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Featured Poem: Lessons From a Gosling’s Journey

December 9, 2025October 7, 2025 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Adrienne Reedy Greenwich Branch By the water’s edge, where tall grasses sway, Two parent geese, in their protective way, Guarded their two little downy, bright kin, Sweet ... Read more

Featured Art: When All Is Quiet

November 30, 2025October 7, 2025 Featured Art, NLAPW

“When All Is Quiet” by Dorothy Atkins, Santa Clara Branch Mixed media, 9 x 12 Artist Statement At this stage in my creative journey, I am excited that people ... Read more

Featured Poem: Chapters

November 20, 2025October 7, 2025 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Terry Henry Pensacola Branch He sits in his favorite chair in the early morning light His reading glasses perched on his nose Slowly scrolling through the morning headlines ... Read more

Featured Poem: Testing for Moisture

November 10, 2025October 7, 2025 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Pat Underwood Des Moines Branch My father stepped into the field that spring and sifted black earth through his fingers until it fell to the ground like ... Read more

Featured Art: Same Root, Different Blooms

October 30, 2025November 17, 2025 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Same Root, Different Blooms” by Zeldi Eskenazi, Fort Lauderdale Branch Acrylic, 24 x 30 Artist’s Statement “Same Roots, Different Blooms” is a little celebration of how even flowers that start ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Steady Hand

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

(aka: PenWomenship 2025) By Christina Larson Pensacola Branch Nanny Muller’s penmanship compared to none, I thought. My nanny formed each A-B-C the same way I’d been taught. ... Read more

On the Road Again: Waking Early

October 10, 2025October 7, 2025 Fiction and nonfiction, NLAPW, Nonfiction

TPW fiction and nonfiction editor Sarah “Sally” Collins Honenberger writes a newspaper essay series as a “traveling novelist,” titiled On the Road Again. This 30th essay gives you a glimpse ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Butterfly Effect

September 30, 2025August 1, 2025 Featured Poem

By Debora G. De Farias Jacksonville Branch Have you ever fallen in love with the Impossible? Have you ever been lost in the vast immensity of a look that ... Read more

Featured Art: Pacific Ocean

September 23, 2025September 24, 2025 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Pacific Ocean” by Bonnie J. Smith, Santa Clara County Branch Fabric dipped into an indigo bath, 10 feet high x 40 feet wide Artist’s Statement Our environment depends on ... Read more

Featured Poem: Marriage Vow

September 14, 2025July 14, 2025 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Rachael Ikins Bayou City II Branch One country is not the world. I missed the moon this morning. Only a film-softened face. Dawn. My old house ... Read more

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