Honor!

Terry McCarty has created a very cool list of the LA/OC poets of the decade. Why is it cool? Because I'm on it. And so many other keepers of the flame. What an honor. Enter this website address to check it out > http://poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-laoc-poets-of-decade-list.html

Video!

Thanks to Eric Lawson for recording my performance of my poem Before The Deluge at the SGVPQ 44 publication party this afternoon. Here's the link to watch it > http://www.youtube.com/user/InfinityLimitedPress?ytsession=bqFhdXktxjJDBJxWNbMFkx99Rgh4hm9hHo_PzwvLxjRMI_mXQxKgnaHS-flmfD3xrQ4jRsFEpM5xlAW18FzUQEL1Z8tLxyJD9w8yfkqu3XWsFJGrkWJBkJQHv0fHHZsK0zc1Y2SWb5bHUug-tPBFn3fx7w517b9-5MhOQgLDdl7VxiRvaxxaOjWYzpZJfsDI6LAUqAOGPMe5VXEjxx38atHBYNvQ2K_q8kWWJ6K59r2HQNsgQwx8D0GjzVj2m-Zhnaa155QzxYhpgcImii1E0LGhhD9_5u4vFqBG0xwBNrY

Publication!

My poem "The Latest Headlines" has been published in both the web and print versions of Interrobang?! magazine. For the web version, go here > http://www.interrobangzine.com/poetry/the-latest-headlines/

Event!

3, 4, 5 December, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Beyond Baroque 40th Anniversary Event: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS & THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAKED LUNCH
BB (on 681 Venice Blvd. in Venice) celebrates the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs' revolutionary text and founding force for beats, punks, electronica, no wave, cyberpunk, and beyond. Thursday is a wide-ranging riff on Burroughs, Friday a public discussion exploring this influence, and culminating Saturday in a marathon reading of Naked Lunch (FOR WHICH I WILL BE ONE OF THE READERS AT 2PM). Acclaimed for its innovative construction, satire, and shocking contents, Naked Lunch takes inner space traveler William Lee through Chicago, New York City, Tangier, Morocco and points beyond the beyond, exploding text and unravelling the repressions of American society. (http://beyondbaroque.org)

Chapbook!

Ballad Of The New Bonnie And Clyde
Can You Go Home?
Dogs Run By
Doing The Math
Gonna Try Again Today
It's Alive
Musing
Oh My God
Pretentious Essence
Sacramento Security Blotter
Saturday Sears
Scary
Screen
7am Relativity
Sunday Mourning
Sunny Vale
Ten Stones Of Awareness
The Cloud Parade
Wisp
Yes

Get your copy by going to http://paypal.com
Select Send Money to kingfisher1031@charter.net
Then wait by the ol' mailbox for fast first-class delivery!

Or go to the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. this Saturday afternoon at 3pm and get a free copy if you are in costume!

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL, 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 Saturday Afternoon Poetry 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 25 years. Don is the recipient of a 1st Honorable Mention in the 2008 Grandmother Earth poetry contest, an Honorable Mention in the League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association’s Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society’s Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective’s Poetry In The Windows Prize. Kingfisher’s poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Interrobang?!, Sage Trail, Undetectable, Phantom Seed, Vox Journal, Behold The Pirate Pig, Hudson View Poetry Digest, Mudpuppy, Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review, Looking Out Of Alhambra, Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Poetry And Cookies, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is viewable on the internet at Hot Metal Press, Prism Review Poetry Sleepover, Poets Lane, Poets Express, The League Of Laboring Poets, The Stone Table Review, Six Little Things, Turbula, The Barricade, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer’s Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, Wired Art From Wired Hearts, and Poetz websites. His first book of poetry “Enter”, reviewed as “pithy, trenchant, raw with life”, published by iUniverse Press, is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. And now you can buy his second book, “Campbell’s Classics” (1981-2006), on http://dkc1031.blogspot.com You’ll even find him interviewed at Litrave.com and Poetix.net. He’s featured as well on a CD titled Poems From Perkins Alley, along with four videos on YouTube (one through Poetry.LA). Want a poet in your classroom, library, bookstore, coffeehouse, or event? Please email: poetrypeople@charter.net

$5 Pure Poetry

Review!

My book Campbell's Classics is reviewed by G. Murray Thomas on the Poetix website > http://poetix.net/reviews.htm

Get a copy of my book of 132 classic poems from 1981-2006 by sending $15 ($5 is for shipping expense) via http://paypal.com to kingfisher1031@charter.net

Videos!

