Featured Art: By The Rio Grande

March 17, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Art, NLAPW

“By The Rio Grande” by Barbara Gurwitz, Member-at-large India ink and acrylic, 16×20   Artist’s Statement This painting is based on pencil drawings from my travels throughout New Mexico. They ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Wild Promise of My True Nature

March 8, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Lisa Scott-Ponce Santa Clara Branch     Scrambling over gritty granite boulders Hiking upward, mile after mile on a never-ending dusty trail Catching my breath, crying over bloody blisters ... Read more

Featured Poem: Minus One   

February 26, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Rosalee J. Tithof Palm Springs Branch     Some people say I have joined a club. It is a membership I did not choose. Life must go on… Or so ... Read more

Featured Art: Scavengers Do They Belong? 

February 17, 2026January 8, 2026 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Scavengers Do They Belong?” by Rosemary Fineberg, Fort Lauderdale Branch Acrylic, 30×40  From “Even Darkness Has Light” series Learn more about the artist at rowsfine.com.

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Featured Poem: Madonna of the Bath  

February 8, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch     29 years.  She’s been bathing residents for 29 years.   And I am now one of them. Too broken to bathe myself. So very ... Read more

Featured Art: Magical Garden

January 29, 2026March 16, 2026 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Magical Garden” by Polly Curran, Sarasota Branch Photo collage, 24 x 20 Artist Statement “Magical Garden” is a photo collage artwork I created for entry in the local Sarasota, Florida, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Self-Talk

January 20, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch     I am doing well and looking forward to doing better. Just begun to live Love the place I am. Cherish ... Read more

Featured Poem: Ode to Defiant Optimism 

January 10, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Sharon E. Ludan Honolulu Branch   “The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun…”    – W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues ... Read more

Featured Art: Megan

December 31, 2025October 7, 2025 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Megan” by Holly Wolfe, Columbus Branch Oil, 11 x 14

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Featured Poem: Winter Solstice (Dodoitsu)

December 19, 2025October 7, 2025 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-Large   winter solstice arriving shortest day and longest night silent trees gather forces for returning light   lighter, longer, brighter days saunter through the winter gloom ... Read more