Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem fader, his mädchen and the Führer from the cc&d book Idols live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem fader, his mädchen and the Führer from the cc&d book Idols live 5/21/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/1/17 poetry show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” in Austin, with her poems “fader, his mädchen and the Führer”, “of independence or freedom”, “Xerostomia”, and “Utopia never happened” (with background music from Janet’s electric bass and bow, then the HA!Man of South Africa) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/1/17 poetry show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” in Austinm with her poems “fader, his mädchen and the Führer”, “of independence or freedom”, “Xerostomia”, and “Utopia never happened” (with background music from Janet’s electric bass and bow, then the HA!Man of South Africa) (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the poems from the free chapbook
“Our Cultural Independence
and Achieving Global Freedom”

of the poems she performed in her 7/1/17 “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” poetry feature/show, including both classic and new poems “fader, his mädchen and the Führer”, “of independence or freedom”, “Xerostomia”, and “Utopia never happened”.

faith (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku faith in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku faith as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic Jaks Tap in Chicago (Canon, negative w and saturated filters)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku faith as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic Jaks Tap in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her poems “Cast in Stone”, “Death”, “Children, Churches and Daddies”, and “Russians at a Garage Sale” from her “Book Expo 2013 Chicago” reading 11/24/13, then her haiku poems “enemies”, “faith”, “ants and crosses”, “census”, “easy”, “existence”, “falling”, and “eventually”, from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading 3/17/14 , all appearing in her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera);
this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Faith Comes Only

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 08/18/09

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Fake Face

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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.

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

falling (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku falling in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS HAIKU

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d mag, titled Beyond the Gates live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates live 10/22/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Sony camera; posted onFacebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/4/16 show “Obey” at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! in Austin, first reading her haiku poems progress, extend, falling, civil, and greatest, then reading her poems Earth is a Topiary (her 1st of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), On Becoming a Woman (an editing and expansion of her 1999 poem Becoming a Woman), Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph (an editing of her 1991 poem Photograph, Nineteenth Century and her 2nd of 2 poems where she used a voice modulator to reads parts of her poem in a male voice), Content With Inferior Men, portions of her poem In The Air with slightly altered wording, and Oh, She Was a Woman (an editing of her 1997 poem She Was a Woman) (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook
Obey
6/4/16 at Expressions 2016: June is a Woman! show in Austin

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2017 Book Release Reading 12/6/17, where she read her Down in the Dirt 12/17 book “the Lighthouse” haiku poems “falling”, “xeric”, and “instead”, and her poem “Earth was Alive and Dying” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2017 Book Release Reading 12/6/17, where she read her Down in the Dirt 12/17 book “the Lighthouse” haiku poems “falling”, “xeric”, and “instead”, and her poem “Earth was Alive and Dying” 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (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 at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (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 haiku poems “falling”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “love”, ““Jimbo””, and “enemies” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 8/12/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “falling”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “love”, ““Jimbo””, and “enemies” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 8/12/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “falling”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “love”, ““Jimbo””, and “enemies” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 8/12/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “falling”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “love”, ““Jimbo””, and “enemies” from the cc&d v252 issue book “Beyond the Gates” during the Thom multi-person intro 8/12/18 to Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her haiku poems “defenses”, “pleading”, “destroy”, “relegated”, “jumped”, “found haiku”, “instead”, “falling”, “upturn”, “sort”, and “love”, all from her poetry performance art collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Falling From the Sky

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(:56) in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/0 before jumping out of an airplane

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(2:31) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 02/16/08

Enjoy the full YouTube video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature (Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy the full Internet Archive video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook
New Beginning, Firsts and the Future
with “a New Life” “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, & “In Love I Abide”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her book “Revealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Check Your Clock”, then reading her two poems “a New Life” and “Falling From the Sky” from her feature “New Beginnings, Firsts and the Future” chapbook live 1/19/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Check Your Clock”, then reading her two poems “a New Life” and “Falling From the Sky” from her feature “New Beginnings, Firsts and the Future” chapbook live 1/19/9/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

false suicide

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live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach Poets
Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem
(25:19) from the Internet Archive

