by Paul Nelson | Sep 22, 2021 | POPO, POPOpoets
# Post card poetry # I forget now where I saw the first mention of this project, but I remember that I was immediately intrigued, thought for 30 seconds and signed up. I have been retired for 5 years now and during a full and demanding work life I got used to having...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 15, 2021 | POPO, POPOpoets
Thanks to Paul, Group 1, and the regulars who register every year. You all make the festival the celebration that it is. I’ve been participating in the festival from the beginning. Most years, as Float Press, I’ve designed and letterpress printed postcards on my...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 8, 2021 | POPOpoets
Hi Paul, As an afterword, here is a poem made up of the first lines of all the poems I received, and two images. Group 16, the stragglers! The woman holding a flower came from Greg Colburn of Hanover, PA (the painting is Wild Flowers by John Wragg.) The clothespins...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 5, 2021 | POPO
There were 45 attendees at the Poetry Postcard Fest Open Mic event, Saturday, September 4, 2021 via the dreaded (miracle) of Zoom. Richard Osler of Duncan, BC, was a brilliant emcee and Ina Roy-Faderman, co-editor of 56 Days of August helped coordinate the list of...
by Paul Nelson | Aug 28, 2021 | POPO
This year’s post-Poetry Postcard Fest open mic will happen Saturday, September 4 at 10am PDT via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/s/2064225002 If you would like to help coordinate it, please let me know. We plan to record it for folks who are away on Labor Day...
