Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

2012

Aluminum (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v202 12/22 Down in the Dirt, issue/book “The Co ol Cold” poems “Aluminum” (the first poem also appearing in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Value from Nothingness”, “Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt”, and “X-ing out lives” (that is also slated for appearance in the CyberWit.net 2023 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a

Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This was also released from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “The Paths Less Traveled” book poetry “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” + sharing an image reflecting the poem (also from the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” and “Alumium” (also from the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream, from a Samsung S9 camera, on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Americium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“for War and Country” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Decision”, then her poem “Americium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Paul Simon song “Slip Sliding Away” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/24/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Anderson

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Panasonic Lumix camera).

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).

Argon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Life, Death & the Universe” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/11/13 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the 3 poems Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash, Argon and the twitter-length poem Lost my Breath, 1/11/13 at the open mic “Poetry Love Letters” at Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the 3 poems Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash, Argon and the twitter-length poem Lost my Breath, 1/11/13 at the open mic “Poetry Love Letters” at Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (this video was filmed from an Android camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v213 11/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Dist ances” poems “For Far Too Many Years” (+ show images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5), “Argon, like my Exes” (+ show images 1, 2, & 3; this poem also appears in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Argon” (+ show images 1 & 2; this poem also appears in her book

“Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Arsenic (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch the YouTube video
of this Kuypers reading the poem live 1/26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon),
with music from the HA!Man of South Africa
(2011 Hotel music “the Ice is Melting”)

Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video live 1/26/13 of Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poetry in “Periodic Prep for Radio Poetry” on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, read to music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video
1/26/13 of Kuypers reading 8 Periodic Table poems (including this poem) on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Samsung), with the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel music the Ice is Melting playing

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s “Wayward Waltz of the Fractured Wind” (filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Iridium”, “Calcium”, and “Arsenic” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at Austin’s “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 Periodic Table poems “Iridium”, “Calcium”, and “Arsenic” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v331 3/23 cc&d issue/book “Not There Anymore” poems “Just Checking my Religions” (which will also be in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Arsenic” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and “the State of the Nation (2016 edit)” to start her “Poetic License 3/5/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This performance was also released as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Barium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Lights on our Insides” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Been a World Leader

Download this poem in the free 10/3/12
“Janet with HA!” chapbook
w/ material from their live show together.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Sony)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Samsung), including this piece

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her 3 poems “Exempt from the Draft”, “Been a World Leader” and “the Way you Tease me” 11/13/16 (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, &#entering the ruines”) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ “Lengthy World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “My Kind of Town”, “Been a World Leader”, “Enough’s Enough”, “The Little Differences” and an edited “Communication 2012” (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

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 Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Been a World Leader” from her “Janet with HA!” show, her poem “Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds” from her “Nashville Halloween” feature, and her poem “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species” from her “This Just In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, live 9/15/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video 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).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” during her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted in 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 “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” during 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” 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

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things”, “Been a World Leader”, and “Enough’s Enough” from section 2 of the from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Beryllium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video.of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Bimbo (twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Bimbo live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Bimbo live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

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 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

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

Building Houses out of Pallets

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Building Houses out of Pallets in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Building Houses out of Pallets in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Calcium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Iridium”, “Calcium”, and “Arsenic” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Instant Karma” book poems “Calcium” (+ show images 1 2, & 3, which also appears in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) & “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (which also appear in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) as a bonus reading during

her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live during the open mic from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Carbon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 11/7/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Carbon“ live 2/23/14 at her “Chemistry, Poetry, and a Brat” feature reading in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop, with an audience including both chemists and teachers requesting the elements poems (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Carbon live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Edge Detection)

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Carbon” (C, #6), “Cadmium” (Cd, #48), and “Gold” (Au, #79) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Carbon” (C, #6), “Cadmium” (Cd, #48), and “Gold” (Au, #79) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ image), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ image), “Carbon”, “Barium Dateline”, and “Gold for the foolish at heart” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ image), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ image), “Carbon”, “Barium Dateline”, and “Gold for the foolish at heart” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 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 and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Chlorine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Chlorine”, “Zinc”, and “Sulfur” from her 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Chlorine”, “Zinc”, and “Sulfur” from her 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v205 3/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “My Homeland” poems “Chlorine” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Chlorine defines dioxins” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights” (which will also be in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”) during her “Poetic License 3/5/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoetry

Chromium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v215 1/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Oa sis” poems “Otherwise Forget Life” & “Verses on Display”, then her poem “Chromium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”, + show image 2) & “Chromium Shine” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, and show images 1, 2, & 3) during her

“Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this “Poetic License” video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Paper Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Cliques Gathered Together (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ “Listening In” 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, with this poem said on the phone (from a Canon camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ “Listening In” 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony), with this poem said on the phone (from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

cocoon i’ve created

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Sony video camera

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Canon video camera

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago where she reads this poem, plus her poetry (w/ live piano from Gary) from the Sony video camera

