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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Calls for Poems and Art


PARENTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  PARENTING POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of parent or parenting in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, June 1st, 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, June 22nd, 3 to 5 pm in the meeting room of the Lamanda Park Branch Library on 140 S. Altadena Dr. 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 June 8th, 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: MOON STONES

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words moon and/or stone, 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 June14th. 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: Moon Stones will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, June 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.




ARTISTRY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  ART POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of art or artistry in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, July 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, July 27th, 12:30 to 2:30 pm in the meeting room of the Lamanda Park Branch Library on 140 S. Altadena Dr. 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 July 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: ZODIAC ENERGY

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words zodiac and/or energy, 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 July 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: Zodiac Energy will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, July 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.



FIRES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  FLAMING POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of fire or flaming in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, August 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, August 24th, 3 to 5 pm in the meeting room of the Lamanda Park Branch Library on 140 S. Altadena Dr. 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 August 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: SCHOOL SHOES

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words school and/or shoe, 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 August 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: School Shoes will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.



DOORS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:  PORTAL POETRY

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of door or portal in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, September 7th, 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, September 28th, 3 to 5 pm in the meeting room of the Lamanda Park Branch Library on 140 S. Altadena Dr. 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 September 14th, 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: BITTER SWEET

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words bitter and/or sweet, 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 September 20th. 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: Bitter Sweet will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.


Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Finalists for 2023-2024 Four Feathers Press Online Edition Awards


Here are the finalists (chosen from the previously published lists of nominees) for the 2023-2024 Four Feathers Press Online Edition Awards. Please vote for your choices (which I will deeply consider) by commenting in the comment section below before the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on June 29th...


Ghazal Train (http://ghazaltrain.blogspot.com)

Mary Langer Thompson "Stoneheart"

Mark A Fisher "petition"

Gia Civerolo "ghazal: is there a vacancy or not?"

Marianne Szlyk "Ghazal for Maryvale Park in July"


4fp: Hell or Heaven (4fphellorheaven.blogspot.com)

Lorelei Kay "Banning the Bean"

Gia Civerolo "howling for angels"

Rick Leddy "Daylight Moon"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "Leaving Paradise"


Spirits and Specters (http://spiritsandspecters.blogspot.com)

Carl Stilwell "Thanking the Birds"

Marianne Szlyk "Girl in a Subway Station, 1992"

Ellyn Maybe "I HAVE FALLEN 3 TIMES"

Joe Grieco "EULOGY INSTRUCTIONS"


Points and Lines (4fppointsandlines.blogspot.com)

Jeffry Jensen "Pointing Across the Imaginary Lines of Extinction"

R A Ruadh "Shaping Life"

Matt McGee "Nag"

CLS Sandoval "The Metaphor that Wished He Was a Simile"


Pantoum Festival (http://pantoumfestival.blogspot.com)

R A Ruadh "The unofficial uncounted"

Mark A Fisher "exoneration"

CLS Sandoval "Tree's Canopy"

Jackie Chou "Wide-brimmed Hats"


Four Feathers Press Body Parts (http://fourfeatherspressbodyparts.blogspot.com)

Gia Civerolo "her memory never smiles anymore"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "My Neck"

Ellyn Maybe "People"

Lorelei Kay "Growing Old is Hell"


Four Feathers Press: City Living (4fpcityliving.blogspot.com)

Alicia Mathias "CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES"

Alexis Rhone Fancher "Crocodile Love"

Ellyn Maybe "WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "The Phone Call"


Pie Sighs (http://piesighs.blogspot.com)

Gia Civerolo "i hate milk"

Ellyn Maybe "IN THE HOUSE OF GRAPEFRUIT AND CITRUS"

Dayna Leslie Hodges "Sigh"

Lorelei Kay "CRACKED"


Remember When (4fprememberwhen.blogspot.com)

R A Ruadh "Unremembered"

Leah Mueller "Runaway"

Shih-Fang Wang "Long Ago"

Hedy Habra "Hokusai’s The Great Wave"


Historic Landmarks (4fphistoriclandmarks.blogspot.com)

Hedy Habra "Gezi Park, 2013"

Karen Pierce Gonzalez "P’qalten:at"

David Fewster "ON DISCOVERING BUKOWSKI’S EAST HOLLYWOOD BUNGALOW WAS NOW A REGISTERED LOS ANGELES LANDMARK, POSTING A PICTURE OF IT ON FACEBOOK, AND BEING TOLD BY LARRY CRIST IT LOOKED ‘BOURGEOIS’"

Marianne Szlyk "At Rock Creek Quarry"


Moon Stones (4fpmoonstones.blogspot.com)

Dayna Lesie Hodges "If Only"

Caleb Delos-Santos "What Of"

PJ Swift "Skipping Stone Symphony"

R A Ruadh "Luna sees"


POEM OF THE YEAR

Chosen from the issue winners by the editor


Sunday, May 26, 2024

Memorial Day Weekend Six-Pack Special!


Get the last six issues of Four Feathers Press Southern California anthologies for just $36 postage paid. That's 60% off the cover price. Must use either Venmo (@don-campbell-82) or Zelle (donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com) to get this deal. Offer ends Monday night at 11:59 pm PST.

Saturday, May 18, 2024

30 poets published on http://4fphistoriclandmarks.blogspot.com


Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Historic Landmarks have been published online and are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST:

Marvinlouis Dorsey

Michelle Smith

PJ Swift

Denise Dumars

Jeffry Jensen

Virginia Mariposa Dale

Patrick Walters

Hedy Habra

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

Dean Okamura

Jack G Bowman

Scott C Kaestner

Petrouchka Alexieva

jf giraffe

Ellyn Maybe

Larry Crist

Jackie Chou

Michael Lee Johnson

R A Ruadh

Mary Mayer Shapiro

Lorelei Kay

Carl Stilwell AKA CaLoki

David Fewster

Wyatt Underwood

Robert Fleming

Marianne Szlyk

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Lynn White

CLS Sandoval 

Don Kingfisher Campbell


Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Nominees for 2023-2024 Four Feathers Press Online Edition Awards


Here are the nominees for the 2023-2024 Four Feathers Press Online Edition Awards. Please vote for your choices (which I will deeply consider) by commenting in the comment section below before the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on June 29th...


Ghazal Train

R A Ruadh "Parting is..."

Mary Langer Thompson "Stoneheart"

Jeffry Michael Jensen "PRONOUNCEMENT: GUZZLE GHAZAL GRUNGE"

Mark A Fisher "petition"

Gia Civerolo "ghazal: is there a vacancy or not?"

Dean Okamura "Passage"

Carl Stilwell "GHAZAL GOSPEL GOTCHAS"

Patrick Thomas Jeffries "Dancing Line"

Jackie Chou "Grieving the Loss of My Former Self"

Marianne Szlyk "Ghazal for Maryvale Park in July


4fp: Hell or Heaven (4fphellorheaven.blogspot.com)

Lorelei Kay "Banning the Bean"

Gia Civerolo "howling for angels"

Rick Leddy "Daylight Moon"

Bill Cushing "SOME NOTES OF A RELIGIOUS NATURE"

Caleb Delos-Santos "Another Demon Dream"

Maria A Arana "Who wants to grapple with death?"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "Leaving Paradise"

Radomir Vojtech Luza "Lord Lavender"

Marianne Szlyk "Before My Mother Lands in Heaven,"

Matt McGee "No Offense, Abe"

Dean Okamura "I struggle with simple things"

Joan McNerney "Rendezvous"


Spirits and Specters

Caled Delos-Santos "What is a Specter?"

Lori Wall-Holloway "Library Mystery"

Jeffry Jensen "THE GALLOPING WESTERN DELUSION"

Carl Stilwell "Thanking the Birds"

Jackie Chou "Specters at the Rosemead Community Center"

Marianne Szlyk "Girl in a Subway Station, 1992"

R A Ruadh "Power lines"

Ellyn Maybe "I HAVE FALLEN 3 TIMES"

Joe Grieco "EULOGY INSTRUCTIONS"

Alicia Mathias "Eleven Geese"

Lynn White "On The Day Of The Dead"

Shih-Fang Wang "Haunted"

Pamela Shea "Spectral So Cal Poem"


Points and Lines (4fppointsandlines.blogspot.com)

Dan Garcia-Black "Watts Da?"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "Power"

Gia Civerolo "ants crawled across empty paper lines"

Mark A Fisher "humanity"

Jeffry Jensen "Pointing Across the Imaginary Lines of Extinction"

Gary Justice "A loss for words"

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "My Mind is on Fire"

R A Ruadh "Shaping Life"

Matt McGee "Nag"

CLS Sandoval "The Metaphor that Wished He Was a Simile"



Lori Wall-Holloway "Time to Make Room"

R A Ruadh "The unofficial uncounted"

Mark A Fisher "exoneration"

Shih-Fang Wang "After Death"

Emil “Gene” Schultz Jr "Conflicted"

Mirjana “Mira” N. Matarić "Like a Rose"

Dean Okamura "Norman Rockwell, 'New Kids in the Neighborhood' (1967)"

CLS Sandoval "Tree's Canopy"

Mary Mayer Shapiro "Coming Home"

Jackie Chou "Wide-brimmed Hats"



Gia Civerolo "her memory never smiles anymore"

Deborah Edler Brown "He comes to her in dreams"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "My Neck"

Jackie Chou "My Arms"

Michael G Hickey "To That Brown Girl in Sophomore Biology"

Carl Stilwell "An Exclusive Interview with the Universal Soldier"

Ellyn Maybe "People"

Petrouchka Alexieva "Take Out My Brains"

Joan McNerney "O Amazing Muse Man"

Tim Tipton "Jacket"

Lorelei Kay "Growing Old is Hell"

Lynn White "We're All Doomed"

Maria A Arana "hat"



Alicia Mathias "CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES"

Rick Leddy "Too Many"

Mark A Fisher "pangs"

Jeffry Jensen "ALL A BIG BARE-KNUCKLE SNOOZE"

Jerry Garcia "Not Even St. Christopher Crosses the Boulevard Safely"

Alexis Rhone Fancher "Crocodile Love"

Ellyn Maybe "WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "The Phone Call"

Denise Dumars "The City by Day"

Lynn White "Rhythms of Time"



Gia Civerolo "i hate milk"

Karen Pierce Gonzalez "Cosmic coffee with pie"

Ellyn Maybe "IN THE HOUSE OF GRAPEFRUIT AND CITRUS"

Jackie Chou "Love Potion 3.14"

Mary Langer Thompson "Lemon Power"

Marianne Szlyk "Ritz Cracker Pie"

Dayna Leslie Hodges "Sigh"

Joan McNerney "ALMOST"

Lynn White "Lest We Forget"

Lorelei Kay "CRACKED"



CLS Sandoval "My Mother's Relief"

PJ Swift "That collective song"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "Remembering the Monastery"

R A Ruadh "Unremembered"

Jack G Bowman "People Missing in your Life"

Mary Mayer Shapiro "Bruce Brockmann"

Leah Mueller "Runaway"

Alicia Mathias "REVELATION"

Joe Grieco "GRAYEYARD BOYS"

Shih-Fang Wang "Long Ago"

Dean Okamura "East L.A. Japanese American family"

Hedy Habra "Hokusai’s The Great Wave"

Marianne Szlyk "A Tender Spell"



PJ Swift "Kafka's 85th"

Denise Dumars "Morro Bay"

Hedy Habra "Gezi Park, 2013"

Karen Pierce Gonzalez "P’qalten:at"

Dean Okamura "The Suspended"

Petrouchka Alexieva "On the Globus There’s a Landmark"

R A Ruadh "Living history"

Mary Mayer Shapiro "Ninth Wonder of the World"

David Fewster "ON DISCOVERING BUKOWSKI’S EAST HOLLYWOOD BUNGALOW WAS NOW A REGISTERED LOS ANGELES LANDMARK, POSTING A PICTURE OF IT ON FACEBOOK, AND BEING TOLD BY LARRY CRIST IT LOOKED ‘BOURGEOIS’"

Wyatt Underwood "once upon a time a house"

Marianne Szlyk "At Rock Creek Quarry"

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "Remember When Everything Was Easy"

Lynn White "In Memoriam"



Dayna Leslie Hodges "If Only"

Caleb Delos-Santos "What Of"

PJ Swift "Skipping Stone Symphony"

R A Ruadh "Luna sees"

Patrick Draven "Huntsman's Moon"

Mark A Fisher "seize the sky"

Marianne Szlyk "Return to Maryvale Park"

Inalegwu Alifa "Translucence"

Alex S Johnson "Fly Me to the Moon"

Loreli Kay "The Pulsing Surf"


POEM OF THE YEAR

Chosen from the issue winners by the editor

Sunday, May 5, 2024

30 poets being published in Speeches of Southern California: Motivational Poetry

 

1 > Robert Fleming

2 > Lawrence R Berger

3 > Dean Okamura

4 > Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal

5 > Sharmagne Leland-St. John

6 > C.C. Arshagra

7 > Mary Mayer Shapiro

8 > Jeffry Jensen

9 > Donny Jackson

10 > CLS Sandoval

11 > Susanne West

12 > Petrouchka Alexieva

13 > Ellyn Maybe

14 > jf giraffe

15 > Jim Babwe

16 > Joe Grieco

17 > Fee Thomas

18 > Carl Stilwell AKA CaLoki

19 > gia civerolo

20 > Joan McNerney

21 > R A Ruadh

22 > Shih-Fang Wang

23 > PJ Swift

24 > Lori Wall-Holloway

25 > Patricia Murphy

26 > Radomir Vojtech Luza

27 > Michelle Smith

28 > Sherry Meehan

29 > Marvinlouis Dorsey

30 > Don Kingfisher Campbell

Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, May 25th, 3 to 5 pm PST in Recreation Room 119 at 65 N. Allen 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 May 11th, 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. 


35 poets and artists being published in Journeys in Southern California: Poetic Trips

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