On October 1, 2023, the poet participants of the 2023 Poetry Postcard Fest met on Zoom for the first post-fest gathering! With Paul Nelson serving as the emcee, participants discussed and celebrated all things Poetry Postcard Fest and read their postcard poems. Thank you to the PPF board for organizing this meeting, and thank you to everyone who attended! If you weren’t able to attend, you can watch the recorded event in the video below.
Notes on the last Poetry Postcard Activation for 2026 at Pritchard Beach in Seattle.
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.
Paul thanks for this recording…I actually received a bonus card a couple of days ago, from JI kleinberg with a wonderful drawing of a “carrot” and a thank you from “Scarecrow” for his/her shout out and giving the world “The Word For Standing Alone In A Field”,,,It was a really great PoPo year…Namaste Stanley