Communication 2012

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading part of this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading most of this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bismuth in an ocean of one”, “My Kind of Town”, “Communication 2012”, and “Holmium” from the v324 cc&d book “Into the Surf” on 8/3/22 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Animal Tales” 2022 book feature poem “Uniqueness Finds Love” and her “JK with HA” show poems “My Kind of Town” and “Communication 2012” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 12/7/22, 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). This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Copernicium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
On the Edge of the Table,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
toward the end of the Periodic Table.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems read live in Chicago 12/14/12 at her feature On the Edge of the Table, read to background music from the HA!Man of South Africa(this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 at her feature On the Edge of the Table (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a 3D Ripple filter)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with an Edge Detection filter)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a Film Age filter)

Copper (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled Count Me In, with
the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/4/12 at Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading both “Radon” and “Copper” from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/4/12 at Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Copper read live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled and her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Copper read live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper in the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Copper in your Mouth” and “Copper” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Copper in your Mouth” and her Periodic Table poem “Copper” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper in your Mouth” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) from section 2 of the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper in your Mouth” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) from section 2 of the from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

couldn’t twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading a shortened version of her poem Couldn’t live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See YouTube video 9/27/14 of the Janet Kuypers “Partial Nudity” book release & interview on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her haiku and poetry “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “Eight People Outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “My New Grocery List”, “Couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “addiction”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting” (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Couldn’t as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C, flipped, with a day to night filter)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Couldn’t as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon 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 (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).

Depression (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

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

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the first part of her poem depression (originally in her books Partial Nudity and twitterati) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the second part of her poem depression (originally in her books Partial Nudity and twitterati) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the first part of her poem depression (originally in her books twitterati and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing the second part of her poem depression (originally in her books twitterati and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

Dreams 12/3/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading the poems Dreams 12/3/12 and Garret’s Lament 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/30/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video
of Bob Rashkow reading this Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 12/3/12 in cc&d mag, v244 live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Bob Rashkow reading this Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 12/3/12 in cc&d mag, v244 live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Dreams 12/3/12” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks” & “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With” (all followed by her reading the quote, “We don’t read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are human beings,” from “Dead Poets Society” and said by Robin Williams as John Keating) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Dreams 12/6/12

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 12/6/12 from cc&d mag, v244 (the July/August 2013 issue) live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 12/6/12 from cc&d mag, v244 (the July/August 2013 issue) live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S, with the Film Age - Older fli==ilter)

See Part 2 YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 9/25/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony, cut off, but includes this poem)

Dysprosium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this YouTube video (posted 7/20/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Dysprosium” and her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Dysprosium-162; from superfluid to supersolid” from the v323 7/22 cc&d issue/book “Heart of the House” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 for 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 7/19/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Dysprosium” and her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Dysprosium-162; from superfluid to supersolid” from the v323 7/22 cc&d issue/book “Heart of the House” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” her Periodic Table poems “Dysprosium” and “Holmium” (which also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Dysprosium-162; from superfluid to supersolid” (+ image), “Bismuth in an ocean of one” (+ image), and “Holmium, only one atom” (+ image) on 12/7/22, 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).

This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

eight people outside twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading a shortened version of her poem Eight People Outside live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading a shortened version of her poem Eight People Outside live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku eight people outside as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku eight people outside as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

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 “Nerves of a Poet” show poems “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, then her “6 second poems” show poem “eight people outside”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” during the Thom multi-person intro to the “Spoken & Heard” open mic 11/4/18 @ Kick Butt Coffee (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Einsteinium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“for War and Country” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/12/12 (Canon) at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Einsteinium, Neon, & Nickel, recorded from a Canon video camera) read live in Chicago 12/12/12 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Einsteinium, Neon, & Nickel, recorded from a Motorola phone video camera) read live in Chicago 12/12/12 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Einsteinium read live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Tin, Einsteinium & Nobelium live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Tin, Einsteinium & Nobelium in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night (Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Einsteinium 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with Einsteinium (#99, Ununseptium (#99), and Tellurium (#52).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video live 10/19/19 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase”, where Janet Kuypers read poems from a variety of books in multiple rounds to the live audience at the bookstore. In round 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “On This Day” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Eight to Sixteen” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her Periodic Table poem “Einsteinium” from The Cafe Gallery poetry book “the Chosen Few”. In round 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Empty Chocolate Counter” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Lord have Mercy” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Andrew Hettinger” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, In round 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Star Trek, Star Wars, and Storm Troopers” from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Chess Game Again” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, then her bonus poem “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, written that morning, on Sweetest Day, 10/19/19. In round 4, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend” (for her “Bases Loaded” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “All These Reminders” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 5, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Uphill Battles lead to Changing It Up” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Violent Affair” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “She Told Me Her Dreams (one)” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 6, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “New Vacuum Cleaner” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 1996 v79 book “Poetry and Prose” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video live 10/19/19 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase”, where Janet Kuypers read poems from a variety of books in multiple rounds to the live audience at the bookstore. In round 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “On This Day” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Eight to Sixteen” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her Periodic Table poem “Einsteinium” from The Cafe Gallery poetry book “the Chosen Few”. In round 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Empty Chocolate Counter” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Lord have Mercy” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Andrew Hettinger” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, In round 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Star Trek, Star Wars, and Storm Troopers” from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “Chess Game Again” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”, then her bonus poem “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, written that morning, on Sweetest Day, 10/19/19. In round 4, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend” (for her “Bases Loaded” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “All These Reminders” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 5, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Uphill Battles lead to Changing It Up” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poem “Violent Affair” (for her “Nerves of a Poet” feature) from her poetry book “a year long Journey”, and then her poem “She Told Me Her Dreams (one)” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 6, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “New Vacuum Cleaner” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 1996 v79 book “Poetry and Prose” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v209 7/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Lonely Visitor” poems “Einsteinium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds” (+ its image, which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Fermium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enough’s Enough

