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APPF13 Update

July 14, 2019
by Ryukan

APPFAs 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 from: Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, Australia, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, The Netherlands, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Scotland, Singapore, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, the U.K., Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and other places. Did I miss your state or country? Please add in the comments.

As you may know, once you get your list, you are free to start writing postcards to folks who are below you on the list, then go to the top of your list of 32. Please write 31 cards and get them in the mail by August 31. I will get the first lists out on July 4 and I am grateful to the response to this project which I love more every year.

If you haven’t already, check out my postcard essay on Rattle:

The Joy of Postcards

And I’ll leave you with one of the collage cards I made for either THIS fest, or a future fest:

peN Collage Postcard July 1 4

15 Comments

  1. Kim
    Kim on July 2, 2019 at 8:45 am

    Nebraska

  2. kristin
    kristin on July 2, 2019 at 8:48 am

    You left off Georgia, the state from which I write. I hadn’t thought of it before, but I can see how people are going to sign up thinking they are in this year’s fest and will actually be in next year’s.

  3. Splabman
    Splabman on July 2, 2019 at 9:04 am

    Thanks for the updates! I relied on an Excel sort function by state, so those who did not fill in the two letter state abbreviation were left off.

  4. Lynne Shapiro
    Lynne Shapiro on July 2, 2019 at 10:39 am

    New Jersey? I thought I registered…

  5. Walter G. Lowe
    Walter G. Lowe on July 3, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    Paul,

    So am I reading the message correctly that the timeline is that registration for #13 (2019) ends at midnight on the 18th and then registration for #14 (for August 2020) begins at 12:01 am on the 19th?

  6. Splabman
    Splabman on July 3, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    Yes Walter. Confusing, I know. I am grateful for your continued inspired fest participation.

  7. Julane Borth
    Julane Borth on July 4, 2019 at 5:28 am

    Paul – I was confused signing up so I’m checking to make sure I’m registered for August ’19. My state of Oklahoma was not included in the list of States. I look forward to hearing from you. Julane Borth, Oklahoma City

  8. Splabman
    Splabman on July 4, 2019 at 5:59 am

    Julane! YES, group 7. List coming today. Paul

  9. Bruce Greeley
    Bruce Greeley on July 4, 2019 at 8:05 am

    No representation from Saturn?! Sun Ra is sad…(!) viva postcard poesy, mate!

  10. Martha
    Martha on July 12, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    Rhode Island? Just checking for August 2019.

  11. Splabman
    Splabman on July 12, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    Got it!

  12. Ed Varney
    Ed Varney on July 18, 2019 at 10:08 am

    Paul, When do we get our list?

  13. Splabman
    Splabman on July 18, 2019 at 11:13 am

    July 19, 2019. Thanks for being a part of this, Ed.

  14. Martha Kaplan
    Martha Kaplan on July 18, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Paul, You missed Wisconsin. And in Group #1 no less! Please add Wisconsin.
    Thanks.
    Martha Kaplan

  15. Splabman
    Splabman on July 23, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    Oops! Got it now.

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