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.

 

Performance!

Performed three poems (You Got The Freedom, Homo Superior, and I Got The American Right) this afternoon at the 100,000 Poets for Change reading at Beyond Baroque in Venice.

Published and Performing!!

 

On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of performing one ("Analogy Planet") of two poems ("The World Is") published in this cool new anthology (produced by Raundi Kai-Moore Kondo) at The Ugly Mug in Orange.  Here's the link to a video of that performance > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQcDvEtbZQ&feature=youtu.be) and a link to check out the publisher's website, where you can buy the book (for a good cause, it benefits CHOC, the Children's Hospital of Orange County) > (http://www.theloveofwords.com/a-poet-is-a-poet-no-matter-how-tall--the-anthology.html). It was fun!

Hostin' and Featurin'!!

Thanks to Jessica Wilson, I was the Guest Host for the Soapbox poetry reading series on Sunday at Beyond Baroque in Venice.

Then, later that afternoon, thanks to hosts Dori Marler and James Maverick, I was the first of three featured poets for the first Expressions poetry reading at the Glendale Days Inn.  I read seven poems from my recent chapbooks: Ball of Fire, After A Wet Night, Trading In An Alliterative NBA, Allen Avenue, Back To The Future, Poetry Is, and On The Beach Bed.

Poetic Labor Day Weekend!

On Saturday I participated in the Peer Poet Program at the Montebello Library helping teen poets create poetry in under an hour.

And yesterday I hosted a Peace Poetry Potluck at Garvey Ranch Park in Monterey Park.  It also turned out to be a reunion of The Inner Four (pictured above).

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".