Contest!

Earned third place last night in the 2nd annual All Hallows Grounds Poetry Contest put on by Kimberly Cobian's ZZYZX Poets at the Holy Grounds Coffeehouse in El Sereno.

Reading!

I read some of my own poems published in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (Issa Frequency, Theater, Garfield Sevenling, and The Antique Traveler) at Cafe Villa on this special night.

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE... my latest compendium. 22 poems influenced by music, composed over the last 22 years! Get your copy for just $5 by going to Saturday Afternoon Poetry, or order one by visiting http://paypal.com, directing payment of $6 (includes shipping) to kingfisher1031@charter.net

Contents

2 / A PERFECT DAY

3 / "BLUE BAYOU"

4 / CLASSIC ROCK

5 / EDGAR WINTER AGAIN

6 / GIVE PIECE A CHANCE

7 / INSIDE

8 / MOODY BLUES

9 / NEED COMFORT? TRY...

10 / 1978

11 / 1975 – 2007

12 / 1967 OR 2007

14 / PROGRESSIVE ROCK

15 / SANTANA IS DANGEROUS

16 / SHE SINGS “INNOCENT”

17 / THE FREEWAY

18 / TODAY I WAKE UP ALIVE

19 / TRANSFORMED

20 / USHER IN THE '70'S

21 / VENTURA HIGHWAY

22 / WALL OF VOODOO

23 / WHAT I HAD TO GO THRU TO GET OUT OF MY HOME

24 / YES

Publication!

Published in the latest issue of Lummox with some fine facebook poet/friends: Christina Marie, Linda J. Albertano, Lynne Bronstein, Alexis Fancher, Lalo Kikiriki, Radomir Vojtech Luza, Ellyn Maybe, Michael Paul, Kevin Ridgeway, Wanda Vanhoy Smith, Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Tim Tipton, Murray Thomas, Rolland Vasin, Raundi Kai Moore-Kondo, Alex M. Frankel, Joe Gardner, LeAnne Hunt, Lorine Parks, Robert Rodriguez, William Mohr, and more. Thank you, Rd Armstrong!

Publication and Reading!!

Happy to pick up a copy tonight of the Men's Heartbreak Anthology (published by Karineh Mahdessian) at the outdoor publication reading next to the Cypress Park Tunnel. It features many of my fine lining facebook friends: Tim Tipton, Robert Rodriguez,Rolland Vasin, Marvin L. Dorsey, Robert Wilson, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, Joe Gardner, Alessander Xavier, ER Sanchez, Michael Ian Churchman, Phillip Larrea,Murray Thomas, Jerry Garcia, Donny Jackson, Juan Cardenas, Andres Bermejo, Bill Friday, Jesus Aldana-Alba, Abel Salas, Conney Williams, Ángel García,Michael Gonzalez, Matt Sedillo, Sean Hill, Peter J. Harris, Luis Javier Rodriguez, and more!

Art Night!

Six of us personed a table last night at the Pasadena Public Library ART NIGHT to sell our words: Carl Stilwell (pictured below right), Don Kingfisher Campbell (pictured left), Marvin L. Dorsey (pictured right), Yvonne Estrada, Eli Goitein, and Marie Lecrivain!

Award!

We have our winners! 

Announcing the winner of the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Society Summer Poetry Contest: Alexis Fancher for her award-winning poem, "TONIGHT WE WILL BLOOM FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY"

Alexis wins a $75 cash prize, publication of her poem on our LAPS website, and a LAPS event/reading of her poem!

Runners up: Karen Vande Bossche's poem "July Musings" and Don Kingfisher Campbell's "Joshua Tree Trip" - both of these poems will also be published on the LAPS website.

We received many amazing submissions and want to THANK YOU for submitting your work to the Los Angeles Poet Society! 

Publication!

A couple days ago "Mythology" was my second poem of four to be published on the Cadence Collective website... > http://cadencecollective.net/2014/09/29/mythology/

Publication and Reading!

Picked up my copy of this deep first Lucid Moose Lit anthology tonight at the publication reading in Long Beach. You should get one too. It's riveting reading featuring some of my favorite poets: Yvonne Estrada,Peggy Dobreer, Maja Trochimczyk, Murray Thomas,Karla Cordero, Christina Marie, Joe Gardner, Tobi Cogswell, Raquel Reyes-Lopez, LeAnne Hunt, Nancy Lynée Woo, Sarah Tatro, Ricki Mandeville, Daniel McGinn, Terry Wolverton, John Brantingham, JL Martindale, Steve Ramirez, Phillip Larrea, Karineh Mahdessian, Graham Smith, and that Kingfisher guy. Copy and paste this link for a video of the proceedings... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBGQZAmGYk

Publication!

The second of two poems published on The Camel Saloon poetry website...
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2014/09/blue-bayou.html

Featured Reading!

Didn't make the poster, but I was one of almost a dozen featured spoken word poets to perform on the stage inside the sweltering club late last Sunday afternoon. I am also one of three judges for their poetry contest.  https://www.facebook.com/events/560114520760063/permalink/573306282774220/

Publication!

The first of two poems to be published on The Camel Saloon poetry website... http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2014/09/bamboo-discipline-remembering-my-father.html

Double Publication!!

