by Veronica Martinez | Sep 4, 2025 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Now that the 2025 Poetry Postcard Fest is finished, we still have some writing exercises for postcard poets to continue developing your poetic practice. Whether your preparing for the 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest or would just like to continue the poetry writing momentum...
by Ryukan | Jul 18, 2020 | Poetry Postcard Fest
Poetics as Cosmology (Intro to Spontaneous Composition) A six week online (Zoom) workshop for people who have had a little experience in spontaneous poetry composition and want more. Join SPLAB and Poetry Postcard Fest Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course...
by Ryukan | Jul 4, 2014 | Poetry Postcard Fest
It is almost August once again and this means POSTCARDS! The August Poetry Postcard Project is an exercise in responding to other poets. You write a poem a day for the month of August, write it directly onto a postcard and send it to the next name on your list. When...
by Ryukan | Oct 30, 2011 | Blog
I am grateful to Philip Brautigam for his amazing and generous work on my website redesign. See it here: www.PaulENelson.com. He has become a WordPress expert and I love the user friendly nature of the design. I’ll be migrating American Sentences and Organic...
by Ryukan | Mar 27, 2011 | Blog
A shakeup is essential for the purposes of transformation (Vladimir Mayakovsky). The process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment in a poem is sometimes called organic poetry, where composition is an occasion of experience or experiment in...
