Photo Credit: Gerry Kingsley, Sudbury. 2021.
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her most recent book of poems is These Wings (Pedlar Press, 2019) and her next book of poems, Emptying the Ocean, will be published by Frontenac House Press in Fall 2022.
From 2016-18, Kim was the fourth Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury, and was the first woman appointed to that role. Two staged readings of her plays, Sparrows Over Slag (2018) and Letters to the Man in the Moon (2019), as part of Pat the Dog Theatre Creation’s PlaySmelter New Work Theatre Festival, were held at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.
Kim is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Ontario Representative for The Writers’ Union of Canada (2020-22), and a supporting member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Her author website is http://www.kimfahner.com and she may be reached at info@kimfahner.com
The Republic of Poetry 
Dear Ms. Fahner,
I hope this is not an inappropriate method of contacting you, but I am technologically impaired and this was the best I could do. I was hoping to be able to email you with a question about a poem you wrote. If that sounds ok to you, send me an email.
Cheers
I was supposed to go to the Main Lending branch in Sudbury for a lesson but it said ‘Wednesday’ for some reason. I’m truly sorry and I hope it was a good showing.
Hello Ms. Fahner,
I am a fellow Sudburian who currently lives in the Minnow Lake area. A friend of my in-laws mentioned that you may have some information about the history of the house my husband and I purchased in 2012. I see from your blog that you did grow up in this area, and it seems like you have some great memories to share.
Thanks,
Caitlyn Quinn
I did grow up in Minnow Lake. My parents lived at 1704 V
Bancroft, and my grandparents lived at 1690, right next door. Are you around that area?
I am in that area! I have added you to Facebo0k just to keep my address private.
Can you send me a friend request, please? I think I deleted your message by mistake…
I can’t seem to add you as a friend on Facebo0k. I sent you another message, but perhaps you accidentally blocked me? My email address is my name as you see it here WITHOUT capitals or spaces, @gmail.com. Send me an email and I can respond to you there.
Alternatively, clicking on my name above the comments may take you to my Facebo0k page, and you can just add me there.
*I purposely didn’t just write out my email address because that is a surefire way for me to get spammed.
will do. thanks.
k.
Hi. I tried emailing you, but no response. You can email me via the poet laureate page at the library website. I’ll get it for sure, that way, and we can maybe chat a bit there. Thnx. Kim 🙂
Hi Kim,
I was so struck by your poem “Mine since birth, this city” that is on the glass at the Sudbury airport departure lounge, that I was able to commit it to memory while waiting to check in! I think it was the line “Nickel labyrinth underfoot” that hooked me, but the rhythm and scan made it easy to internalize. Bravo!
Thanks for your very kind words. ❤️