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O C T 11 - 1 3 , 2 0 1 9 C APSULE ART SPACE K A N S A S C I T Y, M I S S O U R I
SCHEDULE
All programs at Capsule Art Space unless otherwise noted
F R I D A Y O C T O B E R 11
4-7 pm: Small Press Book Fair
7-8:30 pm: Feature: Suspect Press, Denver CO
Hosted by: James Benger/The Writers Place Riverfront Reading Series
9-11 pm: Poetry Open Mic
Hosted by: Sharon Eiker/Jump Start Art
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11-2 pm: Poetry Brunch Open Mic @ Our Daily Nada
Hosted by: Polly Alice McCann/Flying Ketchup Press
1-7 pm: Small Press Book Fair
3-4 pm: Writing Workshop
Hosted by: Abby Bland/Kansas City Poetry Slam
4-5 pm: Publisher’s Panel
Hosted by: Jason Ryberg/Spartan Press
7-8:30 pm: Feature: Latino Writers Collective Showcase
Hosted by: Jose Faus/Latino Writers Collective
9-11 pm: Poetry Open Mic
Hosted by: Shari Hall/Arsyn Spitfire
S U N D AY O C T O B E R 13
11-1 pm Poetry Pop-Up Open Mic @ Town of Kansas Bridge
Hosted by Abby Bland/Poetic Underground
12-3 pm: Small Press Book Fair
4-5:30 pm: Feature: CLASH books, NH
Hosted by: Jeanette Powers/Stubborn Mule Press
7-9 pm: Fountainverse Founders’ Open Mic
Hosted by: Jeannette Powers, Jason Preu, & Charlotte Seley
W E LC O M E T O F O U N TA I N V E R S E 2 019
We’re a 3-day, small-press, poetry festival
and book fair.
We’re a showcase for performing poets
from all over the country.
PHOTOS COPYRIGHT 2018: CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION
We’re open mics and guerrilla readings.
We’re a writing workshop and a small-
press publishers’ panel.
And we’re full of books. So many books!
On behalf of Fountainverse, thanks for being here.
Thanks for supporting small presses.
Thanks for supporting poets.
BOOK FAIR
The Fountainverse book fair is a
destination event for small
presses from all over the country.
Talk to small presses. Buy books.
Inquire about submissions.
And buy books.
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PHOTO COPYRIGHT 2018: CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION
Sponsored by Prospero’s Books | KC
Founded in 1997, this independent, used bookstore boasts three floors of books and media. Meet and take home the
greatest minds in history, or join in on KC’s finest running conversations at the counter.
F R I D A Y O C T O B E R 11
4-7 PM
S AT U R D AY O C T O B E R 12
1-7 PM
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12 - 3 P M
F R I D A Y O C T O B E R 11
7-8:30 PM
Riverfront Readings | KC
The Riverfront Readings series of poetry and fiction readings was started in Kansas City, Missouri in 1986 by Philip Miller
and Donn Blevins. In those days, the location actually was in the Riverfront area, in the Kansas City Artists
Coalition space. For many years they held most of their readings at “the castle”; where The Writers Place was located.
Now, readings are at The Nonprofit Village at 31 W. 31st Street and other locations in the Kansas City area. Regular
Riverfront readings are usually on the second Friday of the month, starting at 8:00 PM.
Host
James Benger is the author of two fiction ebooks, and three chapbooks, one full-length, and
coauthor of three split books of poetry. He is on the Board of Directors of The Writers Place and
the Riverfront Readings Committee, and is the founder of the 365 Poems In 365 Days online
workshop, and is Editor In Chief of the subsequent anthology series. He lives in Kansas City with
his wife and children.
Featuring
Huascar Medina is a poet, writer, and performer who lives in Topeka. He currently
works as a freelance copywriter and as the Literary Editor for seveneightfive magazine
publishing stories that spotlight literary and artistic events in northeast Kansas. His
poems can be found in his collection How to Hang the Moon published by Spartan
Press. He is the winner of ARTSConnect’s 2018 Arty Award for Literary Art. His
forthcoming book Un Mango Grows in Kansas will be released in 2019. Huascar is the
current Poet Laureate of the state of Kansas.
