Feature!

I was one of 14 poets featured yesterday afternoon at the 2018 LitFest in Pasadena. I read my numerically-audience-chosen poems Another Fall Afternoon (from my 2017-2018 chapbook compilation Paper Fish), Where The Road Ends (from last year's book The Inner Three with CaLokie and Marvin Louis Dorsey), and French Toast (from my turn-of-the-century compilation Spoke In Word).

Publication!

An early classic of mine (A Slice of Dead Tree), finally published!
http://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/rewilding/decolonizing-lifeways/don-kingfisher-campbell/

Chapbook!

NOW AVAILABLE! My latest compilation...Paper Fish...a paltry $5 for 40 pages of my best PG poems of the past year that'll reel you in and let you dine on freshly wrapped poetic creativity. Get your copy at Saturday Afternoon Poetry in Pasadena or order via http://paypal.com/ by sending $7 (includes $2 shipping) to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com

Publication!

My newest poem published today on... >
https://uglywriters.com/2018/05/02/binearo/

Publication and Features!!

Two of my classic poems "My Object Life" and "Planet of the Oreos" have been published in this annual. The publication reading took place at the Altadena Library this afternoon, where I read "Planet of the Oreos".

And I featured last night at Jones Coffee Roasters for the Lyrical Flames poetry and music series. I read two of my poems from The Inner Three book (Dream Horses and The Rectangular People) , a classic from Spoke In Word (Dream Rooms), and my latest postcard poem (Munchies).

Feature!

Featured last night at the mecca of poetry in Los Angeles...

..read my poems (More Than One Poem In My Life, Rectangular Man, and Dawn Breaks)...

...and brought along my co-members of The Inner Three! (CaLokie and Marvin Dorsey)

Publication!

Finally got my copy in the mail...

...available now on http://lulu.com

Chapbook!

40 pages featuring 26 new poems composed between September 2017 and February 2018. Pick up your copy for just $5 at any Saturday Afternoon Poetry in Pasadena event or order it online by going to http://paypal.com and sending payment of $7 (includes $2 shipping) to kingfisher1031@charter.net

REVIEWS: A Poet to Learn From

Don Kingfisher Campbell’s poetry never fails to surprise its readers with unusual language and images. Get ready to be stunned by twenty-six fresh poems from his latest chapbook “Play House.”
One thing I admire about Don is he brings out the unexpected in the ordinary—a browned banana, a stuffed alien, a little girl in the supermarket, etc. He gives his readers microscopic glimpses into what he experiences by resorting to the concrete and literal instead of clichéd metaphors. Love is not expressed by the moon and the stars but a “paisley comforter” and “cleanly cased pillows.” That’s what you will see in his opening poem “Play House.” Don is daring in his choices of subjects, not avoiding but confronting the controversial and uncomfortable. You will see that in the second poem in this dynamic collection. Don’s poetry is unpretentious but effective. He has a vast vocabulary which enables him to give everything he describes proper names and details. He is definitely a master of modern poetry. ~ Jackie Chou

What happens if you are a nationally published poet as well as a poetry publisher and teacher and you enter the DKC Play House and your website date asks you, “What is your profession?” As you tour this funky Play House and come to poem 26, “The Year of Being Single", you can readily see the true course of love runs no more smoother in our digital times than it did in Shakespeare’s age. But fret not. If Romeo had lived with modern plumbing, he may well have expressed his love for Juliet in similar words as in the tenth poem, “I’m going to take a shower now.” But be careful, Juliet, if you’re carnivorous. In “Animals” DKC sees “you spoon the dead into your mouth.” Kingfisher has also a few cosmic poems I like. I found out for example in “Analogy Planets” that Mercury is “just another pockmarked rock.” Many may take exception to argument in poem 31, “God,” saying the reason God “created matter and anti-matter” was "to fill the void in his life” but I find it most plausible. I enjoyed my visit to the DKC Play House and believe you will also.-- Carl Stilwell aka CaLokie

Loved much of it. Liked it all. Favorites were 1 Hit Wonders, Things asked on first dates. Wait! I 'm not through.... And The Year of Being Single but those are the bias picks of a guy married to the same dame 48 years. A bit of a voyeur. I enjoyed the metaphor of comets crashing and the reminiscent tone of Rialto. Yes, for me Play House was a joyful romp.~ Gregory Foster

Publication!

Now available on http://amazon.com

featuring four of my poems

Publication!

My poem "Near Happy Valley" in...

...Pure Slush, now available on http://lulu.com

Publication!

A seventh poem of mine published by AOTHAM! A pre-Valentine's Day treat... >
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/space-facts/

Publication!

A sixth poem published by...!
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/mariposas/

Publication!

My fifth poem published by... >
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/i-guess-i-will-turn-into-a-cloud/

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My fourth poem published on this site... >
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/step-outside/

Publication!

My third poem published on this site... >
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/biology/

Publication!

I have four poems (Why I look forward to bedtime, Analogizing Marriages, She, and 25 Extremely Beautiful Minerals) published in this new book... > https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984041401

Publication!

Got another poem today in... >
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/responses-to-us/

Publication!

My poem "Intersection Rock" has been published on... >
https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/intersection-rock/

Publication!

My prose poem "Justification for a Home Library" was published today in...
https://www.freelitmagazine.com/magazine

Publication!

Two early twenty-first century poems of mine published now on... >
http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/before-we-died-and-the-margins-of-society

Publication!

My poem "Near Happy Valley" has been published in... > http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/pure-slush/happy-pure-slush-vol-15/paperback/product-23492884.html

Publication!

Publication!

Download three of my chapbooks for FREE today only: Always Been A Surfer, The Man Who Loves The Clouds, and Munchies! Here is the address to go get 'em... > http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-poetry-e-book-free/

Publication!

Three poems published here. Here they are (photos courtesy Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, still waiting for my copy to arrive):

Of Knowledge, Knowing (whole poem not depicted)

Only Two People / The Big Bang

Publication Reading!

I have a poem published (Hello from Yellowstone) in Issue #3 of Incandescent Mind...

...but this first open reader wants to take a selfish selfie...

...now I can settle back and enjoy the reading!

Feature!

Yesterday afternoon I featured reading my poems by subject request: (Quantum Physics) Transient, (Snacks) The Planet of the Oreos, (Sex) Science, (Rectangles) The Rectangle People, and (Cigarettes) Growth...

...and sold a few books too!

Featured Reader!

Yesterday I was featured...

and read "Blue Ramblers"!

Publication!

Just found out I have two of my classic poems (In the Sea of Dolphins, I Am a Manta Ray and Car People) published in the San Diego Reader... >
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/oct/25/poetry-every-jeep-god/

Publication Reading!

I am the lead-off poet with five poems (A Bowl, The Designer, Man Made World, Mr. Hide, and Traveling York Blvd.) published in this gorgeous tome...

...and I was the lead-off reader too this past Sunday at the Eagle Rock Library where I read Traveling York Blvd., Mr. Hide, and Nine Birds, Facebook Newsfeed Sonnets, Where The Road Ends, Dream Horses (from The Inner Three anthology)!

Hosting!

This morning between 11 and 1pm I hosted the 100,000 Poets for Change reading,

reading two of my own poems "Strange Roadkill" and "Semi-Automatic Suicide".

Thank you Derek Brown, Kimberly Cobian, Luis Villalobos, Christopher Cressey, Carl Stilwell, Beverly M. Collins, Gregory Foster, Scott Kaestner and Seven Dhar for performing!