Featured Poem: Trumpet Vine
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Silvia Kofler Member-at-Large My neighbor hates its invasiveness and lopped off as much as she could on her side of the fence. However, birds love it and sparrows moved ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Journey of Poetry
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Lori Howell Thompson Santa Clara County Branch Poetry are words dancing in your mind Becoming a fairytale of your voice A world created by imagination, experience, and dreams An ... Read more
Featured Poem: In Praise of Sonnets
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Tonya McQuade Santa Clara County Branch For many years, the sonnet form was king; To write in perfect meter earned acclaim. In fourteen lines, true sonneteers would sing, To ... Read more
Featured Poem: Alchemy – The Magic of Writing
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Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-Large I. Blankness empty page awaits— a silent, hungry canvas first word breaks the dawn. II. Alchemy black ink spills like night across the field of pure ... Read more
Featured Art: Portrait of a Young Woman
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“Portrait of a Young Woman” by Rita N. Deutsch, Fort Lauderdale Branch Ink and graphite on canvas board, 9×12 This portrait was inspired by the art of Austrian artist ... Read more
Featured Poem: My 1917 Royal Typewriter
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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“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