Featured Poem: Painted Lady
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By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch, California While searching for the perfect face I found suntan, beige, warm brown and brown They all looked the same Never the ... Read more
Featured Poem: Classic Blue
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California It’s one of the last photos in our white Hallmark album – both of us running away from the church, heads down, smiling, ... Read more
Featured Poem: My Morning Routine
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By Megha Sood Member-at-large My fingers tracing those invisible unetched dreams on my table some skewed and some forgotten by the cruel bouts of merciless time Time ... Read more
Introducing Claire Massey, New Poetry Editor
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By Claire Massey It’s a great honor to join the editorial team of The Pen Woman as your new poetry page editor. Former editor Karen McAferty Morris contributed much to ... Read more
Who Am I?
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By Vera Ripp Hirschhorn Boca Raton Branch, Florida I am the toddler jumping up and down, waving my arms and shouting Da! Da! in my playpen upon seeing my ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sending Out
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By Christina Laurie Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts “Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, the enemy attacked.” —anonymous Our windowsills were wet from ... Read more
Sunset
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By Marcy Von Kohorn Vero Beach Branch, Florida Darkened palm trees spread their fingers against the pale pink of the sky Ripples skip across the water reflecting a spiritual ... Read more
Send Us Your Poems from the Biennial Competition
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By Karen Morris Poetry editor Did you enter one of the Biennial Letters poetry contests this year? In the latest Biennial Letters competition, there were 350 submissions (a record!), and ... Read more
Wind
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By Autry Dye Pensacola Branch, Florida Goddess Dogoda is my name in one culture. In others I am called Rashabar, Zephyr, Sirocco, Haboob and Pali, Rolling off the tongue ... Read more
Brown Man
Featured Poem, NLAPWBy Diane Rabideau-Wise Jacksonville Branch, Florida Brown-Down. Knee-Neck. Neck-Closed, Air-Where? Brown-Down. Momma’s where? There is no air. Son’s-Down. Momma cares. Momma’s where? Not a sound. Life-Gone. Brown-Down.
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