Publication!

I've got four poems in this new book of men's poetry about women >
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Company-Women-Anthology-Persuasion/dp/0985471565/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Reading!

Last night it was Round 2 of the Lummox publication poetry readings. Again, great performances from the SGVPQ crew!

Publication!

I'm the lead-off poet in the latest edition of...Crack the Spine!

Click on http://www.crackthespine.com/2012/12/issue-forty-six.html
or http://issuu.com/crackthespine/docs/issue_46?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage
to check it out.

Guest Editor!

I'm the Guest Editor for the latest edition of the online webzine Poetic Diversity (December 2012).  Here's the link. > http://www.poeticdiversity.org/main/index.php  Thank you Marie Lecrivain for the opportunity.

Guest Editor!

I was one of 12 guest editors for the return of Lummox magazine. Last night was the publication reading at Beyond Baroque.  It was a grand night for poetry with some of my poet friends I chose to be published in this beautifully hefty annual: CaLokie, Joe Gardner, Jeffry Jensen, Lalo Kikiriki, Radomir Luza, and Mary Torregrossa.  Thank you RD Armstrong for the opportunity.

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE!  My latest chapbook featuring 21 poems composed from July to October 2012.  Titles: Poetry Is, Leaving, Road Bed, She Even Looks Like A Poet, Summer Dears, Vacationku, Poetry Cafe, How Embarrassing To Be An Animal, Little White Car, History, Buy Low Wednesday, Curiosity, The Monster, Have You Ever Been Afriad Of A Monster, American Sentence, Cube, The Subjects Of Us, Seven Course, Give Piece A Chance, 1 A.M., and CNN Universe.  Get your copy for a mere $5 postage paid by visiting http://paypal.com and directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net, or pop by Saturday Afternoon Poetry between 3 and 5pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd.

Now available!

My fourth mp3 album of poetry enhanced with music and sound effects by producer Barry Schwam.  Here's the link >

http://www.amazon.com/Theater-of-Life/dp/B0094ZKC3W/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1346597799&sr=8-16&keywords=don+kingfisher+campbell

Publication!

I have two poems just published in the summer Desert Writers issue of The Sun Runner.  Here's the link to read "Wreckage" and "More Wreckage" >http://issuu.com/thesunrunnermagazine/docs/sraug12dig/30

Publication!

My poem "Summer School Senryu" was published yesterday on the Poetry Breakfast website! Here's the link >
http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com/

Featured Host!

I was a host, featured poet and writing workshop leader on Saturday evening for Poetrypalooza at the Friends Cafe in Monrovia.  I also performed "Eaton Canyon Alien" with featured musician Barry Schwam (above left) on the Theramin.  Here's the poem I wrote in the workshop (metaphorically using objects in the room):

POETRY CAFÉ

I love to write fresh poems
They smell like steaming coffee

The flowers in my brain
get posted on a small paper bulletin board

Then people can see the menu
of my thoughts, like watching
the spots on a spotted chair

Each line is an easel
for a feeling
hanging like a lamp

Sometimes I think I am
a soda can wanting to
outshine a plate of cake

But the truth is I wish something more
to be as ubiquitous as the imitation wall clock
on your laptop

Publication!

My poem "Road Bed" was published today on the Poetry Breakfast website!  Here's the link >
http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com/

Featured!

I was a featured poet along with John Brantingham for Visions And Voices of the Valley at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena on July 14th, organized by Christopher Luke Trevilla and hosted by Mike The Poet Sonksen.  I read Eaton Canyon Alien and Theater (both from my new chapbook Consumer), and Only Minutes (from my third book Amongst The Detritus...chosen by my time-honored method of asking the audience to shout out a page number!)

Featured!

Yesterday I was one of three featured poets for Alex Frankel's Second Sunday Poetry reading series in the patio of Cafe Alibi in Pasadena.

And on June 1st, I hosted and featured The Inner Four (CaLokie, myself, Marvin Dorsey, and Mary Torregrossa) at the Rapp Saloon inside the International Youth Hostel in Santa Monica.

A coupla school gigs...

On May 16th I performed poetry and offered writing ideas for the students of Mrs. Guarino's 9th grade classes at Clark Magnet High School in La Crescenta.

On May 31st I was a judge for the 2012 Alhambra High School vs San Gabriel High School poetry slam at San Gabriel High School.

And a poem inspired by the...

