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

Featured Art: Artist

September 6, 2025July 14, 2025 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Artist” by Fran Steinmark, Boca Raton Branch Acrylic, 36 x 48   Artist’s Statement I am a storyteller as both an artist and novelist. Passionate about color, I am fascinated ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Coloring Box

August 28, 2025July 14, 2025 Featured Poem

By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch   How novel that the color of skin is not interchangeable. I pivoted in today’s world because it comes unapologetically. I find harmony ... Read more

Featured Art: Bluetooth 1.0

August 10, 2025July 14, 2025 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Bluetooth 1.0” by Patricia L. Brooks, Fort Lauderdale Branch Ink and watercolor, 24 x 30 Artist’s Statement This alligator was basking in the sun on the side of a golf ... Read more

Featured Poem: Clowns

August 1, 2025July 14, 2025 Featured Poem

By Terry Henry Pensacola Branch      If I were to say what scares me the most I admit that it would have to be clowns Painted white faces with ... Read more

Featured Poem: Family Tree

July 24, 2025July 14, 2025 Featured Poem

By Rachael Ikins Bayou City II Branch     I fill sunflower feeders for the chickadees in January. February they will start their yearning two-note whistle, nest.   Blue spruce ... Read more