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
Check out the highlights from the 49th Biennial in Des Moines
Latest News, NLAPWDid you miss this year’s Biennial in Des Moines? Pensacola, Florida, Pen Woman Anne Baehr captured the best moments in a video. See what you missed!
Read morePoem of the Week: Truth
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Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large (Maine) Middle English “trewthe,” from Old English “trēowth” — fidelity; akin to Old English “trēowe” — faithful — before 1100s “You can’t handle the truth,” ... Read more
Poem of the Week: Mimosas
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Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch, NM Yesterday, I walked under a canopy of mimosa trees, Maybe a dozen, Who could count the fragrance was so intoxicating, The shade so soothing. ... Read more