Winners of the 2023 Four Feathers Press Poetry Awards!

BEST POEM IN SENSUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: EROTIC POETRY – Lorelei Matsuda "O Paris"

BEST POEM IN BARDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TOP 30 SO CAL POETS – Denise Dumars "Sharps"

BEST POEM IN TRAVELING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TRAVEL POETRY – William P. Cushing "Cusquenos"

BEST POEM IN IT RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF WEATHER – Jackie Chou "Snowless in Los Angeles"

BEST POEM IN RHYTHMS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: RHYMING POETRY - Michael G. Hickey "My Infatuation Situation"

BEST POEM IN HEAT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SUMMER POETRY – Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "The Summer of Woodstock"

BEST POEM IN VEHICLES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF MOVEMENT – Christine Jordan "Impression: Blue Buick"

BEST POEM IN EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SCHOOL POETRY - Luke Stilwell "Field Trip to Hell"

BEST POEM IN LEAVES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: FALL POETRY – Gia Civerolo "let them fall where they may"

BEST POEM IN DEAD POETS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: MEMORIAL POETRY – Ellyn Maybe "Clocks Written in Invisible Ink"

BEST POEM IN HOLIDAYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: VACATION POETRY - Carl Stilwell "Decolonize This Poem"

BEST POEM IN RESOLUTIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: WISH POETRY - Carl Stilwell "Pascal and Bukowski Sneak from Snotty Sestina to Go to Santa Anita"

BEST POEM OF THE YEAR PUBLISHED BY FOUR FEATHERS PRESS IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SERIES -- Christine Jordan "Impression: Blue Buick"

Calls for Poems and Art

PLAYTHINGS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TOY POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of plaything or toy in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, January 6th, 2024. 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, January 27th, 3 to 5 pm PST in Singer Park on California Blvd & St. John Ave in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book may be ordered for $10 a copy (pick it up at the reading or include $5 if you wish it to be shipped) until January 13th, 2024. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) to pay, or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: BODY PARTS

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words body and/or part, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on January 19th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Body Parts will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

TUNES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  MUSIC POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of tune or music in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, February 3rd, 2024. 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, February 24th, 3 to 5 pm PST in Singer Park on California Blvd & St. John Ave in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book may be ordered for $10 a copy (pick it up at the reading or include $5 if you wish it to be shipped) until February 10th, 2024. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) to pay, or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: CITY LIVING

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words city and/or living, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on February 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: City Living will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

TALES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  MYTHIC POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of tale or myth in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, March 2nd, 2024. 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, March 23rd, 3 to 5 pm PST in Singer Park on California Blvd & St. John Ave in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book may be ordered for $10 a copy (pick it up at the reading or include $5 if you wish it to be shipped) until March 9th, 2024. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) to pay, or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: PIE SIGHS

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words pie and/or sigh, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on March 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Pie Sighs will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

FLOWERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  FLORAL POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of flower or floral in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, April 6th, 2024. 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, April 27th, 3 to 5 pm PST in Singer Park on California Blvd & St. John Ave in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book may be ordered for $10 a copy (pick it up at the reading or include $5 if you wish it to be shipped) until April 13th, 2024. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) to pay, or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909. 

FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: REMEMBER WHEN

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words remember and/or when, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on April 19th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Remember When will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Holiday Offer Ending 12/31...

...for fans of Four Feathers Press! You can now subscribe to our monthly publications and save 25%. That's write, only $80 a year will get you 12 months of perfect bound books coming in your snail mail in 2024. How to get this deal? Four options to do so: use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com), or send a check to: Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr., Alhambra, CA 91803-1909.

Finalists!

Four Feathers Press 2023 Poetry Awards Finalists

BEST POEM IN SENSUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: EROTIC POETRY – Finalists: Mani Suri "Prayer", Tanya Ko Hong "Journey", Judy Barrat "Like David", Lorelei Matsuda "O Paris", Kimberly Cobian "Bajolover"

BEST POEM IN BARDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TOP 30 SO CAL POETS – Finalists: Gia Civerolo "catholic girls howl", Denise Dumars "Sharps", Lalo Kikiriki "On a street with no name", Pam Ward "Hansel and Gretel's Field Notes on Roe", Charles Harper Webb "In Line at Trader Joe's"

