Two Features!!

Late Wednesday afternoon I was one of the featured poets who read on the lawn by the Altadena Farmers Market where many families were lounging.  Khadija Anderson was the organizer and host.  And I performed three of my classic food poems: Owed To Aluminum, The Planet Of The Oreos, and French Toast.

Then, that same evening I was the featured poet for Jessica Wilson's Writer Wednesdays at Bob's Espresso Bar in North Hollywood.  I read seven poems chosen at random from seven of my chapbooks: Just One Cell In The Concrete Bloodstream, Sense, Desktop Love, Why Jupiter Rains Tears, The man with small hands, Cube, and Model.

Chapbook and Feature!!

My latest chapbook is out! Twenty poems composed between April and July 2013. I debuted the shortest poem from it, San Diego Zoo (which just so happens to be a Campbellad), last night as the featured workshop leader for the opening night of the 2013 ZZyZx Poetrypalooza tour in the patio of Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea in El Sereno.

You can get a copy of Ball Of Fire any Saturday afternoon between 3 and 5pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasdena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. where I run a workshop and reading series, or, order it via http://paypal.com by selecting Send Money and directing payment of $5 to kingfisher1031@charter.net

Published and Featured!

My poem "Remnants of a 100 Degree Day" was published on the New Verse News website at http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2013/07/remnants-of-100-degree-day.html on Sunday, July 21st. 

 

And I was one of the featured poets again last Saturday, July 27th at 3pm inside the Farm Cuisine Restaurant on 122 W. Garvey Ave. in Monterey Park for a taping of Bozana Belokosa's Pasadena cable TV show "Spending A Little Time With Poetry".  I read my short political poems "You Have The Freedom", "Homo Superior", and "I Got The American Right".

Featured!

I was one of the featured poets at yesterday evening's LAnguage with Mike the PoeT inside The Last Bookstore. I performed five poems: Homo Superior, I Got The American Right, You Have The Freedom, Interchangeable, and Joe Sphincter.

Three Chapbooks!!!

Wow, it's turned into a three volume set... VISTA POINT 1, 2, 3 featuring 105 nature poems written between 1997 and 2013... just $10 postage paid by going to http://paypal.com and selecting Send Money, then directing payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net  Or catch me as one of the featured poets this Saturday, May 25th at 11am inside the Farm Cuisine Restaurant on 122 W. Garvey Ave. in Monterey Park, or later on the same day, I'll be the featured poet at 2pm inside the Encino-Tarzana Branch Library on 18231 Ventura Blvd.  (There is also an open mic.) Looks like I'm going to be pulling another Phil Collins at Live Aid cross-city trek!

Publication and Performance!

Last night I performed my poem "Knowing" in the Golden Eagle Ballroom at my alma mater Cal State L.A. because it was published in the 2013 issue of the university's Statement magazine.

Workshop!

Yesterday morning I made my annual visit to Mrs. Guarino's Creative Writing class at Clark Magnet High School in Glendale for the 14th time!  The seniors wrote some amazing poems.  I'm looking forward to seeing them in published form.  One student even wrote about me!

Performance!

Last night I performed two poems as one of seven featured poets in the 2013 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival's culminating event CO-INSPIRATORS at the Donald Wright Auditorium inside the Pasadena Main Library.

Publication and Performance!

Got two poems published today in the 2013 edition of Poetry & Cookies (Summer Dears and History) and performed one of them and a poem with CaLokie at the Altadena Senior Center.

Poet of the Week!

I'm one of two Poets Of The Week on the Poetry Super Highway website >
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/2013/04/april-22-28-2013-sy-roth-and-don-kingfisher-campbell/

Judge and Performer!

 

This afternoon I was a judge for the SGV POETRY IN MOTION: A TEEN AND YOUTH SHOWCASE AND COMPETITION at the Arcadia Public Library.

And last Friday afternoon I performed five of my poems (Brothers, French Toast, Jelly, Just An Apple, and The Planet Of The Oreos) for 7th graders at the Los Angeles Leadership Academy Middle School.

Performances!

Last Friday I took a troupe of poets (Jenny Zhang, Emily Zhang, and CaLokie) to perform with me at White Cliffs Middle School in Kingman, Arizona.  We visited ten classes, and performed in the KABAM Festival!

CaLokie sees... we're on at 3.

CaLokie reads from his book Mini-Gods.

Festival!

I'm organizing the fifth San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival for National Poetry Month in April.  Go to http://2013sgvpf.blogspot.com to see a listing of all the events.

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE!  My latest chapbook "See" featuring 21 new poems composed between November 2012 and March 2013.  Order your copy by going to http://paypal.com, clicking on Send Money, and directing payment of $7 (includes $2 shipping) to kingfisher1031@charter.net

Feature!

I was one of the featured poets on Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Studio City for the publication reading of the anthology Men In The Company Of Women.  I read my four poems published in the book: Attack Of The Five Foot Woman, My Dream Woman Waits Twenty Minutes, Evening Walk, and Global Warming.

Feature!

Yesterday afternoon I was a featured poet on the Outdoor Stage at the first San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival.  I performed eight poems born in the 626 area code: French Toast, The Free Way, Kitty Hawk California, Showing A Documentary On Vietnam To A 10th Grade Class, 1978, 13 Ways Of Looking At Little Chocolate Donuts, Every Day Shapes, and Mythology.

Publication!

Got five poems published in Subtopian magazine... with my name in bright red letters on the cover!
http://www.subtopian.com/

Publication!

And had a poem published in The Bicycle Review today too!
http://www.thebicyclereview.net/index.html

Chapbook!

OK, really only a compilation of 39 poems about San Gabriel Valley locations I wrote between January 2008 and January 2013.  Get your copy for just $7 (includes $2 shipping expense) by going to http://paypal.com, selecting Send Money, and direct payment to kingfisher1031@charter.net... then wait by the ol' mailbox for fast first-class delivery! Or catch me at Saturday Afternoon Poetry in Pasadena any... Saturday afternoon... to pick one up for $5. I will also be performing poems from this chapbook as a featured poet on Sunday, February 17th, 1pm at the 2013 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival.

Poem of the Month!

 

I've got the Poem of the Month on the Writers at Work website >

http://www.writersatwork.com/Poem2013/feb13.html

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