Title cards of the winners!

And the winners are...

3/29/2025 presentation of the 2024 FOUR FEATHERS PRESS Print Poetry Awards (finalists listed below)

FOUR FEATHERS PRESS PRINT POETRY AWARDS FINALISTS

January 2024 – Playthings of Southern California

Poetri Smith – Tree 

Carl Stilwell – Here Comes Gertrude Stein

Jackie Chou – The Clay Buddha

Ellyn Maybe – Astronomy

February 2024 – Tunes of Southern California

Jeffry Jensen – Tuning Up the Tornado

Marianne Szlyk – Music of the Aztecs

Linda Neal – Humming Along with Gordon Lightfoot

Radomir Vojtech Luza – Below Beneath

March 2024 – Tales of Southern California

Ellyn Maybe – Myth

Alicia Viguer-Espert – My neighborhood

R A Ruadh – Interstellar Errors

Jackie Chou – Rapunzel

April 2024 – Flowers of Southern California

Joan McNerney – Bright Pink Begonias

Jeffry Jensen – All My Ex’s Should Be Pushing Up Flowers

Jackie Chou – Bird of Paradise Flowers

Ellyn Maybe – Who’s Gonna Talk About the Sunflowers Now

May 2024 – Speeches of Southern California

Donny Jackson – manual: a manual

Joan McNerney – Occupant 3D

R A Ruadh – Walking the Stars in Beauty

Marvinlouis Dorsey – Orange cat

June 2024 – Parents of Southern California

Lorelei Kay – Passage Home

Karen Pierce Gonzalez – As Pirate

Luis Javier Rodriguez – Ode to Jack Hirschman

Joe Grieco – My Father Took Me with Him

July 2024 – Artistry of Southern California

Alex S Johnson – Blowing Up Glass Dragons of Poetry

PJ Swift – Infection

Jeffry Jensen – Escaping Artfully

Alicia Viguer-Espert – The Art of The Toyon

August 2024 – Fires of Southern California

Mia Stone Malloy – April Field Log

Alicia Viguer-Espert – Earrings

R A Ruadh – Fire and Ice

PJ Swift – The Blockbuster

September 2024 – Doors of Southern California

Alex S Johnson - The Doors Live at The Whiskey a Go Go on the Fabulous Sunset Strip 

Alicia Viguer-Espert – While Waiting for the Muse

Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabal – Without Television

Jackie Chou – In My Heart

October 2024 – Mysteries of Southern California

Matt McGee – The Ghost of Holidays Past Pops Up in Front of Baskin Robbins

R A Ruadh – Tree House

PJ Swift – Poetic Particles

Shih-Fang Wang – Nightmare

November 2024 – Families of Southern California

Connie Johnson – dream: My Father

Carl Stilwell – 90

Alicia Viguer-Espert – Our Younger Sister

Jim Babwe – Air Show

December 2024 – Journeys in Southern California

Connie Johnson – A Mojave Desert Ghazal

Dean Okamura – Last Days

Jackie Chou – Unorthodox

R A Ruadh – Down to the Sea

Calls for Poems and Art

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WINDOWS 

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of windows to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, April 5th, 2025. 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 26th, 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 April 12th, 2025. 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: POINT UP

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words point and/or up, 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 18th. 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: Point Up will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 19th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SELFIES 

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of selfies to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, May 3rd, 2025. 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, May 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 May 10th, 2025. 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: ROCK 'N' ROLL

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words rock and/or roll, 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 May 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: Rock 'n' Roll will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST. 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER

Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of water to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, June 7th, 2025. 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 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 June 14th, 2025. 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: STONE WORLDS

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words stone and/or world, 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 June 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: Stone Worlds will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, June 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST. 

