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Featured Poem: Old Things

June 4, 2019June 1, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Donna Bruno Ft. Lauderdale Branch The satin sheen of Great-grandmother’s table Duncan-Phyffe mahogany gives testament to generations before me who dutifully polished it with elbow-grease to enhance its lustrous ... Read more

Featured Art: The Watchkeepers

May 28, 2019May 1, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

One day, Jane and her husband traveled down a dusty country road in Weumpka, Alabama. As they neared Lake Martin, they discovered an isolated burial site near ... Read more

Featured Art: Gallery Hopping

May 21, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Connecticut Pioneer Branch Gallery Hopping, embroidered assemblage on felt, 13-inch square, framed Statement from Carol Nipomnich Dixon: I have been drawing, painting, photographing, and experimenting ... Read more

Featured Poem: Writer’s Block

May 19, 2019May 14, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch, Texas There I sit Done with trees Their rugged hide Their fallen leaves Ended the garden At mid-lawn With vibrant roses And firethorn ... Read more

Featured Poem: Slammed

May 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Cornelia DeDona Member-at-large, Kingston, New York I slammed my heart into love’s door bloodied and bruised it swelled on the other side of a reckoning exacted its price no ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Decision

May 14, 2019May 1, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Elizabeth Diane Martin Pikes Peak Branch, Colorado In turmoil and distrust In the midst of fear and confusion A decision to love Changed a wandering Wondering heart Into one ... Read more

Featured Art: 19th Century Lady

May 2, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

Patricia Daly-Lipe, Jacksonville Branch, Florida 19th Century Lady, oil, 26 by 30 (includes frame) Statement from Patricia Daly-Lipe: The portrait is based on an old photo of a ... Read more

Featured Poem: Circle of Time

April 30, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Linda Farmer Ames Columbus Branch, Georgia I, mighty oak, have stood rooted here for greater than one hundred years, surrounded by brothers and sisters, all of Mother Nature’s children. ... Read more

Featured Poem: English Class

April 23, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW

Donna DeLeo Bruno Ft. Lauderdale Branch I stand before my teenage students Speaking of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Of Penelope, Ulysses’ faithful and long-suffering wife Who ... Read more

Featured Art: Confetti Mountain

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Art, NLAPW

Katie Turner, Central New York Branch Confetti Mountain, watercolor on paper, 18 by 24 inches Statement from Katie Turner: Exploring abstract patterns formed by nature is part ... Read more

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