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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (P L T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Hue C.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Poster).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Sepia).

See YouTube video ofJanet Kuypers reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive” originally from her book “Antarctica: Wildlife” but read the edited poem read from her contest-winning poetry in the book “Animal Takes XII 2019”, her poem “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way We Can” (written on Werner Von Braun’s birthday) read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Learning how Love Lasts” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during her hosting her the “Poetic License” open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 8/4/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video ofJanet Kuypers reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive” originally from her book “Antarctica: Wildlife” but read the edited poem read from her contest-winning poetry in the book “Animal Takes XII 2019”, her poem “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way We Can” (written on Werner Von Braun’s birthday) read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Learning how Love Lasts” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during her hosting her the “Poetic License” open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 8/4/19 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” and “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” and “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Keeps Repeating”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Regarding Utopia” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Keeps Repeating”, and “Ethical Thing to Do” from the Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Regarding Utopia” as the ending poems for the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Escaping the Atmosphere               Any Way we Can

Janet Kuypers 3/23/19 After jumping out of an airplane and watching the Tetons from above, I wanted John, the man I love, who was born on March 23rd, to feel this feeling, like you’re fighting the atmosphere in free fall. It’s like no other feeling in the world. Then I thought of another man, also born on March 23rd, who had dreams of breaking past that atmosphere altogether, and in his time, the only way he could do that was to build rockets for the SS, and dream of the moon. It’s strange to believe that Wernher von Braun was a rocket engineer in Berlin during the turbulent ’30s and ’40s, so he became a part of the SS, and was the head of Hitler’s dream plan to build the perfect vengeance rocket. And from what I hear, von Braun did the work for Nazi Germany, but he also loftily talked about sending a rocket to the moon. ‘Don’t go around talking like that,’ I’m sure they’d say to him, so he dreamed until the Nazi collapse. So the States swooped him up in the budding Cold War, and von Braun even met with President Kennedy to cement their dreams, and then worked on the Saturn V rocket, & Apollo manned missions to the moon. And okay, maybe I only jumped from an airplane, maybe John is fighting gravity in a wind tunnel, and that’s no landing in the moon. But cut us some slack, Wernher von Braun didn’t get to the moon — but this one man, born on March 23rd, helped get us all where we are today.

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