New chapbook compilation!

New chapbook compilation prepared for this Saturday's writing workshop. Get your emailed PDF copy for just $1, or $2.50 for a mailed physical booklet. Use Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle (payable to my email address). Thank you for your support!

Featured!

 

New chapbook, new poems!

14 poems composed between May and December 2021. Only $4 for a PDF copy. Use Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle to reserve yours. Add $2 for shipping if you would like a physical copy.

New chapbook compilation!

Made especially for this Saturday's writing workshop. 12 poems, are also 12 writing ideas. Only $4 for a PDF copy. Please support your workshop leader. Use Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle to reserve yours. Add $2 for shipping if you would like a physical copy.

Chapbook!

 

Made especially for this Saturday's writing workshop. 20 poems, are also 20 writing ideas. Only $4 for a PDF copy. Use Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle to reserve yours.

Publication!

This week our yearlong poetry project is featuring the publisher of Spectrum and organizer of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival (among many other titles), Don Kingfisher Campbell, because this project, in addition to giving our local voices a platform, is also about connecting our local voices with the larger poetic community of Southern California and beyond.

𝕊𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕒 𝔸𝕟𝕒, 𝕒 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕚𝕟 ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕪

𝔻𝕠𝕟 𝕂𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕗𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕣 ℂ𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕝

𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗔 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗦, 𝗜 𝗔𝗠 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔 𝗥𝗔𝗬

Dive into the sun to find opened eyes

An empty sky, full of ghosts

Smile because trees become bare

Carcasses on snowy streets

A monkey dreamt the cosmos, found a house

To sit in, gaze at an apple, stare at a fist

Pray in the wilderness, he said

We might as well be ants

But the scientific mind was high on civilization

They celebrated our rocks and roles

Envisioned the perfect you

Driving a lonely night freeway

Galloping to repopulate the stars

And play the game of movement through air

Read a poem on the shore, the sad cliffs watching

Us, eventually eaten by the shark mountain

As the lords in welkin have already seen

Ancient temple women in flames

Our babies litter the world like clouds

Say, hi god, teach me something

Don Kingfisher Campbell, MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, has taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 35 years, been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, Los Angeles Area Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Spectrum and the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Deep Critique workshops, organizer of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. For awards, features, and publication credits, please go to: http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE! A printable electronic compilation of 43 "dead and divine" poems I composed from 1997 to 2019 and put together in this 48 page edition in preparation for my Spectrum 29: The Dead & The Divine writing workshop on Zoom yesterday for Saturday Afternoon Poetry...just $8 if you use Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle to pay. Use my email address to make payment on Zelle: donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com.

Three sample poems from this chapbook have been posted for you on http://fourfeatherspress.blogspot.com and http://kingfisherbooks.blogspot.com

Interview!

You can still listen to my interview by copying and pasting this link in your web browser... https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p/2021/09/30/quintessential-listening-poetry-online-radio-presents-don-kingfisher-campbell?fbclid=IwAR2kS2ypU88TNJaG0HkMB0I_FhVBUnipbFz1Ydmy9CXn_cZ03Vu-KUO90KQ

Interview!

Thanks to Thelma T. Reyna and Alex Wilson for this...
https://shoutoutla.com/meet-don-kingfisher-campbell-poet-and-editor/?fbclid=IwAR1vltVSvHyWJrsAPt1uwrRsViuXZlXPod232olgCHDA83j5AK5o2OGqk14

Book!

Newborn books, come and get 'em! A collection spanning 25 years in 65 poems on 130 pages published by Cyberwit. Oh yeah, they are $15 a copy (postage included for this batch only). You can send me those electronic semolians through Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle (use my email address: don kingfishercampbell@gmail.com)...

Chapbook!

I put together a compilation of 20 of my poems that mention libraries, and thought, I'd love for the proceeds from this e-book to go to the Hiram Sims Library of Poetry. I need to arrange that, if he is willing, no endorsement necessary. So, reminisce with me on those bygone days when people gathered together. Send $4 through Facebook Messenger Pay or Zelle (use my email address for Zelle) for the PDF file to be emailed to you...

Publication!

 

Two of my newest poems have been published in...

http://lifeandlegends.com/life-and-legends-tenth-edition/

Publication & Reading!

My poem "Unlearning" is being published in the 70th anniversary issue of my alma mater Cal State L.A.'s literary magazine...

...and I was invited to feature in the Zoom reading to celebrate this publication (which I was editor of way back in 1983-1984).

Features!

 

Poetic Libretto!

 

NOW AVAILABLE! An 18 poem compilation of "duck" poetry in preparation for my Spectrum Online Edition: Lucky Ducks writing workshop on Zoom this coming March 6th for Saturday Afternoon Poetry. Go to the Bobby John Press website to get your free copy: http://bobbyjohnpress.blogspot.com

Publication!

 

NOW AVAILABLE! A 16 poem libretto of new pandemic poetry in preparation for my featured reading on Sunday, February 28th for the La Palabra reading series on Zoom. Go to the Bobby John Press website to get your free copy: http://bobbyjohnpress.blogspot.com

Poetic Libretto!

 

NOW AVAILABLE! A 16 poem compilation of "object" poetry in preparation for my Spectrum Special Edition: Love Objects writing workshop on Zoom this coming February 6th for Saturday Afternoon Poetry. Go to the Bobby John Press website to get your free copy: http://bobbyjohnpress.blogspot.com

Publication!

 

Published two poems (Semi-automatic Suicide and Marvin Dorsey Matters) in and read at the publication reading last night. Get your copy from the Los Angeles Poet Society...

Publication!

Woo hoo! Published again in this gorgeous spacious website series... https://poetryandplaces.com/2021/01/17/granada-park-love-by-don-kingfisher-campbell/?fbclid=IwAR0_pLUsjh6kQNJ39Ys-JHWXeIzT5gD5OP5blkmvl02AyO3oY_A--V9SbcI