Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

2010

At the Camp

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of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku At the Camp live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku at the camp as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku at the camp as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C, flipped, with a warm filters)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “At the Camp” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Unity for Humanity” (written on and for The Declaration of The Báb day) and “Memorial Day (2019 edit)”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

Bar Poem 20100423

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Became a Jungle

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

See this YouTube video of part two of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, with her poems “labeled me again”, “prefer things soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit Me Out”, “Painted Buddhas”, and “Swallowing Sand & Pebbles” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her poem “What Have I Won” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, “Drinking Their Life Away”, “Labeled Me Again”, “Prefer Things Soft”, “Became a Jungle”, “Now I’m Strong”, “Spit me Out”, and “Painted Buddhas”, and then she sang her song “My Love For You Will Stay the Same” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Each Morning”, “Seasons 1998”, “Became a Jungle”, and “Keep Driving” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” (plus showing multiple live show images one, two, three, and four) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” (plus showing multiple live show images one, two, three, and four) from the cc&d 6/22 v322 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera & b&w Old Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” from section 2 of the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (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 “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, “Became a Jungle”, “How He Failed”, “labeled me again”, “Spit Me Out”, and “Now I’m Strong” from section 2 of the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

be free of you

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(:20) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom is on stage & asks others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance space Janet Kuypers read her poems “Spit Me Out”, “Fingers Black” and “Be Free of You” 9/18/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot camera).

bitter suburbs

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See YouTube video 9/12/1 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (from a Canon Power Shot, w/ a heat wave filter).

See YouTube video 9/12/15 of Janet Kuypers at Chicago’s the Art Colony open mic reading her poems Just Making Face After Face, Tired of Trying, Bitter Suburbs, Pock-Marked Molehills, Dead Grass Fires, Ever Consumed Goat, Even With no Wish Bone, and The Power to Tell Her / The Power To See Her (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Build Your Own Cross

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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign”

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(:36) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build Your Own Cross in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

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Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build your Own Cross (from the book She’s an Open Book) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Build your Own Cross (from the book She’s an Open Book) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video 9/26/18 of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show “Life and Death and Everything Between” during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret, where she read her poems “Only Choice is to Build”, “Marry you in Autumn”, “Violations tested”, “Echo in my Mind”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “erasure poem: ‘One of the Most Hated Women in America’”, “Build Your Own Cross”, “Being God”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Only Voice He Could Hear” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Life and Death and Everything Between” poems “Violations tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross” from the cc&d 11-12/18 book “Wait Until Dark”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her haiku “fought”, then her Life and Death and everything between poems “Violations Tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her haiku “fought”, then her Life and Death and everything between poems “Violations Tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Counting Bodies

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live at the Café in Chicago 04/20/10

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:44, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Counting Bodies” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook
the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic 3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Don’t Forget to Write

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Don’t Forget to Write” (guitar by John and Janet, fashioned from “I Need You”, by the Eurythmic) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10 at Regina’s Place in Logan Square (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing the third third of her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10, with Janet and John also playing background music throughout the show (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square), which included her poems “Like I Was Never There” and “Don’t Forget to Write” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’s Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Drinking Their Life Away

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

See this YouTube video of the first third of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, with her poems “Keep Them Apart”, “Only For One Night”, “Got on the Road Again”, “Out of my Element”, “How He Failed”, and “Drinking Their Life Away” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

egg for a week

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of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

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video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

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video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Download the chapbook with this writing (and many more poems) in “a Very Goth Beach Chapbook”.

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, “Egg for a Week”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Our Lady Of Humility’s Hypocrisy”, “Ugly Babies Need the Most Love”, “Explaining What Condoms are For”, and “Ever Expanding Spaces” from her book “Twitter ati” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Evicted Today

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers mentioning her poem “Evicted Today”, then reading her 3 poems “Egg Drop Soup”, “Quibbling over Religion” and “Before it Occurred to Me” 8/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Finding Faith in a Grocery Store

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live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers mentioning her poem “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, then reading her 3 poems “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars” and “Sobering” 8/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon P.S.).

