Thursday, October 28, 2021

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.

π•Šπ•’π•Ÿπ•₯𝕒 π”Έπ•Ÿπ•’, 𝕒 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣 π•šπ•Ÿ ℙ𝕠𝕖π•₯𝕣π•ͺ

π”»π• π•Ÿ π•‚π•šπ•Ÿπ•˜π•—π•šπ•€π•™π•–π•£ β„‚π•’π•žπ•‘π•“π•–π•π•

π—œπ—‘ π—§π—›π—˜ π—¦π—˜π—” 𝗒𝗙 π——π—’π—Ÿπ—£π—›π—œπ—‘π—¦, π—œ 𝗔𝗠 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗑𝗧𝗔 π—₯𝗔𝗬

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

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