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Postcard Poems

Conversation with
Paul E. Nelson

The Summer 2020 issue features a tribute to Postcard Poems, in a loose partnership with SPLAB’s August Postcard Poetry Festival, including 19 color postcards and the poems they inspired—or vice-versa. Many of the poets crafted their own visual art, while others focused on the act of spontaneous composition. Timothy Green talked to SPLAB founder Paul E. Nelson in a rangy conversation covering topics from Organic Poetry to bioregions to Buddhism.

In the open section, the poems themselves are as varied as always, with everything from experimental monologues to summer haiku.

The issue releases June 1st, and all subscribers will receive a copy of the 2020 Rattle Young Poets Anthology along with it. Visit our purchase page to subscribe for just $25/year.

	Postcard Poems
	Velid Beganovic Borjen	What You Are Left With
	Tina Mozelle Braziel	The Coast Starlight
	Victor Enns	First Train. Boundary Creek Station.
	Eugene Fairbanks	Postcard from Paris
		Where Is It?
	Sonia Feldman	5,000 Prostitutes of Erice
	Laura Gamache	What I Want to Tell You
	Rhonda Ganz	The Hunger Games
	Donna Henderson	Postcard from Kailua-Kona
	Meghan Howard	Perspective
	Beverly Jackson	Mother
	Sarah T. Jewell	Death in His Robe
	Laura R. McCullough	You Are All the Pieces
	Paul E. Nelson	Fender Rhodes Transmission
	C.R. Resetarits	We Never Were
	Lindsay Shen	Private Garden
	Jennifer Sheridan	3. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
	Anne Swannell	Wheelbarrow Music
	Martin Willitts, Jr.	Greetings from Syracuse
	Open Poetry
	Megan Alyse	Like Waving Goodbye
	Melissa Andres	Arrival
	Deborah A. Bennett	Five Haiku
	Jacqueline Berger	Women with Men
	Alejandro Escudé	Bed Sheets (Moving Out After Separation)
	Michelle Bonczek Evory	Maxing Out
	Tom C. Hunley	The Fact That There’s a Snake Tunneling …
	Lynne Knight	Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta
	Gregory Loselle	Laudamus
	Alison Luterman	Pulling Weeds
	James Davis May	Which Do You Value More?
	Jennifer Perrine	Fur Baby
	T.R. Poulson	How I Survive Without a Prime Membership
	Laura Read	The Cheerleader
		Monica
	Yaccaira Salvatierra	Birdlands: Postales
	Tina Schumann	Dear Morning Commuters
	Penda Smith	How We Became City Girls
		Penda and the Burning Bush Responds …
	Laura Tanenbaum	An Incomplete List of Places I Have Breastfed …
	Martin Vest	Asterisks
	Conversation
	Paul E. Nelson (web)
	Cover Art
	David Moore (web)