Poem of the Week: The Blanket Lady
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Sheryl L. Nelms, Member at Large, Clyde, TX she unwraps herself from her stack of blankets folds each over her left arm and hobbles into the Fort ... Read more
Poem of the Week: Tuesday in New York City
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Etta Schaeffer, Boca Raton, Florida It was a beautiful September morning in The Big Apple My son, my only child was at work. He was in a building behind ... Read more
Poem of the Week: Safely Rest, God is Nigh
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Virginia Franklin Campbell, NLAPW President 2016-2018 To stately “old growth,” Douglas Fir, In a veritable amphitheater, I returned. Scout patrol campsites, in clock positions, eight, eleven, one and three, ... Read more
Poem of the Week: That Kind of Friends
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Rachael Ikins Central NY Branch Only you showed up 3 days in a row last September a year ago. The heat, the 3 flights of stairs, weight, furniture we lifted ... Read more
Poem of the Week: Can We Regain What Has Been Lost?
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Linda K. Bridges, Pikes Peak, Colorado Branch Unsuspecting, a quarrel hits without warning! Angry words fly—well-aimed missiles—hitting their mark. The shards and debris of broken relationships land here and ... Read more
Poem of the Week: I Just Kissed My Husband Goodbye
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M. J. Putnik, Boca Raton, Florida Branch I just kissed my husband goodbye. I watch him walk toward his marked police car and get inside. I stand at the window ... Read more
Poem of the Week: Scylla and Charybdis
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Susan Bassler Pickford, Member-at-Large in Lyman, Maine Navigating the dangerous passage of old age Between rocks and eddies One side covered with indifferent, defeatist attitudes Devil- may- care, rock hard, ... Read more
Online now: 2016 Biennial Highlights
NLAPWSee photos and news about all the celebration! 2016 National Pen Women Biennial Convention
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The new national board members, left to right, Jane Maclean, fifth vice president; Sheila Byrnes, second vice president; Ronnie Miller, fourth vice president; Virginia Franklin Campbell, president; Lorna Jean Hagstrom, ... Read more
Poem of the Week: Green Vase
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Brenda Layman, Central Ohio Branch Bright morning balcony sun Me, arranging flowers in the old green vase That was my mother’s Kept in a cabinet over the refrigerator Where ... Read more