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Donald R. Anderson, founder of Poets' Espresso
Editor Donald R. Anderson has been chief editor of: Poet’s Espresso (now known as Poets’ Espresso Review) newsletter (founded 2005) until June-July 2010, co-editor of: Artifact magazine (for two half semesters), comb-bound anthologies Midnight Dance/Pathos, Naked Poetry, and Darwin’s Children, paperback anthologies Sun Shadow Mountain: Poetry and Art Anthology and (its sequel) Moon Mist Valley: Poetry and Art Anthology, assistant in editing Zine World #28, creator of numerous zines and websites. He was Secretary of the Writers’ Guild club of San Joaquin Delta College, and has been known in the past to help friends put their books, chapbooks, and anthologies into format for printing.
Poet Donald R. Anderson has had poetry published in ¡Zam Bomba!, Blue Moon Press, Rattlesnake Press, Artifact (before becoming co-editor), The Collegian, A Poem a Day: An Anthology (Edited by Chantel C. Guidry), Dwarf Stars 2008, Poetry Now, Manzanita: Wild Edges (2010), A Taste of Literary Elegance: Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate (2015), published online on Medusa’s Kitchen (blog), Poet’s Corner Press, Liquid Imagination, Paper Dollz (blog), and Farmhouse Magazine and a small award in the annual contest by the Stockton Arts Commission for “Suddenly a Fearsome Crow.” He was also one of the judges for the National League of American Pen Women’s NorCal Poetry and Prose Letters Contest in 2009. He has participated in featured readings, open mic readings, and hosted poetry readings, and participated in and hosted poetry workshops on occasion at coffee shops, book stores, and libraries.
Designer and Techie Donald R. Anderson created the cover art for the Papernet Gazet May 2009 and won 2nd place in one of the graphic art categories at the San Joaquin Delta College’s Arts Fest 2008. He has maintained websites for the projects in poetry and art publishing as well as for clients of varying interests, and dabbled in audio like the CD Blue: Poetry to Music, and classes in RTV at SJDC. He has certificates in Web Development Applications, Graphic Arts, and Desktop Support, and provides tech support independently . He works at Walgreens currently. Examples of his web design for clients include the mural artist Temo Moreno on http://temosart.com, the Congregation of the Sacro Costato at http://SacroCostato.us , the Stockton Cursillo church website at http://StocktonCursillo.com , the St Luke Parish, and Mr. Otto's Bookstore.
Donald R. Anderson
209-405-4041
DonaldAnderson2000@gmail.com
Biography, Donald R. Anderson / DonaldAnderson2000 / PoetsEspresso.
Previously known as dramaartwriting, Maliger, BlueTrim, Prot-o-Grail, drama_art_writing_maliger, too_live_forever, and donald_remedy.
“Love Can Fly
beyond the bluest skies.
Fly on wings of an angel,
fly on wings of a dove,
fly on wings of an angel,
with your mind on heaven above.”
- © Donald Anderson
Poets, artists, co-editors, and co-publishers: Donald R. Anderson and Nikki Anderson.
Donald values empathy, and in reflection of this wants to plant the seeds for the future of non-violent, problem-solving community, through creativity and the pursuit of knowledge. He was raised Presbyterian, for his early adulthood turned agnostic theological/Unitarian, then converted to Catholic in 2013.
He loves and dedicates everything to his co-publisher/sweetheart/best friend/soul mate Nikki who has done so much in his life, and to God who is to be praised for He has blessed the two of us beyond any limits.
He also loves his website, his co-authored books and newsletters, his friends, music including The Cradle of Sound.
He wants to experience the moment, of every breath.
He is a Libra, schooled in Farmington then Escalon, then college in San Joaquin Delta College, Modesto Junior College, and University of Phoenix online.
He is a web designer or poet-writer-publisher.
He has been known to write poetry when he is inspired by other people reading, and to sometimes improvise a poem (make one up as he goes from flow of thought). He has always seen poetry as a form of beauty but also of philosophy, expression, and music. He writes to express himself and fulfill that inner need we all have to be happy and complete, to create from our inner wants into a solid work of art! He won second place award in the spiritual category from an 1999 Stockton Arts Commission contest for ‘Suddenly A Fearsome Crow’. He has been published in ‘!ZamBomba!’ (twice), ‘Rattlesnake Review (a few times)’ (coilbound), numerous self publications such as‘Darwin’s Children’ (comb bound), ‘Naked Poetry’ (comb bound), ‘Midnight Dance / Pathos’ (comb bound), ‘The Traveller’ (stapled), the ‘Poet’s Espresso’ newsletter (zine form), and has been in ‘Jewel of the Valley’, a book by Blue Moon Press. He is Co-publisher and Co-editor of the paperback anthologies, Sun Shadow Mountain and Moon Mist Valley, and founder of the newsletter Poet’s Espresso, now Poets' Espresso Review.