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/08/10

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of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07,after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/08/10

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 5/14/17 reading her poems “On an Airplane With a Frequent Flyer”, “False Suicide” and “One of the Most Hated Women in America” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Fantastic Car Crash

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

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to The DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

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of the CD studio recording for the 6/11/02 performance art show 6/11

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from the Internet Archive

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live at 6/11 in Chicago 6/11/02

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Live at the Cafe,
now available in a 3 CD set
bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2004

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4:09, performed live for a CD recording, parts of the song What We Need In Life before the poem Fantastic Car Crash 05/19/07

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

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

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

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11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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

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

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

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem with Esteban Colon 8/1/12 at Chicago ’s the Café Gallery (Gary piano, on Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem with Esteban Colon 8/1/12 at Chicago ’s the Café Gallery (Gary piano, on Sony)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 8/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her performing this poem

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

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

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of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in her “Last Minute” mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See YouTube video of Kuypers performng poetry including this poem in a last-minute mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

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of 4 mini-features @ the open mic 2/13/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, where Janet Kuypers reads this poem in a “last minute” mini-feature

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of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fantastic Car Crash in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 8/2/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Canon, posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem Made Any Difference (to John Y.’s music), then reading her poems Fantastic Car Crash and Too Far 9/16/15 at the Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fantastic Car Crash 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing poetry and song (with John on guitar) 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with her song What We Need In Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside the song),
X-rays and broken hearts, & the Burning.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life with her poem Fantastic Car Crash (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life with her poem Fantastic Car Crash (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems from memory, Too Far, Fantastic Car Crash, and Under the Sea 6/26/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/3/16 show “How Music is Poetic” at Expressions 2016: September Song! in Austin performing her songs/poems “What We Need In Life” with “Fantastic Car Crash” between verses 2 & 3, “Tin”, and “Made any Difference” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/3/16 show “How Music is Poetic” at Expressions 2016: September Song! in Austin performing her songs/poems “What We Need In Life” with “Fantastic Car Crash” between verses 2 & 3, “Tin”, and “Made any Difference” (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature

Download all of these songs & poems in the free PDF file chapbook
How Music is Poetic
containing the songs/poems
“What We Need In Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“Tin”, and “Made any Difference”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, “Depth of Field”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, & “Lessons from the Simpsons” , 10/16/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon P.S.t).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, “Depth of Field”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, & “Lessons from the Simpsons”, 10/16/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/25/18 singing Paul Simon’s song Kodachrome, Depeche Mode’s song The Bottom Line {lowered voice, 2 voices, altered chorus lyrics}, the Smiths’ What She Said, & Janet’s MFV song “What We Need In Life” with her “Fantastic Car Crash” poem in it, @ Open Mic Night at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock (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 in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking For A Worthy Adversary” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from her show “the Cutting Room Floor”, then her poem “How Do I Explain It” from her show “Death & Rebirth”, all read from her poetry performance art show book “Chapter 48 (v1)” at “Recycled Reads” 11/17/18 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking For A Worthy Adversary” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from her show “the Cutting Room Floor”, then her poem “How Do I Explain It” from her show “Death & Rebirth”, all read from her poetry performance art show book “Chapter 48 (v1)” at “Recycled Reads” 11/17/18 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, all read from her Scars Publi cations bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show (that will air 3/1/20 on tv), live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, all read from her Scars Publi cations bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show (that will air 3/1/20 on tv),live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Public Access Poetry” poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Public Access Poetry” poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)” from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera/Sepia Tone; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “One Lonesome Whale”, then her poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, originally from her Scars Publi cations bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but appearing in and read from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “One Lonesome Whale”, then her poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, originally from her Scars Publi cations bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but appearing in and read from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera/ Hue Cycling; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video when Janet Kuypers was featured in a half-hour Texas Nafas Poetry television show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), where, while being interviewed about her poetry, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (this DVD of the entire TV show was also posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Texas Nafas Poetry - poems from Janet Kuypers