BEST POEM IN TRAVELING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TRAVEL POETRY – Finalists: Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "Californicatin'", Christine Jordan "Dukes", William P. Cushing "Cusquenos", Joseph Nicks "Next to Nowhere", Alicia Viguer-Espert "October's Last Facing the Pacific”

BEST POEM IN IT RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF WEATHER – Finalists: jerry the priest "sky throwin' bullets of hail", Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "California Street", Jackie Chou "Snowless in Los Angeles", Cls Sandoval  "Jack Parsons lives on Melrose", Raquel Reyes-Lopez "Local TV News Reporter Got the Weather Segment Wrong"

BEST POEM IN RHYTHMS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: RHYMING POETRY - Finalists: Cls Sandoval "American Freedom", Michael G. Hickey "My Infatuation Situation", Jackie Chou "Heavenly Things", Charles Harmon "The Song of Dining at Black Angus", Gabriela Docan "An Infinity of Beauty"

BEST POEM IN HEAT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SUMMER POETRY – Finalists: Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "The Summer of Woodstock", Lawrence R Berger "Small Fires', Tim Tipton "Creature of Rooms", Matt J. McGee "Buckle Up", Dean Okamura "Playing on the shores"

BEST POEM IN VEHICLES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF MOVEMENT – Finalists: Christine Jordan "Impression: Blue Buick", Ellyn Maybe "I was Driving on the 405", Dean Okamura "Turn the 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 98 Steering Wheel", Rosie Hamilton "Homecoming", PJ Swift "My Jalopy"

BEST POEM IN EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SCHOOL POETRY - Finalists: Luke Stilwell "Field Trip to Hell", Ellyn Maybe "Science Poem", Alicia Viguer-Espert "Professor X", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Bite Me Hurricane", Kelly Greene "Chalk Dust in The Laser Beam"

BEST POEM IN LEAVES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: FALL POETRY – Finalists: PJ Swift "BNW RIP", Alicia Viguer-Espert "Changing Light", Dean Okamura "Now, what have I become?", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Calling All California Parts", Gia Civerolo "let them fall where they may"

BEST POEM IN DEAD POETS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: MEMORIAL POETRY – Finalists: Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "To Rosalee", Lynne Bronstein  "Rumors About Emily", Ellyn Maybe "Clocks Written in Invisible Ink", Jim Babwe "Formal Logic", Gia Civerolo "Ode to LA Poet Wanda Coleman"

BEST POEM IN HOLIDAYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: VACATION POETRY - Finalists: Jackie Chou "The Snow Globe", Gia Civerolo "all souls day", Carl Stilwell "Decolonize This Poem", Rosie Hamilton "Tenant's Harbour, NE", Mary Langer Thompson "The Language of My Lake"

BEST POEM IN RESOLUTIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: WISH POETRY - Finalists: Carl Stilwell "Pascal and Bukowski Sneak from Snotty Sestina to Go to Santa Anita", Douglas Richardson "Convention Weekend", Ellyn Maybe "Poem for a New Year", Dean Okamura "The Phrase", Iris De Anda "Planet Earth"

Please comment below your choices amongst these finalists, and congratulations to all of the finalists, each is very deserving!

See the finalists read on December 30th between 3 and 5pm on Saturday Afternoon Poetry's Zoom channel, where the winners will be announced.

Nominations!

...will be held Saturday, December 30th, from 3 to 5 pm on Saturday Afternoon Poetry's Zoom channel. Please name your choices to help me choose the finalists (from the issues and nominees listed here) in the comments section below:

BEST POEM IN SENSUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: EROTIC POETRY - Nominees: Vib Aparicio "Viva La Vida", Petrouchka Alexieva "Tango for Two", Mani Suri "Prayer", Jackie Chou "Sexy Senryu Sequence", Robert Fleming "we zoom again", Tanya Ko Hong "Journey", Alicia Viguer-Espert "To encourage me", Judy Barrat "Like David", Carl Stilwell "Femme Fatale", Lorelei Kay "O Paris", Kimberly Cobian "Bajolover", Gia Civerolo "Shock Therapy"

BEST POEM IN BARDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TOP 30 SO CAL POETS - Nominees: Suzanne Lummis "Really Mystic River", Petrouchka Alexieva "The Painter and The Sea", Fernando Castro "A Long Scar", Gia Civerolo "catholic girls howl", Denise Dumars "Sharps", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Throttling a Magnetic Truth", lalo kikiriki "On a street with no name", Thelma T Reyna "Among His Things", Vachine "Summer of 1960", Pam Ward "Hansel and Gretel's Field Notes on Roe", Charles Harper Webb "In Line at Trader Joe's", Diosa X "I Once Had a Poem"