Lindsey Weishar earned an MFA in Poetry from UMKC. She writes for Verily and Ploughshares,
and her chapbook, Matchbook Night, was published in 2018. Travel and tea delight her
immensely.
Jermaine Thompson was born in Louisville, Mississippi. He
learned language from big-armed women who greased their
skillets with gossip and from full-bellied men who cursed and
prayed with the same fervor. He moved to Kansas City in August
of 2015 to complete an MFA in Poetry from the University of
Missouri--Kansas City. He has publications in The Pinch, Memorious: A Journal of New
Verse Fiction, Sprung Formal, Whale Road Review, and Southern Indiana Review. He
currently teaches freshman and junior English at Pembroke Hill Upper School and Black
Studies at UMKC. The views and opinions expressed here tonight are solely those of
the author and do not reflect the official policies or positions of his employers.
Jermaine is also a board member of The Writers Place—a nonprofit organization
dedicated to serving the literary community in Kansas City, Missouri.
F R I D A Y O C T O B E R 11
7-8:30 PM
Suspect Press | Denver, CO
Founded in 2013, Suspect Press is a Denver publishing company that blends the raw energy of zine culture with the
editorial sharpness and commercial reach of mainstream publications. Publishing a quarterly arts and literature
magazine features poetry, short stories, essays, comics and artwork primarily from Denver, Colorado, presented in a
cleanly designed, vintage newsprint format, and delivered to various locations throughout the state, Suspect Press also
publishes novels and comic books. And in addition to publishing, Suspect Press presents various music, literature and
stand-up comedy events around the Denver and Boulder areas.
Featuring
Eliza Beth Whittington is a poet, parent, painter, carpenter, singer/songwriter,
queerdo and event organizer out of Denver, Colorado. They like to hike, garden, and
scream with the punk band Black Market Translation. Their first collection, Treat Me Like
You Treat The Earth, was released this July through Suspect Press.
Brice Maiurro is a poet and writer from Denver, Colorado. He is the author of Hero
Victim Villain (Stubborn Mule Press) and Stupid Flowers (Punch Drunk Press). He is the
Poetry Editor for Suspect Press, the Editor-In-Chief of South Broadway Ghost Society
and the Founding Editor of Punch Drunk Press. His writing has been featured by The
Denver Post, Boulder Weekly, Birdy Magazine, Pussy Magic and Poets Reading the
News. He is the co-founder of Punketry! and was recognized by Denver Westword as a
Colorado Creative. He believes that artists should focus more on self-discovery than self-
destruction. He has so many things that he is grateful for.
F R I D A Y O C T O B E R 11
9 - 11 P M
Jump Start Art with Sharon Eiker | KC
Jump Start Art is a non-profit foundation organized to assist emerging and self-taught artists by providing community
spaces for creative growth, accessible workshops in the arts, and by connecting these artists to community resources in
theater, visual arts, literary art, spoken word, and poetry both locally and nationally. They are an organization made up
of artists, poets, actors, dancers, musicians and lovers of art who have benefited from the generosity of others and
choose to give back some of what we have been given. They do this to build up the community they live in, reduce
violence, enrich their cultural lives and to fill in some of the void left by reduced funding of the arts in the public schools.
Host
Sharon Eiker, founder of the Jump Start Art Foundation, is an Artist, Poet, Singer, and
Songwriter. While Sharon loves creating Art her passion is creating space for our
community to share their Art with each other. Building an Arts Foundation to assist
emerging Artists by connecting them with the many resources available in the Kansas City
Area, will be a real joy to participate in for the years to come. To hear a demo by a new
songwriter, read a first chap book, view a first showing of a visual artist, attend a first
dance recital, teach a poetry class or a drawing class, or view a newly written never been
seen play, are some of the things Sharon is looking forward to as a member of the Jump
Start Art Foundation. Sharon was part of The Writer’s Place while it was still an idea and
a dream among several Kansas City poets. She served on its board for more than 20
years and continues to host its monthly open mic. She also hosts the Uptown Arts Bar Blue
Monday open mic.
