Poetry Postcard Fest 2021 – It’s a wrap!

Got a bonus card today, perhaps in celebration of the September full moon but the Fest feels rather done. I’m not one to be waiting for cards. Yes I’m one of those people who mark your card as arrived when it does but I don’t worry about it if it doesn’t. I’m grateful for all the cards that arrive and stick with my notion that the Poetry Postcard Fest is really about the writing and sending of cards and anything that arrives is great! One reason for knowing what cards have made it to my mailbox is so I can read them before writing that person’s card or maybe adding a note about it. (If you were in my group 1 or 8 and haven’t received two cards from me, let me know and I can send you a digital version)

As noted earlier, I fell into the notion of triplets (sometimes a quad) of haiku, often about common subjects or experiences. I don’t remember using any of my pre-assembled prompts and I was glad for a few days that had extra inspiration. Sometimes this was a line or two or a single haiku that could be expanded the next day with more.

All in all a much less stressful and more joyful feeling fest than last year when August stretched from April. And so many cards! So many wonderful poems and so many people making cards too. This made me grit my teeth a few times as I endeavored to use up my stash of recycled boxes cards per my original plan. They’re all gone now, so I guess next year it will be on to something else and yes, I did already sign up for next year.

Hope to see you then! You can sign up already here and be warned that next year you’ll pay a lower registration fee if you register sooner and don’t put it off til the last month. The small fee goes to support the Cascadia Poetics Lab and all they do throughout the year. Registration this year also gives the option of making a separate donation to them.

So without further ado: Thank you to Groups One and Eight for all your cards and poems – it was a pleasure to go to the mailbox many many days this August and September and I hope we meet again.

Group 1:

Group 8: