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See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus June poem “Versatile Females in Athletics” (written 7/6, the calendar day the youngest woman in history won Wimbledon), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/6/20 (on the event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Versatile Females in Athletics” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Versatile Females in Athletics” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Helium Rising”, and “Versatile Females in Athletics” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 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 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 “Einsteinium’s Mysteries”, “Hydrogen: One On One”, “Lithium Desperation”, “Helium Rising”, and “Versatile Females in Athletics” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 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 time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Versatile Females in                    Athletics Janet Kuypers 7/6/19, on the day the youngest woman in history won Wimbledon Most Americans grunt for national sports like football, baseball, maybe basketball... but I am the weird one who likes tennis. When I was little, I played Bad to the Bone air guitar on court with my tennis racket, and I was on the high school tennis team when I was fifteen. I watch Wimbledon annually, and right now the youngest girl from America has beaten the U.S. five- time champ of Wimbledon. I thought, she hasn’t won yet, but still, this is an amazing time for young women right now in tennis. And then I suddenly look at the calendar and realize, back in the Wimbledon day one girl (not woman, but girl) won the Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Championship, for the first of 5 times when she was 15. And back in the Wimbledon day, women (and 15-year-old girls too) played 5 sets, just like men. So, this one 15-year-old girl remains the youngest ladies’ singles winner to this date in any tennis major. Now, her name was (get a load of this) Lottie Dod (I don’t make this stuff up, trust me); she not only won Wimbledon in 5-set matches 5 times, but also won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, played twice for Englan ’s women’s national field hockey team (which she helped to found), and even won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in archery. I mean, the Guinness Book of Records has even named her as the most versatile female athlete of all time.* Okay, so I was only on the tennis team when she was winning her first title at Wimbledon. If Americans are all intent on watching baseball and football, I’ll settle for one player, on their own on a court, battling one on one, running more than any football or baseball player ever would. I’ll take tennis.   * Lottie Dod, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Dod

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