by Paul Nelson | Jun 21, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 16th Poetry Postcard Fest begins July 4. Those who have registered and have 32 in their group will get their lists that day and those who have registered more recently will get a list by the next day. Starting your postcard poem writing on July 6 gives you...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 18, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 16th Poetry Postcard Fest begins July 4 and registration will end on that day! REGISTER NOW and await your postcard mirth! What do people say about the fest? Jessica Gershon: (The Poetry Postcard Fest) is what my soul needed. It has introduced me to parts of...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 13, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thanks to the folks who came to our Inside the Day Song workshop last Saturday. More news about that project will be forthcoming. Now is the time for the last-minute postcard fest registrants to step up and commit to participating in this life-changing project. More...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 3, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Hard to believe it is one month until the start of the 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration is OPEN NOW and earlybird registration ends June 4. On Saturday, June 11 at 9am PDT, join fest co-founder Paul E Nelson for an EPIC post-fest EXERCISE. Sign up for Inside...
by Paul Nelson | May 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A year ago postcard poet Margaret Lee and I collaborated on an essay about the Poetry Postcard Fest and how it’s origins are indebted to the Black Mountain School of poetry. It was published by the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies. A year later, we...
by Paul Nelson | May 9, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Get your five page handout loaded with links, prompts and inspirations if you register for this one day workshop before June 10. Take a look inside our current workshop group that started after the 2020 Poetry Postcard Fest. We’ve been looking at how to engage...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 27, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Dear Postcard Poet, The earlybird registration for 2022 (Year 16 of the Poetry Postcard Fest) ends June 4 and the price will nudge up a bit for those who wait for the last month, so… if you’re into saving money and still having poetry postcards landing in...
by Paul Nelson | Feb 1, 2022 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Our intrepid interviewer Ina Roy caught up with two time participant, Colorado resident Lawrence Pevec, to discuss his experience with the Poetry Postcard Fest. He talked about his main focus, the art on the card itself. He has created encaustics and that created the...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 22, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Seattle poet and teaching artist Laura Gamache has published in journals and anthologies, including Rattle, Altered Syntax, So, Dear Writer, and WA129, as well as her chapbooks, Never Enough and Nothing to Hold Onto. She has been privileged to work in Puget Sound area...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 7, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
56 Days of August Co-Editor Ina Roy-Faderman caught up with longtime postcard poet Daniel Smith to talk about his 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest experience. 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest Registration is OPEN NOW. Consider becoming a Founding Supporter of the Cascadia Poetics...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 18, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I caught up Wednesday, November 17, 2021, with Southern California poet Penelope Moffet about her Poetry Postcard Fest experience. Penelope Moffet is the author of It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018). Her poems have been published in Gleam,...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 8, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
On Monday, November 8, 2021, we caught up with Dave Garbutt via Zoom to talk about his experience with the Poetry Postcard Fest. Dave lives in Dornach, Switzerland, and he discussed his postcard method, spontaneity and read three of his 2021 postcard poems. See his...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 31, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
In this workshop we take the methods and the organismic stance toward poetics (& life) and continue to investigate how to deepen one’s own work and life through spontaneous writing, rituals, honing the intuition, exercising the imagination & discovering the...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 26, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Look at the 53 cards I got in 2021: If the baseball season can go into November, then postcard season can go late into October and I have been blown away by all the postcard love I got this year. I did hear some folks did not receive all of their cards and some cards...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 17, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Dear Paul, I hope this is the correct email to write you about the Festival. First time Postcard Poetry participant here. As of today, I’ve received 21 postcards! Very impressed by the ingenuity of the postcards, the commitment in sending, and the variety of...
