Postcard Poetry: Teaser & Relocation

In the interest of space, I’ve decided to move all the PostCard Poetry over onto the Words! page. Here’s one of many new ones you’ll find there, from a little book of Degas postcards. “Dance in the Country“ This fine man is smooth and dumb, doesn’t intimate one shuffle-step-lean that you have lit my smile. [...]

Postcard Poetry #3

Here’s another batch of postcard poems for Concrete Wolf’s Poetry Postcard project. Later this week I’ll be posting up some of the fun little things I’ve received in my mailbox. From a postcard with a farmhouse in bright flowered countryside. This old farmhouse keeps a’spinnin’, churnin’, windin’ wind into a living. Hardened hands are for [...]

Postcard Poetry #2

Here’s the next batch of card-sized poems for Concrete Wolf’s Poetry Postcard project. Sent: “Minerva Paints” For a seaside town postcard… Flowers mostly, trees and waterscapes are the ways my grandmother painted her life lined her walls framed and lovingly wrapped. Sometimes a town –steeples and skylines, stick straight with driest aquarelles– she never would [...]

Postcard Poetry #1

This year I signed up to be a part of Poetry Postcards, a project sponsored by Concrete Wolf each August where poets send a sort of artistic chain letter series. You mail a poem a day to the names on the list. You compose the poem directly on the card, no edits. At the end [...]