Featuring
Phillip Emanuel Frost Bounds is a poet, pilot, and a pundit for perplexity (with an
emphasis on the pun). He is also an attorney, axe throwing coach, swing dancer, and
intellectual adventurer with a penchant for precise word usage and an affinity for
antinomies. He is a transplant from Colorado but is glad to call Kansas City home. He
has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado in Colorado
Springs and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver. You can find more of his
writing online at ifbrevity.com or on instagram @ifbrevity_poetry.
Waco Porter was born in Galveston, TX in 1974 and raised by the Marines. He met his
wife in 1996 and has not looked back. She and his daughters have reinvigorated his pen
and have been the backbone of his writing. They are the anchor for his wandering mind.
Waco uses poetry to get a clear image of what he sees. When he is not writing, Waco
likes to swim, bike, run, and ride around the city looking for pancakes. Thoughts on life? In
his own words: youngest of four, only boy, daddy’s son, mama’s joy. His book of poetry,
Total Eclipse, was sponsored by Jump Start Art.
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11 A M - 2 P M
@ O U R D A I LY N A D A / 3 0 4 D E L A WA R E
Flying Ketchup Press | KC
Flying Ketchup Press is a Kansas City publisher for the epic acceleration of great literature, poetry, children's books, and
fine arts materials. Flying Ketchup Press, was founded by Polly Alice McCann in 2018, to discover and develop new
voices in poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction with a special emphasis in new short stories. We are a publisher made by
and for creatives in the Heartland. Our dream is to salvage lost treasure troves of written and illustrated work-- to create
worlds of wonder and delight; to share stories. Maybe yours. Find us at www.flyingketchuppress.com.
Host
Polly Alice McCann is at the heart and soul of Flying Ketchup Press as our managing
editor. Polly has been a professor, writer, curator, and illustrator for over twenty years. Her
family has been in publishing and the book business since the 1970s. Growing up was spent
mostly taking art lessons at the Nelson, or hiding under the book table at many publishing
events. She began writing novels and short stories when she was introduced to NaNoWriMo
in 2006. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Hamline
University in St. Paul in 2011. She often says, "Poetry saved my life." As a leader of many
SCBWI groups for writers and illustrators, she saw writers and publishers process a great
deal of change in the business over the past decade. Find her lyrical memoir poetry online
"Kinlight" and "Tea with Alice."
Featuring
TL Sanders, AKA Àtwist – The Language Artist, is an educator, poet, and
performer. This former high school English teacher is now a curriculum writer. A
National Writing Project teacher consultant and Paper Birch Landing’s 2019 Poet in
Residence Recipient, Sanders has performed to diverse audiences. In 2019 he has
performed at The Kauffman Performing Arts Center in the Lyric Opera ’s production of
The Pearl Fishers; The Gem Theater in Take the Stage’s Production of A Night at the
Museum -- which was sponsored by the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art's Kauffman Future
Stages; and he won Producer's Choice Award at the 2019 KC Fringe Festival where he
performed a one hour rendition of his biopic poetic screenplay, kNew released this
October 2019 from Flying Ketchup Press. With his BA from UCM in Elementary
Education, Sanders is an educational speaker and a spoken word artist at many state
events and conferences. Find him on YouTube under Bethephenom and on Twitter
@PoetTLSanders or www.poetTLSanders.com.
Kēvin Callahan has a BFA from Drake University, post-grad work at San Francisco Art Institute,
Larry Abramson, The Ox-Bow School, Art Institute Chicago, and Phil Hanson/Michelle Grabner. His
award-winning artwork hangs in collections throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe,
and Israel. After a career in graphic design, he has published a novel and two short story
collections, plus numerous poems often in conjunction with his art. He maintains a studio and gallery,
the Elegant Line, in Parkville, MO. His book, Road Map, released this October 2019 by Flying
Ketchup Press, is a poetic journey through an American Artists' life well-lived. With a keen eye for
wisdom, wit, and historically hilarious self-portraits illustrating his travels, you'll want to grab a
walking stick and join Kēvin for a globe-trekking adventure. You'll have a good time.
S AT U R D AY O C T O B E R 12
3-4PM
Kansas City Poetry Slam | KC
Writing Workshop: Poetry as Intimacy with The Mundane
In this workshop, participants will be invited to participate in several writing exercises that explore writing about non
traditional representations of intimacy with the world and with ourselves. Bring writing materials.
