http://postalpoetry.org You always knew that poets would go postal someday. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:00:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jessica Fox-Wilson sent us this postcard. http://postalpoetry.org/2009/01/02/i-miss-you/ This postcard by Jean Morris seemed like the perfect note to end the year on. She writes, A year ago, on one of the first days of flinching cold such as we're having now [Nov. 25], I photographed the cellist in the underpass, and posted this photo and haiku on my ... http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/30/suite/ Michelle McGrane created this postcard for our second contest with an image (Graffiti Behind Snow) by Mikey G Ottawa. http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/26/disco-dreamz/ Jennifer Saunders sent us this postcard from Switzerland, where she lives. "I took this photo while hiking in the Alps," she said. "Then, about 50 yards down the trail, I stopped, dug my notebook out of my pack, and wrote the haiku." http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/23/strawberry/ Amy Elizabeth Thompson supplied the words to an image by Mikey G Ottawa for our second contest. This proved to be a very popular image for postcard-makers; we'll be publishing several other winning entries in the coming weeks. http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/19/yesterdays-news/ Nathan Horowitz supplied the words to an image by Mikey G Ottawa for our second contest. This was one of several winning entries to use that image; look for the others over the coming weeks. http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/16/fisheye/ Dinty Moore made this postcard from one of his own photos, inspired by a quote which he says he finds harder and harder to live up to the more he grows older: The opposite of play isn't work, it's depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant ... http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/12/in-the-clouds/ Ingrid Steblea sent us this poetry postcard. http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/09/untitled/ Suzanne Allen created this postcard in Picnik, but also printed it out on photo paper, and says, "any submissions I send you may also be sold to whoever will buy them here on the streets in Paris where I am currently living." Go for it, Suzanne! http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/05/cider/ Pamela Hart created this poetry postcard with one of her own photos. We admire the way she nested the poem into the picture for maximum visibility — always a challenge for longer poems on postcards. For the benefit of the visually impaired, though, we reprint the text of the poem ... http://postalpoetry.org/2008/12/02/equinox/