Download for free or read online the PDF chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, including her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)” (bonus poem), “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (bonus poem), and “And I’m wondering”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers listening to the U.K.’s 5 Towns Radio 2/2/20, where the host of the show highlighted her and shared her readings poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Us, Actually Touching” in Georgetown, along with radio poetry commentary (Samsung S9 camera & Sepia Toned; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See Facebook video of Janet Kuypers listening to the U.K.’s 5 Towns Radio 2/2/20, where the host of the show highlighted her and shared her readings poems “Fantastic Car Crash” and “Us, Actually Touching” in Georgetown, along with commentary on her poems (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1^st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1^st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Death takes many forms”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from the U.K. 5 Towns Radio reading at the end of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Founda tions” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Death takes many forms”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from the U.K. 5 Towns Radio reading at the end of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Founda tions” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 5/30/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers (airing 5/30/20). During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fantastic Car Crash” from the Janet Kuypers Janet Kuypers interviews / journals & poetry book

&“In Depth” for public access television in her 2020 “Nafas” interview/poetry show, for “8 poems, 8 days, 8 invites” poems for The Russian Almanac #PeetMeNotLeave (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 11/19/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstv

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 11/19/20. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 1/7/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fourth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 1/7/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fifth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 3/22/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv

For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV stations in Austin during the live re-broadcast), everyone can now enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 3/22/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers Scars Publi cations poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” outside the Bluebonnet beer co. during a Round Rock Homebrewers Guild meeting, for “The Café Gallery 3/30/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” and “Fantastic Car Crash” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” aoutside the Bluebonnet beer co. during a Round Rock Homebrewers Guild meeting, for “The Café Gallery 3/30/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers, working at her desk, as John Yotko interrupted her to play guitar as she sang her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What We Need In Life” (Warren Peterson music and Janet Kuypers vocals), while also reading her poem “Fantastic Car Crash” during the song, for a future YouTube video release submission for NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” (performing an original song while at your desk). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See this YouTube video of of Janet Kuypers, working at her desk, as John Yotko interrupted her to play guitar as she sang her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What We Need In Life” (Warren Peterson music and Janet Kuypers vocals), while also reading her poem “Fantastic Car Crash” during the song, for a future YouTube video release submission for NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert”, performing an original song while at your desk (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Enjoy the Facebook live video stream of the majority of the 10/18/21 television re-broadcast of the Janet Kuypers Texas Nafas TV show that aired on Austin Public Access TV at 1:00 PM CST, interviewing Janet Kuypers and her poem

readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering”.

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the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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See YouTube video
live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church
(23:58, from the Internet Archive)

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(23:58) from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer 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 Farmer 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 from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (from a Sony) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading a portion of her short story “Crazy”, then reading her poems (Canon psSX700) “Hiding Vices”, “Farmer” and “Haiku (poet)” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen” (written 10/12 for the 1492 date Christopher Columbus Discovers America), “Farmer” and “Verdant Green” (for 10/12, National Farmers Day), “Vacuum of Space” (written 10/11, on and for the day in 1984 when astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger as the first American woman to perform a space walk), “No Bother” (written 10/13, on and for Good Samaritan Day), “Valkyrie attempts” (written 10/14 on 1944 date of the suicide of Erwin Rommel), “Everyone Will React” (written the 3^rd Tuesday of October, on and for National Face Your Fears Day), “Know they are Loved” (written 10/16, on and for Global Cat Day), “You Don’t Expect It” (written 10/17, on and for World Trauma Day), “Violent Endeavour” (written 10/18, on the 1967 date the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere (Soviet Venera 4 to Venus), “Know they are Loved”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” (written the 3^rd Saturday of October, on and for Sweetest Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen”, “Farmer”, “Verdant Green”, “Vacuum of Space”, “No Bother”, “Valkyrie attempts”, “Everyone Will React”, “Know they are Loved”, “You Don’t Expect It”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

fast food makes finger food

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem fast food makes finger food 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Canon)

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See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems (“Love Affair With The Moon”, “The View of the Alley” and “fast food makes finger food”) 2/3/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Father’s Tears
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

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Fear for Their Safety

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” poems “Fear for Their Safety” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Bromine” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), and “Bromine’s Assault” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 7/2/23 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).

