It was coming out of the canoe and walking up the path at the North Leschi Marina with my daughter Rebecca, as my...
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Postcard Gift
It is the tenth year of the August Poetry Postcard Fest and as I was taking an afternoon walk this past weekend, it...
Ten Years of Postcard Fest
The tenth year of the August POetry POstcard Fest is under way and there are seven full groups of 32 poets, 224...
Ina Roy-Faderman’s Postcard Testimonial
From Ina Roy-Faderman: “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but...
August Poetry Postcard Fest Official Call Year Ten
The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2016 marks the tenth year...
Angeline Roof Summer Solstice
Greg Bem organized one of his very lively events this past Monday night, June 20, 2016, as an open reading and Summer...
Sarah de Leeuw Skeena (Interview)
On May 30, 2016, I had a chance to chat with Sarah de Leeuw, a poet with work published in Make It True: Poetry From...
Hugo House Out, Whole Foods In
Seattle had the second or third highest rent increase of cities in the U.S. in 2015 depending on how you figure it....
56 Days of August (The August Postcard Fest Anthology)
From Ina Roy: The yearly August Postcard Poetry Festival has become an international event. To celebrate the 10th year...
Are You Stockpiling Postcards?
The 10th August Poetry Postcard Fest begins on July 4. Registration begins that day here: Buy tickets for August...
Billy Crystal Eulogy for Muhammad Ali
I think it was the second fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali where, at Dever School on the Northwest Side of...
6.9.16 – American Sentence (Chicory)
I remember a former neighbor, the son of Okies who grew up in rural California, when he saw my old Black Lab Kuma...