Pen Women Press Is Recruiting for Talent Pool

September 10, 2020 Latest News, NLAPW

— From Lucy Arnold, Publications Chair Pen Women Press (PWP) is the publishing imprint of the National League of American Pen Women, Inc. PWP differs from a vanity press in ... Read more

Featured art: Plum Blossom

August 31, 2020November 29, 2020 Featured Art, NLAPW

  “Plum Blossom” by Marcy Von Kohorn, Vero Beach Branch (Florida) Watercolor on rice paper (22×30)   Artist’s Statement Because I have to stay at home to avoid the coronavirus, ... Read more

Featured poem and musical composition: Daunting is the Woman

August 26, 2020 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW

Greenwich Branch member Ida Angland has created this original poem and musical composition, titled “Daunting is the Woman,” to honor the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Grand Dames

August 19, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch   Towering ladies with withered arms stretch toward the sky, wearing tattered remnants of summer and fall.   Long outstretched fingers dangle feathered moss, ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Waltz, the Hammer

August 11, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  By Sarah Collins Honenberger  Chesapeake Bay Branch, Virginia   It should be easy. Concede, comply, and still the enemy advances without concern for anyone or anything, a killer on an ... Read more

Featured Art: Seeding

August 5, 2020November 29, 2020 Featured Art, NLAPW

    “Seeding” by Debra Collins, Diablo-Alameda Branch (California) Cut charcoal paper, 16 x 20   “Seeding” is a piece that was shown on the Sierra Club’s national website early ... Read more

Featured Poem: Duffy and Me

July 29, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  By Ellen Morritt Sarasota Branch, Florida   I walk my dog on naked feet, The sidewalk still retains the heat. We walk along, my Duff and I While fluffy ... Read more

Featured Poem: Pandemic 2020 (with apologies to T. S. Eliot)   

July 23, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  By Barbara Sillery  Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts   Masks eyes   peer     warily. Space scan   circumference     six feet.   Caution fever,   cough,   ... Read more

Featured Poem: Living Fossil

July 14, 2020 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  By Carol Anne Dunn Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida   From the safe harbor of my lanai I see the opportunistic crocodilian lying in the sun, Soaking up the rays ... Read more

Featured Art: Pansies

July 8, 2020November 29, 2020 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Pansies,” photograph by Shirley Franklin; Minneapolis Branch  

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