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 | 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...
by Paul Nelson | Oct 11, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Hi, Paul— I shared back in July that my dad died, and you posted that on the PoPo website. As a result, I was showered with love and kindness from so many PoPo folks that it overwhelmed me. I re-read the notes frequently, and they remind me how important it is to...
by Paul Nelson | Sep 25, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Group 3: here are the cards I’ve received. So very grateful for your poems and images! I can’t express how deeply you have moved me. FYI I’ve sent to everyone on group 3 list–last cards Labor day weekend. -Lillian Kurosaka — Lillian...
by Paul Nelson | Jul 22, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
I have such delight in tallying up the stats for Poetry Postcard Fest when registration is over. Maybe it is the buzz of registration being over giving me time to have my own Poetry Postcard Fest experience. Maybe it’s that Poetry Postcard Fest is “an...