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