Tomorrow night!

A coupla school gigs...

On May 16th I performed poetry and offered writing ideas for the students of Mrs. Guarino's 9th grade classes at Clark Magnet High School in La Crescenta.

On May 31st I was a judge for the 2012 Alhambra High School vs San Gabriel High School poetry slam at San Gabriel High School.

And a poem inspired by the...

THEATER

My mind is a stage

looking out

on the world

My thoughts, scaffolding

for the spots

about my brain

My ears are windows

which check for a click

so I know the lights are on

When I close my eyes,

the resulting black curtains

are lit with little

bulbs like I’m on TV

One red lantern hangs

from my mouth

quietly screaming

I am just a single voice

I feel like an unplugged

microphone stand casts

a shadow on my soul

All the people

gathered around me

judge my performance

I think I see a door

to quickly hide behind

in the warm darkness

Rooms I've entered

through my life—

closed doors now

Wait, a small red

ribbon on the floor

of my heart…

a reason to live

Big National Poetry Month Weekend!

Sunday, April 22nd, 4:30pm - featured at Bolton Hall Museum for Village Poets of Sunland/Tujunga

Sunday, April 22nd, 10am - took part in Earth Day Poetry Hike at Eaton Canyon in Altadena

Saturday, April 21st, 2pm - published in 2012 Poetry & Cookies anthology; reading held at Altadena Senior Center

Friday, April 20th, 3:30pm - was a judge for the Teen Poetry Slam at the Arcadia Public Library

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE!
31 clean poems from the past year

Order your copy for $7 postage paid by going to http://paypal.com and directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net

or

See me feature this Sunday at 4:30pm in Bolton Hall in Tujunga (Google Village Poets of Sunland/Tujunga for details)

Publication!

My poem "The Antique Traveller" has been published on the Poetic Diversity website. Here's the link >
http://www.poeticdiversity.org/main/poems-cp.php?recordID=1683&date=2012-04-01

Here also is a link to YouTube where you can see me performing this very poem at the Occupy Beyond Baroque reading last Sunday > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r78z7CfQhL0

Poetic Weekend!

Yesterday, I hosted the 2012 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival kickoff reading. Here's a link to the festival website, where you can find information on all 10 festival events > http://2012sgvpf.blogspot.com


Today, I performed poetry with CaLokie at the 99 Poets Occupy Beyond Baroque reading. Go to YouTube and search for Occupy Beyond Baroque to see the videos.

It's up!

http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/not-so-still-lives-by-don-kingfisher-campbell/

Publication!

Dear Don,

Thank you for submitting your work to Poetry Breakfast. We have accepted "Not So Still Lives" as our March 28th, 2012 poem.

Feel free to submit more poems in a month or two.

Isabel Sylvan, Editor
Poetry Breakfast
http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com
PoetryBreakfast@yahoo.com

Exhibition!

Opening this Saturday, March 10th at 10am: an exhibit of art and poetry. You can listen to my commissioned poem while sitting on a very artistic chair in a small Pasadena park! Copy and paste the websites below to get the details:

CITY OF PASADENA PUBLIC ART PROGRAM
http://www.cityofpasadena.net/arts/Rotating_Public_Art_Program/

CITY SPEAKS
http://www.newtownarts.org/shows/12_cityspeaks/index.php

Chapbooks!

Two new chapbooks by moi now available!!


19 poems composed in January and February 2012


17 poems composed between September and December 2011

Get yours for just $7 for each copy (includes $2 shipping expense) by going to http://paypal.com and directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net