 

THEATER

My mind is a stage
looking out

on the world
 

My thoughts, scaffolding

for the spots

about my brain

My ears are windows

which check for a click

so I know the lights are on

When I close my eyes,

the resulting black curtains

are lit with little

bulbs like I’m on TV

One crimson lantern hangs

from my mouth

quietly screaming

I am just a single voice
 

I feel like an unplugged

microphone stand casts

a shadow on my soul

All the people

gathered around me

judge my performance

 

I think I see a door

to quickly hide behind

in the warm darkness

 

Rooms I've entered

through my life—

closed doors now

 

Wait, a small red

ribbon on the floor

of my heart…

a reason to live

Big National Poetry Month Weekend!

Sunday, April 22nd, 4:30pm - featured at Bolton Hall Museum for Village Poets of Sunland/Tujunga

Sunday, April 22nd, 10am - took part in Earth Day Poetry Hike at Eaton Canyon in Altadena

Saturday, April 21st, 2pm - published in 2012 Poetry & Cookies anthology; reading held at Altadena Senior Center

Friday, April 20th, 3:30pm - was a judge for the Teen Poetry Slam at the Arcadia Public Library

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE!
31 clean poems from the past year

Order your copy for $7 postage paid by going to http://paypal.com and directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net

or

See me feature this Sunday at 4:30pm in Bolton Hall in Tujunga (Google Village Poets of Sunland/Tujunga for details)

Publication!

My poem "The Antique Traveller" has been published on the Poetic Diversity website. Here's the link >
http://www.poeticdiversity.org/main/poems-cp.php?recordID=1683&date=2012-04-01

Here also is a link to YouTube where you can see me performing this very poem at the Occupy Beyond Baroque reading last Sunday > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r78z7CfQhL0

Poetic Weekend!

Yesterday, I hosted the 2012 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival kickoff reading. Here's a link to the festival website, where you can find information on all 10 festival events > http://2012sgvpf.blogspot.com


Today, I performed poetry with CaLokie at the 99 Poets Occupy Beyond Baroque reading. Go to YouTube and search for Occupy Beyond Baroque to see the videos.

It's up!

http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/not-so-still-lives-by-don-kingfisher-campbell/

Publication!

Dear Don,

Thank you for submitting your work to Poetry Breakfast. We have accepted "Not So Still Lives" as our March 28th, 2012 poem.

Feel free to submit more poems in a month or two.

Isabel Sylvan, Editor
Poetry Breakfast
http://poetrybreakfast.wordpress.com
PoetryBreakfast@yahoo.com

Exhibition!

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

Chapbooks!

Two new chapbooks by moi now available!!


19 poems composed in January and February 2012


17 poems composed between September and December 2011

Get yours for just $7 for each copy (includes $2 shipping expense) by going to http://paypal.com and directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net

Videos!

The first two poems I performed as featured poet at Home Room on 12/11/2011:

Saturday Sears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjju9VxJ8YA

On The Way To Grand Junction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9z3TkAHaio

Three of my classic poems which I performed at Antioch University on 12/17/2011 (they were new to them):

The Ultimate Lovelorn Poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_xlkqO5C4

Vomiting For God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgwU5tmiu5w

The Latest Headlines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8z3iMzXPPE

New poem I performed at the publication party for SGVPQ 52 on 12/17/2011:

The Antique Traveller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUEmg7vH7fA

Reading!

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.

Emerging Urban Poet!

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

Amsterdam Cafe!

Here's a video of one of the poems I performed there:

Because I'm A Performer In The Theater Of Life

switch on the microphone
so I can tell you
how I feel about today

you're all seated in rows
this reminds me
I am coupled

watch the clock tick away
I don't sense it
because my mind is busy

step down the stairs
hear the creaking
oh yeah
time is passing

so slide out the screen
let me see
the film of our life together

open the door
allow the sun and wind in
to help me remember
how it feels to be in love

turn up the lights
so all can sight
whom I love so dearly

listen to the speakers
thunder the depth
of my feeling

spot those plugged outlets
prods on how well
we fit together

cover the exit sign
because I don't wish to find
out when our love ends

pull the fire alarm
I want everyone to know
I'm in love with you

thank you audience
your energy makes me
take it all in
a hundred times more

Feature!

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)

Radio!

NEXT WEDNESDAY'S (October 12th) SPECIAL GUEST...moi...at 8:30pm on Poet's Cafe hosted by Lois P. Jones...that's 90.7 FM (www.kpfk.org)

Publication!

My poem YouTube Recommended has been published in Toucan >
http://thetoucanonline.blogspot.com/2011/10/issue-13-table-of-contents.html

KILL RADIO Performance!

Saturday!

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

Tonight!

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.

Two new chapbooks!!

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!

Performance!

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.

Publication!

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

Feature!

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

Publication 2!

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/

Publication!

My poem "Demanifest" has been published on The Write Room website > http://www.thewritemag.com/2011/05/demanifest/

Performance!

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.

Judge and Performer!

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.