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

Grad!

I completed my MFA in Poetry at Antioch University, Los Angeles today!

Review!

My new book has now been reviewed by Marie Lecrivain of Poetic Diversity. >
http://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2013/12/don-kingfisher-campbells-alternate-sky.html

Book!

NOW AVAILABLE! My fourth perfect-bound book, featuring the absolute best 36 poems I composed and edited while an MFA in Poetry student at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Get your copy for a paltry $5 by going to the Santa Catalina Library any Saturday between 3 and 5pm, or order yours via http://paypal.com/, selecting Send Money, and directing payment of $10 (includes $5 shipping expense) to kingfisher1031@charter.net. Short on funds? Download it for FREE on December 1st ONLY at http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-poetry-e-book-free/

Publication!

Just found out that my classic poem "After A Wet Night" has been published on this website. > http://www.aboutplacejournal.org/

Publication and Reading!!

Getting a relatively new poem published in Lummox 2, "Thought I Saw Four Dogs On My Drive". You can preview it by clicking on this... > http://issuu.com/poetraindog/docs/lummox_2sampler/1

And come to the publication reading at Beyond Baroque on Sunday, November 30th at 7pm to buy a copy of the complete Lummox 2, featuring many fine poets like: John Brantingham, CaLokie, Michael C. Ford, Amelie Frank, Jerry Garcia, Joe Gardner, Taylor Graham, Lalo Kikiriki, Ronald Koertge, Julie LeMay, Lyn Lifshin, Victoria Locke, Ellaraine Lockie, Gerald Locklin, Rick Lupert, Radomir Luza, Ellyn Maybe, Terry McCarty, Daniel McGinn, Raundi Moore-Kondo, Christopher Mulrooney, Alice Pero, BC Petrakos, A. Razor, Lisa Sandoval, Nancy Shiffrin, Apryl Skies, Wanda VanHoy Smith, Julia Stein, Kevin P. Sullivan, G. Murray Thomas, Tim Tipton, Mary Torregrossa, Charles Webb, Mel Weisburd, and Terry Wolverton!

Publication!

Got an oldie but a goodie published online, "Brothers", in Sassafras Issue Four:
http://sassafrasmag.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/don-kingfisher-campbell-brothers/

Contest!

Read my classic poem "Eternal Epitaph" in costume last night at the Holy Grounds Coffeehouse in El Sereno for the ZZyZx Writerz Scary Poem Contest.

Readings!!

On Saturday night I read with CaLokie (pictured left) and Raquel Reyes-Lopez at the domicile of Anita Holzberg for her Sunnyvale poetry writing group.  Then on early Sunday afternoon we visited San Francisco to browse again the third floor shelves of the legendary City Lights Bookstore.  Followed that with a performance at Linnaea's Café in San Luis Obispo on Sunday night for Kevin Patrick Sullivan's Corners Of The Mouth reading series.