23/05/2025
Tomorrow we’re hosting a writing workshop at in collaboration with from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. This is a generative workshop focusing on creating poems inspired by vintage postcards and writing poems intended for design on a postcard. All skill levels encouraged!
In the first half of the workshop, writers will respond to their choice of old postcards to draft poems inspired by the art, location, and age of the postcard. These poems can speak directly to the images, or what the sender might have written on the back. In the second half, writers will brainstorm and write a poem meant for display on a postcard as a shareable work of art. We’ll explore the poems’ images, senses, and emotions to see what unexpected visuals emerge to incorporate into a design.
In the end, we’ll discuss how ephemera is used to distribute poetry and as a promotional tool for people to sample your work. Writers can share their poems (only if you like!) and will have the opportunity to submit them for a special edition postcard included in the summer issue of Collide.
The workshop is a $10 donation and comes with a year of HOOT’s postcards, handouts on how to print your own postcard, and a list of places to submit that focus on single print issues. But please don’t let finances deter you, if you’d like to attend, just show up and HOOT will cover the cost.
Tl;dr: come write short poems about postcards AND write poems to be made into postcards.
