the emergency
Hg sent us this poetry postcard, created from one of his own photos. He writes, The building is an abandoned World War II look-out post on a remote peninsula in the north-west of… Continue reading
rolling stone's mouth
Christine Swint’s second winning submission for our September contest was written in response to Fernando de Sousa’s untitled photo of the Docklands, Melbourne. She thought the guard rail looked like the Rolling Stones’… Continue reading
plastic winter
Michelle McGrane created this postcard for our September contest in response to a photo (“Plastic Winter”) by Fernando de Sousa.
aerosol can man
Christine Swint created this poetry postcard for our September contest with a photo by Fernando de Sousa. (Compare with Rethabile Masilo’s postcard “the second day,” which used the same photo.)
never go swimming
Gregory Stapp created this piece for our September contest, using a photo by Fernando de Sousa.
the second day
Rethabile Masilo created this poetry postcard in GIMP with a photo by Fernando de Sousa. It’s one of six winners from our September contest. (We’ll publish another postcard made with the same image… Continue reading
migraine bird
Susan Richardson created this for our September contest, using a photo by Fernando de Sousa. Several other entries used the same photo (and thanks to everyone who entered the contest!) but we judged… Continue reading
weightless world
South African poet Michelle McGrane created this poetry postcard using an excerpt from her prose poem, “A Weightless World,” on a photograph taken during a camel trek in the Sinai Desert in 1994.
666
Christine Swint created this postcard with an image by Fernando de Sousa, also called “666.” The beginning of her poem refers to the Bob Marley song, “Three Little Birds.”
shine
Photograph by Marja-Leena Rathje and words by Tom Montag, who blogs as The Middlewesterner. The photo was chosen and manipulated in response to the poem.
this picture before
Mildred Albertson, an American missionary in Japanese-occupied Korea, sent this postcard home to her family in Benton, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1908. It’s one of several dozen postcards from my great-great Aunt Millie that… Continue reading
lake street
Jessica Fox-Wilson took the photo last fall on East Lake Street, in Minneapolis, and subsequently wrote the poem, “Lake Street,” in response.
string theory
Pamela Hart says, I made this from a photograph I took when my husband was fly-fishing. His line on the water’s surface created an image that somewhat reminded me of line drawings by… Continue reading
parable
This detail of a medieval sculpture shows a Roman soldier grabbing the arm of Christ in Gethsemane. Created by Teju Cole.
giant robot monkey
This postcard was made from a print called “Destroy Seattle” by Seattle artist Matthew Porter with text by Columbus, Ohio, poet Nathan Moore. The poem was inspired by the print during a conversation… Continue reading
the dundee leaving etel
Lucy Kempton added her words to a postcard titled “The Dundee leaving Etel,” a facsimile of an original photograph from the tuna fishing museum in Etel in Morbihan, south Brittany. Kempton writes, Tuna… Continue reading
eated
Chris Clarke created this poetry postcard. He writes: I found the (probably falcon-eaten) pigeon parts on a sidewalk in Searchlight, Nevada, and moved to take a shot with my phone. The midday light… Continue reading
blue collar blues
Gregory Stapp made this postcard by combining two Creative Commons-licensed photos: “London,” by Basher Eyre (by-sa 2.0 license), and “Crowd,” by jakeybob (by-nc-sa 2.0). As for the words, he writes: I’d been trying… Continue reading
blinding light
Natalie d’Arbeloff got this shot inside London’s Hayward Gallery during the Anthony Gormley exhibition “Blind Light,” from behind the glass of one of the installations — an enclosed space filled with icy white… Continue reading
envious old woman
The poem and photo are by Tammy Ho Lai-ming, a Hong Kong-born writer. The poem was originally a stanza from a longer poem titled “Confessions of a Woman, Seventy Years Old or Less,”… Continue reading
waterpools
Jo Hemmant created this poetry postcard. She took the photo in Le Val Andre, Brittany.
dream series ii, downtown atlanta
Christine Swint created this poetry postcard. She adds this background: The lines from this poem come from a dream I had in February. The photo is of a marginalized neighborhood in downtown Atlanta.
marcid
Another piece Ivy Alvarez created as part of a larger work that she started during her stay in the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, early 2008.
forest path
Elizabeth Polkinghorn created this poetry postcard. She adds this background: I’ve been working on panning stationary objects in my photography, and I’ve been largely unsuccessful, but I liked this photo — in part… Continue reading
lazarus
Teju Cole saw a Mariachi band walking home after a performance. He asked if he could take a photograph, and they enthusiastically agreed. He found he was more interested in the shot of… Continue reading
memory foam
Leslie F. Miller created this poetry postcard.
blue
Photograph by Marja-Leena Rathje and words by Tom Montag, who blogs as The Middlewesterner. The poem was written in response to the image.
tricky
Carolee Sherwood first created the collage — a self-portrait — as a project of its own, and some time later used it as a writing prompt. The result was the poem “tricky.” Later… Continue reading
naxos
Dale Favier created this poetry postcard with a scanned drawing (ball-point pen on diner napkin). He adds this background: Theseus was of course rescued from the labyrinth by Ariadne, whom he then deserted… Continue reading
fossiliferous
Ivy Alvarez created this piece as part of a larger work that she started during her stay in the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, early 2008. She found an amusing book called The Everyday… Continue reading
clouds
Jo Hemmant created this poetry postcard.
pavement
Nathan Moore created this poetry postcard.
bricks
Christine Swint wrote this poem on top of a picture she took in downtown Atlanta.