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

Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers during her lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights”, “It Really Is All About Choice”, “Key, you see”, “Jihad Against Free Choice”, “Only Considering Women’s Rights”, “Fear for Their Safety”, and “Expecting Rights after Losing Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testa ment” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights

feel (haiku, on Twitter)

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku feel live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku feel live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku feel from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude live outdoors in New Orleans 5/29/16.

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku feel from cc&d’s Scars Publications collection book Clouds over the Moon 8/2/16 in Austin TX.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

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

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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 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 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 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

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

Feeling of False Ownership

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera);
this video was posted on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear” show sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the Down in the Dirt 6/20 book “Existential Threats” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the Down in the Dirt 6/20 book “Existential Threats” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Feeling of False Ownership”, written on 6/19/19 - June tee nth, read ON June 19th - June tee nth - from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at Circle Brewing Company as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the v172 “Existential Threats” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the v172 “Existential Threats section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed live and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Feel So Much
2012 translation of Feel So Much - in Slovak: Cítim to‎ko..
This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

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Fermium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Posterize filter) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S, Watercolor filter) at her interview & reading

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Fermium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Not Knowing”, and “Listen to Life” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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

Fermium— bad and good?
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her two Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” and “Fermium— bad and good?” (+ image for this poem) from the v198 8/22 Down in the Dirt book “My Name is Equality”, plus her new poems “X-ing out lives” and “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom” during her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her two Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” and “Fermium— bad and good?” (+ image for this poem) from the v198 8/22 Down in the Dirt book “My Name is Equality”, plus her new poems “X-ing out lives” and “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom” during her “Poetic License 8/7/22 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, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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

Fiction Becomes Nonfiction

See YouTube 8/13/19 video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” (written 4/1 for National Atheist’s Day), read from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” outside in Chicago south of Grand Central Station (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just one Day, Let a Girl Dream”, “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction”, “Xeryus Colognes, Aromas, and Scents”, “Once Craned my Neck”, and “Just Read a Book” from the April 2021 v308 issue of cc&d’s paperback book “The Garden of Eden” 4/7/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “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 #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just one Day, Let a Girl Dream”, “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction”, “Xeryus Colognes, Aromas, and Scents”, “Once Craned my Neck”, and “Just Read a Book” from the April 2021 v308 issue of cc&d’s paperback book “The Garden of Eden” 4/7/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” from the “The Garden of Eden” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” from the “The Garden of Eden” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Fifteen Gun-Toting Tweets

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/22/09

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See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xerostomia”, “Afraid of Telling The Truth” and “Fifteen Gun-Toting Tweets” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Sony camera).

