by Paul Nelson | Oct 10, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Thank you Mary Beth Frezon, veteran postcarder, for these wise words: Yes I’m one of those people who mark your card as arrived when it does but I don’t worry about it if it doesn’t. I’m grateful for all the cards that arrive and stick with my notion that the Poetry...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 3, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I enjoyed participating in the poetry festival. Although I only have received 9 poems so far, I can see the thoughtfulness in them. I will be looking forward to receiving more in the mail. I have been having difficulties with shipments across from the US to Canada...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime postcard poet and co-editor of 56 Days of August Judy Kleinberg has published her 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest afterword: I never know quite when it’s over — when all of the postcards I’m likely to receive have now arrived. As of today, six (of 31) are still...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 22, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
# 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 | Poetry Postcard Fest
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 | Poetry Postcard Fest
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 | Poetry Postcard Fest
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 | Poetry Postcard Fest
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...
by Roberta Hoffman | Aug 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
MARGARET “MARGE” MERRILL, a life-long resident of Western New York and longtime participant in its poetry community, died suddenly on July 22 after a brief illness. She was 70. A former host of the Screening Room Reading Series in Amherst, her work appeared in many...
by Paul Nelson | Aug 10, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Nina Murray has a wonderful post about the fest and about where SHE gets postcards: So I thought I’d take this opportunity to list my all-time favorite sources of postcards (the listings are not sponsored in any way :). My/your local Goodwill. Never fails. There are...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 31, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The numbers are in for year 15 of the Poetry Postcard Fest, as registration has ended (FINALLY) and the poets at Casa del Colibrí can move on to their own poetry postcard production and the next heat wave or smoke infestation. But I digress. Here are the numbers:...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 15, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Linda Crosfield and I met in George Bowering’s 2005 week-long class at the (now defunct) Victoria School of Writing Summer School where we learned, among other things, the importance of putting chickens in poems. One of the few postcarders who has done it every...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 14, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Our good friends at Lost & Found are at it again with subjects near and dear to our heart. From their e-newsletter, which went out this morning, find postcards, literary history and news of one of the poets to which the 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest is dedicated:...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 12, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcarder Sally Hedges-Blanquez points us to the Paris Review and some AMAZING collages by the late artist Eileen Agar. From the article: In an undated note bequeathed to the Tate Archive in 1992, Eileen Agar (1899–1991) writes of her admiration for the author of...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 4, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The 15th Poetry Postcard Fest is on and registration is in its final two weeks. 14 different countries are represented, along with 46 U.S. states (+DC), 3 Australian states and 4 Canadian provinces. And a beautiful primer on the fest has been created by Julie A. Fast,...
