Mary Beth Frezon POPO2020 Afterword

November 1, 2020

by Ryukan

Longtime Poetry Postcard Fest participant Mary Beth Frezon checks in with thoughts about her POPO2020 process:

Excerpt: I’d been home since March 4, the first couple weeks of that with some illness. In April there wasn’t much to do except online work “stuff” and sitting outside to paint and watch the world. I started carrying a pocket sized notebook and actually writing down phrases or ideas that came to me although normally I compose on the computer. I have often jotted a digital note or done a voice recording of an idea on my phone but there was something nice about scribbling down an idea. I quickly realized that the process was much better if I at least tried to be legible in my scribbling.

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