Fifteen Minutes

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

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

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

Fifty Years of Freedom and Independence

Fighting for Freedom on Christmas

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration” first performed in her ”Akitu” poetry feature and read from her poetry book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, then her poem “Returning to Georgetown” originally from her poetry feature “Under my Skin” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poem “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (written on and in honor of George Washington’s birthday) 2/23/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (written on the calendar day of George Washington’s birthday) and read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then singing the Pudding Head mix of “Last Christmas” by Wham! with John on acoustic guitar, then John read his poem ”It Wasn’t My Intent” while Janet played background guitar music with a bow, live 12/28/19 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Grace Heritage Center (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 reading her poem “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (written on the calendar day of George Washington’s birthday) and read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then singing the Pudding Head mix of “Last Christmas” by Wham! with John on acoustic guitar, then John read his poem ”It Wasn’t My Intent” while Janet played background guitar music with a bow, live 12/28/19 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Grace Heritage Center (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter, and posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas”, “Equality Manifesto”, and “Jumping Genes, & the Infiltration of my DNA” from the cc&d 2/21 v306 book “More Softly than the Thunder” for The Café Gallery 2/9/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas”, “Equality Manifesto”, and “Jumping Genes, & the Infiltration of my DNA” from the cc&d 2/21 v306 book “More Softly than the Thunder” for The Café Gallery 2/9/21 Book Reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas”, “Equality Manifesto”, and “Quickly Judged” from the “More Softly than the Thunder” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas”, “Equality Manifesto”, and “Quickly Judged” from the “More Softly than the Thunder” section of the Scars Publi cations 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “I wrote this in the dark” book poems “Sulfur, Suddenly” + sharing its image (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”) and her poems “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution” “Eliminate All Rapists” “Revelation One: One-Four” “Revelation One: Five-Eight” and “Revelation One: Eleven” (which are also in the CyberWit 2023 book “Testa ment”) for the 5/3/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium” from the books “It’s All About Impact” & “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”, then “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” from the books “Casti ng Off” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”, then “Just on Book” from the books “Casti ng Off”, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, “Chapter 48 v2”, & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” (+ bonus images 2/4/17 1 & 2, 8/4/17 1, 8/22/17 1 & 2, 8/23/17 1, & 8/3/20 1)

to close her “Poetic License 12/3/23 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, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (in a video that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Fighting I Can Do

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filed under fiction (twitter-length poem)

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “Filed under Fiction” from the cc&d June 2020 27-year anniversary book “Ticket to Paradise” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “Filed under Fiction” from the cc&d June 2020 27-year anniversary book “Ticket to Paradise” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “filed under fiction” from the v298 “Ticket to Paradise” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “filed under fiction” from the v298 “Ticket to Paradise” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

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

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

filled with Such Panic

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live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago

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live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago
with film from the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “filled with Such Panic” 05/31/11 at the Café open mic in Chicago (from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”)

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of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, mädchend with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)

film the cheerleaders

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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

Finally Found Home

Enjoy this YouTube video from 4/29/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Last Before Extinction”, “On All Fours”, & “Finally Found Home” during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2023 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed

from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a

Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted 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, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 1-4/23 issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs” and “Our Ships Would No Longer Cross” (both also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), + her new poem “Finally Found Home” to close her “Poetic License 6/4/23 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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 #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Finally Treated Fairly

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” 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). #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, and “Too Far (2020 edit)” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (with the final three poems also appearing in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) 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).

The filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera was also released with a Hue Cycling filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)” and “Finally Treated Fairly” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (with the final poem also appearing in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) 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, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video was also released with a Hue Cycling filter, & on Facebook, Twitter, Linke din, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Final Rally

final rally 2015 edit

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of final rally (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem Final Rally, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Jour ney” poems “Final Rally (2015 edit)”, “Reduced to Now”, and “Extinct on Planet Earth”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Over the River and Through the Woods” book poems “Final Rally 2015 edit” (+ show image 1) & “the Messenger 2015 edit” (+ show image 2), & “Strontium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”, + Mysticism vs. Science show images 1 & 2), then her her “Over the River and Through the Woods” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” book poems “Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat”, “Strontium Save Me” (+ bonus poem image & show images 1 & 2 after the 9/7/19 WZRD 88.3fm Radio show interview), &

“Strontium and 3-D time” (+ poem video) to close her “Poetic License 1/7/24 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 (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Paper Tear filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Finding Faith in a Grocery Store

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

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

See 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

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

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

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

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

Find Myself

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video from camera #1 of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video from camera #1 of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video

read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

See Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

Fingers Black

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

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

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

Finest Feeling

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live at Cana-Dixie to Chi-town 12/15/09

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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

See Complete feature video of Janet Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

Fire Alarms
fire alarms - in Sign Language

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(a poem mentioning fire, read in front of a fire 07/12/09)

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Live at One Acts (camera #1, 7/6/09

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Live at One Acts (camera #2, 7/6/09

Watch the full show “One Acts”
(from camera #1) live 7/6/09
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Watch the full show of One Acts (7/5/09, camera @#035;2).
(this video appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

the poetry 2 CD set ScarS Presents WZRD Radio

Listen to this poem
read live on WZRD Radio, available in a 2 CD set at amazon.

