postalpoems.com - Postal Poems | toward a lyrical deltiology

Description: Update (11 Nov 2011): Permalinks have changed, due to a move off independent hosting to WordPress.com, which does not support alternate permalink stuctures. I'm sorry for all the broken links. This is the new archive of a short-lived webzine published in 2008-2009 by Dana Guthrie Martin and me showcasing poetry postcards: poems married with images…

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Update (11 Nov 2011): Permalinks have changed, due to a move off independent hosting to WordPress.com, which does not support alternate permalink stuctures. I’m sorry for all the broken links.

This is the new archive of a short-lived webzine published in 2008-2009 by Dana Guthrie Martin and me showcasing poetry postcards: poems married with images in the form of postcards, real or potential/digital. We accepted submissions from poets, or in some cases from collaborative partnerships of poets and artists or photographers, and we made sure that the poet had rights to use the image in all cases. We hoped to foster interest among poets in making and sending illustrated poems in the mail, perhaps even

We ran a couple of contests from a separate appendage blog, which I haven’t reproduced. Basically, we put up Creative Commons-licensed images and challenged contributors to make them into poetry postcards using their own poems. The winning postcards were published on the main site, and are included in the archive here.