Featured Poem: Shadow First
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By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch I see your shadow first, gliding above. You alight in the uppermost branches of a nearby tree. Then the conversation begins. A sound only ... Read more
Featured Poem: Kintsugi*
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By Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch Mended in the broken places With golden glue, So you embrace The pain and missing faces And make a work of art ... Read more
Featured Art: She Was Always the Life of the Party
Featured Art, NLAPW“She Was Always the Life of the Party” by Janet Gold, Fort Lauderdale Collage, 7 x 9
Read moreFeatured Poem: Echoes
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By Sara Etgen-Baker, member-at-large (a haibun*) I opened the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used — the scissors, the darning egg, ... Read more
Featured Art: Nature’s Patterns
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“Nature’s Patterns” by Chandana Srinath, Diablo-Alameda Branch Acrylic, 31.5 x 21.5 Artist’s Statement: My work expresses native folk art from different parts of India. It showcases nature intertwined with humans. ... Read more
Featured Poem: Complications
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By Judy Crystal Greenwich Branch, Connecticut Just a simple cataract surgery Well Maybe not so simple But successful Straightforward As expected Until Two weeks later On a sunny afternoon ... Read more
Featured Art: Three Goils Are Thee
Featured Art, Latest News, NLAPW“Three Goils Are Thee” by Phyllis Elrich, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale branches Acrylic, 30H x 24W
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Featured Poem: Joy in September
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By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch, Colorado (Published in Colorado Country Life, Sept 2021) Perched on my window frame so close I could touch save for the glass, a ... Read more
Featured Art: Flip Flops
Featured Art, Latest News, NLAPW“Flip Flops” by Sharron Demarest, Fort Lauderdale Branch Photography, 16 x 20
Read moreFeatured Poem: Progress
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By Patricia Daly-Lipe Jacksonville Branch, Florida Progress is being made All over the world. So-called progress named technology. But there is another avenue of progress Being made all over ... Read more