Members News

Fall Luncheon — October 1


Hosted by Adrienne Reedy. Attendees included: Lisa D’Amico, Marla Chisholm, Barbara Ehrentreu, Leigh Grant, Stasha Healy, Karen Heffner, Doris Mady, Barbara O’Shea, Debbie Silberburg, Catherine Stahl, and Deb Weir.
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Greenwich Pen Women were invited to spend the afternoon of Saturday, October 10th exploring downtown Nyack before joining Pen Woman Arabela Gandy (who arranged this adventure for all of us) at Perry Lawson Fine Art for an artist talk with Ben Schonzeit. We also visited Arabela’s studio. Great day!

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Doris Mady — Moon River, an 18″x24″ oil painting has been juried into the Shames Jewish Community Center’s “Finding Light” art exhibit. Reception is Sunday, Oct. 11 from 2 – 4pm. 371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY. The show ends in early January 2027.
Her two paintings have been juried into the New Rochelle Art Association’s “110th Juried Art Show” (New Rochelle Library, 1 Library Plaza). Both After the Snow and “Hidden Moon” are 18″x24″. Reception: Sunday, Oct. 18 from 1- 2:30pm. This exhibit ends Nov. 1.
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Roberta Seret is thrilled to announce her political thrilled about Belarus, My Friend The Spy, has won a Finalist Award in American Fiction (Thriller-Political) with AmericanBookFest.com.

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Lucinda Watson — Atlanta Review 2026 International Merit Award goes to Lucinda Watson for her poem “Resume”. There were over 1000 separate poems from 200 entries from Singapore to Australia, Mexico and the Russian Federation.

Resumé

It doesn’t say on my resumé, how many times my heart has been broken or what it felt like when my daughter died and that, when I lost my biggest dog, I didn’t know how move him. Not only did I not know how to move him, I didn’t know where to put him. That’s kind of like what grief is, you don’t know where to put it all the time. Sometimes it bursts out of you like a a squeezed grape or other times it settles on top of your head and then seeps inside like a low-grade fever you can’t shake. It doesn’t say on my r esumé all the times I’ve fallen down. And it doesn’t say if there’s anyone there to help me get up. I know now that I don’t have that much farther to go on the runway, so I’m careful not to fall. I still like to be brave. What you learn about grief is that it belongs to you and you alone and you need to cover it most of the time when you’re out in the real world. When I say this, I think of the women in Iran, who are refusing to cover their heads, and I feel like rushing over there and putting things on their heads so they’ll be safe, and no one will be imprisoned or shot. I tell this to people who have lost someone and some of the time they look at me sadly. I don’t really care what people think anymore because I just don’t and because of this I suddenly find I have many more friends and interesting people in my life. I wonder often if I could bottle this and sell it and make a bundle.The idea of making a bundle is enticing. In my advanced age there’s nothing that I want so I would give it all away and that would be the most fun part. I think I’m writing from my child self today. I could be older; I could be young. I don’t wonder anymore how old I will be when I die. It’s funny when you get to be a certain age and you reflect on your life. You realize most of the time it didn’t turn out in the way you thought it would. We have two minutes left.

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Pen Women you are invited to submit your art!

There is no submission fee and no deadline. Those who have not previously (or recently) been published are especially encouraged to submit work. All submissions are reviewed for possible use in either The Pen Woman or on the NLAPW website.

Select your best work and email digital image files to arteditor@nlapw.org. Images should be 1200 pixels (or 4” at 300dpi) on a side. I will request larger files if needed.

In your email, please include:

Your name and branch or Member-at-Large. (Current members only, please.)
Your website URL, if you have one, image title, medium, size.
A very brief statement about yourself and the artwork.
An article, preferably 200-400 words, if you are submitting one. (Fewer words means more room for images.).By submitting your art to NLAPW, you give us permission to display your published work online at nlapw.org for the purpose of promoting NLAPW and our members.
If you have any questions, please email me at arteditor@nlapw.org or  lucy@lucyarnold.com