Fountainverse: KC Small Press Poetry Fest

11/17/2021

Jeanette Powers Poetry has a new book of bets coming out next month!

07/07/2020

A quick update from your Fountainverse organizers: As you might've already guessed, the Fountainverse Small Press Poetry Festival and Book Fair is canceled for 2020 with hopeful plans to reconvene in 2021. We deliberated many options for a virtual gathering, but ultimately decided that part of the weekend's magic is the in-person connection—the energy and verve of our voices in one physical place, the tactile experience of browsing books at the fair and sharing a beer (or soda) with the people who made them, and Kansas City itself as a pin on the map to gather and disconnect from the less poetic aspects of our daily lives (which now might include Zoom meetings and endless emails). We felt that without a physical gathering, a crucial element of what makes Fountainverse the festival we all know and love would be lost. With that said, we hope you are all doing well and staying healthy, that you're writing and reading and staying inspired, and that we see you in 2021.

02/26/2020

Stubborn Mule Press just announced the first four books of 2020! code SPARKLE gets 50% off purchases of 2 or more books, go support small presses!

02/25/2020

FV regular Jose Faus!

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02/16/2020

FountainVerse helper-bee JP is out there in the world, check them being mythical.

Yesterday I saddled up my Ranger (aka Bobby) with everything I own and headed west. My Dandylion Riot tour begins its next leg with a September return to my nest in KC. I'm beyond excited to be sharing poetry, advocating for enby's, q***r folks, working class radicals and the idea that there IS another way to live out here in the world which doesn't make us all ill. I'm heading out for a year to see and experience this amazing country of my birth, the US, and to find every kind of alternative community living experience I can.

My first landing spot is with my beloved family in deep country Kansas. Last night we sang around the piano, fed the horses carrots, checked on a pregnant cow who's is ready to calve any moment and told family stories. There were kids and cats running around and many kisses and hugs. We're fitting out my truck with its last needs: glueing in a plexi window to my camper, making a plywood housing for my foam mattress in the bed, getting a waterproof cover for the foam, and now all I need is a can opener :D !

It's gonna be a grand 2020, y'all, and there's gonna be pitfalls and hardships, too, I'm sure. But your steadfast is feeling loved and grateful. Let's make myths of our lives!

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10/16/2019

Samantha Slupski, FV organizer, in Thimble Literary Magazine, FV feature!

schizophrenia sets the house on fire by Samantha Slupski & the joke goes, how many mothers does it take to change    a light bulb? & the punch line falls silent because there is no mother here. now i am expected to change all the lights when they go out. i am five when father’s light goes out. ...