by Paul Nelson | Mar 31, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Joe Cottonwood on his experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Paul Nelson | Mar 27, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Gabriel Cleveland on his experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Paul Nelson | Mar 24, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Joanne Durham on her experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Paul Nelson | Mar 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Amy Miller on her experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Paul Nelson | Mar 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Seattle, WA, March 19, 2020—Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented nonprofit organization and organizing entity of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, is now registering writers for the 14th August Poetry Postcard Fest. We understand the global seriousness of...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 17, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Stanley DelGozo on his experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
by Paul Nelson | Nov 30, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am looking to interview at least ten postcard participants in the next few weeks to create some videos for a new PoPo website that will replace the current page on my cluttered personal site. Interviews will be (mostly) uniform, with standard questions and conducted...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 15, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I have been holding off on taking and posting my annual picture of poetry postcards received during this year’s August Poetry Postcard Fest. If I counted right, I got 62 cards: This is a shot taken Friday, September 13, 2019, and it does not do justice to the...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 10, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I am delighted to be part of the &Now Conference, which is being staged at UW-Bothell, September 19-22, 2019, with a rather remarkable collection of “experimental” poets.Not sure what word is appropriate these days for poets who take risks in their...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 1, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It seems rather overwhelming to summarize my experience as a participant of the 13th August Poetry Postcard Fest which longtime participant Terry Holzman a few years ago nicknamed PoPo and an anthology in 2017 called the “56 Days of August.” Yet here I am,...
by Paul Nelson | Aug 12, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
I titled my APPF essay for Rattle “The Joy of Postcards” but even though I was likening this activity to the subject of a famous book from the 60s, I was not far off based on some feedback from some of this year’s participants: From Laurie Bem...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 19, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2020 marks the 14th year of the fest and this is the official call. It is the biggest annual fundraiser for SPLAB. Again this year poets will be organized in groups of 32 and...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 14, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
As of this writing there are 424 participants for the 13th Poetry Postcard Fest. Registration for 2019 ended July 18 and has BEGUN for APPF14. It will end July 4, 2020, earlier than in past years! https://appf14.brownpapertickets.com/ So far there are participants...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 4, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2019 marks the thirteenth year of the fest and this is the official call. It is the biggest annual fundraiser for SPLAB. Again this year poets will be organized in groups of 32...
by Paul Nelson | Jun 28, 2019 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The signup is already open for the 13th August Poetry Postcard Fest and opens EVEN EARLIER for 2020. (July 18, 2019!) In order to allow as many people as possible to participate in the joy of postcards, we opened registration much earlier than the traditional July 4th...