by Paul Nelson | Nov 8, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Poetry Postcard Fest poet Margaret Mayer suggested linking my “Poet’s Obituary” for Diane di Prima here on the Poetry Postcard Fest site and I figured it was a good idea because Diane was a postcard poet in the first year of the fest, 2007!...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 1, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime Poetry Postcard Fest participant Mary Beth Frezon checks in with thoughts about her POPO2020 process: Excerpt: I’d been home since March 4, the first couple weeks of that with some illness. In April there wasn’t much to do except online work “stuff” and...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 25, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A sweet take on her own POPO2020 participation comes to us from the blog of Melanie Weldon-Soiset: One excerpt: Sending postcards served as a practice of remembrance. The Poetry Postcard Fest gave me a reason to engage postcards that had languished in a box,...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
AFTERWORD on the experience of August Poetry Postcard Fest 2020 (by Andrew Bell) Somehow, through no fault of anyone’s, but perhaps the tyranny of distance, I had drifted out of the Poetry Postcard Fest circle of communication. I can’t remember the last one I...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 11, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Hi, Paul— I shared back in July that my dad died, and you posted that on the PoPo website. As a result, I was showered with love and kindness from so many PoPo folks that it overwhelmed me. I re-read the notes frequently, and they remind me how important it is to...
