Featured Poem: Morning Prayer
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Dorothy KammVero Beach, Florida Most mornings I pray when I drink coffee but today I’m watching seven grackles at the edge of a neighbor’s roof puff up their ... Read more
Featured Poem: Legacy of Love
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Anne Bonner Cape Canaveral Branch as the old lady stares into space slender twig bent and broken I remember Mama a beautiful young blossom role model in days past admonishing ... Read more
Featured Art: Passage to the Past
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Watercolor, 24×18 Geri M. Davis, Columbus Branch, Georgia Geri Davis’ life is dedicated to creating, promoting, teaching, and counseling with art. She has taught art for over 40 years. Many ... Read more
Featured Poem: Pictures of Me
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Val Weaver Des Moines Branch, Iowa Pictures of me… taken in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s show me always with a cigarette in my hand held between the fore and middle ... Read more
Featured Poem: The First Snowfall Prediction
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Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large, Maine Thirty minutes after the weatherman’s prediction The snow commences to fall December 9th at 12:30 Pretty delicate flakes Waft to the cold ground Covering ... Read more
Featured Poem: Furious, Too
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Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch (after reading fury by Lucille Clifton) Mama’s hand delivers rhymed and metered stanzas natural as blue trumpets of a morning glory vine unfolding ... Read more
Featured Art: Forgotten Treasure
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Mary Lou Griffin Diamond State Branch, Delaware Forgotten Treasure: Grandma’s Bedroom Chair Pastel, 8 x 10 I never got to know Leocadia Wielgorecki, my mother’s mother. She died several years ... Read more
Pen Women Artists, Submit Your Art to be Featured!
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Active, associate and allied art professionals, you are invited to submit your work for publication in the Pen Woman and on the NLAPW website! As the new art editor, I ... Read more
Featured Poem: Canvas of Life
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Barbara Clarke Atlanta Chapter Life’s journey is played out beginning on the upper part of the canvas bright colors are intermingled at the entrance of a new soul. Love ... Read more
Featured Poem: Genetically Modified
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Cornelia DeDona Member at Large, New York It was December of 2012. Dad was almost eighty. Dementia had erased his hunger. He’d subsisted the last few years on cheap cereal ... Read more