We are so thankful to everyone who came out to celebrate our one year anniversary and the launch of our first seven poetry books! So what is the Fountainverse Poetry festival like? "We’re a 3-day, small-press, poetry festival and book fair. We’re a showcase for performing poets from all over the country. We’re open mics and guerrilla readings. We’re a writing workshop and a smallpress publishers’ panel. And we’re full of books. So many books!" We collected some intel on how d

In 2016 TL Sanders performed a poem we later named “Paper Poet” at Paper Birch Landing Art Gallery’s third ever art opening in honor of visiting National Poet Laureate at the time, Juan Felipe Herrera. When he became the 2019 Poet in Residence little did we know that his amazing performance style and his stunning poetry would evolve into a poetic screen play and an award-winning one man show at Fringe Fest KC with more evolutions in the works including the launch of our new p

A FountainVerse Poetry Festival event and open mic hosted by Flying Ketchup Press will be celebrated this October 12th from 11 am to 2 pm at Our Daily Nada to celebrate our one year anniversary and the launch of our first seven books! Flying Ketchup Press-- to discover and develop new voices in poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction with a special emphasis in new short stories. To share worlds of wonder and delight; Maybe yours. Read about our Featured Poets and more informat