Hey Bloggers,

I've created my first three computer-generated poetry videos. Check 'em out on YouTube using the links below (or just go to Facebook):

SUNNY VALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWv9X-3-B6Q

MUSING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCnEkX5GMSM

TOP OF THE NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqHs3aOMLc

Enjoy!
Don

P.S. Hopefully they will also be linkable soon in the Video Bar to the right!

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Performance!

I recently went on a tour through Northern California with some of my poetry compatriots. Here's a shot of me performing poetry at the It's A Grind Coffeehouse in San Francisco.

Publication!

I've had a prose poem published in Sage Trail Poetry Magazine. You can check it out online at their website http://www.sagetrail.org

Chapbook!

A Block
Almost 50
Better To Be
Breaking News
Carbo Nation
Fluorescence
Hee Haw, I'm In And Out Of My Mind
If You Don't Use It...
Like You
Locution Drums
Man, Hungry
Millions Of Years
Model
Ms. Dills' Pink Slip
My First 25 Chapbooks
My Gods
My Hand
My Heart
My Next 25 Chapbooks
Occidental Motion
Pink Flora
Planes
Ring!
Sub Urban Summer
The Column Is A Drum
25
Upward Bound
What's It Like To Be You?

Get your copy by going to http://paypal.com
Select Send Money to kingfisher1031@charter.net
Then wait by the ol' mailbox for fast first-class delivery!

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL, 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 Saturday Afternoon Poetry 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 25 years. Don is the recipient of a 1st Honorable Mention in the 2008 Grandmother Earth poetry contest, an Honorable Mention in the League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association’s Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society’s Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective’s Poetry In The Windows Prize. Kingfisher’s poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Sage Trail, Undetectable, Phantom Seed, Vox Journal, Behold The Pirate Pig, Hudson View Poetry Digest, Mudpuppy, Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review, Looking Out Of Alhambra, Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Poetry And Cookies, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is viewable on the internet at Hot Metal Press, Prism Review Poetry Sleepover, Poets Lane, Poets Express, The League Of Laboring Poets, The Stone Table Review, Six Little Things, Turbula, The Barricade, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer’s Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, Wired Art From Wired Hearts, and Poetz websites. His first book of poetry “Enter”, reviewed as “pithy, trenchant, raw with life”, published by iUniverse Press, is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. And now you can buy his second book, “Campbell’s Classics” (1981-2006), on http://dkc1031.blogspot.com. You’ll even find him interviewed at Litrave.com and Poetix.net. He’s featured as well on a CD titled Poems From Perkins Alley, along with four videos on YouTube (one through Poetry.LA). Want a poet in your classroom, library, bookstore, coffeehouse, or event? Please email: poetrypeople@charter.net

$5 Pure Poetry

Workshop!

I will be co-performing a workshop for the Milken Scholar Retreat at Mount St. Mary's Doheny campus:

Doheny Campus
10 Chester Place
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Telephone: (213) 477-2500

Workshop #6 – Publishing & Promoting Your Creative Writing in the 21st Century
Date: Friday July 31, 2009
Time: 2:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Building 4, Room 212

Presenters: Scott Kaestner & Don Kingfisher Campbell

Another feature booking!

Thursday, July 16th
POETRY AT THE TAG
featuring RCC's Mike Cluff and
Don Kingfisher Campbell,
editor of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly
TAG Art Gallery
(Sears end, lower level, next to Anna’s)
Moreno Valley Mall
22500 Town Circle Dr
Moreno Valley
(exit Hwy 60 at Day St. or Fredrick St.)
6:30 to 8:30pm
Hosted by Eric von Mizener
FREE
http://tagofmorenovalley.org/events.html

Kingfisher performs @ An Alternative Fourth

I read two poems at Helen Graziano's 4th of July music and poetry event at the Monte Vista United Universalist Church in Montclair. A new one called "Ms. Dills' Pink Slip" about a class victimized by an LAUSD budget cut, and my political satire "I Got The American Right". I was told my performance provided a justification for the existence of performance poetry!

My latest chapbook!

