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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Finalists for 2024-2025 Four Feathers Press Online Edition Poetry Awards


JULY 2024 - Zodiac Energy (http://4fpzodiacenergy.blogspot.com)

Hedy Habra "Riding the Winged Tricycle"

Jeffry Jensen "Coloring the Day"

Alicia Viguer-Espert "Cosmic Distances"

AUGUST 2024 - School Shoes (http://4fpschoolshoes.blogspot.com)

Jeffry Jensen "Laces Tangled in Dylan Blue"

Alex S Johnson "Fits of a Fortunate Son"

Robert Fleming "Phillip Brainard invents Flubber"

SEPTEMBER 2024 - Bitter Sweet (http://4fpbittersweet.blogspot.com)

Ambika Talwar "Way of the Lost Muse"

Dean Okamura "A Few Sweet Morning Poems"

Lynne Bronstein "The Crude and The Sweet"

OCTOBER 2024 - Still Night (http://4fpstillnight.blogspot.com)

Alicia Viguer-Espert "Earthquakes"

Hedy Habra "Reading by Candlelight"

Michael McLaughlin "Stretching South" 

NOVEMBER 2024 - Dead Days (http://4fpdeaddays.blogspot.com)

Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "I am the greatest"

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "I Return Another Day"

Jackie Chou "Dead Days"

DECEMBER 2024 - Shooting Stars (http://4fpshootingstars.blogspot.com)

Trish Saunders "And We'll Drink from a Glass of Stars"

Karen Pierce Gonzalez "Cosmic Coffee and Dessert"

Marie C Lecrivain "Why None of Us Will Ever Die"

JANUARY 2025 - Grass Leaves (http://4fpgrassleaves.blogspot.com)

Jeanne Marie Spicuzza "Both"

Sandra Frye "Fifteen"

Joseph Milosch "Under the October Night"

FEBRUARY 2025 - Heart Flames (http://4fpheartflames.blogspot.com)

R A Ruadh "Fire and Ice"

Marieta Maglas "Memories"

Wyatt Underwood "terminal punctuation" 

MARCH 2025 - Sky Key (http://4fpskykey.blogspot.com)

Dean Okamura "The wreck of the USS MAGA"

Trish Saunders "Please, Night Sky"

Antoinette Vella Payne "Stardust"

Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "Old McDonald Had a Corp Farm"

(there was a tie between two of the poems in this issue)

APRIL 2025 - Point Up (http://4fppointup.blogspot.com)

Scott Ferry "16."

Gia Civerolo "universe playing tarot cards"

Joan McNerney "while we waited"

MAY 2025 - Rock 'n' Roll (http://4fprocknroll.blogspot.com)

Alex S Johnson "Rock and Roll"

R Bremner "Jimi"

Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "All Hail Rock and Roll!"

JUNE 2025 - Stone Worlds (http://4fpstoneworlds.blogspot.com)

Gia Civerolo "stones in her pockets"

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "The Stones Whisper"

Sandy Frye "Road of Sand on Likoma Island"

POEM OF THE YEAR - TBA


Saturday, August 23, 2025

46 poets and artists published on http://4fpstreetcracks.blogspot.com

 

MICHELLE SMITH

PJ SWIFT

MARY LANGER THOMPSON

R A RUADH

DAN FLORE III

MARIE C LECRIVAIN

GIA CIVEROLO

MARK A FISHER

TRISH SAUNDERS

LIDA PARENT HARRIS

CLS SANDOVAL

JEFFRY JENSEN

TAMMY SMITH

TIM TIPTON

JF GIRAFFE

ELLYN MAYBE

TIM G YOUNG

EDWARD S GAULT

MIKE TURNER

REBECA THOMAS

MARY MAYER SHAPIRO

DAVID FEWSTER

JOE GRIECO

HEATHER ROMERO-KORNBLUM

CARLOS ORNELAS

SHIH-FANG WANG'

WAYNE F BURKE

LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL

DEAN OKAMURA

MARIANNE SZLYK

JOAN McNERNEY

RADOMIR VOJTECH LIZA

LYNN WHITE

SUSAN ISLA TEPPER

ROBERT FLEMING

VERONICA HOSKING

MIKE MAGGIO

ANDY PALASCIANO

CARL STILWELL AKA CALOKIE

BARRY VITCOV

CHAD PARENTEAU

JACKIE CHOU

LAWRENCE R BERGER

MARIA A ARANA

CONNIE JOHNSON

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL

Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Street Cracks are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 23rd between 3 and 5 pm PST. 


Monday, August 18, 2025

New publications!

A full-length book of poetry, perfect-bound, "a harrowing and redemptive read!" Please contact the author through Patrick Thomas Jeffries to purchase a copy. 

A collaboration between Don Kingfisher Campbell and Marvinlouis Dorsey of call and response poetry, a total of eight poems composed in a single week! Get a free PDF copy by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com

An award-winning chapbook that took second place in the 2025 Four Feathers Press chapbook contest! Please contact the author for a copy.

An award-winning chapbook that took third place in the 2025 Four Feathers Press chapbook contest! Please contact the author for a copy.


Sunday, August 10, 2025

More New Chapbooks from Four Feathers Press!

 




 

Please contact the authors to secure your copies. (Please contact Don Kingfisher Campbell if you want a free PDF copy of Wyatt Underwood's chapbook.)





Monday, August 4, 2025

40 Poets and Artists being published in Southern California Pathways

 

Cover art by Patti Sullivan

1 > INALEGWU ALIFA

2 > LAWRENCE R BERGER

3 > LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL

4 > CONNIE JOHNSON

5 > ROBERT FLEMING

6 > SHERRY MEEHAN

7 > VERONICA JAUREGUI

8 > HEATHER ROMERO-KORNBLUM

9 > JACKIE CHOU

10 > JOE GRIECO

11 > JOAN McNERNEY

12 > CHARLES A PERRONE

13 > ANDY PALASCIANO

14 > RICH FERGUSON

15 > RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA

16 > REBECA THOMAS

17 > JOSEPH MILOSCH

18 > LORELEI KAY

19 > S.A. GERBER

20 > DEAN OKAMURA

21 > MARTHA ELLEN

22 > ELLYN MAYBE

23 > jf giraffe

24 > PJ SWIFT

25 > MARY MAYER SHAPIRO

26 > JEFFRY JENSEN

27 > MARK A FISHER

28 > gia civerolo

29 > EVELYN LANE SANDOVAL

30 > CLS SANDOVAL

31 > CARL STILWELLL AKA CALOKIE

32 > SHIH-FANG WANG

33 > LORI WALL-HOLLOWAY

34 > R A RUADH

35 > MICHELLE SMITH

36 > MARVINLOUIS DORSEY

37 > GWENDOLYN FLEISCHER

38 > PATRICK THOMAS JEFFRIES

39 > DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL 

Poems chosen will be anthologized in PDF form and distributed for free to those poets by the publication reading on Saturday, August 16th, 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 9th, 2025. Please use 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. 

Nominations for Best of the Net

Four Feathers Press has nominated these six poems for 2026  Best of the Net consideration (in alphabetical order): The Crude and the Sweet...