Facilitator
Abby Bland
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4-5PM
Getting Your Work Reach
Join us for this publisher’s panel where heads of presses and literary mags host a panel which speaks and has a
question/answer period for audience members to ask about their specific needs. Folks will learn about how to get a book
published, how to promote the book, how to get their work into online and print magazines and the advantages/
expectations of getting your work reach.
Spartan Press | Salina, KS
Spartan Press publishes the best of the Midwest poetry, including multiple Poet Laureates and even more first full-lengths
from emerging poets. Find more info at spartanpresskc.com.
Host
Jason Ryberg is the author of thirteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short
stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely)
construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper
editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/
o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan
Books. His latest collection of poems is Standing at the Intersection of Critical Mass and
Event Horizon (Luchador Press, 2019). He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster
named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks,
near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland
critters.
Panelists
Leza Cantoral CLASH Books
Brice Maiurro Suspect Press
Nathanael Stolte Dark Particle Press
John Burroughs Crisis Chronicles
Nadia Wolnisty Thimble Lit MagS AT U R D AY O C T O B E R 12
7-8:30 PM
Fountainverse Special Guests | KC
Onnissia Harries is a KC based visual artist whose work is featured on the 2019 FV
poster. One can find her work exclusively represented by The Smalter Gallery. Also a poet,
Harries treasures the raw and vulnerable in life fearlessly. Find more about Harries at
onnissiaharries.com.
John Burroughs of Cleveland is the 2019-2021 Beat Poet Laureate for the state of
Ohio. He is a dynamic performer who has wowed audiences from Oakland to New York
City and myriad points in between. His more than a dozen books include Rattle and
Numb: Selected Poems, 1992-2019 (2019, Venetian Spider Press) and Loss and
Foundering (2018, NightBallet Press). He hosts the monthly Poetry+ reading series at Art
on Madison in Lakewood, Ohio, and has served since 2008 as the founding editor for
Crisis Chronicles Press, publishing over one hundred books by esteemed writers from
around the world. Find him on Facebook, Twitter (@jesuscrisis) or at
www.crisischronicles.com.
Nadia Wolnisty is the submissions editor of ThimbleLitMag.com. Her work has appeared in
Spry, Apogee, Anti-Heroin Chic, *Isaucoustic, McNeese Review, Paper & Ink, and others. She
has chapbooks from Cringe-Worthy Poetry Collective and from Finishing Line Press and a full-
length from Spartan Press. Her third chapbook is, Signs Taken For Wonders, is from Dancing
Girl Press.S AT U R D AY O C T O B E R 12
7-8:30 PM
Latino Writers Collective | KC
The LWC’s mission is to foster an environment where the voices of Latino students, blue collar workers, professionals, and
homemakers can finally be heard, contributing their experience and vision to the larger Kansas City community.
Featuring
Jessica Ayala is a published author, spoken word artist, and writer-in-residence at
Charlotte Street Foundation. Her work is a fusion of her Colombian American heritage
merging oral tradition, storytelling, poetry, and native percussion. As a writer, she hopes to
create spaces for dialogue, education, and reflection hoping all who engage leave more
aware by the stories told. Her recent book, Huelga, takes a critical look at the social,
political and cultural injustices of Latin America shining light on the stories of those she calls
los invisibles, the invisible. She is currently on tour with Huelga and working on publishing
her second book of poetry, Just A Kid From Ipiales, a poetic memoir documenting her unique journey as an immigrant
youth living in the United States to debut April 11, 2020. Ayala immigrated to the United States from Colombia, South
America at the age of three publishing her first series of poems for the Young Authors Conference at the age of eight.
Her current poetry has been published in two anthologies winning an Honorable Medal in the 2017 International Latino
Book Awards. Additionally, Miss Ayala is the recipient of the 2018 Pitch Magazine Best Kansas City Spoken Word Artist
Award. Recently Miss Ayala's poetry has merged into songwriting joining bands Arquesta Del SolSoul and the Kansas
City Rumba Collective. Ayala is also a founding member of the poetic collective La Resistencia.
