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18th Poetry Postcard Fest Stats

August 1, 2024
Veronica Martinez

Updates and Stats for the 18th Poetry Postcard Fest

We hope you are all enjoying the 18th Poetry Postcard Fest! This year, we celebrate a RECORD BREAKING amount of participants! We are so grateful for the opportunity to host this festival and foster such a creative and encouraging community! Thank you so much for being postcard poets!

For this year’s fest, we have 608 PARTICIPANTS spanning 10 (ten!) countries around the globe: Canada, France, Ireland, Czechia, Austria, The Netherlands, Australia Mexico, The United Kingdom and The United States and 52 states and Canadian provinces, including the District of Columbia. 

The fest has participants from 48 U.S. states and 4 Canadian Provinces. The top participating U.S. states and Canadian provinces are:
1. Washington State (126 participants)
2. California (76)
3. Oregon (53)
4. Texas (29)
5. Illinois (23)
6. Florida and British Columbia, tied at 18
7. Colorado (17)
8. Ohio and Alabama, tied at 16
9. New York (15)
10. Massachusetts (13)

Registration for the 2024 Poetry Postcard Fest is now closed. It is truly an honor to be a part of this community with you all, and we sincerely hope you are enjoying the fest.

 

 

 

22 Comments

  1. Colette (Dutton)

    Having left Washington I feel left out!

    So, just a note… I believe there are 3 of us in Arkansas now!! 🙂

    I am so happy that the fest is growing and seeping into corners everywhere.

  2. Lisa K Fox

    fabulous!

  3. megs thompson

    LOL I get that @Colette! I lived in WA for 39 years but recently moved to Montana. I know there are at least a few of us here though, I had at least one fellow Montanian on my ‘list.’ 🙂

  4. Amy

    First timer from Texas here and having a blast! Love the cards every day in the mailbox and challenging myself to paint a watercolor image on each card to go with the poem. Such a wonderful event and thrilled to participate. Happy writing, y’all!

  5. Jami M

    Hurrah!

  6. Shawna

    That’s amazing… world wide!!! This is my 3rd year, just so fun and really stretches me out of my tendency to revise endlessly! Love the spontaneous movement from mind to pen! 🙂

  7. Karen Moulton

    I used to live in Washington, too. Now I live in Flippin, Arkansas! Happy to be participating again.

  8. Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

    Congrats, PoPoFest!

  9. Chris Bodor

    This is my third year. I love seeing the festival grow. Write on!

  10. Colette Dutton

    @Karen Moulten, how funny! We only live 10 or so miles apart depending where n Flippin you are. I will PM you in FB.

    That makes four poets in Arkansas. 🙂

    @Megs. That is funny. FB message your (new) address?

  11. Paul DeLong

    Go go, Po po!!!

  12. Stanley Sabre

    We used to live in Washington!! 70 years and now we are “drying out” in the high desert of New Mexico…alway enjoy the PoPo fest and sent out card 5/31 today…going to Zebulon NC

  13. Janine Malkin

    Writing my postcards from Arizona . We have a vibrant poetry center here in Tucson at the university of Arizona. I wonder if you’d do an event with them someday like the July event in Washington state?

  14. Louise Millmann

    I like seeing daily progress on the Facebook page.

  15. Laura Gamache

    Huzzah PoPo fest! Making cards and writing poems daily while receiving poems on postcards brings me such purpose and joy! Peace to you all!

  16. Arthur Tulee

    It’s not summer in North America without the PoPoFest!

    I need to crank up my game. I lean on words more than artwork. Gotta even it out some!

  17. Ross Savage

    What a glorious pleasure it is seeing all the notions for what constitutes poetry & postcards! Both illuminating & inspiring. I do hope to hear from some of you about your creative processes soon … right now I’m wrapped up in the doing and loving it.

  18. Ruth Van Alstine

    I’m having a great time writing postcard poems and creating some artistic statements with a few of them. I went to the flea market and found some vintage postcards. I am also using up a few of my pile of travel postcards sitting around, just gathering dust. I wasn’t sure if I could write all the poems but so far so good and I’m just about finished and even sent some postcards that weren’t on my list. I thought it would be fun to send some to Europe and Australia 🙂 I definitely will sign up for next year! Thanks so much for organizing this project. What a great way to spend a summer!

  19. Eleanor Keisman

    I’m an American living in Austria, and this is my first year participating. I’ve really enjoyed it! It’s given me a new way to experience my own creative process. I’ve also so enjoyed getting cards in the mail, seeing all the ways the collective project is interpreted and expressed. Only about half the postcards have reached me, and I can’t wait for the rest! Truly a gift sitting in my post box.

  20. Priscilla Comer

    I adore the Fest !! There’s nothing like it to inspire and continue digging into my
    imagination to create more verse especially on nature and concerning issues .
    The area of Mobile Bay, AL is endless
    with nature topics. I love the give and receive of the flow in and out of my mailbox
    with its little red flag.
    I appreciate all the efforts of those who manage the list assembling !
    The Fest makes a lot of people very happy I know. What an amazing idea in the first place!
    Thank You so very much!

  21. Jonathan Scott

    I just finished my 5th year and I am already looking forward to next August.

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