This workshop was originally offered through Catholic Literary Arts as a 2-part virtual workshop and was a great deal of fun. Please reach out via my Contact Page if you would be interested in having me deliver this for your organization or if you would like to be notified when I am teaching it again.
What is a postcard poem? Exactly what it sounds like, a brief epistolary poem that fits on the back of a postcard.
In this short two-part interactive workshop, you will read through and discuss several exemplar postcard and other short-form poems before rolling up your sleeves for some light-weight in-class writing exercises. Homework will be given for those who wish to continue the adventure between sessions.
Poems composed will largely be between four to eight lines, and can be written in free verse, regular meter, or even as a short prose poem. This workshop will be a great laboratory for those new to the art of writing poems, as well as experienced writers who wish to focus on honing particular skills of conciseness and diction.
So, dust off that bin of postcards you have collected from your travels or cards you have received from others. Don’t have a collection of postcards already? Not to fear, the instructor will also provide images of postcards for students to work from.
Tamara Nicholl-Smith 