by Paul Nelson | Jul 25, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It is the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest and as I was taking an afternoon walk this past weekend, it hit me – what a gift this annual event is through and through. Having so many people year after year tell me, email me, or post to the APPF...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The tenth year of the Poetry Postcard Fest is under way and there are seven full groups of 32 poets, 224 participants in all, which is a record for the fee era. And there are participants from Alabama, Alberta, Australia, British Columbia, California, Connecticut,...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 11, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Ina Roy-Faderman: “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Like a lot of writers, I’m a bit of a loner and more than a bit of a night owl. Nighttime is comfortable,...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 4, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2016 marks the tenth year of the fest and this is your official call. Directions to participate in the fest are linked here. This year poets will be organized in groups of 32...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 14, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Ina Roy: The yearly August Postcard Poetry Festival has become an international event. To celebrate the 10th year of the Fest and the community that has developed around it, we will be creating an anthology of poems written as part of the 2016 August Postcard...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 13, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 10th August Poetry Postcard Fest begins on July 4. Registration begins that day here: Buy tickets for Poetry Postcard Fest And poems from this year’s fest can be submitted for the 1st Poetry Postcard Fest Anthology, a project led by three volunteers. (See...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 3, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Elizabeth Woods checks in from Down Under with a Postcard Fest interview. An excerpt: EW-The festival is now in its tenth year, what are some of the notable aspects a changes you have seen along the way? peN-Each year there is a new wrinkle. I think Judy Kleinberg’s...
by Paul Nelson | May 31, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The call for the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest will be released on July 4, 2016, and tickets go on sale at that time. Like last year, as soon as 32 participating poets get signed up, the list will go to them and registration will begin for the next...
by Paul Nelson | May 15, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another Georgia O’Keeffe image used for this latest 2015 August Poetry Postcard and one of the shortest 2015 postcard poems mostly because of the glossy stock and the difficulty in the actual writing of the poem. Ugh! Also a reference to an auspicious astrological...
by Paul Nelson | May 8, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Another Georgia O’Keeffe image, this latest August Poetry Postcard Fest poem was sent as prayer for a postcarder in the middle of summer wildfire hell.
by Paul Nelson | Apr 25, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
One of the cards I brought back from my 2014’s trip to Wisconsin that was part of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. This one with allusions to soul-building with a nod to an old poem from my Auburn days.
by Paul Nelson | Apr 20, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A follow up to the post about my recent trip to Taos, New Mexico. Amalio Madueño is community development specialist and brilliant poet of Yaqui and Tarahumara heritage. I am indebted to Amalio for the thousands of dollars of assistance he’s given to SPLAB and...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 19, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
ANOTHER devil reference in this latest of the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest and an image of one to boot. I love how the neighbors across the street use a pole with netting at the end to harvest plums. See all poems I wrote in Summer 2015...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 27, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
If you believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine, you know the lung/heart meridian is related to grief. I can’t help thinking that anytime someone has a smoking habit, grief must not be far away. Combine that kind of thinking (radical/root-oriented) with the fact...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 14, 2016 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Yes, demons were a sub-theme of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. More demons, another memory of the 2014 Subud World Congress in Puebla, Mexico, and an illusion to los feos americanos.
