Post Card Poems- Mini Anthology Guidelines
- introspectmagazine
- Apr 16
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 20
Theme: To Anyone or Anything
A free anthology of poetic postcards, longing letters, and quiet truths.
Have you ever written something you didn’t know where to send? A message for a moment you can’t return to? A letter to someone you lost—or never met?
This is for that.
Postcard Poems is a free, digital anthology of short, intimate poems written like postcards: brief, beautiful, and meant for someone or something—real or imagined.
✦What We're Creating
Each poem will be designed like a visual postcard. One side will carry your poem—styled like it was scribbled on the back of a card found in a drawer. The other side? An image: maybe a foggy sky, a faded photograph, a texture of longing.
We're building a wall of messages, sealed not with stamps but with emotion.
✦ The Theme
To anyone. To anything.
Your poem could be:
To the ocean you miss
To the night that changed you
To a younger/future self
To the colour blue
To that stranger on a train
To that character you always loved.
To the mess of being alive.
To ... (ahem ahem) Introspect magazine, if you must ;)
To anything and everything, you are the author, you must decide!
It can be soft or loud. Tender or tired. Grief-soaked or glittering.
✦ Submission Guidelines
Send us 1–2 poems, each under 50 words
Make it feel like a note, a postcard, a thought paused mid-walk
Free verse, prose-poem, haiku, a short burst of brilliance—all forms are welcome
This isn’t just a reading experience. It’s a visual one.
✦ Who Can Submit?
You, your friend who scribbles on receipts, the poet who’s never published, the person who wrote a line they can't forget. This is open to everyone. There are no fees, no gatekeeping, no “right” way to write.
We especially encourage voices from the margins, from the quiet corners of the world, and from anyone with a heart full of unsent things.
✦ How to Submit
✦Deadline
25th of May, 2025
✦ Why Postcards?
Because postcards are small but meaningful. Because they’re proof you were somewhere, once. Because they’re a pause in the noise. Because they ask nothing except: Read this. I thought of you.
Let this be your poem’s journey. Send it!
With love and ink,
Team Introspect.
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