Featured Poem: The Willful Words
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By Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch Wild willful words Come sweeping across The page As if they owned My heart. Wild willful words Sometimes, Come more gently. As ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Artist
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By Anne Bonner Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida A blank canvas Waiting for inspiration: “Paint me, Paint me.” She dips her brush in indigo paint And a brilliant ... Read more
Featured Art: Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
Featured Art, Latest News, NLAPW“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” by Ellen Cohen-Berman, Fort Lauderdale Branch Hand-built raku-fired ceramic sculpture, 14 wide x 10 deep x 13 high
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Featured Poem: Late Summer Shower
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large, Florida and California I walk onto the balcony to smell the rain after three months dry, welcoming its musky scent. Rain drops blot their signature ... Read more
Fiction Submission Wanted!
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By Sarah Honenberger Fiction/Nonfiction Editor Help! Pen Women nonfiction writers have been busy and submissions are varied and steady. But we need fiction from all you creative people. Excerpts from ... Read more
Featured Art: Alviso, Before & After
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“Alviso, Before & After” by Bonnie J. Smith, Santa Clara Branch (California) Textile, 48×54 Artist Statement: “Looking at before- and after-drought photographs of the Alviso Salt Marshes really jarred my ... Read more
Celebrate National Poetry Month
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A Message from Claire Massey, NLAPW Poetry Editor April is the month to celebrate the power and potential of poetry to rock our world! Poems can widen eyes; broaden minds; ... 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
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
Networkshop #1: Firsts Author Credits as Promised
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By Sarah Honenberger The Pen Woman fiction/nonfiction editor As the new fiction/nonfiction editor for The Pen Woman, I posted earlier this year several first paragraphs for critique and feedback. This ... Read more