Two nights of death poetry:
“Knocking on Death’s Door”
at Café Ballou with Waiting4the Bus, and the Café weekly poetry open mic
Because Cafe Ballou (with “Waiting4the Bus”) put a call out for poetry relating to death (something Janet Kuypers probably has too much of already anyway), Janet Kuypers wrote a few new poems to accompany an older poem she wrote after she was almost killed in a car accident while stopped at an intersection years ago.
After reading her poetry, one audience member was surprised that she didn’t read her classic long poem about the death of someone close to her, so the next night, at the weekly open mic she hosts at the Café in Chicago, she read the last (brand new) poem about death, “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach”, and closed the open mic with the previously requested poem, “Death Takes Many Forms.”.
Follow the links below to see the death-related poetry performed over two days at two live venues.
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