See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Caf#é 10/04/11

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

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

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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis

fit (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of poet Charlie Newman reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku fit live 6/2/14 in Chicago

See YouTube video (C) of Charlie Newman on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fit in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Charlie Newman on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fit in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem fit (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem fit (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “fit” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/12/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7).

Fit the Bill

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fitting the Mold 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon PS).

Fit Together Like That (twitter-length poem)

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

Flags at Half-Mast

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “a man calls a woman” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues, released during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, plus her new poems “After All We’ve Accomplished” and “Flags at Half-Mast” as the ending poem for her “Poetic License global open mic 7/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “a man calls a woman” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues, released during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, plus her new poems “After All We’ve Accomplished” and “Flags at Half-Mast” as the ending poem for her “Poetic License global open mic 7/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

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 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 her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Content with Inferior Men” (plus shared the Farsi translation of the poem), “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), “Confident Women”, and “from In The Air” from the books “Unable To Escape It” and the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 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 Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; 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, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video (in honor of a 3/7/23 Tuesday The Café Gallery open mic date) of Janet Kuypers reading her v330 2/23 cc&d issue/book “What Now, My Love” poems “Ukraine, Rights, Freedom, and Peace”, + 3 that will also be in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “TESTAMENT”: “Flags at Half-Mast”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, and “Unless it’s about suppressing life” for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

YouTube video (in honor of a 2/28/23 Tuesday The Café Gallery open mic date) was also filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and

“Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This YouTube video of the show was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.
This YouTube video of the show was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.
This Facebook live video stream was also released live during the show, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen

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

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

See YouTube video (P L T56) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Astatine”, and “Flerovium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”.

See YouTube video (P L 2500) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Astatine”, and “Flerovium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”.

Flerovium, doubly magic?
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Rhenium: the little element that could”, “Osmium when capitalism prevails”, “Iridium blankets the earth”, “Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer”, “Francium, of the feline persuasion”, “Radium’s Faint Light”, “Actinium & the next-gen for cancer”, “Protactinium, and voilà... rocks?”, “Curium’s radioactive glitter”, “Berkelium can recycle radioactivity”, “Californium’s a double-edged sword”, “Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, “Nobelium is fought for in transfermium wars”, “Nobelium: war or peace”, “Lawrencium: were we wrong?”, “Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Roentgenium, too scarce to waste”, “Copernicium makes the worlds go ‘round”, “Flerovium, doubly magic?”, “Livermorium, vanishing in our grasp”, and “Tennessine is what I get...” (+ showing the images that accompany poems) from 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 #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

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

Flexible Ethics

Floating Away with the Tide

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 08/18/09

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Knotted Hate, Floating Away with the Tide and Scenarios 2000 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs)

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).

Flooded War Memories

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poetic pieces: poetry & editorials CD by Janet Kuypers

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Watch the YouTube video
(3:49) live, WordSlingers feature, WLUW Chicago radio 88.9FM

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

See YouTube video
(with the “line drawing” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

See YouTube video
(recorded with a metallic filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

See YouTube video
(with the Pastel Sketch filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

See YouTube video
(with the Posterize filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

See YouTube video

of the introduction at the Café in Chicago, & the poem Flooded War Memorieslive 03/16/10; at the Café; 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)

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” (by request), “Equality for Women” (written on and for International Women’s Day, 3/14), and “Check your Beliefs at the Door” live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gift of Motherhood 1”, “Thank You, Women Who Work I”, “Coslow’s”, “Chicago, West Side”, “All These Reminders”, “She Told Me Her Dreams I”, “Childhood Memories I”, “Christmas Eve”, “Flooded War Memories”, and “There I Sit”, in this “Slinging the Word” WLUW Chicago 88/3 FM Radio supplement from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” live 8/11/20 in her Tuesday night “Buidlers Book Club” reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gift of Motherhood 1”, “Thank You, Women Who Work I”, “Coslow’s”, “Chicago, West Side”, “All These Reminders”, “She Told Me Her Dreams I”, “Childhood Memories I”, “Christmas Eve”, “Flooded War Memories”, and “There I Sit”, in this “Slinging the Word” WLUW Chicago 88/3 FM Radio supplement from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” live 8/11/20 in her Tuesday night “Buidlers Book Club” reading (video filmed & treamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

floor (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor 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 floor as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku floor as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Sony camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “floor” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/11/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7).

