Join us for another summer Poetry Postcard Fest event! On July 13, 2025 from 11 AM-3 PM PST, Cascadia Poetics Lab will be tabling at the Olympic Sculpture Park, leading the public in postcard...
Postcards at the Olympic Sculpture Park
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POETRY POSTCARD FEST BLOG
PPF Address Verification JUNE 22!
PPF Address Verification THIS SUNDAY! We are changing our process for verifying we have the correct mailing address and information for PPF participants. Rather than sending a draft list, PPF...
PPF Donor Workshop Video
This past Wednesday, we hosted a workshop for donors of the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest, where Paul Nelson provided guidance for having a successful postcard fest and led the group in generative...
Postcards from Mapes Creek Recap!
Yesterday, Sunday June 8, we hosted our 2nd Postcards from Mapes Creek event at Be'er Sheva Park in Rainier Beach. Although the weather was a surprising 87 degrees, we set up a potluck and postcard...
Postcards of the Past and Future
From PPF committee member Margaret Lee: I live in Tulsa on Route 66, where postcards are easy to find. You have seen the kind I mean: that map of the U.S. with a bold red line connecting Chicago to...
PPF Donor Workshop June 11
PPF Workshop for Donors! Postcard season is coming up soon! As a thank you to our dedicated postcard poets and generous donors, we are hosting an online workshop for supporters of the Poetry...
At First, I Was So In Love I Didn’t Think About It by Martha Clarkson
Postcard Poems by Martha Clarkson Postcard poet Martha Clarkson published some of her postcard poems from 2025 in Hobart Pulp last week! Congratulations on the publication, Martha! We're so glad the...
Exercise as a Prerequisite to Creativity – Sue Diewert on PPF
PPF 2025 poet Sue Diewert published a piece on the Poetry Postcard Fest in Sage-ing: The Journal of Creative Aging! You can read Sue's piece and see her PPF 2025 postcards below. Thank you for your...
Support the Poetry Postcard Fest!
Support PPF on Giving Tuesday! Thank you for supporting Cascadia Poetics Lab and the Poetry Postcard Fest! Thanks to you, an estimated 18,000 original postcard poems were sent by postcard poets...