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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15), her facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Enshrined”, and her poem “Europa and Ganymede Calling” live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15), her facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Enshrined”, and her poem “Europa and Ganymede Calling” live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect” (written 12/6, on and for the day of the 1893 birth of English poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, which is also the 1746 birth of Scottish poet and songwriter Lady Grizel Bailli), “Europa and Ganymede Calling” (written 12/6, on and for the 2017 date of plate tectonics discovery on Jupiter’s moon Europa), “Other Side” and “Broke the Reflection” (for the 12/7 date Pearl Harbor was attacked), “Letter 09/16/06” (for 12/7, Letter Writing Day), “Childhood Memories Six” (for 12/8, the 1980 date John Lennon was assassinated), and “Ornaments from my Childhood” (written 12/7, on and for National Christmas Tree Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Other Side”, “Broke the Reflection”, “Letter 09/16/06”, “Childhood Memories Six”, and “Ornaments from my Childhood”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling” and “Unraveling Two More Moons” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling” and “Unraveling Two More Moons” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, & “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Europa and   Ganymede         Calling Janet Kuypers 7/13/19 The telescope I keep at home is decades old, it was my sister’s when she took an astronomy class, and I, as a small child, fell in love with all of outer space. After seeing Saturn, complete with rings and its moon Titan only days ago using only a scope for target shooting, we found a man selling a small telescope... it was a gift for the man’s little boy, but after using it three times this new telescope was never used again. Instant bargain, we thought, so we put it together... and even though it’s cloudy out tonight we had to break it in, figure out how to use this new telescopic monstrosity compared to the decades-old model inside. And even through all the haze, we could see Jupiter with the naked eye at night near our moon, but wait, as we zoom in, we could even see Europa and Ganymede. They are two large moons we saw of Jupiter’s, and it was really so amazing that we could see these moons, these objects unable to generate light, now as bright as stars. And I get it, I get it, these moons reflect light they receive in the night sky, but they glow brighter than any mythical creatures that Galileo chose to name them after. Since Zeus is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter, Europa was named after the lover of Zeus, and Ganymede was named for the son of a king who was carried off into the sky by Zeus. And we were carried into the sky this night, after it was far too late for any insects to suck on or sting into human flesh, we kept moving our new telescope to match the whipping orbital speeds of both Earth and Jupiter, just to continue to catch fleeting glimpses of worlds we can never touch, but can idolize from afar, and dream.

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