December 15 Guests

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL
Don Kingfisher Campbell is the founder of POETRY People youth writing workshops, publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Thursday Evening Critique workshops, and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena, California.

He is the recipient of an Honorable Mention in The League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association’s Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society’s Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective’s Poetry In The Windows Prize.

He has a new book, Amongst the Detritus, and downloadable audio CD, Eternal Epitaph available now.

TZYNYA PINCHBACK (Tuh’zeen’yah)
Tzynya Pinchback is mother, writer, spinster, and cranberry enthusiast. Using narrative as shaman and lyric as landscape, she is a corporate proposal writer by day, and a syllable-wench courting meter, form, and tambourine carrying skeletons by night. Tzynya is founder and facilitator of Cat in the Belly, a memoir and guided journaling workshop incorporating eco-psychology and art therapy principles. She has recent work featured in Plain View Press’s Alternatives to Surrender anthology; Paul Politis’ photography exhibit A Clean Well Lighted Place; and Holly Rose Review.  Tzynya is author of two poetry chapbooks, EveSongs and hussy.