See this YouTube video (posted 5/31/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““that’s from the barbed wire””, “the Cycle of Life”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/31/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 6/7/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““that’s from the barbed wire””, “the Cycle of Life”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 6/7/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like I Was Never There”, “Don’t Go To Denny’s”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like I Was Never There”, “Don’t Go To Denny’s”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Fingers Black

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

for better or for worse

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part two of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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of part 2 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem for Better or for Worse (in her books Partial Nudity and Twitterati) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem for Better or for Worse (in her books Twitterati and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

Got on the Road Again

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 6/4/12

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Got on the Road Again” in Nashville TNin the Tag Team feature reading

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook
the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Twitter Inside” show poems “Keep Them Apart”, “Only For One Night”, and “Got on the Road Again”, all read from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

How He Failed

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

Read the Janet Kuypers twitter-length poem How He Failed in the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem How He Failed from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/26/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Droid Maxx).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “How He Failed” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/26/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “How He Failed” from Scars’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” @ Craft Pride bar as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/31/16 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

hurt less then

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Hurt Less Then & the Charlie Newman poem If You Could See, at the intro for the Chicago open mic @ the Café 05/11/10

Just Can’t Breathe

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read from the book Living in a Big World, live 12/14/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro and the poems “Packing”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Tribal Scream” read live 12/14/10 from the open mic at the Café in Chicago (on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery

(1:19, 07/03/11)
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Live in Chicago at the Café

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video 07/05/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café

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of the intro to the 07/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with poems and her Close Cover Before Striking poems

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Made Any Difference” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Hue C.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Can’t Breathe”, “Dentist in Iraq”, and “End of an Empire” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Just Let It Glide Over Me

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of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa)

Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo from the live feature “Games We Play”, including this poem (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tum blr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean)

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live 10/08/10 at the Chicago Public Library (Avalon Branch), with cello from the HAman of South Africa

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from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scars 1997”, “Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean)”, and “Our Lady Of Humility’s Hypocrisy” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/7/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Keep Driving

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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poetry feature “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)” at Trunk Fest, live 5/28/11, where she performed her poems “the Burning”, “Death Takes Many Forms”, “Keep Them Apart”, “one by one, the beech trees fell”, her short prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Keep Driving”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow.

Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Keep me Sane

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live at the Café in Chicago 08/10/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 08/10/10, w/ Kuypers reading this poem - and more

Keeps Pounding Against Walls

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from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Keeps Pounding Against Walls” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Walking Home from School” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Games we Play” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 (Panasonic Lumix T56).

Keep Them Apart

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Keep Them Apart” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook
the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Keep Them Apart from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Keep Them Apart from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Them Apart” and “My Kind of Town” from her book “Part of my Pain”, then covers the Paul Simon song “Slip Sliding Away” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keep Them Apart” and “My Kind of Town” from her book “Part of my Pain”, then covers the Paul Simon song “Slip Sliding Away” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

labeled me again

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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of JUST Labeled Me Again 07/03/11 in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature at “Beach Poets” in Chicago

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of JUST Labeled Me Again from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

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of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again in the 07/03/11 Beach Poets “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

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of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again from the lip cam live 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”

See feature-length YouTube
video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

See feature-length YouTube
video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Every Cage” (with her mini-poem “Labeled me Again” inside it) and her haiku poem “hold” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Moonlight” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/25/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Left with a Hole
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

Enjoy the full video of the Beach Poets Death ‘n’ Rebirth 7/11/10 show from archive.org... (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirth
with all of the writing in the live show

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

Download this free chapbook of the
Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

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of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot video camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coslow’s”, “a woman talking about her rapist friend” and “Left with a Hole” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coslow’s”, “a woman talking about her rapist friend” and “Left with a Hole” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Things They Did to You”, “Isn’t That What it’s all About”, and “Left with a Hole” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Live in my Imagination

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See the video from YouTube read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web, live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

Loss

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

See this YouTube video of part three of the Janet Kuypers Chicago feature Twitter Inside 5/21/10 in Logan Square, reading her poem “Loss” and singing her Mom’s Favorite Vase song my love for you will stay the same” with John on guitar (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperssinging

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part three of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

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of part 3 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

Loving Four

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 01/19/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Reve aled”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Reve aled”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Reve aled”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds live 11/9/19 at the Grace Heritage Center for the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud“ open mic. In round 1 she read her poem “Depth of Field” from her poetry book “Reve aled”, then her Poetry Aloud inspired poems “Undulating Nexus” and “Just too High for Just one Man”. In round 2 she reads her poems “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, and “My kind of Town” from her poetry book “Reve aled”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. In round 3 she reads her poem “Loving Four” from her poetry book “Reve aled”, accompanied by Ron on guitar. (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Marine Rifle Poem

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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

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of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the later part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poems she read for the Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See Facebook live video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (facebook live video with a Threshold filter).

View or download the free PDF chapbook
“Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17
of all of the short Janet Kuypers poems she read from her live 4/30/17 reading in Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb (plus one bonus poem).

