20th annual Poetry Postcard Fest Special Project

Hello Postcarders, Bioregionalists, Poets, et.al, I am writing you today on behalf of Cascadia 2050 to invite you to participate in a special project honoring the 20th Poetry Postcard Festival. We hope you will be able to start your fest a little early and send us one...

CJ Prince Has Passed

The Conversation Continues: A Gedenkschrift for C.J. Prince

Postcards at Kubota Garden

Free Poetry Postcard Collage workshop and tour of Kubota Garden supported by 4Culture.

Postcards at yəhaw̓’ (Indigenous Creatives Collective) in Rainier Beach

Poetry Postcard Activation at yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective April 1 2026 from 6-7pm.

Poetry Postcard Fest Interviews

by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2020

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...

Diane di Prima (1934-2020)

by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2020

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...

Mary Beth Frezon POPO2020 Afterword

by Ryukan | Nov 1, 2020

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....

Melanie Weldon-Soiset POPO2020 Afterword

by Ryukan | Oct 25, 2020

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...

Andrew Bell POPO2020 Afterword

by Ryukan | Oct 18, 2020

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...

Poetry Postcard Fest Love

by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2020

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...