Wow, it's a first ever poetic twinsie for this daughter and father! Love Poetry Lovers published another of my poems below Kyla Campbell's poem... > http://lovepoetrylovers.tumblr.com/

For Kyla Campbell's poem only, click on... >http://lovepoetrylovers.tumblr.com/.../beauty-is-your-curse

For my second poem on this site only, click on... >http://lovepoetrylovers.tumblr.com/.../97209.../the-artisans

Publication!

A love poem on Love Poetry Lovers... >
http://lovepoetrylovers.tumblr.com/post/97128169695/wet-affection

Workshop/Reading!!

Last Friday I led a poetry writing workshop at Beyond Baroque that featured five of my poems and four by Frankie Hernandez.

Publication!

The first of four poems that will be appearing on the Cadence Collective website... >
http://cadencecollective.net/2014/08/03/before-it-was-torn-down/

Publication!

Two Antiochians published in this appreciation of Maya Angelou... >
http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry-archive/maya-angelou-appreciation/

Interview!

A 2010 KPFK Poets Cafe radio interview of moi performed by Lois P. Jones has been re-posted... >
http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/don-kingfisher-campbell/

Publication!

Happy to say two classic poems of mine have finally been published in the latest edition of Verse-Virtual... >
http://www.verse-virtual.com/xxxdon-kingfisher-campbell-2014-august.html

Hosting!

Last night I hosted Daniel Yaryan's Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts #55! And got a chance to help CaLokie (BL) perform his poem The Cup Of Coffee That Jack Sipped with Marvin Dorsey (BR).

Performances!

Saturday, I was one of three featured poets at the above noble event.  I performed my four best political pieces of spoken word: You Have The Freedom, Homo Superior, I Got The American Right, and Joe Sphincter to a very intelligent and engaged audience.

Then, today, I passed out folded cards of and read my classic poem Planet Of The Oreos as a yummy snack after the fulfilling meal of four wonderful poets who featured at the high quality reading series pictured below.

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE! My latest featuring 19 fresh ones. Order your copy by going to http://paypal.com and directing payment of $5 (postage paid) to kingfisher1031@charter.net, or stop by Saturday Afternoon Poetry any... Saturday.

Reading!

Had a great time featuring at The Ugly Mug in Orange. And I sold 20 books!!

Publication!

I've got two new poems (Cemetery and Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea Love) published here... >
http://towerjournal.com/spring_2014/kingfisher.php

Publication!

My classic poem She Is Something Like has been published in my BA alma mater's (CSULA) Statement Magazine.

Performance!

Had such fun yesterday performing my old spoken word classics at Litfest On The Prowl for Poesia Para la Gente around the Pasadena Playhouse: You Have The Freedom!, Homo Superior, I Got The American Right, Vomiting For God, Joe Sphincter, Knowing, Growth, and ULP! (And I had 8 more at the ready, but it got dark... heh heh.)

Publication!

Rate my poem, published today on...
http://oddballmagazine.com/2014/05/14/poem-by-don-kingfisher-campbell/

Publication!

Got a new poem published in The Gambler magazine... >
http://www.thegamblermag.com/2014/04/don-kingfisher/

Publication and Reading!

Got three poems published in the twelfth annual: Finding Warmth, Sunday Morning Drive, and Shelled Raw Almond. Read the first one at the publication reading hosted by publisher Pauli Dutton this afternoon inside the Altadena Library.

Publication!

One of my newest poems published today on... >
http://spiltinkpoetry.tumblr.com/post/83713999449/the-cloud-people-by-don-kingfisher-campbell

Chapbook!

Help me celebrate acquiring my MFA, along with the 2014 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival's chapbook contest, this Saturday at 4 pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch Library. You can help judge, enjoy the munchies, and get a free copy of my celebratory chapbook for doing so!

Degree!

Finally came in the mail! That's my birth name, in case you didn't know. The Kingfisher came later....

Publication!

Two of my classic political poems (Republican Convention and Showing A Documentary On Vietnam To A Tenth Grade Class) were published in this anthology put together by Mark Lipman.

Love Our Authors!

I helped organize this event, inviting fellow poets Khadija Anderson (pictured), Jack G. Bowman (also pictured), Lynne Bronstein, CaLokie, Kimberly Cobian (pictured as well), Scott Kaestner, Marie Lecrivain, Raundi Kai Moore Kondo, and Terry McCarty to sell their tomes.

Publication!

Got two poems published in this wonderfully salacious anthology: Sex Nimis Multi Pro Sonnet and Science.

Chapbook!

My latest featuring 23 fresh ones. Order your copy by going to http://paypal.com and directing payment of $5 (postage paid) to kingfisher1031@charter.net, or stop by Saturday Afternoon Poetry any... Saturday.

Publication Reading!

CaLokie and I read at Beyond Baroque and the Cobalt to promote R.D. Armstrong's second anthology of poets.

Workshop and Reading!!

On Friday night I led a poetry writing workshop as part of the Zzyzx Poets reading series at Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea in El Sereno.  Here is the poem I composed using the objects that surrounded us in the patio area there:


Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea Love

 

Because I needed a coat of arms around me

To spark a golden sun deep inside my chest

 

Someone to string Christmas lights on my heart

Instead of a daily cactus bird cage existence

 

I happened upon the light bulb woman

Who turned us into a poker and a fireplace

 

Our declarations became hanging word lanterns

Screaming out steaming hot chocolate warmth

 

To transform life to live beside cool ferns

And well-placed bricks beneath our feet