Live “Celebrating with Song” 07/12/11 feature at the Café in Chicago IL

    On mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago, Janet Kuypers closed the open mic evening off by reading a few poems, and singing a few covers (previously covered with Warren Peterson of the 1990s acoustic alternative band “Mom’s Favorite Vase”, because July 12th is Warren’s birthday).

    Follow the links below to read, see or hear poetry and short prose from this live Chicago book reading.

the Café’s mini feature video
of “Celebrating with Song

of Kuypers reading her poem “Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes”, then her covering (in the style of MFV’s “stripped” version of this cover) the Eurythmics song “I Need You” (music pre-recorded by John Yotko), the poem “Decision․ then her covering (in the style of MFV’s “slow” version of this cover) the Smiths song “London” (music pre-recorded by John Yotko), then the twitter-length poem “Choices․, followed by her poem “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me
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video 07/12/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry at Chicago’s the Café weekly poetry open mic
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from the lip camera of Kuypers’ feature Celebrating with Song on 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago




...on to the poems and songs:
(in the order they were read during the show)

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes
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of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café




Janet Kuypers singing (covering) the “stripped” version of the Eurythmics song
I Need You
(for MFV guitarist Warren Peterson’s Birthday)
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Decision
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of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café




Janet Kuypers singing (covering) the “slow” version of the Smiths’ song
London
(for MFV guitarist Warren Peterson’s Birthday)
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Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem
Choices
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me
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..ADDED Bonus:
(additional readings before her feature)

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Unconscious
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Conflicting Convictions
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the introduction to the Café, and Kuypers’ new poems “Unconscious” and “Conflicting Convictions”
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of the intro to the 07/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with new poetry