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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On All Fours” originally performed in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Join Me”, and “March Forth”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On All Fours” originally performed in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Join Me”, and “March Forth”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera live film; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

March Forth

Janet Kuypers
3/4/19

When things to seem to be at their worst,
march forth, and try to make a difference.

After you counseled rape victims, fought
for women’s rights, come together in a

“Take Back the Night” rally, march forth
to support women’s right to feel safe when

walking home alone outside at night without
needing a man by their side. March forth

when you see a political injustice in how
a government treats its citizens, even if

it means you have to stand in a square
and confront an armed tank by yourself.

March forth for your rights, to give you
strength, and hope the government notices...

Collect money from supporters and march
forth to help your loved ones who suffer

with breast cancer, diabetes, ALS, AIDS.
Even feel free to march forth confidently

into your boss’ office as a woman when
you know you deserve more pay for better

than equal work amongst your male
coworkers. March forth to get answers

when your family hides truths from you
that you are positive you have the right

to know — it may torture you to learn
things you don’t want to believe, but

knowing the truth is worth a thousand
marches, because this is the most

dignified, the most stable, even the most
healthy, way to start to make change.


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