From Sally Hedges-Blanquez:
I just opened some empty boxes, flattened them, & chopped away with my old school paper cutter. Instead of 3 boxes bound for the recycle bin,I’ve got 6 postcards and some small scraps that are perfect to use for making my grocery list or even writing a line or two for a poem.
Postcarding and DaySonging (A Workshop). In this session it will be a presentation of how the postcard fest developed, how the daysong developed, how I prepare for the fest and how participants attending prepare for the fest, as well as how to prepare for a successful daysong. The similarities of the daysong to serial poetry could be discussed, as well as the effort to put one’s self into the open, which has benefits in one’s own life.
Part of the Cascadia 2050 mission is: to inspire artists and poets of the next generation to consider bioregionalism and intuitive poetic approach as a way to foster a more just and sustainable Cascadia by 2050. To this end, one of our goals is to interview people who help us spread awareness by having practices in their lives that reflect these values. This interview with Postcard Poet Laura Gamache, a Seattle who has published poetry in the usual places, such as chapbooks, journals and anthologies, and also unusual places, such as buses, is the first of the series.
Hello Postcarders, Bioregionalists, Poets, et.al, I am writing you today on behalf of Cascadia 2050 to invite you to...
Wonderful! I appreciate both the environmental sensitivity for recycling printed boxes and the attraction to the color and imagery of modern consumer marketing. I have admired consumer product packaging by type; candy (bags and bars), cereal, technology, and especially airline safety instruction cards that I always open and follow the speal, not to feel I could save myself in the event of a water landing but rather to admire the simple but effective illustrations. Marvelous communication from cuneiform script to Wheatees, shear poetry.
I love this idea and I am stealing it. I was going to fight downtown holiday traffic and swim through a sea of tourists this weekend to purchase thirty-one St. Augustin, Florida postcards. Now, all I have to do is empty out my recycle bin at the house and cut up some cardboard. Brilliant.
Last year I used old album covers in the same way. You can find them used for very cheap, and the photos and graphics are great. I like the box-into-postcard idea also!!!
Love the idea of using old album covers. Thx for mentioning.
Perfect! In the past I enjoyed making post cards out of my own photos, but it got so darned expensive!
Now I use the boxes from the typically over-packaged items we get at the store.
Hello. I signed up to give a one-time donation of $15 and am trying to register for this year’s Poetry Fest. Although I’ve participated in it at least three years, I haven’t do so for awhile. In fact, I’m not sure if I’ve done so since I moved to Oregon five years ago next month (Yes! August–the Postcard Fest month.) In fact, the last year I participated, one of my postcard poems appeared in your anthology.)
But today, I’m unsure I’ve been registered. Please contact me so I can become enrolled. (Although I registered and donated the $15, I am unsure how to pay you.) Thanks.