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/12/12 at Poetry Love Letters in Chicago (filmed with the Sony video camera)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Enough’s Enough in Chicago 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers reading Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon, Film Age - Older)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers Chicago poet reading her poem “Enough’s Enough” from her “Janet with HA!” show, her poem “Original Snowbirds” from her “This Just In” show, and her poem “Only Choice is to Build” from her “Life and Death and Everything Between” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, live 9/15/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PLT56).

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).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “Enough’s Enough” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” during her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted in 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

Etched into that Tombstone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Etched into that Tombstone” and “Only an Observer” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Canon Power Shot).

Etiquette for Tattooing Thigh “Bracelets”

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Etiquette for Tattooing Thigh Bracelets (C) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 at Jaks Tap in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 1 poem and 2 pieces of prose (including this piece) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading 1 poem and 2 pieces of prose (including this piece) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 9/15/14 in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Opposite” in conversation, then reading her poem “Etiquette for Tattooing Thigh “Bracelets”” (from her book “Part of My Pain”) 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Canon Power Shot).

Ever Be

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Posterized)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Canon)

Ever Consumed Goat

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).

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Ever Expanding Spaces (twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ever Expanding Spaces at the open mic 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (video filmed from the Canon camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Ever Expanding Spaces at the open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Ever Expanding Spaces live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Ever Expanding Spaces live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See Vine-styled video through facebook of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku like twitter-length poem “Ever Expanding Spaces” in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v139 Book “the Relic, the Effort, the Yell” in New Orleans 10/30/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Ever Expanding Spaces 12/3/16 as a JKPoetryVine video in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v139 9/10 2016 book “the Relic, the Effort, the Yell”.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “Ever Expanding Spaces” from Scars Publications’ Jul./Dec. 2016 Down in the Dirt Issue book “Edible Red” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 1/16/17 (in Austin Texas, from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

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

Ever Since You Got Me (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video

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

Watch the YouTube video

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)

Or watch the above (blurred) video intro in facebook

See blurred YouTube video

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)

Or watch the above (blurred) video intro in facebook

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 Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Letter 09/16/06” and her poems “Ever Since You Got Me” and “Love Affair with the Moon 2012” from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Ever Since You Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, “Now That You Got Me”, and “Good Escape” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 9/7/22 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Everyone Else

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Everyone Has a Choice

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 8/29/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 8/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Everyone Has a Choice read from the book Partial Nudity live 7/2/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 7/2/14 WHERE SHE READS THIS POEM at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See 3/4/18 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Future Job Options”, “Us, Actually Touching” and “Everyone Has a Choice” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Everything Else Falls Away

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of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

Excuses to Ignore me twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

exposed ankles twitter-length poem)

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

Fake Face (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

Feel Comfortable (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music & video from the HA!man of South Afric / Francois Le Roux) from Samsung

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony cam)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” 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 new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” 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 poem “Knew I Had to be Ready” from her interview/journal/ poetry book “In Depth”, then she read her “This Poem is About” poem “Feel Comfortable”, + her poem “In These Times” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (PLT56).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Fit Together Like That (twitter-length poem)

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Fluorine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Fluorine”, and “Ominous Day” from the v187 9/21 Down in the Dirt book “Roman Remains” 9/1/21 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Fluorine”, and “Ominous Day” from the v187 9/21 Down in the Dirt book “Roman Remains” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Fluorine”, and “Ominous Day” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 1/5/22 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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Fluorine”, and “Ominous Day” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 1/5/22 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 and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

found poem (twitter-length poem about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevic)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem found poem live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem found poemlive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Found Poem”, “Found Haiku” and “Quoting Twitter with a Found Haiku” from the book “Unlocking the Word”, them her poem “Erasure Poem: ‘One of the most Hated Women in America’” from her “Life and Death and Everything Between” show, read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, live 9/15/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

found poem from a New Jersey mom twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video
of John reading this Janet Kuypers poem from v240 cc&d magazine live 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic Kuypers hosts
in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/16/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem found poem from a New Jersey mom live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem found poem from a New Jersey mom live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

Francium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem< (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)./font>

Games We Play
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading poetry (including this poem) at the open mike 01/18/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video

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)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video from 3/19/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Games We Play” and “erasure poem: a Declaration of Female Freedom” live at Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then her poems “Games We Play” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from her book “Say Nothing” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then her poems “Games We Play” & “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” from her book “Say Nothing” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (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).

