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Listen to the 33:37 WZRD 88.3fm Radio show, or see a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day), “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11, the 1833 birthday of Robert G. Ingersoll), her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” and her poem “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, National Aviation Day), “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day), “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor), “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (for 8/24, Pluto Demoted Day), “Ominous Day” (for the 8/24 79 A.D. date of the Mount Vesuvius eruption), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi), “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” (for the 9/1/79 date the Pioneer spacecraft visits Saturn), “No One Will Forget” (for the 9/3/44 date Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last 3-day train from the Westerbork transit camp to theAuschwitz concentration camp), “One With Wildlife” (written 9/4, on National Wildlife Day), “Visiting and Seeing the Signs” (for Grandparents Day, the 1st Sunday after Labor Day), and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, (for 9/17, Constitution Day), recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book”, “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Use Your Mind”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Ominous Day”, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Effigy”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “No One Will Forget”, “One With Wildlife”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers, living after a sub-freezing week-long arctic surge in Austin, TX with no power for 5 days and no water for 2 days, sharing her thoughts in this experience, then reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” 2/19/21 as a “the Café Gallery” & “Poetic License” bonus poetry reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers, living after a sub-freezing week-long arctic surge in Austin, TX with no power for 5 days and no water for 2 days, sharing her thoughts in this experience, then reading her poems “Killing is our Only Option” and “No One Will Forget” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” 2/19/21 as a “the Café Gallery” & “Poetic License” bonus poetry reading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

No One Will           Forget Janet Kuypers 9/3/19, the 1944 date Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last 3-day train from the Westerbork transit camp to theAuschwitz concentration camp I didn’t know any better. I was just doing what everyone told me to do. I didn’t know that people were taking me away, I didn’t know I’d have to hide to survive. I know I played hide-and-seek games; now I must hide for my life. Now all I can do it sit here, write, to remember, so that no one will forget.

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