20 New Poems: April - May ‘09

After Noon Window
Atch!
Big
Confessor
Decadence
Every Day Shapes
Fly Dances In The Center
Gods
Hills Like Hips
I Must Be Great!
In The Land Where A Guitarist Plays In A Tent Smoking A Cigarette
It's Not Unusual
Making Some Sense
Man O'War In Space
Notes
Okayo
101 At Cat Canyon Road
Smoke Detector
The Classroom Of My Life
Two Beagles

Get your copy by going to http://paypal.com
Select Send Money ($5) to kingfisher1031@charter.net
Then wait by the ol' mailbox for fast first-class delivery!

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL, 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 Saturday Afternoon Poetry 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 25 years. Don is the recipient of a 1st Honorable Mention in the 2008 Grandmother Earth poetry contest, an Honorable Mention in the League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association’s Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society’s Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective’s Poetry In The Windows Prize. Kingfisher’s poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Undetectable, Phantom Seed, Vox Journal, Behold The Pirate Pig, Hudson View Poetry Digest, Mudpuppy, Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review, Looking Out Of Alhambra, Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Poetry And Cookies, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is viewable on the internet at Hot Metal Press, Prism Review Poetry Sleepover, Poets Lane, Poets Express, The League Of Laboring Poets, The Stone Table Review, Six Little Things, Turbula, The Barricade, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer’s Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, Wired Art From Wired Hearts, and Poetz websites. His first book of poetry “Enter”, reviewed as “pithy, trenchant, raw with life”, published by iUniverse Press, is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. And now you can buy his second book, “Campbell’s Classics” (1981-2006), on http://dkc1031.blogspot.com. You’ll even find him interviewed at Litrave.com and Poetix.net. He’s featured as well on a CD titled Poems From Perkins Alley, along with four videos on YouTube (one through Poetry.LA). Want a poet in your classroom, library, bookstore, coffeehouse, or event? Please email: poetrypeople@charter.net

Lunchtime Faculty Poetry Reading @ Roosevelt High 5/5/09

First we chowed down on the Cinco de Mayo deliciousness.
(Poet Don Newton to my left and poet Ron Baca behind us.)

Then we took turns reading.

My turn to read.

I performed "Top Of The News", a love poem from CAMPBELL'S CLASSICS:

Scientists have cracked
the DNA code of rice,
but I'm still figuring how
you found me attractive

Discovery's astronauts
braved the unknown,
I simply wish to add onto
our many years of memories

Gunmen kidnapped a
senior Iraqi official,
you captured me
a long time ago for good

Fire crews worried
about Western Montana,
I don't have to worry about
the sparks we always make

Israeli troops prepare
for Gaza pullout,
you better believe I hope to
never live in a Laura-free zone

Best-selling author
Judith Rossner has died,
yet you may rest assured
you are my immortal muse

Bear opens garage door,
enters Alaska home; reminds me
of the joy I get when I walk
into our apartment every day

Two local area feature gigs!!

I've got two exciting local featured reading opportunities coming up:

1
Thursday, May 14th
Don Kingfisher Campbell & other poets
The Bozana Poetry Show
Pasadena City College
1570 E Colorado Blvd
L Building
Harbeson Hall
7pm

2
Tuesday, June 2nd
Don Kingfisher Campbell & Friends
Free Family Poetry Night
Kidspace Museum
480 N Arroyo Blvd
Pasadena
6pm
http://www.kidspacemuseum.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events

Hope to see you at both events,
DKC

DKC @ UCLA FOB 4/26/09

At the UCLA Festival Of Books last weekend I gave away and read a small sampling of poems from CAMPBELL'S CLASSICS:

Campbell's Travels
In The Sea Of Dolphins, I Am A Manta Ray
Jelly
The Earth (a sonnet)
Top Of The News

Soon, if you look to the Video Bar on the right side of this blog, you'll be able to view my performances of In The Sea Of Dolphins, Jelly, and Top Of The News at this event. (And even catch a couple glimpses of mi amor de mi vida.) But until then, use these links:

IN THE SEA OF DOLPHINS, I AM A MANTA RAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7GyVenBr0

JELLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28Eyaw1zls

TOP OF THE NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iosMCPvrzs


Photos and videos by Kyla Campbell

BUSY POETRY WEEKEND!!!

Hey Gang,

Hope I'll see you today or tomorrow at one of these three events:

1
Saturday, April 25th
2pm - 4pm
Pure Poetry Chapbook Contest
Santa Catalina Branch
of the Pasadena Public Library
999 East Washington Boulevard
http://palabraproductions.blogspot.com

2
Saturday, April 25th
6pm - 10pm
Helen Graziano's Think Poetically--Act Locally
Don Kingfisher Campbell + 24 poets
Claremont Forum
586 West 1st Street
http://palabraproductions.blogspot.com

3
Sunday, April 26th
4:15pm - 4:25pm
Don Kingfisher Campbell
debuts his 2nd book
L.A. Times/UCLA Festival of Books
Booth 610
For map: http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/eventmap.html

Thank you for your support,
Don

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My 2nd book AVAILABLE NOW!!

