Featured Poem: Stay for Awhile

January 28, 2020December 18, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Patricia J. Dennis Santa Clara County Branch, California   A mansion set back White pillars standing tall   Framed by trees guarding all Luscious greens so alive Glistening clean after ... Read more

Featured Art: Little Bear

January 23, 2020December 18, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Little Bear,” watercolor, 24h x 22w, by Geri McGriff Davis Columbus Branch, Georgia   Geri McGriff Davis is a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in art and architecture. ... Read more

Featured Art: Beach Glass

January 7, 2020December 18, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Beach Glass,” textile, 44h x 39w, by Bonnie J. Smith Santa Clara Branch    Artist statement “As a textile artist, I concentrate on what I see and know. Most important to ... Read more

Featured Poem: A New Beginning

January 3, 2020December 18, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California   On our way to shop at the sutlers’ tents, we pass through the artillery camp, horses lined up on our left, each one almost ... Read more

Featured Poem: Among My Mother’s Many Gifts

December 20, 2019December 18, 2019 Featured Poem

Janet Fagal Central New York Branch One summer she painted in Maine, by the sea. Shared poems she’d learned in school: Sea Fever, The House with Nobody in It. At ... Read more

Artwork Wanted for the 50th Biennial Art Show

December 17, 2019December 16, 2019 Latest News, NLAPW

Calling all artists! We need artwork for our 50th National Biennial Art Show. We will have a wonderful gallery space in our Pen Arts Gallery for this exhibit. It’s all ... Read more

Letters Competition Deadline Extended to December 20 — Entries Wanted!

December 13, 2019December 15, 2019 Latest News, NLAPW

Letters Competition Deadline Extended to December 20 — Entries Wanted! NLAPW Letters members: As our 2020 Biennial deadline approaches for letters entries, we notice an imbalance in a few categories. ... Read more

Featured Art: Rebirth

December 12, 2019October 2, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Rebirth,” watercolor 19 (by 24) by Janine Wilson  Yucca Branch, New Mexico janinewilsonart.blogspot.com   Janine Wilson wants the world to know that the Yucca Pen Women branch in New Mexico ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Spell of the Union

November 29, 2019September 29, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  Joy A. Burki-Watson Member-at-large   I wanted release so I sought it, I worked in the South as a slave, Freedom took plenty of forethought and more than a ... Read more

Featured Art: Queen of the Night

November 26, 2019October 2, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Queen of the Night,” 6 by 6 photo, by Polly Curran Sarasota Branch, Florida pollycurranphotography.zenfolio.com   Artist’s statement The “Queen of the Night” is an extraordinary plant. It is prized ... Read more