Featured Poem: New Battles
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By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch On battlefields of blood not very long ago, soldiers marching face to face were martyred blow by blow. Now cities burned at ... Read more
Featured Prose: Running with My Words
Fiction and nonfiction, It's a Creative Business, NLAPW, Nonfiction
By Sara Etgen-Baker Dallas Branch When the alarm sounds, I want to continue sleeping. Instead, I slide out of the warm sheets and peek through the blinds. Graceful ... Read more
Featured Art: Gas Giant
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“Gas Giant” by Lucy Arnold, Golden Gate-Marin Branch 16×20 acrylic Artist’s Statement The planet in this poured acrylic painting resembles the gas giant, Jupiter. It is the second piece ... Read more
Featured Poem: Passages
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By Jane Lies Pensacola Branch Midnight blue silk Covered the heaven, Small beads of Silver Appeared, Sparkling brightly, Suppressing the darkness Of the sky, The silent orb Emerged, Veiled ... Read more
Featured Prose: Forever Sunday
Creative Inspirational Wisdom, Fiction and nonfiction, NLAPW, Nonfiction
By R.D. Petti Sarasota Branch Sunday has come to have a whole new meaning for me. Traditionally revered as the day of rest, Sunday is the day we can ... Read more
Featured Poem: Teetering
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Sometimes, I think life is like a tightrope, with all of us as walkers. We begin at the starting pole, full of wonder, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Masterpiece
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-Large “She is working now…” — Jane Hirshfield, The Poet She is working now, the child at 5, kneeling at the glass table, a ... Read more
Featured Poem: My Words Slip
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By Annette Gagliardi Des Mones Branch from my lips, down the cleft of my chin, to hide beneath my left breast like shy children. They grow thin and dissipate ... Read more
Featured Art: Abstract Lily Pond
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“Abstract Lily Pond” by Sigrun Buckley, Jacksonville Branch Acrylic on canvas, 11 x14 Artist’s Statement This will be part of my first exhibition at the Ponte Vedra Beach library, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sitting in Silence
Featured Poem, NLAPW(Tanka) by Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large sitting in silence the fog of all this living slowly dissipates like clouds clearing at sunset like longing when it finds home
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