hmmm, Janet Kuypers 20111120 poetry show at the Cafe

“hmmm”

    “hmmm” is the Janet Kuypers 2011 poetry show (performed 11/20/11, or 20111120) at the Café (5115 North Lincoln Ave. in Chicago) on Sunday afternoon (at probably the last full-length feature Kuypers will ever perform there). This show had a select few pieces of older prose, combined with poetry written in 2009, 2010, and brand new 2011 pieces never before performed, for this live audience.
    In this show, Kuypers had a television screen with videos projecting relevant to her writings throughout her show (in addition to two small screens during the show with random art being displayed as well). In her show, she also had music — alternating with music (both live and pre-recorded) by blues guitarist John Yotko, and video and music from recent Chicago performances by the HA!man of South Africa.
    Below are videos from a November 20, 2011 (11/20/11, or 20111120) evening of poetry and prose readings, with the Janet Kuypers feature “hmm” at the Café.



before her feature during the open mike (hosted by John Yotko), Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Made Any Difference
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the entire Janet Kuypers feature performance
“hmmm”
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Below are the pieces performed (in the order they were performed):

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Here Is Me
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Upstage Everyone Else
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Painted Buddhas
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Janet Kuypers reading her short prose
Letter 09/16/06
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Became a Jungle
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Refuse in a Single Church
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein
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Janet Kuypers reading her short prose
In The Projects
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Eternal Struggle
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
That’s from the Barbed Wire
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Carrying Me Through
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
You’ve Killed Me
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
On a High Horse Like This
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Janet Kuypers singing her poem
Made Any Difference
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hmmm, Janet Kuypers 20111120 poetry show at the Cafe