{"id":4860,"date":"2011-12-16T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:41:16","slug":"friday-prompt-holiday-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/friday-prompt-holiday-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Prompt: Holiday Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past, we’ve talked about writing\u00a0postcard poems<\/a>\u00a0in our Weekly Prompts, solicited them from readers as part of the\u00a0LR Postcard Project<\/a>,\u00a0even published them in issues of the Lantern Review<\/em>\u00a0(see Tamiko Beyer’s “Dear Disappearing<\/a>” in Issue 1,\u00a0Rachelle Cruz’s “Postcard Poem #067<\/a>”\u00a0in Issue 3). \u00a0So it should come as no surprise that \u00a0— with the holidays fast approaching —\u00a0this Friday’s prompt is about writing the holiday postcard.<\/p>\n

It’s not what you think… if this<\/em> is what you’re thinking:<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Wikipedia (Postcard c. 1900)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…or this<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of The Daily Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your “holiday postcard” can be written on anything, no Santas, Christmas sweaters or antlers required. \u00a0Just find a festive-looking piece of cardstock or a regular postcard, and jot down a few lines of a poetry that you’d like to send to someone as a holiday greeting. \u00a0These can be \u00a0meditations on what you wish for them in the new year, a set of images informed by the motif of illumination<\/a>\u00a0as discussed by Iris in last Friday’s prompt, even a few descriptive lines of verse about family gatherings or spiritual traditions centered around the holidays.<\/p>\n

Most people send Christmas cards, family newsletters or photos of their family — but you? \u00a0This year, try sending lines of poetry. \u00a0(And don’t even get us started on giving poems as gifts!<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past, we’ve talked about writing\u00a0postcard poems\u00a0in our Weekly Prompts, solicited them from readers as part of the\u00a0LR Postcard Project,\u00a0even published them in issues of the Lantern Review\u00a0(see Tamiko Beyer’s “Dear Disappearing” in Issue 1,\u00a0Rachelle Cruz’s “Postcard Poem #067”\u00a0in Issue 3). \u00a0So it should come as no surprise that \u00a0— with the holidays fast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[762,761,441,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}