FOUR FEATHERS PRESS PRINT POETRY AWARDS NOMINEES

January 2024 – Playthings of Southern California

Lorelei Kay – Sleeping with Snow White

Poetri Smith – Tree 

Carl Stilwell – Here Comes Gertrude Stein

Jackie Chou – The Clay Buddha

Matt McGee – A Collector’s Paradise

Ellyn Maybe – Astronomy

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal – Go Along for the Ride 

PJ Swift – Box of Time

February 2024 – Tunes of Southern California

Caleb Delos-Santos – Three So Cal Singing Cinquains

Matt McGee – That Which Is Familiar

Jeffry Jensen – Tuning Up the Tornado

Carl Stilwell – Psalm 150 and All That Jazz

R A Ruadh – Frog Music

Marianne Szlyk – Music of the Aztecs

Dayna Leslie Hodges – Jazz Plays On

PJ Swift – A Day in the Musical

Linda Neal – Humming Along with Gordon Lightfoot

Radomir Vojtech Luza – Below Beneath

March 2024 – Tales of Southern California

Alessander Xavier – X

Ellyn Maybe – Myth

Carl Stilwell – Fortress of Faith

Alicia Viguer-Espert – My neighborhood

CLS Sandoval – He and I

R A Ruadh – Interstellar Errors

Jackie Chou – Rapunzel

Charles Harmon – The Snake That Ate L.A.

Matt McGee – The Porky’s Myth

April 2024 – Flowers of Southern California

Gina Duran – Caution: Mexican Poppies

Joan McNerney – Bright Pink Begonias

Carl Stilwell – To a Cosmos Flower

R A Ruadh – Red is not always blood

Jeffry Jensen – All My Ex’s Should Be Pushing Up Flowers

Jackie Chou – Bird of Paradise Flowers

Ellyn Maybe – Who’s Gonna Talk About the Sunflowers Now

Gia Civerolo – eve’s daughter

May 2024 – Speeches of Southern California

Donny Jackson – manual: a manual

CLS Sandoval – Smoker Circle

Fee Thomas – Stagnant Love

Carl Stilwell – Mana

Joan McNerney – Occupant 3D

R A Ruadh – Walking the Stars in Beauty

PJ Swift – The Frog and The Scorpion

Sherry Meehan – in Between the Lines

Marvinlouis Dorsey – Orange cat

June 2024 – Parents of Southern California

Lorelei Kay – Passage Home

Karen Pierce Gonzalez – As Pirate

Shih-Fang Wang – Cycle of a Salmon’s Life

Luis Javier Rodriguez – Ode to Jack Hirschman

R A Ruadh – First Lessons

Joe Grieco – My Father Took Me With Him

CLS Sandoval – Cartwheeling Down the Beach

Jackie Chou – The Beauty

Michelle Smith – There’s a Sunflower

July 2024 – Artistry of Southern California

Lawrence R Berger – The View from Mt. Life

Alex S Johnson – Blowing Up Glass Dragons of Poetry

Marvinlouis Dorsey – Just because

Michael H Hanson – Pantsing it

Alicia Mathias – Becoming

Lorelei Kay – Those Tantalizing Reds 

Fred Whitlock – Sun hits sidewalk

PJ Swift – Infection

Jeffry Jensen – Escaping Artfully

Dayna Leslie Hodges – We Need Flowers When Darkness Encroaches

Alicia Viguer-Espert – The Art of The Toyon

Jeanne Marie Spicuzza – In my dreams it was real

August 2024 – Fires of Southern California

Mia Stone Malloy – April Field Log

Alex S Johnson - Solar Bells

Alicia Viguer-Espert – Earrings

Rolland Vasin - Fireside Chant

Carl Stilwell – Decolonize This Poem

Ellyn Maybe – A Wild Duet

R A Ruadh – Fire and Ice

Jackie Chou – Fire Orange Like Hair

PJ Swift – The Blockbuster

September 2024 – Doors of Southern California

Alex S Johnson - The Doors Live at The Whiskey a Go Go on the Fabulous Sunset Strip 

