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
I'll be performing tonight along with many of the Emerging Urban Poets (Michael J. Cluff, Mina V. Kirby, Deborah P Kolodji, Radomir Vojtech Luza, and Mary Torregrossa) at 6pm inside the South El Monte Public Library on 1430 North Central Avenue. Call (626) 443-4158 for more information.
Here's a video of the poem I performed at the Emerging Urban Poets 2011 Anthology Reading inside Maui Wowi:
Freedom To Drive
a ton of steel and glass and plastic and rubber on asphalt and concrete and metal road to reach a windowed and tabled restaurant to gorge on cow and pig and chicken and fish to fill belly and get in car again to arrive at mall steel and glass and rubber and stucco buildings of opportunity to try on and plastic card or paper bill purchase yards of cotton and polyester and rayon and spandex then plant jeans on leather and vinyl once more to park wheels and chrome near a convenience store of plastic and chrome counters to buy a bunch of plastic and paper packages bags and bottles easily tossed in either receptacle or ground and subsequently re-enter a stucco and rubber and glass and steel building wherein clothes and food and electronics are stored in wood and on carpet made to outlast flesh and bone occupants
TONIGHT, Feral Fusion at the Amsterdam Cafe presents two of THE INNER FOUR. They are moi and CALOKIE, plus ELI GOITEIN and REGINA HIGGINS Location - 10905 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601 Sign Up - 8:00 pm Start - 8:30 pm Solo poetry/spoken word - 5 minutes or 3 poems Fusion artists - 10 minutes Hosted by Angel Uriel Perales and Cindy Weinstein (aka Feral Artist)
I will be featured in the 100 Thousand Poets For Change - World Poetry Festival reading on Saturday, September 24th between 5 and 6pm at Beyond Baroque's SPARC Stage on 681 Venice Blvd. in Venice. For the complete line-up of poets go to > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnzpHegfoo5LdHQtcWZnUkJhM0N2MWZlSVFMN1BiZlE&hl=en_US#gid=0
Don Kingfisher Campbell and friends will be featured on http://www.killradio.org between 7 and 10pm. The program: The 9th Level. The host: James Maverick. The friends: CaLokie, Marvin Dorsey, Eli Goitein, and Mary Torregrossa.
It's a doubly poetic feature!! Attack Of The Five Foot Woman features 20 new poems about love and lust. Head Lines continues my anthropological excursions through society in 17 new poems. Chapbooks are $5 each (plus $2 for shipping) or both for $10 (postage paid). To order either or the pair, please go to http://paypal.com and Send Money to kingfisher1031@charter.net, then wait by the ol' mailbox for fast First Class snail mail delivery!
Just a reminder I'll be performing YouTube Recommended (and other poems) at 2pm inside the Flintridge Bookstore on 1010 Foothill Blvd. in LaCanada today. I will be joined by the members of The Inner Five (CaLokie, Marvin Dorsey, Eli Goitein and Mary Torregrossa) and we'll be giving away a small chapbook compilation of our work. There will also be an open reading, so you can read too. BTW: thank you Gena Haskett for recording this video! Check out her blog by clicking on Out On The Stoop in the list of websites in the right column of this page.
I just got three poems (In The Sea Of Dolphins I Am A Manta Ray, Eve Eve, and Poem) published yesterday on the Epiphany Magazine website > http://epiphmag.com
I'm going to be featured in the Moonday East poetry reading series on Sunday, August 21st at the Flintridge Bookstore. Here's a link to the website where you can read three of the poems I'll be performing > http://www.moondaypoetry.com/moonday-east.html
My basketball poem "From Break To Dunk" (about Blake Griffin in the 2011 NBA Rookie/Soph Game) has also been published on The Write Room website > http://www.thewritemag.com/2011/05/from-break/
Here's a video of me performing my sestina "Green Bell Apples vs Dreadful Toenail Assholes" last night as a featured performer for the Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts event at the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown.
I was asked to be one of the judges for the first ever Pasadena High School Poetry Slam in their Little Theater on Friday evening, May 27th. As a bonus, I got to perform a poem I wrote on the spot called Because I'm A Student In The Theater Of Life (First Draft, of course) inspired by these surroundings.
listed on Poets & Writers, is the founder of POETRYpeople youth writing workshops; publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly; leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Deep Critique workshops; and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. Mr. Campbell has taught Creative Writing in the Upward Bound program at Occidental College and been a Guest Teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 27 years. Want a poet in your classroom, library, bookstore, coffeehouse, or event? Please email: poetrypeople@charter.net
