There is less than a week to sign up for the 11th Poetry Postcard Fest. We have 5 and a half complete groups so far. Last year we had seven complete groups and there are many who love to sneak in under the wire. The...
The 10th August Poetry Postcard Fest begins on July 4. Registration begins that day here: Buy tickets for Poetry Postcard Fest And poems from this year's fest can be submitted for the 1st Poetry Postcard Fest Anthology, a project led by three volunteers. (See this post: https://paulenelson.com/2016/06/14/56-days-of-august-the-august-postcard-fest-anthology/.) So...
[caption id="attachment_8889" align="alignleft" width="274"] https://paulenelson.com/august-poetry-postcard-fest/[/caption] Elizabeth Woods checks in from Down Under with a Postcard Fest interview. An excerpt: EW-The festival is now in its tenth year, what are some of the notable aspects a changes you have seen along the way? peN-Each year there is a new wrinkle. I...
[caption id="attachment_7582" align="alignleft" width="283"] Georgia O'Keeffe[/caption] The signup for the 9th August Poetry Postcard Fest is final and the list has been sent to all participants. The total number of participants is down from an all-time high in 2014 - 423, to 208 in 2015, but...
[caption id="attachment_4458" align="alignleft" width="424"] Dia de los Postcard[/caption] I got the latest postcard update from Brendan McBreen (see below) with the new list of 243 people, easily a new postcard record! Am a little stunned and very excited about the fest and (as noted here) have...
The absolute tranquility is the present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and herein is eternal delight. - Hui-neng In 2000 I was invited to participate in the 3:15 Experiment, which involved writing every day in August at...
I am writing this post on July 27, 2012, after composing and documenting the first three poems I am sending in the 2012 August Poetry Postcard Fest. This was a project I conceived of and co-created with Lana Ayers. This year Brendan McBreen took on...