Alicia Viguer-Espert – While Waiting for the Muse

Luis Cuahtemoc Berriozabal – Without Television

CLS Sandoval – Behind Closed Doors

David Fewster – Billy Zoom

Paul Lobo Portuges – Pulse

Jackie Chou – In My Heart

Dayna Leslie Hodges – Held Hostage

Marvinlouis Dorsey – Tryin ta catch this breath

October 2024 – Mysteries of Southern California

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal – Human Speech

Matt McGee – The Ghost of Holidays Past Pops Up in Front of Baskin Robbins

Wyatt Underwood – Los Angeles Mystery

Sherry Meehan – A Super Moon

Denise Dumars – It’s a Mystery

R A Ruadh – Tree House

PJ Swift – Poetic Particles

Shih-Fang Wang – Nightmare

Patrick Walters – been thinkin

November 2024 – Families of Southern California

Radomir Vojtech Luza – Moments and Melodies

Joe Grieco – Family Portraits

Connie Johnson – dream: My Father

Karen Pierce Gonzalez – For the Finest

Rolland Vasin – How?

Jackie Chou – An Unsent Letter to My Cousin

Carl Stilwell – 90

Jeffry Jensen – The Family That Squares a Root Beer Together

Alicia Viguer-Espert – Our Younger Sister

Jim Babwe – Air Show

R A Ruadh – Walking past grandaddy

PJ Swift – Family {Portrait

Gia Civerolo – a movie, music, pain, and poetry

December 2024 – Journeys in Southern California

Connie Johnson – A Mojave Desert Ghazal

Dean Okamura – Last Days

Joe Grieco – First Visit to the Rose Parade

Mark A Fisher - unfolding

Ellyn Maybe – Enjoy the World

Lorelei Kay – Stuck

Jackie Chou – Unorthodox

R A Ruadh – Down to the Sea

PJ Swift “Whatcouldabeen”

Pauline Dutton – A Catalina Segway

New Book!

 

18 poetic short plays from the mind of Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie, each lavishly illustrated by his son Mark. Secure a copy at his featured performance at the Lamanda Park Branch Library in Pasadena on April 26th at 3pm for just $15. You may also order his book for $20 (includes shipping) by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com. Or, if just you can't wait, get your copy directly from the author himself. He's on tour as part of The Inner Three.

33 poets are now published on http://4fpskykey.blogspot.com

 

Four Feathers Press Sky Key

CLS SANDOVAL

MICHELLE SMITH

GIA CIVEROLO

YAN SHAM-SHACKLETON

CARRIE FARRAR

R A RUADH

SHIH-FANG WANG

MARK A FISHER

JEFFRY JENSEN

JACKIE CHOU

JOE GRIECO

LORI WALL-HOLLOWAY

DEAN OKAMURA

JF GIRAFFE

ELLYN MAYBE

ALEX S JOHNSON

TRISH SAUNDERS

DAVID FEWSTER

ANTOINETTE VELLA PAYNE

LYNN WHITE

MIKE TURNER

LORELEI KAY

LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL

MATT McGEE

JOAN McNERNEY

MARIETA MAGLAS

ROBERT FLEMING

MARY MAYER SHAPIRO

CARL STILWELL AKA CALOKIE

JESSE REY TOVAR

CHAD PARENTEAU

WAYNE F BURKE

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL

Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Sky Key will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

38 poets being published in So Cal Steps

 

Inalegwu Alifa

Robert Fleming

Lawrence R Berger

Jack G Bowman

Matt McGee

Jesse Rey Tovar

Sherry Meehan

Scott Ferry

Carrie Farrar

Trish Saunders

CLS Sandoval

S A Gerber

Lorelei Kay

Alicia Viguer-Espert

Joe Grieco

Connie Johnson

Maria A Arana

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Joseph Milosch

Mary Mayer Shapiro

Luis Villalobos

Dean Okamura

Gerda Govine Ituarte

Ellyn Maybe

jf giraffe

David Fewster

Mark A Fisher

Bill Cushing

Pamela Shea

Angel Guerrero

Charles Harmon

PJ Swift

Jeffry Jensen

R A Ruadh

Gia Civerolo

Michelle Smith

Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie

Don Kingfisher Campbell

Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, March 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 March 8th, 2025. 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.