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...
by Ryukan | Sep 1, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Happy September. The fest is over, except for the stragglers. Expect a few cards coming in these next few days and then maybe one or two a few weeks late. This year with 156 days rather than 56 due to the lockdown designed to help deter the spread of COVID-19, the...
by Ryukan | Aug 23, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Please join us for the first Poetry Postcard Fest Open Mic, via Zoom, Sunday, September 13 at 4pm PDT. We’ll meet for 90 minutes, discuss our 2020 Poetry Postcard Fest experience and read a few poems. 3 minute time limit so TIME YOUR PRESENTATION in advance,...
by Ryukan | Aug 20, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetry Postcard Fest’s parent organization SPLAB is honored to partner with Easy Speak Seattle to present a night of open mic poetry and featured reader Theresa Whitehill, from Ukiah, CA on Monday, August 24 at 7:30 via Zoom. This event is supported by Poets...
by Ryukan | Aug 8, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Sunday, August 2 at 4pm PDT, we had a Zoom discussion on how three different veteran Poetry Postcard Fest participants create their unique cards: Abhaya Thomas, Colette Dutton and Tim Mateer. The original post is below the video of the event. * * * Living in Tacoma,...
by Ryukan | Aug 8, 2020 | Blog
SPLAB is honored to partner with Easy Speak Seattle to present a night of open mic poetry and featured reader Theresa Whitehill, from Ukiah, CA on Monday, August 24 at 7:30 via Zoom. This event is supported by Poets & Writers. Zoom invitation will be sent by the...