It's not a cookbook...
It's not a comic book...
It's not even a chapbook...
It's CAMPBELL'S CLASSICS

132 poems from
1981 - 2006
Perfect bound
Available now for just
$10

To order a copy
please go to http://paypal.com
select Send Money
direct payment of $15
(includes $5 Priority Mail postage)
to kingfisher1031@charter.net

Then wait by the ol' mailbox
for Pure Poetry satisfaction!

Thank you for your support!
Don

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Email: poetrypeople@charter.net

My 2nd book will be available THIS SATURDAY!!

Hey Gang,

You can get a copy of my 2nd book CAMPBELL'S CLASSICS a week before the L.A. Times/UCLA Festival of Books by going to Saturday Afternoon Poetry this...er...Saturday...between 2 and 4pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd.

It's only $10, a beautiful psychedelic sky blue perfect bound paperback, 136 pages, containing 132 of my classic poems (a best of from 1981-2006, that's 25 years)!!! I do trades too (for equal value).

We're holding a Deep Critique session, so please feel free to bring a dozen copies of a poem-in-process for fair and friendly constructive criticism.

Hope to see you Saturday,
Don

P.S. If you can't make it, you can still order my book by visiting http://paypal.com , selecting Send Money ($15, includes $5 Priority Mail postage) to kingfisher1031@charter.net , and then wait near that ol' mailbox.

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Publication!

My poem "Knowing" has been published on the Lunarosity website. Here's the link: http://www.zianet.com/lunarosity

My 2nd book debuts at UCLA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS!!

Author-Full Name: Don Kingfisher Campbell
Title: Campbell's Classics
Binding Information: Perfect bound
Copyright Information: 2009
Physical-# of pages: 136 (132 poems)
Subject Information: POETRY
Market_#0#pub_co_uid: 665175
Market-status: Active Record
Market-Pub Date: 04/26/2009
Price info-price: $10.00
Price info-Currency: US
Pre-Order at http://paypal.com, select Send Money to: kingfisher1031@charter.net
Or go to:
LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books
Featured Authors: Find Us in Booth 610
Signing Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26
Booth #610. It's by the food booths! Yay!

 Get a FREE book with your purchase of any book while supplies last.
 Browse books of other authors.
 Sign for Free handouts on promotion, editing and more (to be sent by e-mail).

UCLA Campus, Sat. & Sun, April 25 and 26
FREE Admission/Parking $9.
Easiest Parking at Structure 3 near Hilgard & Sunset Boulevard, Westwood (Los Angeles Area), CA.
Use the map of the on-campus event: http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/eventmap.html.
Look for the Authors Coop banner above booth #610.

Booth Sponsored by:
Marshall Turner's WebforAuthors.com, Red Engine Press, HowToDoItFrugally.com Series of Books for Authors, 4RVPublishing

Gift with Purchase Books Furnished by:
Leora Skolkin-Smith, Diana Raab, Philip Henderson and others.

Scheduled Authors Saturday 04/25/09
10:00 AM Loren Woodson
11:00 AM Lynn Goodwin
12:00 PM Janet Goliger
1:00 PM Marilyn Meredith
2:00 PM Anne Megowan
3:00 PM Linda Overman
4:00 PM Julie Spira
5:00 PM Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Christine Alexanians

Scheduled Authors Sunday 04/26/09
10 am Linda Ballou
11:00 AM Lynn Goodwin
12:00 PM Janet Goliger
1:00 PM Marilyn Meredith
2:00 PM Anne Megowan
3:00 PM Pamela Kelly

4:00 to 5:00 PM: Poetry readings!
Here's the breakdown:

4:00-4:15 Sona Ovasapyan
4:15-4:25 Don Kingfisher Campbell
4:25-4:35 Pardis Bagherzadeh
4:35-4:50 Carolyn Howard Johnson
4:50-5:00 Christine Alexanians

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Here's the flyer for tonight's reading...

