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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Poetry on a Stick” (written for National Something on a Stick Day), “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, and “Unchecked Electricity”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Poetry on a Stick” (written for National Something on a Stick Day), “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, and “Unchecked Electricity”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her poem “Outsider” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her Down in the Dirt v164 May-June 2019 issue/book “The Deep Woods” poem “Poetry on a Stick”, and her haiku poems “mirror”, “keyboard” and “our differences”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “Philosopher at the Blue Note”, “She was a Woman”, “Too Far”, and “Transcribing Dreams Three”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her poem “Outsider” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her Down in the Dirt v164 May-June 2019 issue/book “The Deep Woods” poem “Poetry on a Stick”, and her haiku poems “mirror”, “keyboard” and “our differences”, then her "“Seeing Things Differently” show poems “Philosopher at the Blue Note”, “She was a Woman”, “Too Far”, and “Transcribing Dreams Three”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opens the Way” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain” and from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” as the intro poem for her guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads, then also read her poem “Poetry on a Stick” from the Down in the Dirt 2019 issue collection book “The Flickering Light” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Opens the Way” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain” and from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” as the intro poem for her guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads, then also read her poem “Poetry on a Stick” from the Down in the Dirt 2019 issue collection book “The Flickering Light” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Poetry on a Stick Janet Kuypers 3/29/19 (written the day after National Something on a Stick Day, on twitter and Instagram and Tumblr) I’ve always said that everything is better when it’s on a stick. I mean, kids love ice cream bars on sticks at carnivals; the Republican Party even reveled in serving, during the Iowa caucuses, deep-fried sticks of butter on a stick — which supports my theory that everything really is better on a stick. And sure, you can put every food imaginable on a stick, and toys made on sticks or from sticks have been around forever. So why not poetry on a stick? You can find companies online like mad selling single phrases they call “poetry” on a stick... But get more creative, cut lines of a poem into one long stream and tape it to the end of a stick, wave it around like you’re doing an Olympic routine. Or etch poetry on sticks and leave them for others to find. Because if everything is better on a stick, it’s time poetry proved that’s true.

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