He started his journey in poetry with a poem that he wrote for his grandmother as she was on her last few days of cancer. He didn’t pick it up for more writing until he was moved by wanting to write music lyrics as good as the ones he adored, for recognition. When he took a music lyrics class he found out that basically music lyrics without the music would be better constructed into poetry and in 1995-6 took his first classes in writing poetry, and was first exposed to comb-bound books of poetry as the class made one upon the completion of the semester. He has been online before on the blog Medusa's Kitchen, and the website poetscornerpress.com, hosted by David Humphreys on a featured reading more than once, has hosted his own open mics, and workshops, and has participated often in the poetry open mics, workshops, and other events of the sort, and had many featured events with Nikki and the poets from the anthologies Sun Shadow Mountain and Moon Mist Valley, which are paperbacks containing poetry, art, and photography.
He was way too nervous and tried unsuccessfully to memorize a poem at the Step to the Mic spoken word/slam competition in Stockton in the past, and so only reads from pages now.
He likes to romance Nikki, peace, quiet, creativity, and purpose. He likes to write poetry often, on the feelings of the moment, and used to constantly edit them as well. He had a ton of old notes from when he would jot down ideas that came to him, so many in his closet that he filled a dumpster with them one of the nights of depression to clean house. He likes a bright hue of blue best, some may call it aquamarine, some turquoise.
To him, philosophy is always interesting, learning different perspectives and why they are chosen. He loves beauty and sometimes sadness is beauty but happiness is the best beauty of all. He always believed in spirituality and a God, that God works to help us in many forms and religions but has reached to me specifically through the Catholic faith. A little of all the religions has some truth to it, but words of men written in books many years ago wouldn't seem as pertinent to the truths learned from our own living journey of faith and experience from the mistakes and listening to advice of our elders and friends and people we trust and love and respect. He believes that evolution was the method of God’s creating the universe. He believes in destiny and fate, but that we are part of shaping it--it is all God's doing, and all our freedom of choice within that.
He believes in problem solving and that we should form strategies when we do things. He believes in the scientific method of discovery. He likes Robotech. He used to read a lot of science fiction novels on the half hour bus drive to and from high school, and play chess on a magnetic set.
He would like to learn how to be a songwriter one day. He feels that Nikki is his completion, his other half. He might like to be a Cinematographer one day, but is leaning more towards web design and a hobby of publishing and poetry and graphic arts. He is passionate in most everything he does. He believes that heaven will be what Earth will be like one day. He dreams for the sake of dreaming. He believes that it is important to dream for as much as is possible, and to not shorten dreams based on expectations, because it would be the cause of our own limits to greatness.
He loves humanity and everyone, though many times he may disagree with people on how they do things, in his search of something better. He believes violence and war is immoral, that there are non-violent solutions and alternatives to wars that he hopes will be explored as civilization and communities that raise the children grow more mature and civilized. It will take overcoming some prejudices and hates that some have been brought to believe are OK. The goal of his own for this life is to work on the long term goals of humanity, the global family, and the future, as any person can make a difference. Many people have made their differences, when they set their mind to it with passion. Struggle for love! Enjoy life! There’s more than one way to see the different facets of the ‘right’, the truths of each moment changing but still within God's great plan.
Poet Donald R. Anderson has had poetry published in ¡Zam Bomba!, Blue Moon Press, Rattlesnake Press, Artifact (before becoming co-editor), The Collegian, A Poem a Day: An Anthology (Edited by Chantel C. Guidry), Dwarf Stars 2008, Poetry Now, Manzanita: Wild Edges (2010), A Taste of Literary Elegance: Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate (2015), published online on Medusa’s Kitchen (blog), Poet’s Corner Press, Liquid Imagination, Paper Dollz (blog), and Farmhouse Magazine and a small award in the annual contest by the Stockton Arts Commission for “Suddenly a Fearsome Crow.” He was also one of the judges for the National League of American Pen Women’s NorCal Poetry and Prose Letters Contest in 2009. He has participated in featured readings, open mic readings, and hosted poetry readings, and participated in and hosted poetry workshops on occasion at coffee shops, book stores, and libraries.