Garret’s Lament

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of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading the poems Dreams 12/3/12 and Garret’s Lament 1/30/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/30/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poetry (including this poem)

Germanium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“for War and Country” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v336 8/23 cc&d issue/book “Stolen Stars” poems “Evidence as Testament” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Germanium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Get His Product to Town

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Glomming off the Wrestling World

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

Goblins on Top of the Bus

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Goblins on Top of the Bus live in her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 (Cfs200, video flipped and saturated)

Good Escape (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago from the house camera

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the house camera), including this poem

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 Janet Kuypers’ June 2019 Book Release Reading 6/5/19, where she read her Scars Publications the 2019 literary date book review poem “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, then her poem “Precariously Balance” for the Brian Lamont dedication (that will appear in her book “(pheromemes) haiku, twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, released August 2019), then her “This is a Poem About” poetry “Quiet for a While”, “Under Your Total Control”, “Hollow for so Long Already”, “Push Your Button”, and “Good Escape”, read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (PL T56).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Goth Girl Photographer twitter-length poem)
Goth Girl Photographer (two-tweet twitter-length poem, with no spaces)

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

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

Gouge Out Their Eyes (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the house camera

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (C fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cfs), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cps), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There — which led into She’s Going Home, and ending with Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Gouge Out Their Eyes” within her “This is a Poem About” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eliminating the Endangered Species List” (written on National Panda Day) and “Kind of Like a City” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

grandmother charged with murder

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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)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Grandmother Charged with Murder” and “One Summer Traveled” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “(Less Than) Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Grinning from Ear to Ear

Guantanamo Bay twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

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

guzzling drug cocktails with champagne

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the house camera

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) from the Kodak camera

Helium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this YouTube video

of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this YouTube video (posted 8/10/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Helium Addict” and “Helium rain is no laughing matter”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Helium” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/24/22 for 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 #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 8/9/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Helium Addict” and “Helium rain is no laughing matter”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Helium” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Ban ners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/24/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Helium Addict” and “Helium rain is no laughing matter”, then her Periodic Table bonus poem “Helium” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (that also appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry books “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” and “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on

Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera was also released with a Hue Cycling, and it was also released on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Helium Addiction (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Promethium”, “Ununseptium”, “Helium Addiction”, “Magnesium” and “Lead” in her mini-feature “After the Apocalypse” live 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (w/ a Canon Power Shot).

Hollow for so Long Already (from the “this poem is about...” series)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from Cousin BonesÙ “At the Plasma Clinic”) from the Samsung

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

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of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak)

Hunt the Game (twitter-length poem)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Hunt the Game live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Hunt the Game live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

Hydrogen (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Hydrogen”, read live in Chicago at Poetry’s “Love Letter” 11/9/12 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Hydrogen”, read live in Chicago at Poetry’s “Love Letter” 11/9/12 (video filmed from a phone camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Inches Above the Ground

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of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

Iridium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

This radio show reading was also in the

“Sweet Home Chicago”

podcast at Sundown Lounge (no. 311 2/22/13)

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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

View or download the free chapbook
Poetry Saloon at Noon
in the Poetry Saloon at Noon show 1/30/13 w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems “Osmium”, “Platinum”, “Iridium”, “Calcium”, “Chlorine”, “Arsenic”, “Zinc”, “Sulfur”, and “Silver”, performed in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” (bonus poem for element Al, #13), “Manganese” (Mn, #25), and “Iridium” (Ir, #77) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (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 Periodic Table poems “Alumium? Aluminium? Aluminum?” (bonus poem for element Al, #13), “Manganese” (Mn, #25), and “Iridium” (Ir, #77) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (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 Periodic Table poems “Iridium”, “Calcium”, and “Arsenic” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Iron (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Lights on our Insides” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry”
poem read live in Chicago 1/9/13 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 3 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems (Promethium, Livermorium, & Lead, recorded from a Android camera) read live in Chicago 1/9/13 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the a href="http://scars.tv/dirt/dirt201nov22/Reaching_for_the_Stars" target="new">v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 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; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d “Unable To Escape It” book poems “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” that is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” and “Antimony” that is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”, then her “The Paths Less Traveled” book poems “Iron” (that is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” + image(that are also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” on 3/1/23 (the 1st Wednesday of the month, 1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tum blr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream (which was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Jack, Charles, Michael

Jaw Gets Sore twitter-length poem)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

Jet Puffed

Just Beyond Those Front Doors

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

Just Making Face After Face

Just Saw a Circa twitter-length poem)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Just Saw a Circa live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Just Saw a Circa live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

Kill the Vermin

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Sony

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Canon

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ live piano from Gary), which includes this poem

Know what I know (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

Know You

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know You from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know You from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Know You, Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas and Overweight Reasons, plus Robin Williams’ lines on why we read and write poetry in an excerpt from Dead Poets Society at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

