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Featured Poem: My 1917 Royal Typewriter

April 23, 2026April 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch Whose love passion sadness fears have poured through their fingers and onto these keys before me With each clunking laborious stroke rattling tap ... Read more

Featured Poem: Wine Country Spring

April 15, 2026March 16, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Lorraine Walker Williams Golden Gate Branch Swollen creeks like milky coffee run fast along grassy banks Tree bark moss glistens Clouds thick with shadow hang their ... Read more

Featured Ekphrastic Art: Dillon, CO

April 6, 2026March 16, 2026 Featured Art, Featured Poem, NLAPW

“Dillon, CO” by Catherine T. Horn, Greenwich Branch Photography Haiku inspired by the photo Golden Aspen trees Nestled within evergreens – Bright, bold, beautiful. – By Catherine T. Horn ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Dying Request

March 27, 2026March 16, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Carolyn Joyce Tokson Pensacola Branch Please place the coin under my tongue. I know I am dead now, but it is important. The coin is for Charon, the ... Read more

Featured Art: By The Rio Grande

March 17, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Art, NLAPW

“By The Rio Grande” by Barbara Gurwitz, Member-at-large India ink and acrylic, 16×20 Artist’s Statement This painting is based on pencil drawings from my travels throughout New Mexico. They ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Wild Promise of My True Nature

March 8, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Lisa Scott-Ponce Santa Clara Branch Scrambling over gritty granite boulders Hiking upward, mile after mile on a never-ending dusty trail Catching my breath, crying over bloody blisters ... Read more

Featured Poem: Minus One

February 26, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Rosalee J. Tithof Palm Springs Branch Some people say I have joined a club. It is a membership I did not choose. Life must go on… Or so ... Read more

Featured Art: Scavengers Do They Belong?

February 17, 2026January 8, 2026 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Scavengers Do They Belong?” by Rosemary Fineberg, Fort Lauderdale Branch Acrylic, 30×40 From “Even Darkness Has Light” series Learn more about the artist at rowsfine.com.

Featured Poem: Madonna of the Bath

February 8, 2026January 7, 2026 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch 29 years. She’s been bathing residents for 29 years. And I am now one of them. Too broken to bathe myself. So very ... Read more

Featured Art: Magical Garden

January 29, 2026March 16, 2026 Featured Art, NLAPW

“Magical Garden” by Polly Curran, Sarasota Branch Photo collage, 24 x 20 Artist Statement “Magical Garden” is a photo collage artwork I created for entry in the local Sarasota, Florida, ... Read more

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