, brings their beauty to ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sally and The Light

December 22, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem

By Louise Kantro Modesto Branch   Do you mind pulling over here? Sally asks. In a flash, the camera appears in her hand. I love this old house. And the ... Read more

Featured Poem: Out of Sorts

December 9, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem

By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch Year after year during the months of August and September when the leaves begin to turn, and that cool breeze can be felt ... Read more

Featured Poem: Word Angels

November 30, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

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 Art: Alviso, Green

November 23, 2022November 3, 2022 Featured Art

  “Alviso, Green” by Bonnie Smith, Santa Clara County Branch 34×40 fabric art From the Artist: The focus of this textile is the Alviso Salt Marshes. The Alviso slough runs ... Read more

Featured Poem: Pain

November 16, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

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 Art and Poem: My Sleeping Beauty & Life in My ’80s

November 10, 2022November 3, 2022 Featured Art, Featured Poem

“My Sleeping Beauty,” 12×16 acrylic by Marie Francis   Life in My ’80s By Marie Francis   I just turned the big 8 0! Today I tripped and broke my ... Read more