by Paul Nelson | Feb 3, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Postcard poet Susan Kay Anderson has a new book on Virginia Brautigan Aste: In this startling and fascinating book, Susan Kay Anderson takes the reader on a journey from California to Oaxaca to Hawaii, through the life and words of Virginia Brautigan Aste – married to...
by Paul Nelson | Jan 27, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Nina Murray is a newcomer to the Poetry Postcard Fest, with 2020 being her first year. A Foreign Service Officer, she had a lot to share about the fest, her work and the state of consciousness that poetry (done right) can enable. Enjoy!
by Paul Nelson | Jan 20, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
LONGTIME Poetry Postcard Fest POet Cat Ruiz Kigerl discusses her participation in the annual Poetry Postcard Fest: Poetry Postcard Fest. Cat Ruiz Kigerl was born in Seattle. She is the author of three poetry books: Beach Notes, TwoNewfs Publishing, 2020, At the Town...
by Paul Nelson | Jan 13, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
CJ Prince discusses her experience with Poetry Postcard Fest, the Poetry Postcard Fest in an interview recorded December 8, 2020. C.J. Prince arrived in the Northwest, escorted by two dragons and one hundred and eight boxes of poems and a few lagging computers. You...
by Paul Nelson | Jan 6, 2021 | Poetry Postcard Fest
We caught up with Wilderness Sarchild to discuss her Poetry Postcard Fest experience on December 7, 2020. Wilderness Sarchild is the author of a full length poetry collection, Old Women Talking, published by Passager Books, and the co-author of Wrinkles, the Musical,...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 28, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Alicia Gignoux has enjoyed being part of the Poetry Postcard Fest poetry exchange. She taught Spanish at the university level in Montana for many years and spent time serving in Mexico with the Peace Corps.
by Paul Nelson | Dec 22, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Andrew Bell is a Poetry Postcard Fest poet living in Christchurch, New Zealand. He talked about his experience with the postcard fest and also USAmerican politics in the last weeks of you know who. Andrew M. Bell writes poetry, short fiction, plays, screenplays and...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 15, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Philip Riley, Poetry Postcard Fest poet: Here’s a recent photo of me in front of a tiny 13th century Cypriot church. It was above a stream where I went to collect reeds to repair a Greek chair. Beautiful icons line the walls of this simple building. As for the...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 7, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Diane Elayne Dees discusses her involvement in Poetry Postcard Fest, the Poetry Postcard Fest after her first year of participation. Diane Elayne Dees’s poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in many journals and anthologies, and her...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 1, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First time Poetry Postcard Fest participant Lawrence Pevec made a video about his encaustic postcard process. Lawrence is a friend and member of my spiritual community, Subud. He is also a Board Member of the cultural wing of Subud, SICA-USA, an entity which I now...
by Paul Nelson | Nov 21, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Now that our post-Poetry Postcard Fest workshop is over and has received some rave reviews (see THIS and also THIS) we’re ready now for another round of interviews with Poetry Postcard Fest participants for posting on Youtube and on this site. If you were not...
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...
