Featured Art: Confetti Mountain

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

    Katie Turner, Central New York Branch Confetti Mountain, watercolor on paper, 18 by 24 inches   Statement from Katie Turner: Exploring abstract patterns formed by nature is part ... Read more

Featured Poem: Love’s Little Park

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Bette J. Lafferty Tampa Branch, Florida   It has been years since we first came to this little park, where young saplings with limbs so strong reached to the heavens ... Read more

Featured Art and Poem: Garden of Ethos

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

Oil on canvas (90 by 50) by Dianne Lynn Benanti, Palm Springs Branch, California   Dianne Lynn Benanti is a self-taught artist who creates large scale contemporary works as well ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Friend’s Gift

March 13, 2019February 1, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  Grady Sue Loftin Saxon Alabama Birmingham Branch   I looked up just as she slipped through the open doorway of the hospital waiting room that was filled with my ... Read more

Featured Poem: Naked Bruises

March 5, 2019January 15, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Kim Beardsley-Garrison Palm Springs  Branch The naked eye chooses to believe What the mind chooses to ignore. Pretend smiles and positive words Proclaim a happy mood, But not all bruises ... Read more

Featured Art: Water, Water, Everywhere

February 27, 2019February 9, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

Bonnie J. Smith, Santa Clara Branch; textile, 74 x 63 Over the years, Bonnie J. Smith watched as the California drought lowered the level of the San Luis Reservoir in ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sea Oats

February 22, 2019January 11, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch   Tall and slender the sea oats bow to one another without breaking. Something in their sandy shoes allows them to tilt from their toes, ... Read more

Featured Art: Spring

February 19, 2019February 9, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

Anne Yates, Portland Branch, Oregon Acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, 8×10 Anne Price Yates is a West Coast neo-impressionist artist working in oil, acrylic, and watercolor. She was drawing people by ... Read more

Featured Poem: Blizzard

February 14, 2019March 13, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

  Carolyn AuneMinnesota Branch     Ah, the late January malaise. How about a rip-roaring blizzard To break the monotony! How about a blizzard so grand and fierce That it ... Read more

Your Poems Wanted!

February 12, 2019February 9, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Karen McAferty Morris, Poetry Editor I’ve been poetry editor since November 2018, and I love to open my email and see poetry submissions. If you’ve been thinking of submitting ... Read more