See YouTube video from 4/30/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her “Drop the Bomb” poems for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with control, earth, enjoy, unbounded, Just Thinking About It, Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Marne Rifle Poem” from her book “Twitterati”, then singing the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds” with John on acoustic guitar 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Marne Rifle Poem” from her book “Twitterati”, then singing the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds” with John on acoustic guitar 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

no Heat in my Heart

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/11/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Hurt Less Then & the Charlie Newman poem If You Could See, at the intro for the Chicago open mic @ the Café 05/11/10

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

no one will

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with an metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with an pastel sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

no thank you

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

observer’s love poem

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07/19/10, Café Ballou (at Waiting4the Bus), Chicago

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her observer’s improv (S, based on the poems seven and seven, plus eighteen, observations: nine and six, ten and ten, plus two, eleven and two, plus eight, and observer’s love poem) live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her observer’s improv (C, based on the poems seven and seven, plus eighteen, observations: nine and six, ten and ten, plus two, eleven and two, plus eight, and observer’s love poem) live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin, first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperssinging

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin, first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Love in the Universe
5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Make the Drawing Make Sense”, “The Best Times in my Life”, and “Observer’s love Poem” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (extreme sestina variation)” & “Observer’s Love Poem” from her chapbook “Eleven”, and then her eleven-themed new poem “popular and useless” (with a selfie with the audience) live 6/10/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Read all of the poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry show in her 6/11/18 poetry chapbook for her show

“Eleven” containing her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, and “Observer’s Love Poem”.

On Ashes (haiku, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/25/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, and live piano from Gary)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On Ashes from the Water of Life press chapbook “Unzip the Body Bag” live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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“Time to Start the Show”
of her poems “the Bathroom at he Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” performed in her 5/6/17 Austin show about hosting poetry open mics.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On Ashes” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her Memorial Day poems “Just Names” and “Killing Women for Healing”, both appearing in her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 5/25/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Only For One Night

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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lfrom the 6" x 9" ISBN# book “40”s, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 02/22/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, & her poetry in 2011 books, including this poem

Opinions

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Opinions (C, read from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Opinions (S, read from her book Twitterati, now globally on sale) live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

Our Music

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live at the Café in Chicago 04/27/10

...or see this YouTube video

of this poem, her reading a Charlie Newman poem & the intro to the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 04/27/10

Out of my Element

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

out of the space program

See YouTube video of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Painted Buddhas

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

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read live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Painted Buddhas in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, with this poem.

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Nashville Halloween feature,
w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video from 11/27/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Painted Buddhas” during Thom’s intro performance @ the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video (Sony) 11/27/16 of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Painted Buddhas” during Thom’s intro performance @ the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

Passed Away

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with the “air brush” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with a colorize filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

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(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Anderson”, “Passed Away”, and “Depth of Field” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Pinchy

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago, w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

prefer things soft

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

Raped With Words

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live 11/16/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro from the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 11/02/10 and this poem

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Read by John Yotko, 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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(read by John Yotko) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera then given a Black & White filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera, then given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera, then given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, originally in the cc&d v 284 25-year anniversary book “Shining”, and read from the (at the time unreleased) cc&d 5-8 2018 issue/chapbook collection book “Across the Wall”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words” and “Frozen Together” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Raped With Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues, released during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, plus her new poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life” and “Jihad Against Free Choice” to close her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Raped With Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues, released during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, plus her new poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life” and “Jihad Against Free Choice” to close her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she close through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Rushed

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live at the Café in Chicago 10/05/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 10/05/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poems “You Cannot Burn Me” & “Rushed”

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Zealots Intentions”, and “Rushed” from the v304 issue of the cc&d 12/20 book “Reptile Lust” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Zealots Intentions”, and “Rushed” from the v304 issue of the cc&d 12/20 book “Reptile Lust” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (video filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, “filed under fiction”, “Everyone Will React”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Rushed” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “Vote Early, Read Often” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, “filed under fiction”, “Everyone Will React”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Rushed” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “Vote Early, Read Often” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

“So”

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live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:22, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

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read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

Somewhere Else

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live 10/26/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Spit Me Out

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, and “Spit Me Out” from the v322 6/22 cc&d 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before Taking Over the Controls”, “Have You Ever Had”, and “Spit Me Out” from the v322 6/22 cc&d 29-year anniversary issue/book “Eye to Eye” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Swallowing Sand & Pebbles

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Live at Twitter Inside Chicago feature 5/21/10

Teaching Our Children

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read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 12/07/10 with this poem and other poems read live

Ten and Ten, Plus Two

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live 07/11/10 at Beach Poets in the show Death ‘'n’ Rebirth

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of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show with this poem, at Beach Poets, from archive.org

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Walking Home from School” from her “One Acts show, her poem “An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage” from her “a Woman on the Beach show, then her poem“Ten and Ten, plus Two” from her “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)” 9/8/18 @ “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

the greatest spectacle in racing

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

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Thinking. I hate that.

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read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.

three minutes for three dollars

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live at the Café in Chicago 04/20/10

You Cannot Burn Me

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live at the Café in Chicago 10/05/10

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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 10/05/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poems “You Cannot Burn Me” & “Rushed”

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from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach

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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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