See this YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Know You” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX720 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “On All Fours” and “Know You”
at “Recycled Reads” (Canon Power Shot SX700 camera video w/ an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On All Fours”, “Know You” and “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Sony camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Know You Only Got Me (from the “this poem is about...” series)<

Watch the YouTube video

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)

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 Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poems “Under my Fingers” and “Know You Only Got Me” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Then You, Women who Work I” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was 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 “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Koala Porn twitter-length poem)

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Samsung

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the Kodak)

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

Krypton (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled Count Me In, with
the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Krypton, live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v334 6/23 cc&d 30-year anniversary issue/book “From a Devil to an Angel” poems “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Krypton” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and “Krypton, Messed With” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 6/4/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from the open mic that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Lead (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Lithium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 11/7/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Like I Was Never There” from the v194 4/22 Down in the Dirt book “Seahorse” during her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Like I Was Never There” from the v194 4/22 Down in the Dirt book “Seahorse” during her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video (posted 5/11/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Lithium” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/10/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 5/10/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Lithium” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/11/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) 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’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) 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). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Livermorium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Love Affair With The Moon 2012

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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)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers live at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 reading poetry in 3 sets from her her “Revealed”. In set 1 she read her poems “Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen”, “Observations: Nine and Six” and “Eleven and Two, Plus Eight”. In set 2 she read her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls”. In set 3 she read her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers live at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 reading poetry in 3 sets from her her “Revealed”. In set 1 she read her poems “Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen”, “Observations: Nine and Six” and “Eleven and Two, Plus Eight”. In set 2 she read her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls”. In set 3 she read her poems “Universe... Now In Color”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Love Affair With The Moon 2012” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Lutetium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Download this poem in the free chapbook
On the Edge of the Table,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
toward the end of the Periodic Table.

Magnesium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

melted marshmallow twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago (Cfs), w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter.

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago (Cps), w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter.

Download these poems in the free chapbook
Poetic Shades of Chocolate

w/ poems read 6/20/15 at 10 Shades of Chocolate show in Chicago

Mercury (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF file chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

Missed the Clicks and Scratches

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Sony video camera

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Canon video camera

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) & “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on and for Cinco de Mayo) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poem “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poem “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, then it was given a Threshold filter).

Momento Mori

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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13

Watch this YouTube video
live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Edge Detection filter)

Watch this YouTube video
live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Film Age - Older filter)

Watch this YouTube video
live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Posterize filter)

Watch this YouTube video
live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Threshold filter)

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading All I Can Capture and Momento Mori live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (these videos were posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Moros y Christianos

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Moros y Christianos live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Moros y Christianos live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Mother’s Day 2012

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

Watch this YouTube video
of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12

My Kind of Town

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video
of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My Kind of Town 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “My Kind of Town” and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” 10/16/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).

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 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #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 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”

from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Neon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF file chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/12/12 (Canon) at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

View or download the free chapbook
the 2012 Poetry Bomb,
with The Periodic Table of Poetry poems (some of which were read at Chicago’ L train stops for the 2012 Poetry Bomb), including “Hydrogen”, “Helium”, “Lithium”, “Carbon”, “Nitrogen”, “Oxygen”, “Neon”, “Phosphorus”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic”, “Mercury”, and “Radon”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Neon”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic and Syphilis” and “Molybdenum” for her “the Periodic Table of Poetry” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Neon” (Ne, #10), “Tungsten” (W, #74), and “Lawrencium” (Lr, #103) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PL2500; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Neon” (Ne, #10), “Tungsten” (W, #74), and “Lawrencium” (Lr, #103) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PL T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) 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 #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Sodium” (+ also showing its “image” for the poem), “Neon”, and “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/22 issue collection book “The Paths Less Traveled” & her books “Periodic Ta ble Poetry” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 2/5/23 global open mic” in a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

Enjoy this video as a Facebook live video stream from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Neptunium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF file chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

Nickel (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled Count Me In, with
the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/12/12 (Canon) at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/16/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

Nitrogen (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Life, Death & the Universe” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Nitrogen” (N, #7), “Cesium”(Cs, #55), and “Ununpentium” (Uup, #115) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (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 Periodic Table poems “Nitrogen” (N, #7), “Cesium”(Cs, #55), and “Ununpentium” (Uup, #115) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Nitrogen Needs”, “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Down in the Dirt November 2021 v189 issue/paperback book “A Door is A Door is A Door” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA 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 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Nitrogen Needs”, “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Down in the Dirt November 2021 v189 issue/paperback book “A Door is A Door is A Door” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA 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 T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book anthology “The World Outside”, then her poems “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book anthology “The World Outside”, then her poems “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry

Nobelium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Download this poem in the free chapbook
On the Edge of the Table,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
toward the end of the Periodic Table.

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Nobelium read live in Chicago 7/7/13 at Kitchen Sink’s “What Is It In Your Heart?” open mic & variety show night

Now That You Got Me (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video

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)

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

Obama on the Subway (twitter-length poem)

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

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed from a Samsung camera).