Designer and Techie Donald R. Anderson created the cover art for the Papernet Gazet May 2009 and won 2nd place in one of the graphic art categories at the San Joaquin Delta College’s Arts Fest 2008. He has maintained websites for the projects in poetry and art publishing as well as for clients of varying interests, and dabbled in audio like the CD Blue: Poetry to Music, and classes in RTV at SJDC. He has certificates in Web Development Applications, Graphic Arts, and Desktop Support, and provides tech support independently . He works at Walgreens currently. Examples of his web design for clients include the mural artist Temo Moreno on http://temosart.com, the Congregation of the Sacro Costato at http://SacroCostato.us , the Stockton Cursillo church website at http://StocktonCursillo.com , the St Luke Parish, and Mr. Otto's Bookstore.
Donald R. Anderson
209-405-4041
DonaldAnderson2000@gmail.com
Biography, Donald R. Anderson / DonaldAnderson2000 / PoetsEspresso.
Previously known as dramaartwriting, Maliger, BlueTrim, Prot-o-Grail, drama_art_writing_maliger, too_live_forever, and donald_remedy.
“Love Can Fly
beyond the bluest skies.
Fly on wings of an angel,
fly on wings of a dove,
fly on wings of an angel,
with your mind on heaven above.”
- © Donald Anderson
Poets, artists, co-editors, and co-publishers: Donald R. Anderson and Nikki Anderson.
Donald values empathy, and in reflection of this wants to plant the seeds for the future of non-violent, problem-solving community, through creativity and the pursuit of knowledge. He was raised Presbyterian, for his early adulthood turned agnostic theological/Unitarian, then converted to Catholic in 2013.
He loves and dedicates everything to his co-publisher/sweetheart/best friend/soul mate Nikki who has done so much in his life, and to God who is to be praised for He has blessed the two of us beyond any limits.
He also loves his website, his co-authored books and newsletters, his friends, music including The Cradle of Sound.
He wants to experience the moment, of every breath.
He is a Libra, schooled in Farmington then Escalon, then college in San Joaquin Delta College, Modesto Junior College, and University of Phoenix online.
He is a web designer or poet-writer-publisher.
He has been known to write poetry when he is inspired by other people reading, and to sometimes improvise a poem (make one up as he goes from flow of thought). He has always seen poetry as a form of beauty but also of philosophy, expression, and music. He writes to express himself and fulfill that inner need we all have to be happy and complete, to create from our inner wants into a solid work of art! He won second place award in the spiritual category from an 1999 Stockton Arts Commission contest for ‘Suddenly A Fearsome Crow’. He has been published in ‘!ZamBomba!’ (twice), ‘Rattlesnake Review (a few times)’ (coilbound), numerous self publications such as‘Darwin’s Children’ (comb bound), ‘Naked Poetry’ (comb bound), ‘Midnight Dance / Pathos’ (comb bound), ‘The Traveller’ (stapled), the ‘Poet’s Espresso’ newsletter (zine form), and has been in ‘Jewel of the Valley’, a book by Blue Moon Press. He is Co-publisher and Co-editor of the paperback anthologies, Sun Shadow Mountain and Moon Mist Valley, and founder of the newsletter Poet’s Espresso, now Poets' Espresso Review.
He started his journey in poetry with a poem that he wrote for his grandmother as she was on her last few days of cancer. He didn’t pick it up for more writing until he was moved by wanting to write music lyrics as good as the ones he adored, for recognition. When he took a music lyrics class he found out that basically music lyrics without the music would be better constructed into poetry and in 1995-6 took his first classes in writing poetry, and was first exposed to comb-bound books of poetry as the class made one upon the completion of the semester. He has been online before on the blog Medusa's Kitchen, and the website poetscornerpress.com, hosted by David Humphreys on a featured reading more than once, has hosted his own open mics, and workshops, and has participated often in the poetry open mics, workshops, and other events of the sort, and had many featured events with Nikki and the poets from the anthologies Sun Shadow Mountain and Moon Mist Valley, which are paperbacks containing poetry, art, and photography.
He was way too nervous and tried unsuccessfully to memorize a poem at the Step to the Mic spoken word/slam competition in Stockton in the past, and so only reads from pages now.
He likes to romance Nikki, peace, quiet, creativity, and purpose. He likes to write poetry often, on the feelings of the moment, and used to constantly edit them as well. He had a ton of old notes from when he would jot down ideas that came to him, so many in his closet that he filled a dumpster with them one of the nights of depression to clean house. He likes a bright hue of blue best, some may call it aquamarine, some turquoise.
