Saturday, June 29, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
Archived!
Got some of my early poems up on a website now. Enjoy!
DKC From One Century to the Next (dkc1century2thenext.blogspot.com)
Saturday, June 15, 2024
32 poets and artists are now published on http://4fpmoonstones.blogspot.com
Dayna Leslie Hodges
Caleb Delos-Santos
PJ Swift
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Jeanne Marie Spicuzza
Maria A Arana
Shih-Fang Wang
Patrick Draven
Mark A Fisher
Joe Grieco
Marianne Szlyk
Ellyn Maybe
Inalegwa Alifa
Tim Tipton
Carl Stilwell AKA CaLoki
Jackie Chou
jf giraffe
Petrouchka Alexieva
Dean Okamura
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Robert Fleming
Jack G Bowman
Lynn White
CLS Sandoval
Alex S Johnson
Lorelei Kay
Mary Mayer Shapiro
linda m crate
Liesel Gaesser
Don Kingfisher Campbell
Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Moon Stones are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, June 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
30 poets being published in Parents of Southern California: Parenting Poetry
1 > Mary Mayer Shapiro
2 > Lawrence R Berger
3 > Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
4 > Petrouchka Alexieva
5 > Lorelei Kay
6 > Matt McGee
7 > Robert Fleming
8 > Karen Pierce Gonzalez
9 > Carl Stilwell AKA CaLoki
10 > Shih-Fang Wang
11 > Bill Cushing
12 > jf giraffe
13 > Luis J. Rodriguez
14 > Jeffry Jensen
15 > Dean Okamura
16 > Patricia Murphy
17 > Radomir Vojtech Luza
18 > Gwendolyn Fleischer
19 > gia civerolo
20 > R A Ruadh
21 > Joe Grieco
22 > CLS Sandoval
23 > Jackie Chou
24 > Mira N Mataric
25 > Lori Wall-Holloway
26 > PJ Swift
27 > Ellyn Maybe
28 > Michelle Smith
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, 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.
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...
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"
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.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Calls for Poems and Art
SPEECHES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: MOTIVATIONAL POETRY
Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of speech or motivation in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, May 4th, 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, 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.
FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: HISTORIC LANDMARKS
Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words historic and/or landmark, 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 17th. 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: Historic Landmarks will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST.
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: Zodiac Energy 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.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Now Available!
Saturday, April 20, 2024
40 poets and photographers being published on http://4fprememberwhen.blogspot.com
CLS Sandoval
Michelle Smith
Mira N Mataric
PJ Swift
Lori Wall-Holloway
Ashton Cynthia Clarke
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Joan McNerney
Alicia Viguer-Espert
Jeffry Jensen
jf giraffe
Ellyn Maybe
Maria A Arana
R A Ruadh
Bill Cushing
Patricia Bailey
Jack G Bowman
Mary Mayer Shapiro
David Fewster
Leah Mueller
Angelina Saenz
Alicia Mathias
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Jackie Chou
Joe Grieco
Robert Fleming
Shih-Fang Wang
Dean Okamura
Petrouchka Alexieva
Marsha Grieco
Hedy Habra
Lynn White
Abel Salas
Matt McGee
Fee Thomas
Lorelei Kay
Carl Stilwell AKA CaLoki
Marianne Szlyk
linda m crate
Don Kingfisher Campbell
Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Remember When have been published online and are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.
Monday, April 8, 2024
It's coming...
(Please offer your selections of poets and their poems in the comments section below by June 28th.)
August 2023 - Ghazal Train (http://ghazaltrain.blogspot.com)
September 2023 - Hell or Heaven (http://4fphellorheaven.blogspot.com)
October 2023 - Spirits and Specters (http://spiritsandspecters.blogspot.com)
November 2023 - Points and Lines (http://4fppointsandlines.blogspot.com)
December 2023 - Pantoum Festival (http://pantoumfestival.blogspot.com)
January 2024 - Body Parts (http://fourfeatherspressbodyparts.blogspot.com)
February 2024 - City Living (http://4fpcityliving.blogspot.com)
March 2024 - Pie Sighs (http://piesighs.blogspot.com)
April 2024 - Remember When (http://4fprememberwhen.blogspot.com)
May 2024 - Historic Landmarks (http://4fphistoriclandmarks.blogspot.com)
June 2024 - Moon Stones (http://4fpmoonstones.blogspot.com)
Online Edition Poem of the Year (no nominations accepted for this category, winner will be chosen among the other winners)
Sunday, April 7, 2024
34 poets being published in Flowers of Southern California: Floral Poetry
1 > Lorelei Kay
2 > Maria A Arana
3 > Gina Duran
4 > Lawrence R Berger
5 > Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
6 > CLS Sandoval
7 > Matt McGee
8 > Joe Grieco
9 > Tim Tipton
10 > Robert Fleming
11 > Petrouchka Alexieva
12 > Joan McNerney
13 > Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie
14 > Sherry Meehan
15 > Radomir Vojtech Luza
16 > Mary Mayer Shapiro
17 > Mark A Fisher
18 > R A Ruadh
19 > Inalegwu Alifa
20 > Jeffry Jenesen
21 > Jackie Chou
22 > Dean Okamura
23 > Ellyn Maybe
24 > jf giraffe
25 > Lori Wall-Holloway
26 > gia civerolo
27 > Shih-Fang Wang
28 > Charles Harmon
29 > PJ Swift
30 > Rick Leddy
31 > Beverly M Collins
32 > Michelle Smith
33 > Patricia Murphy
34 > Don Kingfisher Campbell
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 in Recreation Room 119 at 65 N. Allen Ave. in Pasadena. Perfect bound printed copies of the book may be ordered for the author price of $10 a copy (include $5 shipping if you are unable to attend the reading) until April 13th, 2024. Year-long subscriptions are $80 (save 25% off the author price). 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.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Calls for Poems and Art
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 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 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.
SPEECHES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: MOTIVATIONAL POETRY
Submit up to three poems of no more than 150 lines each (including stanza breaks) on the subject of speech or motivation in Southern California to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm PST, May 4th, 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, 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.
FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: HISTORIC LANDMARKS
Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words historic and/or landmark, 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 17th. 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: Historic Landmarks will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST.
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 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 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, 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 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.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
31 poets have been published on http://piesighs.blogspot.com
CLS Sandoval
Patricia Murphy
Charles Harmon
gia civerolo
Radomir Vojtech Luza
PJ Swift
Jeffry Jensen
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Mark A Fisher
Alicia Viguer-Espert
Patricia Carragon
Wyatt Underwood
Carl Stilwell AKA CaLoki
Shih-Fang Wang
Pamela Shea
jf giraffe
Ellyn Maybe
Mary Mayer Shapiro
Jackie Chou
Mary Langer Thompson
Petrouchka Alexieva
Joe Grieco
Robert Fleming
Marianne Szlyk
Dayna Leslie Hodges
Joan McNerney
Lynn White
Lorelei Kay
Dean Okamura
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Don Kingfisher Campbell
Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Pie Sighs have been published online at http://piesighs.blogspot.com and are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 16th between 3 and 5 pm PDT.
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