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.
Participation statistics for the 20th Poetry Postcard Fest with information of the PPF Open Mic 5-6:30 PDT on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
We need to learn from Fujitaro and see the gardens that can grow from our wastelands, from the Pacific trash heap to the City of Seattle dump to the logged former forestland to the filled in estuaries of rivers like the Duwamish that make the Port of Seattle or Marshlands that make Baltimore’s inner harbor to the sprawl of LA and suburbs around all cities in this country to the merciless businesses of insurance and pharmaceuticals and lobbying and media (social, in particular) and AI and bottled water and so on.
A workshop for poets interested in making the most out of the summer Poetry Postcard Fest and the end of fest daysong, day-long writing ritual,
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