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See YouTube video 12/3/16 with Janet Kuypers in her show “Akitu” at Expressions: Festive Seasons in Austin reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” to live electric bass w/ bow (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 12/3/16 with Janet Kuypers in her show “Akitu” at Expressions: Festive Seasons in Austin reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” to live electric bass w/ bow (this video was filmed from a Canon PowerShot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook Akitu with “open flame for the celebration” “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, & “Everyone Celebrates Together”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2017 Book Release Readings 12/6/17 from the cc&d 12/17 book “Flawed Cadaver”, with her Akitu poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2017 Book Release Readings 12/6/17 from the cc&d 12/17 book “Flawed Cadaver”, with her Akitu poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, and “Utopia Never Happened” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, and “Utopia Never Happened” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration” first performed in her ”Akitu” poetry feature and read from her poetry book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, then her poem “Returning to Georgetown” originally from her poetry feature “Under my Skin” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poem “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (written on and in honor of George Washington’s birthday) 2/23/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration” first performed in her ”Akitu” poetry feature and read from her poetry book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, then her poem “Returning to Georgetown” originally from her poetry feature “Under my Skin” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poem “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (written on and in honor of George Washington’s birthday) 2/23/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zucchini Versus Sausage: Different Choices Today”, “Open Flame of the Celebration”, and “Spring”, read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zucchini Versus Sausage: Different Choices Today”, “Open Flame of the Celebration”, and “Spring”, read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram (twice) and Tumblr).

open flame for the celebration Janet Kuypers 11/28/16 Every year as the festival approached, I would go to the grounds to celebrate. I can still remember riding my roller skates down the streets after the afternoon shower, and running my skates through the puddles in the middle of the street. This was a time to celebrate, and when the big day came all the families would come together, bring food for the feast. Someone would roast a beast on a spit to spin over the open flame as more and more people would join in the festivities. And I would wear a light dress, skip down the street until it was time to come together to celebrate. And what a celebration it would be, it was the one chance everyone came together to be grateful for our abundance, to honor a higher power, and just to be happy that we all had the chance to be together again.

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