BEST POEM IN TRAVELING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TRAVEL POETRY - Nominees: Cls Sandoval "See you later, Babe", Jackie Chou "Traveling to the San Gabriel Valley", Carl Stilwell "Californicatin'", Christine Jordan "Dukes", Petrouchka Alexieva "Life is a Theme Park", Joseph Grieco "Staycation", Lawrence R Berger "Getting back to my roots", William P. Cushing "Cusquenos", Marianne Szlyk "After Lee Morgan", Joseph Nicks "Next to Nowhere", Alicia Viguer-Espert "October's Last Facing the Pacific", Mary Mayer Shapiro "Recreating Creation"

BEST POEM IN IT RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF WEATHER - Nominees: Mary Mayer Shapiro "Mother Earth / Father Time", Shih-Fang Wang "It never rains right", Tim Tipton "How Cary Grant Taught Me to Tie a Necktie", jerry the priest "sky throwin' bullets of hail", Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "California Street", Jackie Chou "Snowless in Los Angeles", Patrick Greard "california shorty", Lori Holloway "winds", Lorelei Kay "That Autumn Scent", Cls Sandoval "Jack Parsons lives on Melrose", Rick Leddy "After the Storm", Raquel Reyes-Lopez "Local TV News Reporter Got the Weather Segment Wrong"

BEST POEM IN RHYTHMS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: RHYMING POETRY - Nominees: Cls Sandoval "American Freedom", Joseph Nicks "Pubsprung", Judy Barrat "Imagine a Land", Michael G. Hickey "My Infatuation Situation", William P. Cushing "So Long, Dr. John", Jackie Chou "Sheepish", Jackie Chou "Heavenly Things", Charles Harmon "The Song of Dining at Black Angus", Gabriela Docan "An Infinity of Beauty", Gia Civerolo "love walks out the door", Aaron Hernandez "blue stool", PJ Swift "To Give"

BEST POEM IN HEAT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SUMMER POETRY - Nominees: Robert Fleming "Slip nd Slide", Petrouchka Alexieva "I found oasis in the desert", Marianne Szlyk "Sophia, What Might Have Been", Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "The Summer of Woodstock", Lawrence R Berger "Small Fires', Maria A Arana "death can be many things", Tim Tipton "Creature of Rooms", Matt J. McGee "Buckle Up", Dean Okamura "Playing on the shores", Jack G Bowman "Summer High Desert", Cls Sandoval "Jell-O Shots"

BEST POEM IN VEHICLES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF MOVEMENT - Nominees: Lori Holloway "Bob's Garage", Christine Jordan "Impression: Blue Buick", Cls Sandoval "I Went to the Party", Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "Out of This World", Ellyn Maybe "I was Driving on the 405", Dean Okamura "Turn the 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 98 Steering Wheel", Marne Carmean "Sanctity of Carnage", Petrouchka Alexieva "26th Mission", Mark Fisher "rolling through", Jackie Chou "Riding the Pumpkin-Colored Carriage", Rosie Hamilton "Homecoming", PJ Swift "My Jalopy"

BEST POEM IN EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SCHOOL POETRY - Nominees: Luke Stilwell "Field Trip to Hell", Ellyn Maybe "Science Poem", Alicia Viguer-Espert "Professor X", Jackie Chou "Housemates", Jim Babwe "Spinach", Cls Sandoval "Recess", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Bite Me Hurricane", Christopher Chris Askew "I Built a World", Kelly Greene "Chalk Dust in The Laser Beam", Kimberly Cobian "This Teacher Isn't Ready to Go Back to School", Matt J. McGee "Fatty Gotta Make a Living ,Too", Gia Civerolo "with one candle"

BEST POEM IN LEAVES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: FALL POETRY - Nominees: Wyatt Underwood "fall, Southern California", Joan McNerney "Woods", Tim Tipton "Crisp Autumn Nights", PJ Swift "BNW RIP", Alicia Viguer-Espert "Changing Light", Dean Okamura "Now, what have I become?", Joseph Grieco "Equinox", Jackie Chou "Autumn Song for My Late Father", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Calling All California Parts", S.a. Gerber "Old Path", Patricia Murphy "Fall", Gia Civerolo "let them fall where they may"