José Faus is writer, performer, visual artist, and independent teacher/mentor. He is a
founder of the Latino Writers Collective and sits on the boards of the UMKC Friends of the
Library, The Latino Writers Collective and Charlotte Street Foundation. His writing appears in
a variety of anthologies and journals including Luces y Sombras Journal, Raritan. His
chapbook This Town Like That was released by Spartan Press. His second book of poetry The
Life and Times of Jose Calderon was published by West 39 Press.S AT U R D AY O C T O B E R 12
9 - 11 P M
Arysn Spit Fire Open Mic with Sheri Hall | KC
This open mic happens every Tuesday at Equal Minded Cafe on KC’s east side, and features slam nights, live musical
accompaniment, workshops and a tremendous community.
Host
Sheri Purpose Hall is a Charlotte Street Studios Resident Artist in her 2nd year, the 2017
ArtsKC Inspiration Breakfast featured artist, and a 2017 Arts KC Inspiration Grant recipient.
She has also earned the opportunity to represent Kansas City Nationally as an individual
competitor at the Women of the World Poetry slam 2 years in a row (2017/18) and as a
team competitor at the National Poetry Slam 4 years in a row. She is the founder of Arsyn
Press and East of Red ArtHouse, director of KC Poet Tree, regional supervisor for Poetry for
Personal Power, co-slammaster of the For The Win slam team, and provides consulting and
assistance for many other non-profit, community-based, and arts organizations.
Featuring
TBDS U N D AY O C T O B E R 13
11 A M - 1 P M
@TOWN OF KANSAS BRIDGE
Join us @ Capsule at 11 to meet up and take the street car to River Market, where we’ll disembark and walk to Town of
Kansas Bridge for a a pop-up poetry reading.
Poetic Underground | KC
Poetic Underground is a long-running poetry open mic in KCMO, happening every Wednesday at The Brick.
Host
Abby Bland has a B.A. in English from William Jewell College and is working on her
masters in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management at the University of Missouri
Kansas City and currently serves as the Program Director for Kansas City Poetry Slam and
Poetic Underground. She is a multi-time finalist on the Kansas City Poetry Slam stage and
was a competing member of the 2018 KC Poetry Slam nationals team and the 2019 Rustbelt
Regional Team. Her work focuses on exploring topics such as intimacy, vulnerability, and
cultural expectations of the feminine.
Featuring
Adrianna “AP” Schoonover is a poet of mixed up emotions and mixed up ethnicity. She
started poeting at the ripe age of 13. She competed in LTABKC and Brave New Voices with
the Lincoln Poets team for several years. She was a semifinalist at Texas Grand Slam in 2018
and the KCPS Grand Slam Champ for 2019. She was nominated for Best Newcomer by the
Music and More Poetry Foundation in 2019. Her poetry explores the complexities of race,
family, relationships, femininity, and culture.
J. Cartwright Metje (They/Them) is a Poet? from Kansas City, Missouri. They have an
age, have done things (in the past), and also have accomplishments. A psychology major (?)
without a college at the moment, their work is often autobiographical in nature, and they
share their story in order to serve as an example of survival and continued strength that
others may look to when in need.S U N D AY O C T O B E R 13
4-5:30 PM
Stubborn Mule Press | KC
Stubborn Mule Press stands for working class people. We strive at every junction to illuminate and celebrate the
neglected middle of not just America, but the world. The vast majority of us are some form of what are considered
"marginalized" people. We at Stubborn Mule believe that all us side-lined folks are actually and factually the majority.
We believe in the old hats and the new kids joining together to speak loud our experiences and our authentic voice,
because that alone is the true news.Bring us your queers, persons of color, poor, country, urban, female, femme, male,
disabled, butch, asexual, women, youth, old, non-binary, lesbian, gay, orphaned, refugee, immigrant, scientist,
alchemist, anarchist, philosopher, historian, readers …
Host
Jeanette Powers is a writer-artist, working-class anarchist, and listener of rivers and bats. They
mess around, mostly, and are known to skygaze day and night. Powers is a founding editor of
Stubborn Mule Press and an organizer for FountainVerse: KC Small Press Poetry Fest. They are
also an art barista for Fictional Cafe and the singular subversive voice of Spartan Press’
developmental editing. What else? Their gender identity is currently holy person and their dog
died this year which still hurts brutally. JP will be attending a month long residency in Iceland in
January of 2020. Find more at @dada_ahha and jeanettepowers.com.