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (filmed from a Kodak camera)

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Occupy (twitter-length poem)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem Occupy live 5/29/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem Occupylive 5/29/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/29/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago - and performing this poem

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

once i saw

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

Watch this YouTube video
of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12

One of the Carts

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem One of the Carts in cc&d magazine live 5/22/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (S)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem One of the Carts in cc&d magazine live 5/22/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (C)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/22/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this poem

Only Occasionally (twitter-length poem from the “this poem is about...” series)

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

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak camera

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Only Occasionally live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Only Occasionallylive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “This Poem is About” poem “Only Occasionally”, then her poem “Knew What He was Talking About”, then singing her poem/song during Austin City Limits music weekend “Made Any Difference”, from her v5 cc&d poetry collection book “On the Edge” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See this YouTube video (posted 7/6/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiet for a While”, “Push Your Button”, “Under My Fingers”, and “Only Occasionally” from the v323 7/22 cc&d issue/book “Heart of the House” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video (posted 7/5/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiet for a While”, “Push Your Button”, “Under My Fingers”, and “Only Occasionally” from the v323 7/22 cc&d issue/book “Heart of the House” when visiting Chicago 6/23/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiet for a While”, “Push Your Button”, “Under My Fingers”, “Only Occasionally”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” from the cc&d 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Wall” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic

Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video was also filed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and given a Hue Cycling filter; and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

On that Summer Day (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

On Their Way

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) Canon

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 6/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ live piano from Gary), which includes this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On Their Way” and “Dreams 01/19/04 Two a.k.a. Dream One: Dog Stuck to my Face” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “White Knuckled” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Opening Our Own Doors twitter-length poem)

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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

Osmium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Astatine” from her “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” chapbook and reading, then her poems “Osmium” and “Titanium” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Over and Over Again

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of Kuypers reading this poem 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary) from the Sony

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Job of being Homeless” and “Over and Over Again” 9//16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quiver with no Home” and “Guilt” 9/24/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (video filmed from a Sony camera).

Overloaded with Liabilities

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Overloaded with Liabilities from cc&d mag, v245 live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Overloaded with Liabilities from cc&d mag, v245 live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Over Their Coffins

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of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

Overweight Reasons

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem (C) Overweight Reasons from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem (S) Overweight Reasons from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

Oxygen (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla.
This is also highlighted in the Generationless Publications Janet Kuypers feature.
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 11/7/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 11/7/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem

Watch YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Oxygen”, “Touching Cobalt”, and “Meitnerium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Oxygen”, “Touching Cobalt”, and “Meitnerium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and given a Posterize filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Elephants Carry the World” and “Human Construct of Time” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poem “Oxygen” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” live at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown 8/25/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v203 1/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Gravity Of Imagination” poems “Oxygen Feeds” + its image and “Oxygen Save Me” + its image (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Oxygen” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Oxygen makes superionic ice” + its image (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Those Were the Days of Our Lives (dreams 8/12/22)” (that is also slated to appear in the her CyberWit 2023 poetry book “Testament”) on 1/4/23, 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her January-April 2023 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Oxygen Feeds” (+ image), “Oxygen Save Me” (+ image), and “Oxygen makes superionic ice” (+ image) — all of which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, plus her poem “Oxygen” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 5/7/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

oxygen bars (a twitter-length poem)

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Watch this YouTube video
of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

Palladium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled Count Me In, with
the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Part of my Pain (from the “this poem is about...” series)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Part of my Pain live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Part of my Pain live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Part of my Pain” (from her book “Part of My Pain”), and (read together) “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)” and “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).

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

Phosphorus (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled Count Me In, of the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphorus”, and “White Phosphorus” from the Scars Publi cations 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphorus”, and “White Phosphorus” from the Scars Publi cations 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, and “Phosphorus” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was 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 “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, and “Phosphorus” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

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Pistol Case (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

Platinum (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

Plutonium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF flie chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Plutonium#8221; live 2/23/14 at her “Chemistry, Poetry, and a Brat” feature reading in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop, with an audience including both chemists and teachers requesting the elements poems (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pint erest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Plutonium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Hue Cycle)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (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 “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

Pork Skins (twitter-length poem)

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

Potassium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (including this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Lights on our Insides” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems from the books “Claustro phobia” and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” and “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ shared the image for this poem), then her “Floating Island” book poems “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) and “Potassium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her January-April 2023 cc&d issue collection book “A Mural of a Forest” poems “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ image) & “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (which are both also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her January-April 2023 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Potassium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee”, & “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Poverty in America (a twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Poverty in America live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Poverty in America live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Promethium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w#&047; Threshold filter), including this poem

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

Protect Ourselves from Ourselves

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her twitter-length poem “Juxtaposition, or Irony?” in conversation, then reading her poems “Protect Ourselves from Ourselves” and “Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).

