Last Call for Print Orders

Last call to see if there are any more orders for a print copy of Sounds of Southern California: Poetry of Music. Going to the printer next week. There are 29 poets with a total of 50 poems in this 58 page anthology. Get your copy either in PDF for $5 or in perfect bound printed form for $15 (includes shipping). Please send payment either by Meta Pay (to Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (to Don-Campbell-82), or Zelle (to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com). You can also snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 9183-1909, if you prefer.

Feeling Lucky?

An opportunity for poets to win money simply by creating poesy. Four Feathers Press announces another call for poems for a new anthology: THE POETRY LOTTERY 5. Submit a poem of 300 lines or less (including stanza breaks) to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, August 26th. The cost of entering is $10, which will entitle you to one PDF and one physical copy of the chapbook. 100% of the money collected will go to one lucky poet, in a drawing to be held at the publication reading on Saturday, August 27th, 3 to 5 pm in the patio behind Rosebud Coffee on 2302 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. You do not have to be present, the reading will also be on Saturday Afternoon Poetry's Zoom. Get six months membership in the Four Feathers Press Book Club just for entering! (A $10 value.) Use Meta Pay (to Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@Don-Campbell-82), or Zelle (my email address) to enter...or, if you prefer, snail mail a check to: Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909.

BTW: The winner of The Poetry Lottery #4 was Don Kingfisher Campbell! Here is his poem...

News

I could go off making donuts

on the just opened 6th St bridge

I could disappear amidst a crowd

and emerge with a new strain

I could produce a gun in my car

and get shot and killed by police

I could fly a plane into the ocean

and be rescued by beachgoers

(during the 2022 California Surf Lifesaving

Association Junior Lifeguard Championship, no less)

I could pay the rent or buy

a single Springsteen ticket

I could put my money through a machine and hope

a string of numbers will come my way (maybe)

No, I think I'll do the miracles I do

every day I wake up and hug my wife

Calls for Poems

TASTES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF FOOD

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of food or dining in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PDT, August 26th, 2022. JPG photos may also be sent, but are not required. Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, August 27th, 3 to 5 pm in the patio behind Rosebud Coffee on 2302 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book will also be available for $15 a copy (includes shipping) until September 14th, 2022. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (my email address) to pay. Or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

MEMORIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETIC RECOLLECTIONS

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of memories in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PDT, September 23rd, 2022. JPG photos may also be sent, but are not required. Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, September 24th, 3 to 5 pm in the patio behind Rosebud Coffee on 2302 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book will also be available for $15 a copy (includes shipping) until October 14th, 2022. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (my email address) to pay. Or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

SPORTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF DIVERSION

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of sports or hobbies in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PDT, October 21st, 2022. JPG photos may also be sent, but are not required. Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, October 22nd, 3 to 5 pm in the patio behind Rosebud Coffee on 2302 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book will also be available for $15 a copy (includes shipping) until November 14th, 2022. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (my email address) to pay. Or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF CHILDHOOD

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of childhood in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PDT, November 25th, 2022. JPG photos may also be sent, but are not required. Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, November 26th, 3 to 5 pm in the patio behind Rosebud Coffee on 2302 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book will also be available for $15 a copy (includes shipping) until December 14th, 2022. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (my email address) to pay. Or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

Publication!

These poets have been published in Sounds of Southern California: Poetry of Music and will be reading their poetry this Saturday, July 23rd between 3 and 5pm at Truly Fresh J on 411 E Huntington Dr. in Arcadia or in Saturday Afternoon Poetry's Zoom meeting (http://zoom.us, meeting ID 75993673202, passcode: poetry).

01) Petrouchka Alexieva 

02) Robert Fleming 

03) Patrick Walters 

04) Kathee Hennigan Bautista

05) Jesse Rey Tovar

06) Rus Khomutoff

07) Marianne Szlyk 

08) William P. Cushing 

09) Lori Holloway 

10) Lawrence R Berger 

11) Carl Stilwell 

12) Gerda Govine 

13) Tony Gloeggler 

14) Jeffry Michael Jensen 

15) Pamela Shea 

16) Don Kingfisher Campbell 

17) Rex Butters

18) Brandon Cesmat 

19) Lorelei Matsuda 

20) Rick Leddy 

21) Shih-Fang Wang

22) Joseph Nicks

23) Mary Langer Thompson 

24) Lawrence Miles

25) Deborah P Kolodji 

26) Charles Harmon

27) Aldonia R Bailey 

28) Joan McNerney 

29) Dean Okamura

New Compilation!

NOW AVAILABLE! 20 published and/or award-winning poems composed between 1997 and 1999. Only $4 for a PDF edition. Add $1 for shipping if you would like a printed copy. Please use Meta Pay (to Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@Don-Campbell-82), or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) ... or, if you prefer, snail mail a check to: Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909.

Call for chapbooks...

Four Feathers Press is looking for four poets who want to publish their chapbook in a perfect bound book that will contain four poets chapbooks. No cost to the poets for six copies to distribute as you please. Submit your manuscript of 12 pages of poetry in the body of an email or in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, August 7th.

Last Call for Print Orders

 

Last call to see if there are any more orders for a print copy of Scenes of Southern California, Vol. 3: Poetry of Movies. Going to the printer next week.There are 32 poets with a total of 52 poems in this 68 page anthology. Get your copy either in PDF for $5 or in perfect bound printed form for $15 (includes shipping). Please send payment either by Meta Pay (to Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (to Don-Campbell-82), or Zelle (to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com). You can also snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 9183-1909, if you prefer.

New Chapbook Compilation!

NOW AVAILABLE: 21 poems from the years 1997 to 2021 put together for the Saturday Afternoon Poetry writing workshop led by moi on this July 2nd between 3 and 4:30pm PDT in the shaded driveway of Kingfisher's Back House on 1313 Edgewood Dr. in Alhambra. PLEASE NOTE CHANGED LOCATION OF THIS EVENT! Printed copies will be free for all attendees, but this chapbook can also be purchased for $5 a copy (includes shipping). Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (use my email address listed below) to pay...or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. (Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum 32: Rejoice or Rue by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, July 2nd.) THIS MEETING MAY ALSO BE ACCESSED THROUGH OUR USUAL ZOOM PORTAL.