BEST POEM IN DEAD POETS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: MEMORIAL POETRY - Nominees: Matt J. McGee "Please Take the Day Off Work and Dance Upon My Grave", Luís Campos "When a Poet Dies", Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "To Rosalee", Lynne Bronstein "Rumors About Emily", Robert Fleming "brick walls bury bad neighbors", William P. Cushing "And Then There's This", Gerda Govine Ituarte "A Man of All Seasons", Ellyn Maybe "Clocks Written in Invisible Ink", Jim Babwe "Formal Logic", Radomir Vojtech Luza "Master Poet", Gia Civerolo "Ode to LA Poet Wanda Coleman", Patrick Thomas Jeffries "1313"

BEST POEM IN HOLIDAYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: VACATION POETRY - Nominees: Robert Fleming "why am i cooking again a 24-30 lbs. turkey for 5½-6¼ hrs. at 325-350 deg. Fahrenheit", Jackie Chou "The Snow Globe", S.a. Gerber "Living the Life", Gia Civerolo "all souls day", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Looking for Small Beauties on Holiday", Carl Stilwell "Decolonize This Poem", Rosie Hamilton "Tenant's Harbour, NE", Tim Tipton "I had a dirty weekend with a total stranger", Patricia Murphy "Holiday", Radomir Vojtech Luza "Vacation Vista", Mary Langer Thompson "The Language of My Lake", Michelle Smith "Yada Yada"

BEST POEM IN RESOLUTIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: WISH POETRY - Nominees: Petrouchka Alexieva "RIP My Past", Carl Stilwell "Pascal and Bukowski Sneak from Snotty Sestina to Go to Santa Anita", Wyatt Underwood "waiting", Lorelei Matsuda "Wishing on a Braid", Douglas Richardson "Convention Weekend", Ellyn Maybe "Poem for a New Year", Matt J. McGee "Evidence of Her Routines", Dean Okamura "The Phrases", Cls Sandoval "Black Meets Purple", Radomir Vojtech Luza "Hard and Easy", Rosie Hamilton "An Eternity of Wishes", Iris De Anda "Planet Earth"

BEST POEM OF THE YEAR 2023 PUBLISHED BY FOUR FEATHERS PRESS - No nominations accepted for this category

Deadline for commenting is December 28th, 2023!

19 poets published on http://pantoumfestival.blogspot.com

1) Michelle Smith

2) Lori Wall-Holloway

3) Petrouchka Alexieva

4) Patricia Murphy

5) R A Ruadh

6) Mark A Fisher

7) Radomir Vojtech Luza

8) Bill Cushing

9) Shih-Fang Wang

10) Jeffry Jensen

11) Gene Shultz

12) Mira Mataric

13) Dean Okamura

14) Robert Fleming

15) CLS Sandoval

16) Mary Mayer Shapiro

17) Jackie Chou

18) Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie

19) Don Kingfisher Campbell

Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Pantoum Festival are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, December 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

32 poets being published in Resolutions of Southern California: Wish Poetry

Cover photo by Robert Rodriguez

Jackie Chou

Lorelei Kay

Lawrence R Berger

Petrouchka Alexieva

Robert Fleming

Patrick Walters

CLS Sandoval

Mary Mayer Shapiro

Wyatt Underwood

Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie

Douglas Richardson

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

JF Giraffe

Ellyn Maybe

Matt McGee

Dean Okamura

Dan Garcia-Black

Mark A Fisher

Jeffry Jensen

Joan McNerney

Antonio Campos

Radomir Vojtech Luza

Joe Grieco

R A Ruadh

Patricia Murphy

Shih-Fang Wang

Lori Wall-Holloway

Gia Civerolo

PJ Swift

Michelle Smith

Don Kingfisher Campbell

Iris De Anda

Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, December 23rd, 3 to 5 pm PST in Singer Park on California Blvd & St. John Ave in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book may be ordered for $10 a copy (pick it up at the reading or include $5 if you wish it to be shipped) until December 11th, 2023. Please use Meta Pay (Don Kingfisher Campbell), Venmo (@don-campbell-82), or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) to pay, or snail mail a check to Don Campbell, 1313 Edgewood Dr, Alhambra, CA 91803-1909.