Rattle Magazine & The Joy of Postcards

June 6, 2019

by Ryukan

Dig what Rattle Magazine has done/is doing for poetry postcards!!

Mailbox covered with graffiti with a view of a mountain range, Photo by Chad Peltola on Unsplash

Photograph by Chad Peltola (CC0)

Editor’s Note: Issue #68 of Rattle (Summer 2020) will feature a tribute to Postcard Poems. In the following essay, Paul Nelson describes his experience running the annual August Poetry Postcard Fest. It is our hope that more poets will participate this year and will save and submit their poems to our issue afterward, but participation in this festival is not required. If interested, though, the August Postcard Poetry Festival registration deadline is July 14th. For information on submitting to our postcard poems issue (deadline: January 15th), click here.

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