Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On October 29, we welcome a Trilogy of (not really) Terror as our favorite California poets led by Don "My Birthday is on Halloween" Kingfisher.
Don Kingfisher Campbell received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 36 years. He's been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, an L.A. Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Four Feathers Press, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California.
Marvin Louis Dorsey was raised in the San Fernando Valley and now resides in the high desert. He worked for decades as a kennel manager for a boxer rescue facility. Marvin has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is the inventor of the poetic libretto. He has been published in the book Looking Out Of Alhambra and in these print and online publications: The San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Spectrum, Poetic Diversity, and Four Feathers Press. He also has produced six books: Desert Prowl, Gathered Pieces of Broken Glass, Masquerades, Casual Conversations, The Poetic Librettos, and Snacky Snacks.
Carl Stilwell (aka CaLokie) is a retired teacher who taught for over 30 years in the Los Angeles Unified school District and participated in UTLA’s teachers’ strikes in 1970 and 1989. He was born during the depression in Oklahoma and came to California in 1959 and has lived here ever since. His pen name was inspired by the Joad's struggle for survival In The Grapes of Wrath and the songs and life of Woody Guthrie. His poems have been published in Altadena Poetry Review, Blue Collar Review, Four Feather’s Press, Lummox, Pearl, Prism, Revolutionary Poets Brigade--Los Angeles, Rise Up, Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal, The Sparring Artists, ZZyZx WriterZ and The New Verse News.
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