The Night Post
1934 letterpress
Poems left on leftover proofs, mailed from a night-shift shop.
Stories told through the mail
Something to look forward to
Two envelopes a month, for a year. Poems and paper extras. No prices in the pack. Checkout is not open yet.
The Night Post
1934 letterpress
The years
Find a year for you, or someone you love
One series is open. The rest are coming. Names and letters are dummy packets, not borrowed stories.
Salt Road
1881 Atlantic shore
Walking poems along a winter coast, posted from the next town over.
The Quiet Ledger
1961 downtown office
A bookkeeper writes in the margins and mails the extras home.
Glass Hours
Present studio
A conservator writes while mending colored glass.
Copper Thread
1912 mill river
Mill-town poems tied with a scrap of winding wire.
Ash Window
1947 rented room
Winter letters from a rented room above a bakershop.
How it works
A year, unfolding one packet at a time
01
Pick a series
One live year is open now. The rest sit as coming until we print them.
02
Pick a plan
Monthly or prepaid. Both cover the same 24 mailings. Checkout is not live yet.
03
Pick the first ship date
Start on the next calendar drop, or hold the first envelope for a date you choose. Date picking lands with checkout.
More than a letter
What is in an envelope
The letters
Poems and notes in a voice that belongs to that year. Often more than one sheet in a packet.
The extras
Cards, scraps, and small objects that belong with the mailing. Not a bill. Not a price list.
No invoice in the pack
The envelope is the gift. Prices stay on this site, not in the mail.
From the dummy packets
Sample lines, not reviews
No invented readers. These are placeholder first lines from the packets, so the wall has something to hold.
“The stone is cold at two.”
“The road is gone at the third mile.”
“The columns balance. The poem does not.”
The year
Monthly or prepaid
Same 24 mailings either way. Sample plans. No charge on this site.
Monthly
Billed each month once checkout exists. Cancel future drops by email and a one-time code.
Prepaid year
One payment for the year. The story does not renew itself when the last letter lands.
Give the year
Ship to them. Announce it today, once checkout can print a card. The first envelope explains the year and still hides the price.
Optional extras
Keepsake tin
A tin that holds the year. The first letter can ride inside it. Hidden until we sell one.
Tracked first letter
Mailing 1 can ship tracked. The rest of the year follows the published calendar.
Who made this
Poetry Letters is a Narrow Road Studios project. Paper and ink. No floral house style.