Featuring
Macey Webb settled in Lawrence, Kansas in 2012, and has been writing since
childhood. There was, however, a brief slackening when all of the best kid’s literary
magazines refused to publish a 12-year-old’s musings on farm chores. In the whirlwind of
the last four years, Macey has used poetry to process mental illness, loss, joy, kitties,
interconnectedness, and survival. Macey tries to remain a simple human who enjoys
simple things, like the very pleasant weight of a plastic bag full of mannequin heads.
Crying at Walls is Macey’s first full-length.
Steph Castor is a poet, freelance publicist, music journalist, and content writer currently
living on a farm in Eudora, KS, A long time poet and community builder in the Lawrence and
KC areas, notably they helped to establish the #LFK Poetry Slam back in 2014. Steph has
written for several websites and magazines, but perhaps most notable include
GuitarWorld.com, Curve Magazine, Outburn Magazine, RevolverMag.com,
AudioBaby.com, Tattoo.com and most recently Guitar Girl Magazine. Steph has
workshopped and performed with outstanding writers including Andrea Gibson, Robb Q.
Telfer, Jack McCarthy, Tara Hardy, Sonya Renee, John Sinclair and many more. Their first full
length book of poetry is Bedroom Music. "I believe that people should be living to their fullest
potential and not selling themselves short."S U N D AY O C T O B E R 13
4-5:30 PM
Clash Books | NH
CLASH Books is a melting pot of genres & cultures, where high & low art meet to make something entirely fresh &
original. Our goal is to excite, stimulate & provoke new ways of thinking & seeing art, the world & our place in it. We
represent an eclectic array of voices & points of view in fiction, nonfiction & poetry.
Featuring
Leza Cantoral is the Editor in Chief of CLASH Books. She is the author of Trash Panda &
Cartoons in the Suicide Forest & editor of Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del
Rey & Sylvia Plath. You can find her poetry & nonfiction at Luna Luna Magazine, Entropy,
Philosophical Idiot, Breadcrumbs Magazine, Cultured Vultures, Vitamin Shoppe, Quail Bell
Magazine, Verse, & A Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM).
She is the host of Get Lit With Leza where she talks to cool ass writers. Follow her on Twitter,
IG & FB @lezacantoral.
Jessica Drake-Thomas is a poet, fiction writer, and blogger. She’s the writer of a
collection of poems, Burials (CLASH Books, 2020), and a chapbook, Possession (dancing girl
press, 2018). Her short stories and poems have been featured in or are forthcoming from
Ploughshares, Grimoire Magazine, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Coffin Bell Magazine,
PVSSYMAGIC, and Three Drops from a Cauldron.
Kim Vodicka is the spokesbitch of a degeneration and heart-reactionary at the rearguard
of the rose arts. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections— Aesthesia
Balderdash (Trembling Pillow Press, 2012), Psychic Privates (White Stag Publishing, 2018),
and The Elvis Machine (CLASH Books, 2020). She is also the creator of a poetic comic book
series, a chapbook of sound poems on vinyl, and an illustrated book of poetry. Her poems,
art, and essays have been featured in Tenderloin, Spork, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Makeout
Creek, Luna Luna Magazine, Paper Darts, Best American Experimental Writing, Nasty! and
many others. For the past decade, she has toured the country performing spoken word with
musical accompaniment in bookstores, dive bars, art galleries, cafes, diners, festivals, pinup
clubs, vintage clothing shops, rooftops, backyards, and places of worship. Originally from
south Louisiana, she currently lives in Memphis, Tennessee with her beloved cat, Lula. Cruise
her at kimvodicka.com.S U N D AY O C T O B E R 13
7-9 PM
Fountainverse Founders’ Open Mic | KC
Come decompress, socialize, and wind down from the weekend with your Fountainverse hosts, Jeanette Powers, Jason
Preu, and Charlotte Seley.
Featuring
Magic words with new friends.
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WHO MADE THIS?