To him, philosophy is always interesting, learning different perspectives and why they are chosen. He loves beauty and sometimes sadness is beauty but happiness is the best beauty of all. He always believed in spirituality and a God, that God works to help us in many forms and religions but has reached to me specifically through the Catholic faith. A little of all the religions has some truth to it, but words of men written in books many years ago wouldn't seem as pertinent to the truths learned from our own living journey of faith and experience from the mistakes and listening to advice of our elders and friends and people we trust and love and respect. He believes that evolution was the method of God’s creating the universe. He believes in destiny and fate, but that we are part of shaping it--it is all God's doing, and all our freedom of choice within that.
He believes in problem solving and that we should form strategies when we do things. He believes in the scientific method of discovery. He likes Robotech. He used to read a lot of science fiction novels on the half hour bus drive to and from high school, and play chess on a magnetic set.
He would like to learn how to be a songwriter one day. He feels that Nikki is his completion, his other half. He might like to be a Cinematographer one day, but is leaning more towards web design and a hobby of publishing and poetry and graphic arts. He is passionate in most everything he does. He believes that heaven will be what Earth will be like one day. He dreams for the sake of dreaming. He believes that it is important to dream for as much as is possible, and to not shorten dreams based on expectations, because it would be the cause of our own limits to greatness.
He loves humanity and everyone, though many times he may disagree with people on how they do things, in his search of something better. He believes violence and war is immoral, that there are non-violent solutions and alternatives to wars that he hopes will be explored as civilization and communities that raise the children grow more mature and civilized. It will take overcoming some prejudices and hates that some have been brought to believe are OK. The goal of his own for this life is to work on the long term goals of humanity, the global family, and the future, as any person can make a difference. Many people have made their differences, when they set their mind to it with passion. Struggle for love! Enjoy life! There’s more than one way to see the different facets of the ‘right’, the truths of each moment changing but still within God's great plan.
Poets’ Espresso newsletter, poetry or art published in:
You are the moon—June—August 2005
Falling, Floating, Sparkle—September-November 2005
Melville’s Broken Glass in a Gift Bag—September-November 2005
Love Tips—February-March 2006
You Are the One I Love—February-March 2006
Waiting for you—February-March 2006
Origins—June-July 2006
Untitled (Sweet ache,...)—June-July 2006
I long for the boats—June-July 2006
Untitled (Fallen tree...)—June-July 2006
Street Corners—June-July 2006
Untitled (Amazon...)—June-July 2006
San Francisco Beat—June-July 2006
of love—June-July 2006
Bliss of Summer Swim—August-September 2006
Tick Tock—August-September 2006
Night Feathers—August-September 2006
5 Radial Blur Computer Art—August-September 2006
Untitled (Whispers tremble the spider web,...)—October-November 2006
October Nights—October-November 2006
the star that fell in love—October-November 2006
Science (Computer Art)—October-November 2006
Beyond Words—December 2006-January 2007
Four Circles (Computer Art)—December 2006-January 2007
Sketch, Astrological Signs (Art)—December 2006-January 2007
The Libra and The Pisces—February-March 2007
Dark Lines (Computer Art) —February-March 2007
Sun Shadow Mountain Cover—April-May 2007, —June-July 2007
Weave of the Underwood—April-May 2007
Sunset Photo—April-May 2007
Sunset—June-July 2007
Dear father—June-July 2007
Tale for the Summer Nights—August-September 2007
Sun Shadow Mountain Cover & Ad—August-September 2007
Harvest Moon—October-November 2007
Pen, Pen—October-November 2007
winter river—December 2007-January 2008
Art is an Abstraction To Me—December 2007-January 2008
Dreaming of Sugar Plums—December 2007-January 2008
New Year’s Poem—December 2007-January 2008
Questing Forever—February-March 2008
Missing Fish—April-May 2008
Eve Wing—April-May 2008
Sidewalk Sunday—April-May 2008
Patriot of the Heart—June-July 2008
Canopy of Truth—June-July 2008
Leaves Falling Upward—June-July 2008
Stargazer—August-September 2008
It’s the Sting.—August-September 2008
Flat Conversation—October-November 2008
December at the Bay Bridge—December 2008-January 2009
Waiting sip—December 2008-January 2009
The Book and The Reader—April-May 2009
The Elastic Mind Needs Your Sleep—June-July 2009
Personally I think it’s better...—August-September 2009
I too might have thought...—August-September 2009
Photo: Nature’s Chiaroscuro Clouds—August-September 2009
Photo: Stockton Sunflower—August-September 2009
Publication Info—August-September 2009
Plump Spy Behind Doors—August-September 2009
Haiku for Lyric—August-September 2009
Poets on the Roof Group Photo—October-November 2009
An Adjective—A Noun—A Verb—A Noun—October-November 2009
Winter Appointment—October-November 2009
Dancing Poetry #17, Legion of Honor 9/2009 / (Photo)—December 2009-January 2010
Stadium #3 (Jun. 2nd, 2005, Photo)—December 2009-January 2010
Descending the stair—December 2009-January 2010
Running Away With A Scientific Thought—February—March 2010
The Wanderer (Photo)—February—March 2010
Preschool Lesson For Presidents—February—March 2010
Crying Out From Beyond—April—May 2010
Father’s Day 2010—June—July 2010
(and so on...)
