by Ryukan | Dec 15, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From Philip Riley, Poetry Postcard Fest poet: Here’s a recent photo of me in front of a tiny 13th century Cypriot church. It was above a stream where I went to collect reeds to repair a Greek chair. Beautiful icons line the walls of this simple building. As for the...
by Ryukan | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
It was just 27 years ago on this date that the organization now known as SPLAB was registered with the State of Washington as a non-profit organization. In the last 27 years we’ve created over 450 hours of original public affairs interview programs which aired...
by Ryukan | Dec 7, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Diane Elayne Dees discusses her involvement in Poetry Postcard Fest, the Poetry Postcard Fest after her first year of participation. Diane Elayne Dees’s poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in many journals and anthologies, and her...
by Ryukan | Dec 1, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
First time Poetry Postcard Fest participant Lawrence Pevec made a video about his encaustic postcard process. Lawrence is a friend and member of my spiritual community, Subud. He is also a Board Member of the cultural wing of Subud, SICA-USA, an entity which I now...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Now that our post-Poetry Postcard Fest workshop is over and has received some rave reviews (see THIS and also THIS) we’re ready now for another round of interviews with Poetry Postcard Fest participants for posting on Youtube and on this site. If you were not...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Poetry Postcard Fest poet Margaret Mayer suggested linking my “Poet’s Obituary” for Diane di Prima here on the Poetry Postcard Fest site and I figured it was a good idea because Diane was a postcard poet in the first year of the fest, 2007!...
by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Longtime Poetry Postcard Fest participant Mary Beth Frezon checks in with thoughts about her POPO2020 process: Excerpt: I’d been home since March 4, the first couple weeks of that with some illness. In April there wasn’t much to do except online work “stuff” and...
by Ryukan | Oct 25, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
A sweet take on her own POPO2020 participation comes to us from the blog of Melanie Weldon-Soiset: One excerpt: Sending postcards served as a practice of remembrance. The Poetry Postcard Fest gave me a reason to engage postcards that had languished in a box,...
by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
AFTERWORD on the experience of August Poetry Postcard Fest 2020 (by Andrew Bell) Somehow, through no fault of anyone’s, but perhaps the tyranny of distance, I had drifted out of the Poetry Postcard Fest circle of communication. I can’t remember the last one I...
by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Hi, Paul— I shared back in July that my dad died, and you posted that on the PoPo website. As a result, I was showered with love and kindness from so many PoPo folks that it overwhelmed me. I re-read the notes frequently, and they remind me how important it is to...
by Ryukan | Oct 4, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
From the blog of Kerfe Roig, of New York: This year I participated in Poetry Postcard Fest the Poetry Postcard Fest–where the challenge is to send a different postcard with a poem you’ve composed for each day in August, 31 in all. After you register, you receive a...
by Ryukan | Sep 28, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Kristen L. Ryberg Second year PoPo enter-thoughts… After signing up to two groups this year, I am struck by the connective energy our postcards, handwritten or not, carry to both giver and receiver; how even small scale knowing of another through these little glimpses...
by Ryukan | Sep 27, 2020 | Blog
POPO, the August POetry POstcard Festval was designed in part to give participants a sense of how to compose poetry spontaneously and to create community. For those who do want to go further in their knowledge and practice of spontaneous composition, there are still 6...
by Ryukan | Sep 25, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest, Uncategorized
Group 3: here are the cards I’ve received. So very grateful for your poems and images! I can’t express how deeply you have moved me. FYI I’ve sent to everyone on group 3 list–last cards Labor day weekend. -Lillian Kurosaka — Lillian...
by Ryukan | Sep 16, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
The video is produced and online. The first Poetry Postcard Fest open mic happened via Zoom on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 4pm PDT with your humble narrator as host. There were poetry reading debuts, a couple of ramblers, some typical Zoom connection issues, lots of...
