We had a full house at the Flag Day 2026 online 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. We played a bit of an interview with Jerome Rothenberg discussing his Lorca Variations and the practice of stealing nouns from other poets as an example of “othering” or bring other selves into the poem as it’s being composed.
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.
Writing poetry in a time of crisis, Ukraine, postcards.”War tries to destroy culture because culture sustains identity and memory. Literature is not only a victim of war, it is an instrument of survival, resistance, witnessing – and, sometimes, welcome refuge…”
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This genre of art is enticing. I got to start making time for.