Push Your Button (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony cam)

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

Quenching Anybody’s Thirst

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Human Construct of Time” and “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)” from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” live 10/20/18 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “A Woman Talking About Her Rapist Friend”, “Emphatic One”, and “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst” from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Quiet for a While (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “Quiet for a While” (w/ music & video from the HA!man of South Africa), and Bob Rashkow

Quitting is Always an Option

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/26/26 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) as if she were on the phone

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 9/26/26 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from her “Astronomy 101” show, then her poem “Vengeful Phone” from her “Overheard Conversations” show, and “Quitting is Always an Option” from her “Listening In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinte rest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from her “Astronomy 101” show, then her poem “Vengeful Phone” from her “Overheard Conversations” show, and “Quitting is Always an Option” from her “Listening In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Radon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this YouTube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/4/12 at Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap

Really Do Drive like Madmen

Selenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Canon) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/21/12 (Sony) at the Café Gallery (inlcuding this poem)

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Periodic Poetry” chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Download this poem in the free 11/21/12
“Life, Death & the Universe” chapbook
(as part of the “Periodic Poetry” chapbook)
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Flags at Half-Mast” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (and for her 2023 “Testament” book), then her poems “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), and “from In The Air” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Periodic Table poem “Selenium” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poem “Flags at Half-Mast” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (and for her 2023 “Testament” book), then her poems “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), and “from In The Air” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Periodic Table of Poetry poem “Selenium” from the v326 10/22 cc&d issue/book “Animal Wink” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Unable To Escape It” poems “Selenium” (also from her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) and “Selenium Mixing” (also from her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 2/1/23 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Silicon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Silicon live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Silicon live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Sepia Tone filter)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Silicon Implants”, “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling”, “Silicon”, and “Silicon Complete” (+ image) from the v204 2/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Web” & her books “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” & “Periodic Ta ble Poetry” during her “Poetic License 2/5/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest,

Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Silver (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading the 2nd half of this poem live 1/26/13 on WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Samsung), with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (2011 Hotel music “the Ice is Melting”)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Silver” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, then her poems “Bismuth” and “Cesium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Silver” from her 1/30/13 poetry feature for Poetry Saloon at Noon, then her poems “Bismuth” and “Cesium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Silver” (+ image), “Silver from Vegas” (+ image), and “Silver nitrate displaying our brain” + its image from the v330 1/23 cc&d issue/book “What Now, My Love” and her books“Periodic Ta ble Poetry” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 2/5/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Sodium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem titled Count Me In, with
the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch this YouTube video
of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Sulfur (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Chlorine”, “Zinc”, and “Sulfur” from her 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v207 5/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “I wrote this in the dark” poems “Sulfur” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “Revelation One: One-Four” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”) during her “Poetic License 5/7/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook,

Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Surviving the Apocalypse twitter-length poem)

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

Watch this YouTube video
of this poem performed live at the “Ruffled Feathers” open mike at Rewster’s Café in Chicago 5/14/12

Watch this YouTube video
of all of Kuypers’ performances (which includes this poem) at Chicago’s Ruffled Feathers open mike 5/14/12

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ live piano from Gary)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Tired of Trying (from the “Depression... The singles” series)

Tungsten (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

View or download the free chapbook
“Beach Poets 7/22/12”, / the Periodic Table of Poetry poems “Oxygen”, “Zirconium”, “Fluorine”, “Aluminum”, “Chromium”, “Tungsten”, and “Silicon”, all read in her feature at Beach Poets 7/22/12”.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table of Poetry poem “Tungsten” (which also has an Artvilla page), read live in Chicago at Poetry’s “Love Letter” 11/9/12 (w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table of Poetry poems “Tungsten” (which also has an Artvilla page), read live in Chicago at Poetry’s “Love Letter” 11/9/12 (w/ a phone camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tungsten live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Tungsten live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Neon” (Ne, #10), “Tungsten” (W, #74), and “Lawrencium” (Lr, #103) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PL T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Under my Fingers (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony cam)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Hunting for Life”, and then her poems “Feel Comfortable”, and “Under my Fingers” from her book “Give Me the News” 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).

Under Your Total Control (from the “this poem is about...” series)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was 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 “Hydrogen: One Against One”, “Hydrogen to Nothing”, “Universe... Now In Color”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Under your Total Control”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Feel Comfortable”, and “Good Escape” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet

Ununoctium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Download this poem in the free chapbook
On the Edge of the Table,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
toward the end of the Periodic Table.

Ununpentium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Sony) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/14/12 (Canon) at her feature On the Edge of the Table

Download this poem in the free chapbook
On the Edge of the Table,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
toward the end of the Periodic Table.

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a Sepia Tone filter)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a sharpened film grain filter)

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago’ Frankenstone Art Gallery 12/17/12 (Canon, with a Posterize filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Nitrogen” (N, #7), “Cesium”(Cs, #55), and “Ununpentium” (Uup, #115) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/4/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Ununseptium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Ununseptium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Ununseptium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI’s the Brat Stop (C, Edge Det.)

