As the 2016 Postcard Poetry Fest starts to wind up, I decided I needed to reorganize the links to the other years. Maybe it would be better to do them as a gallery. That will only take a few minutes, right? Yeah right.
Anyway, Up at the top, you’ll see the PoPoFest link. Now you can view 2014 and 2015 as a gallery. No names or addresses… Obviously 2016 isn’t complete yet.
while listening to other things:
When I got home tonight, there was still the August Postcard Poetry Fest poem to get done. Earlier today I’d responded to a post on Facebook and thought and then forgot about the line which I thought, at the time, would make a great inclusion in a poem. I was a good way down the poem when I remembered! Yeah coffee! So the poem includes the line
the red caboose of contentment.
Because who could resist that line?
At the meeting, someone pointed out an actual slide from an actual Macworld keynote… I knew where my July 2001 badge was. It hangs over my desk. At some point, I had put my old-new name on it again, but everything else is as it was, before the world changed.
have looked at my site and the post re Kathy Nida’s quilts being pulled by AQS.
PLEASE if you haven’t actually written to AQS please do so:
bonnie.browning@americanquilter.com
terry.guill@americanquilter.com
and you could write or CC Studio Art Quilters Association, SAQA at:
ExecDirector@saqa.com
Discussing on FB and social media is great so please link to Kathy’s site and keep talking about it whereever you’ll rally support, but PLEASE WRITE/EMAIL. The people involved with those decisions need to hear from each of you. Not writing is silent consent.
Thank you.
Kathy Nida reports that AQS shipped both her quilts back to SAQA. I posted my response below and hope that you’ll write AQS and SAQA showing your support as well. Here are some handy email addresses for you to use.
bonnie.browning@americanquilter.com
terry.guill@americanquilter.com
ExecDirector@saqa.com
If you have a blog, consider posting information about this fight against rather pointless (there was no penis!) censorship and be part of facebook and other social media discussions on the topic. Make your voice heard.
I’m on day eighteen of the August Postcard Poetry Fest. Mom and I are visiting a local library. She’s doing Pokémon on my iPhone because her iPad keeps losing GPS signal… I am our “cover” since I’m sitting here writing today’s poem to be sent out. That done I looked at some of the discussions I’m involved with on the censorship question. Next thing I knew – yeah you were wondering when this would happen, HAIKU!
There hung in a show
A quilt with naked women
none with penises.Today, naked Trump
appeared in many cities
it’s art as protestWhen have dangly bits
been anything other than
anatomical?about fifty per cent
of earthly beings possess
male genitalia.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