My New Chapbook: The Sound of Creation

BEST PICTURE
BOUNCING
CNN TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
D.C.M.T.K.C.
1ST PERIOD GEOMETRY
400 YEARS AFTER ROMEO
HUMANITAS
I DON'T EVEN GET THE NEWS
I'M A CURIOUS TIGER
I'M A PRODUCT OF SUBURBIA
I'M LUCKY
INFESTATION
MECRET SESSAGE
1999 SATURN IN 2009
POETRY READING
SEASONS
TEEN POWER
THE BOY WITH POEMS IN HIS HEAD
THE ECONOMY
THE SOUND OF CREATION

$5

Order online at http://paypal.com by selecting Send Money and directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net , then just wait by the ol' mailbox.

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I'm going to be the inaugural featured poet for...

S²P² @ L’KEG
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 @ 8pm

Sunday Poetry Party is a monthly reading series hosted by Scott C. Kaestner featuring the finest poetic voices in Los Angeles and beyond. Each reading will be recorded by IM radio and broadcasted thereafter on http://www.imradionetwork.org/

This reading will feature Don Kingfisher Campbell and a myriad of talented LA poets doing their thing in the open reading, so come join us and throw your verse into the mix (sign-up at 8) or just sit back and take it all in.

L’KEG Gallery
311 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.lkeggallery.com/

**if you face your book n' book your face - join us on facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1408459438&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=48349487431&ref=mf

I've earned a feature booking!

I'm one of nine poets who have been selected to read a classic poem and one of my own inspired by it on Thursday, April 2nd, at 7pm as part of the National Poetry Month reading at the Avenue 50 Gallery in Highland Park. I'll be performing T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and my poem "Joe Sphincter". The event will be hosted by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo.

Now available!

Hey cyberfans,

You can now download my track on the Poems From Perkins Alley CD through http://itunes.com by typing in the search box either Poems From Perkins Alley or Don Kingfisher Campbell

The CD has a different cover though as you can see

My New Chapbook: Mise En Poem

A SMALL BAND OF PATRIOTS
ECONOMY
FLIGHTS
HOMO SUPERIOR
JOKER
JOKER 2.0
JOSHUA TREE SERVICE
MOUCHETTE (LITTLE FLY)
NATURAL
PROGRESS, PART IV
SEASONING
STREAKED HAIR BLUE
THANKS GIVING
THE ARTISANS
TO WRITE POETRY IS TO SUFFER

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL, 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 Saturday Afternoon Poetry 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 24 years. Don is the recipient of a 1st Honorable Mention in the 2008 Grandmother Earth poetry contest, an Honorable Mention in the League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association's Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society's Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective's Poetry In The Windows Prize. Kingfisher’s poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Undetectable, Phantom Seed, Vox Journal, Behold The Pirate Pig, Hudson View Poetry Digest, Mudpuppy, Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review, Looking Out Of Alhambra, Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Poetry And Cookies, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is viewable on the internet at Hot Metal Press, Prism Review Poetry Sleepover, Poets Lane, Poets Express, The League Of Laboring Poets, The Stone Table Review, Six Little Things, Turbula, The Barricade, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer's Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, Wired Art From Wired Hearts, and Poetz websites. His first book of poetry "Enter", reviewed as "pithy, trenchant, raw with life", was published by iUniverse Press and is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. You can also find him interviewed on Litrave.com and Poetix.net. And now, he's featured on a CD titled Poems From Perkins Alley and a video on YouTube through Poetry.LA. Want a poet in your classroom, library, bookstore, coffeehouse, or event? Please email: poetrypeople@charter.net

$5

You can order this chapbook by clicking on: http://paypal.com and selecting Send Money to kingfisher1031@charter.net or just catch me any Saturday between 2pm and 4pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library.

Now I'm on Facebook!

Yes, fellow bloggers, I've just become a member of Facebook. Please click on http://facebook.com and enter my name (Don Kingfisher Campbell) to face me. I've posted a progression of my childhood photos for any interested parties.

NOW AVAILABLE!!!!!

Hey Bloggers,

Now you can download my track on the Poems From Perkins Alley CD at amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Poems-from-Perkins-Alley-Explicit/dp/B001PYOFB0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1232223751&sr=8-1

Enjoy!

Spring is Guest Poet Season!

You can have Don Kingfisher Campbell perform his poetry and lead a writing workshop in your classroom or library for less than the cost of a field trip!