See YouTube video

of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Ununseptium in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)

See YouTube video

Download this poem & more in the free PDF
Crossing Borders for International
(and Interplanetary) Peace chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Ununseptium 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading on 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Einsteinium”, “Ununseptium”, “Tellurium”, “keep”, “found haiku”, and “know” in her “The Chosen Few” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Selenium ”, “Helium”, and “Ununseptium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Uranium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading this poem (from “the Periodic Table of Poetry”) in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 5 poems (including this one) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” in “the Elements of Astronomy” live at Evanston’s Perla Cafe 8/25/12 (Samsung)

Download edited astronomy-related “the Periodic Table of Poetry” poems
in the free PDF file chapbook
the Elements of Astronomy.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 1/16/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/16/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Uranium live at “Poetry Love Letters” 7/12/13

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poems Radium and Uranium live at “Poetry Love Letters” 7/12/13 (with the Watercolor filter)

Us Creative Types

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us Creative Types in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us Creative Types in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “India stories” poems
“Us Creative Types”, “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere”, and “on the back of a touring bike”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Mary’s Perspective on How that Whole Jesus thing Turned Out”, “letter, 4/14/95 one”, “letter, 4/14/95 two”, “letter, 4/14/95 three”, “letter, 4/19/95”, “Us Creative Types”, and “How People Interpret My Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testa ment” on 4/30/23 in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also released as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (W/ by live piano music from Gary)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 5/9/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (w/ live piano from Gary)

Watch this YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers 5/18/13 reading this poem
“Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

Watch this 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 poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale from the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled I Pull the Strings, live 2/26/14 at the open mic she hosts the Café Gallery (every other Wednesday at Gallery Cabaret) in Chicago (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems one by one, the beech trees fell, Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale, and My Future Job Options 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Floating Away with the Tide” and “erasure poem: corner stone for slavery” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Floating Away with the Tide” and “erasure poem: corner stone for slavery” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”

from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Vengeful Phone (twitter-length poem)

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vengeful Phone live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vengeful Phone live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Posterized)

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from her “Astronomy 101” show, then her poem “Vengeful Phone” from her “Overheard Conversations” show, and “Quitting is Always an Option” from her “Listening In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vengeful Phone” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Even if Only (dreams 4/15/19)” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (edited on World Theater day) at “Recycled Reads” 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Worth Something

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Y Chromosome Missing

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (with this poem; Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Y Chromosome Missing” and “Job that Only Paid the Bills” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, and was posted on Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Y Chromosome Missing” and “Job that Only Paid the Bills” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera, and posted on Tumblr).

Yeah, the Passion

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Yeah, the Passionat the open mic 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (video filmed from the Canon camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Yeah, the Passionat the open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary)

You Moved from Island to Island

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of Kuypers reading this poem from her book Stabity Stabity Stab Stab Stab at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the entire open mike, w/ this poem (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, & piano from Gary)

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Planting Palm Tree Seeds”, “You Moved from Island to Island” and “erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix).

You Are a Force

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ernesto”, “You Are a Force” and “One by One the Beech Trees Fell” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Let me See You Stripped” her poems “Like I was Never There”, “Scratch the Surface”, “You are a Force”, “You Repel Me”, and “Holding Hands”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)” and “You Are a Force” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book
“On the Edge”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from her interview/journal/poetry book
“In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

You Repel Me “You Are a Force”, edited by John Y., to create the opposite effect

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of Kuypers reading this poem (editing of her poem You are a Force, to give it the opposite effect) at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery (w/ the HA!man of South Africa music)

Zach Makes Me Think About These Things twitter-length poem)

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

Watch this YouTube video
read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago
(from the Samsung)

Watch this YouTube video
read live 1/16/12 at Waiting4the Bus’ Café Ballou open mike in Chicago
(from the Sony)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Else”, “Surviving the Apocalypse”, “Know You”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “Worth Something”, “Everyone Has a Choice”, and “Zach Makes Me Think About These Things” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bri dge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Zinc (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch this YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 1/30/13 (Canon) at her feature Poetry Saloon at Noon

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the Poetry Saloon at Noon,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems
chapbook of poems in this show.

See YouTube video 1/19/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Chlorine”, “Zinc”, and “Sulfur” from her 1/30/13 feature Poetry Saloon at Noon, all read from her v5 cc&d book “On the Edge” at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” her Periodic Table poem “Zinc” (which also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” and “Fermium— bad and good?” (+ image) on 12/7/22, 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video was also filmed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Zirconium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download this poem in the free chapbook
the 7/22/12 Beach Poets chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading 7 poems from her series “Periodic Table of Poetry” at her Beach Poets feature 7/22/12 in Chicago, including this poem (from the Canon)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v341 1/24 cc&d issue/book “The Cosmos is a Lonely Place” poems “Entering Courtroom 101” (+ show image 1), “Only Option is Fighting” (+ show image 2), + her “Periodic Ta ble Poetry” poem “Zirconium” (+ show image 1) and her “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”

poem “Zirconium Brilliance” (+ show image 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.) Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Paper Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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