“Chicago’s Poetry Bomb”
 



Janet Kuypers in the 2016 Poetry Bomb
Janet Kuypers at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas

    Located at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (since Janet Kuypers moved from Chicago Illinois since the past Poetry Bomb) Janet Kuypers read poetry with two different themes (because of two different weather patterns), because the annual Poetry Bomb is an effort to get poetry out in public — too often writers read their work at poetry open mics and features, but things poetic can be seen everywhere in the world... This is why in this repeating annual venture, poets go out somewhere where people usually don’t read poetry, to perform it for people that are otherwise going about other business.

    After making the decision to read poetry at a place where some of the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed (and yes, people did come the cemetery while she was there), Janet Kuypers read two sets of different styles of poems (in honor of the weather change during the 2016 Poetry Bomb). In the first part of the readings (while the weather was still sunny), she read only a few pieces relating to death, but then switched it up to shorter more novel pieces of never-before-read poetry. In the second (longer) set of readings (once the weather turned overcast, how fitting for hanging out at a cemetery), she read mostly never-before-read poems about her mother’s death, and ended the longer set with a poem or two she wrote just after she was almost killed.

    After the reading (because no one knew with the weather how much poetry could be performed), Kuypers also released (via Scars Publications, as a supplement release to cc&d magazine) a chapbook of an online PDF file of the poems she performed (in the order of their performance) the day of the event of the 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery (available as a free download any time).

nbsp;   There is also a YouTube playlist of all of the videos from this performance, and there are also two additional web page listings for the videos from this show — one is at Scars Video (at www.artvilla.com/scars), and the other is from the main listing at artvilla.

    Follow the links below to see the poems and the videos of her readings (in the order they were performed).





Part 1
(while it was still sunny out)



Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Dreams 1/28/07 (Seeing mom)
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
There Are Too Many Poems About You, David
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There Are Too Many Poems About You, David
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Why Am I Infected
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Why Am I Infected
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Koi Ponds and Concrete
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Golfing with George Eastman
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Suing NASA For Comet Play
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Suing NASA For Comet Play
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Jog Hurt
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Jog Hurt
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
on a bike
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on a bike
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
untitled 6/11/15
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untitled 6/11/15
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Superficial
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Superficial
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
The Sky Is Always Blue
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The Sky Is Always Blue
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
hard of hearing
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hard of hearing
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
probably not
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probably not
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Saving Myself
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Saving Myself
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Part 2
(when the weather was overcast)



Janet Kuypers reading her poem
a Happy Ending to Everything
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
I’ll Push the Cart
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I’ll Push the Cart
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
My Memorials to You
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My Memorials to You
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Rings like Gravestones
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Rings like Gravestones
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
This is What you Leave Me
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
We’re Trying
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We’re Trying
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Letting Time Tick By
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Letting Time Tick By
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Ingrained in Your Head
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Ingrained in Your Head
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Wanting to Touch a Corpse
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Wanting to Touch a Corpse
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
More Painful to Experience
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More Painful to Experience
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Mother’s Day Flowers Forever
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Mother’s Day Flowers Forever
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
It’s Just Not Right
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It’s Just Not Right
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3
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Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
No Place
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No Place
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Princess Diana, One Year Later
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Driving Car Into Ditch
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Driving Car Into Ditch
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Take It All Away
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Take It All Away
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Think About It Much
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Think About It Much
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Added Bonus
At the end of her readings, she filmed
a Vine video of a haiku about death.



Janet Kuypers reading her haiku
existence
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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “existence” from Down in the Dirt’s “the Breaking” for the 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Texas.