From Brendan McBreen:
for those of you familiar with the August Poetry Postcard series
you may know that it was started by Paul Nelson then passed to Lana Ayers
but this year Lana is busy with school work (fiction writing) and other projects
so I have been asked to compile the mailing lists this year
for those not familiar
the August Poetry Postcard fest works as such:
each participant receives a list of 31 names and addresses of other poets
and each day in August you write a poem on a postcard and send it to the person that follows your name on the list
so
if you are number 4 on the list you start by mailing a postcard poem to
number 5, and when you get to 31 you loop back to 1, 2, and 3
the idea is to respond to a postcard and poem you receive but send the response to the next person on the list
and the others on the list will do the same
in
past years we have had participants from all over the globe, so be sure
to be aware of international postage if it applies to your list
you can collect the postcards you send from anywhere, drug stores
are good, Goodwill is a good place to find postcards, some people create
their own postcards too, nice postcards are nice but the poetry is the
purpose
also it is usually a good idea to begin sending postcards on the
last few days of July just to be sure that people receive their cards by
August
finally!
for those who wish to participate:
please email me your name and mailing address and email address
include August Postcard Poetry in the subject line
please note that I will not use any addresses for any reason other than this year's Poetry Postcard fest
and I urge everyone else to do likewise
Thank you!
Brendan McBreen
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Striped Water Poets
https://sites.google.com/site/stripedwaterpoets/