Donald's old Diaryland Journal
Donald's old LiveJournal
Donald's old Wordpress Writing
Donald's old Wordpress PER
Donald's NaNoWriMo page
Hear Donald's poetry here.
You are the moon—June—August 2005
Falling, Floating, Sparkle—September-November 2005
Melville’s Broken Glass in a Gift Bag—September-November 2005
Love Tips—February-March 2006
You Are the One I Love—February-March 2006
Waiting for you—February-March 2006
Origins—June-July 2006
Untitled (Sweet ache,...)—June-July 2006
I long for the boats—June-July 2006
Untitled (Fallen tree...)—June-July 2006
Street Corners—June-July 2006
Untitled (Amazon...)—June-July 2006
San Francisco Beat—June-July 2006
of love—June-July 2006
Bliss of Summer Swim—August-September 2006
Tick Tock—August-September 2006
Night Feathers—August-September 2006
5 Radial Blur Computer Art—August-September 2006
Untitled (Whispers tremble the spider web,...)—October-November 2006
October Nights—October-November 2006
the star that fell in love—October-November 2006
Science (Computer Art)—October-November 2006
Beyond Words—December 2006-January 2007
Four Circles (Computer Art)—December 2006-January 2007
Sketch, Astrological Signs (Art)—December 2006-January 2007
The Libra and The Pisces—February-March 2007
Dark Lines (Computer Art) —February-March 2007
Sun Shadow Mountain Cover—April-May 2007, —June-July 2007
Weave of the Underwood—April-May 2007
Sunset Photo—April-May 2007
Sunset—June-July 2007
Dear father—June-July 2007
Tale for the Summer Nights—August-September 2007
Sun Shadow Mountain Cover & Ad—August-September 2007
Harvest Moon—October-November 2007
Pen, Pen—October-November 2007
winter river—December 2007-January 2008
Art is an Abstraction To Me—December 2007-January 2008
Dreaming of Sugar Plums—December 2007-January 2008
New Year’s Poem—December 2007-January 2008
Questing Forever—February-March 2008
Missing Fish—April-May 2008
Eve Wing—April-May 2008
Sidewalk Sunday—April-May 2008
Patriot of the Heart—June-July 2008
Canopy of Truth—June-July 2008
Leaves Falling Upward—June-July 2008
Stargazer—August-September 2008
It’s the Sting.—August-September 2008
Flat Conversation—October-November 2008
December at the Bay Bridge—December 2008-January 2009
Waiting sip—December 2008-January 2009
The Book and The Reader—April-May 2009
The Elastic Mind Needs Your Sleep—June-July 2009
Personally I think it’s better...—August-September 2009
I too might have thought...—August-September 2009
Photo: Nature’s Chiaroscuro Clouds—August-September 2009
Photo: Stockton Sunflower—August-September 2009
Publication Info—August-September 2009
Plump Spy Behind Doors—August-September 2009
Haiku for Lyric—August-September 2009
Poets on the Roof Group Photo—October-November 2009
An Adjective—A Noun—A Verb—A Noun—October-November 2009
Winter Appointment—October-November 2009
Dancing Poetry #17, Legion of Honor 9/2009 / (Photo)—December 2009-January 2010
Stadium #3 (Jun. 2nd, 2005, Photo)—December 2009-January 2010
Descending the stair—December 2009-January 2010
Running Away With A Scientific Thought—February—March 2010
The Wanderer (Photo)—February—March 2010
Preschool Lesson For Presidents—February—March 2010
Crying Out From Beyond—April—May 2010
Father’s Day 2010—June—July 2010
(and so on...)
Donald's old Diaryland Journal
Donald's old LiveJournal
Donald's old Wordpress Writing
Donald's old Wordpress PER
Donald's NaNoWriMo page
Hear Donald's poetry here.
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