Nettie Powers

Ozark Love Poems and a Song of Divinity Nettie Powers

Nettie Zan Powers is a poet, painter, fiction writer, event organizer, editor and founder of Stubborn Mule Press, an indie poetry press focused on working class street poets with an emphasis on radical country queers. Powers has several poetry collections published and their work can be found in numerous anthologies and journals both print and online. They also are a founding member and organizer of FountainVerse: KC Small Press Poetry Fest, a three-day festival in October of each year. Powers believes in an open hand, eye contact and dissolving into laughter, also rivers and exchanging disposable cameras.




Nettie Zan Powers is a performance artist, writer and community builder in KCMO and beyond. She currently heads the generative performance venue, Uptown Arts Bar; collaborates on the annual Lit Fest Fountainverse; and is a fellow resident with Osage Arts Community near Belle, MO. She is a non-binary queer, working class artist. She has published ten books, not counting secret ones: including Earthworms & Stars, The Cosmic Lost and Found, Perfectly Good Muses, and most recently Gasconade by NightBallet Press. Her first novella, Victimless Crime, is forthcoming by Outlandish Press. She has also edited a number of successful anthologies: Finding Zen in Cowtown: Poems about KC; Desolate Country: Poets react to the inauguration; and Prompts: a spontaneous anthology.