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See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, and “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, at the ending of the first “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 6/2/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, and “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, at the ending of the first “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 6/2/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poems “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Eat your vegetables, be a proper girl” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poems “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Eat your vegetables, be a proper girl” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix t56 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296 “Aesthetic” 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).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Zynski’s Manifesto”, “Journalists Revealing the World”, “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, and “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from the v296 “Aesthetic” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Just Read a Book”, “destroy”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, and “Exude more in Black” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, “Just Read a Book”, “destroy”, “Burning Building (Day of Silence edit)”, and “Exude more in Black” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9).

Opportunity to Share                       Globally Janet Kuypers 4/9/19, written in honor of 4/7/69, the symbolic birth of the Internet Not too long before I was born, ARPA (the Advanced Research Projects Agency) gave BBN Technologies the contract to build a precursor to the World Wide Web. Less than two decades later, I went to college as a computer science engineer at the university that helped lay the groundwork for the Internet (sorry Al Gore, it wasn’t all because of you). When I look back, I think of how my life in some ways may reflect the life of the Internet — as we grew, so did my use of this tool to spread my literary work to people, with my hundreds of books and stacks of CDs sold in more countries than I can count, to musicians and authors literally on the other side of the planet. Snail mail couldn’t do that. You may have once called me a luddite, but my literary magazine had a web page before any other colleague I knew did. And thanks to my web “partner in crime”, I like that I can give people my opportunity to share their writing with the rest of the world, thanks to this tool. I didn’t know this brainchild, which was created not too long before I was born, would parallel me so thoroughly through every chapter of my life. Forgive me for waxing poetic, but maybe the Internet and I, in different ways, help people — to not only get what they want, but to also grow. ...Okay, maybe I can’t call myself as grandiose as the Internet, but really, it seems like the World Wide Web has been on my trail my whole life. So digital or not, we may be more alike than you think.

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