Poetry Postcard Fest co-founder Paul Nelson interviews Mark Johnson on his experience with the august POetry POstcard festival.
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Awesome interview. I took away a lot of ideas … Mark’s discussing the
epistolary poem, // a verse letter // letter poem being a poem in the form of an epistle or letter.
( thank you google )
was the part that I forgot that was suggested sometime when I started PoPo.
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I would often forget to put the salutation on the postcard … or not leave room for it when I started.
The first year, I realize now …thanks to Mark and Paul’s conversation, is that I was worried about
using an informal first name.
Foolish me, I got myself tied up in calling people by their first names. Of course, that was meant back
when I was young, the proper way to address an older person or a title they had earned.
My takeaway besides the epistolary style … I have to admit that I am probably a lot older than most of
the people that are on the list. I AM that older person that I thought I was writing to.
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My only negative-ish comment to Mark is about the “not being hand written means not spontaneous”…
for me, anyway, what I type is more spontaneous than hand written …
and the fact that hand writing for many people may be illegible or painful.
Thanks for a delightful interview. 🙂 <3