Jeanette Powers is a writer-artist, working-class anarchist, and listener of rivers and bats. They
mess around, mostly, and are known to skygaze day and night. Powers is a founding editor of
Stubborn Mule Press and an organizer for FountainVerse: KC Small Press Poetry Fest. They are also
an art barista for Fictional Cafe and the singular subversive voice of Spartan Press’ developmental
editing. What else? Their gender identity is currently holy person and their dog died this year which
still hurts brutally. JP will be attending a month-long residency in Iceland in January of 2020. Find
more at @dada_ahha and jeanettepowers.com.
Jason Preu is the author of six chapbooks, two full-length poetry collections, and a book-
length illuminated poem. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in various anthologies
and journals. Jason’s performative collaboration with composer, Brian Padavic, was the
subject of the feature film, The Avocado Among Other Fruits, Live from Prospero's. In 2019,
Jason released the album, threats, under the name, isyouisorisyouaint.
Charlotte Seley is a poet, writer, and editor from New York, currently residing in Kansas
City with her cat, Lord Byron. She is the author of the chapbook DIE YOUNG: LETTERS TO
KE$HA (dancing girl press, 2019) and the full-length poetry collection THE WORLD IS MY
RIVAL (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). You can find out more about her on the internet at
charlotteseley.com.
Samantha Slupski (she/her) is a Midwest writer living in Austin, Texas. She is the former
Program Director for Kansas City Poetry Slam, Poetic Underground, and founder of the
Middle of the Mic workshop series. She has been a competitor at Texas Grand Slam, was a
2018 Nationals Team Member, competed at the 2019 Individual World Poetry Slam, and
headlined the Melbourne Spoken Word Poetry Festival in 2018. She is currently a regular
contributor to the blog, Pass/Fail. Her work centers around how a body survives trauma and
aims to illuminate stories about mental health. To find out more about Samantha, visit her
website at ww.samanthaslupskipoetry.com or on Instagram at @samfromkc.
Brandon Whitehead has been a music/movie reviewer, short story writer, and famed
robot fighter for over thirty years. He has read his poetry in strip clubs, graveyards, back
alleys and the deck of a sinking ship. He has been a projectionist, violin player, live movie-
riffer, gravedigger and bio-hazardous materials courier. His book of poetry Thieves,
Pharaohs & Mexican Daredevils is available for cash money or good whiskey. You can find
his shorty story collection Outpost 4423 & Other Stories at the Amazon Kindle site, if you're
into that kind of thing. He currents hosts the Speakeasy@ Swordfish Tom's on first Sundays in
a basement boiler room with a cocktail bar while dressed like a hobo from the 1920s'.
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Charlotte Street Foundation | KC
Charlotte Street Foundation is the generous donor of the Capsule Art Space.
Charlotte Street envisions Kansas City as a dynamic home for artists of various
career stages and disciplines to thrive while serving as natural catalysts for an
exciting, innovative, and culturally rich city. CSF identifies the needs and fuels the
evolution of an ever-changing multidisciplinary arts ecosystem, acting as its primary
provocateur. They bring complexity, sophistication, and the unexpected to the
cultural landscape of Kansas City.
Our Daily Nada | KC
Our Daily Nada is a bookstore and bar located in Kansas City's River Market. Their name is a
nod to the Hemingway short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place" which is a story in part about
everyone needing a place to escape. Our Daily Nada aims to be that place. Slow down. Get
back to basics. Connect with your favorite characters (whether in books or the barstool next to
you) in a more meaningful way.
Founded by Amy Covitz and Andrea Baca, Our Daily Nada is a dream five years in the
making. The two share a love of good books, good conversation and a good drink. They
wanted to create a place where everyone can enjoy those simple pleasures.
Art in the Capsule Event Space Curated by The
Smalter Gallery | KC
The Smalter Gallery is a resource and advocate for both
emerging and experienced artists located in the 39th
Street area of KC. The goal of the Smalter Gallery is to
create a welcoming space for artists, so that they may make tangible their greatest aspirations. This is accomplished
through close relationships with artists and comprehensive support packages that help the artist reach a wider audience.
The gallery maintains an open door policy intended to encourage artists to feel comfortable sharing their concerns and
questions with the gallery team. The gallery aims to curate an experience that leaves every patron – from a first-time
buyer to an avid collector – feeling welcomed and comfortable.You can also read