For details, click on: http://4poetrypeople.blogspot.com/

I've been published again in Poetry Midwest

My poem "El Planeta de los Oreos" has just been published in the excellent End of 2008 issue (#22) of Poetry Midwest, which is posted to the web for free downloading/printing at: http://www.poetrymidwest.org/

Review of Sky Sex + Car Trouble

Don Kingfisher Campbell’s work in 2008 could often be described as meditative, soothing, always witty, always rooted in natures of Man. However as ’08 comes to a close he goes out with a bang in his latest: SKY SEX + CAR TROUBLE. This work is ripe with paradox, tension, drama; but in a compassionate gesture (to let us off the hook upon completion of reading it) he ends with a self-effacing stanza likening him self to the early 90’s phenomenon/parody: Vanilla Ice. Kind of bizarre but Don is also very eccentric and one truth can be said about his work as a poet: he takes risks, emotional ones too. Other conclusions to his poems can mysteriously break your heart, make you laugh out loud deep from the gut or ponder silently slowly their magnificent metaphysical weight. The work has its relief; the poem 18 TOY DEATHS is awfully cute and funny typifying the absurdity of children dying; in this case death by toy and play. Those that know some of the man or want to know more of the man will find endearing autobiographical accounts of his relations with females fascinating in his: 49 UP, LUCKY SEVEN and LXXVII.

RED SKY MOON (NOODLES AND ICE CREAM) seems to find the poetry in a plate of food and within it a portending apocalyptic doom. SCALE!! : is as flawless and irreproachable as the ingredients of its content: flowers in bloom. And it would be impossible to merit his poem PEOPLE sufficiently in this allotted space; let it be accurate enough to say that it is an exhibition of outlandish skill and a must read for students of experimental poetry. It is also clear that it isn’t difficult for him to hit with a homerun line like: leaves dancing with air; the final line of the poem: POETRY IN THE PARK.

And, in conclusion, what Don does best is win the audience over—taking the reader or listener on a journey; so that once his rider, his observer, is ready to take a self-shot Polaroid of his chapbook next to heart, or lock it away like a princess; he reminds us in IF I WAS A POEM with closing lines:

But I am a poem
So the thoughts of us now are
In the molecules of the cosmos

To consider: what is possessiveness, what is attachment in the context of the great Unity? Well, we are human; we like our cars, we like our sex, we like it as ours. So while you free those toe nails; you may want to conversely lock away Don’s chapbooks; if for no other reason than the Museums may be looking to buy them someday. And just like this chapbook at times, that may seem funny and cute; but it is no joke!

—The Walrus

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SKY SEX + CAR TROUBLE

28 New Poems composed in October and November 2008:

AFTER A MORNING RAIN
ANOTHER DAY OF THE DEAD
CAR TROUBLE
CATALINA AND WASHINGTON
18 TOY DEATHS
49 UP
GOOD THING IT ISN'T ALIVE
IF CALIFORNIA WAS THE WORLD
IF I WAS A POEM
LILAC
LUCKY SEVEN
LXXVII
MORNING MOON
NIGHT
NIGHT OF THE BAKED POTATO
ONLY MINUTES
PEOPLE
POETRY IN THE PARK
PRISONERS
RED SKY MOON (NOODLES AND ICE CREAM)
SCALE
SCALE!!
SKY SEX
SKY SHOW
SOLVANG
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE AN ANT
SUPER OBAMA!
WE SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDAY SO

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DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL, 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 Saturday Afternoon Poetry 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 24 years.

Don is the recipient of a 1st Honorable Mention in the 2008 Grandmother Earth poetry contest, an Honorable Mention in the League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association's Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society's Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective's Poetry In The Windows Prize.

Kingfisher’s poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Undetectable, Phantom Seed, Vox Journal, Behold The Pirate Pig, Hudson View Poetry Digest, Mudpuppy, Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review, Looking Out Of Alhambra, Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Poetry And Cookies, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is viewable on the internet at Hot Metal Press, Prism Review Poetry Sleepover, Poets Lane, Poets Express, The League Of Laboring Poets, The Stone Table Review, Six Little Things, Turbula, The Barricade, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer's Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, Wired Art From Wired Hearts, and Poetz websites.

His first book of poetry "Enter", reviewed as "pithy, trenchant, raw with life", was published by iUniverse Press and is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. You can also find him interviewed on Litrave.com and Poetix.net. And now, he's featured on a CD titled Poems From Perkins Alley and a video on YouTube through Poetry.LA. Want a poet in your classroom, library, bookstore, coffeehouse, or event? Please email: poetrypeople@charter.net