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Flowers on the Tables

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 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

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

Fluorine Crystalizes poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Carbon Copy”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Elementary, the Coronavirus”, “Oxygen Save Me”, “Oxygen Feeds”, “Oxygen: the Price is Right”, “Oxygen makes superionic ice”, “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Neon in the Air”, “Sodium: Worth your Weight”, and “Magnesium Burn” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 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 from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems “Carbon Copy”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Elementary, the Coronavirus”, “Oxygen Save Me”, “Oxygen Feeds”, “Oxygen: the Price is Right”, “Oxygen makes superionic ice”, “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Neon in the Air”, “Sodium: Worth your Weight”, and “Magnesium Burn” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 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 and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Flying to China (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 Flying to China live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Flying to China live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 9/4/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this poem

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

fog (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video (C) of Tom Roby reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fog in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Tom Roby reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fog in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” WITH THIS HAIKU READING live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fog in her Chicago chapbook and feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fog in her Chicago chapbook and feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (S crop glow)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems like this one) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14 (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “fog” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/23/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “fog” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/21/16 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, 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 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 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Following in the Footsteps of Genius

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11, the 1833 birthday of Robert G. Ingersoll), “Following in the Footsteps of Genius” (written 8/13, International Left Handers Day), “Once You Found Fame” (written 8/15, the 1914 date a servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin), “foretell” (written 8/18, the 1783 day the great meteor over Great Britain/British Isles; an unknown object that split into several pieces), “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day), “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (for 8/24, Pluto Demoted Day), recorded 8/9/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay via the

mp3 podcast (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting August event poetry within the book, including her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “foretell”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius” (written 8/13, International Left Handers Day), “Once You Found Fame” (written 8/15, the 1914 date a servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin), and “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” 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, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, and “Value of What Money Does” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

for better or for worse

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

See YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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

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

Watch the Full Video

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

Watch the Full Video

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

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

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

force (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku force live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku force live 3/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem force (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem force (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See YouTube video from 5/6/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “keep”, “escape”, “force”, “drowning”, “oceans” and “destroy” in her “Haiku on the Fly” reading (from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 5/6/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “keep”, “escape”, “force”, “drowning”, “oceans” and “destroy” in her “Haiku on the Fly” reading (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuyperspoetry

View or download the free PDF chapbook
“Haiku on the Fly”
of her poems “bruised”, “bruised”, “blood”, “choke”, “can’t get you”, “bear”, “defenses”, “feel”, “fit”, “keep”, “escape”, “force”, “drowning”, “oceans” and “destroy” (of haiku poems read from 5/6/17 in Austin).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video of her reading her haiku poems “escape”, “force” and “destroy”, then later reading her haiku poems “form” and “hold” 7/2/17 in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

for C Ra

See YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 05/25/10

Watch the YouTube video
of this reading with the intro & other writings, live 05/25/10 at the Café

Watch the YouTube video
Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 live at the Café

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/28/11 of her performing her poetry & live Janet Kuypers & John Yotko songs @ Chicago’s the Café

See YouTube video
of the intro to the 06/28/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem

Foreign Farmer (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 Foreign Farmer 8/19/13 at Waiting 4 the 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 Waiting 4 the 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 Waiting 4 the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from her interview/ journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then reading her poems “Oklahoma Water Surfing” and “Foreign Farmer” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (w/ a Panasonic Lumix 2500).

forever (haiku, on Twitter)

Find this in Janet Kuypers’ “Partial Nudity” collection book or in the her haiku
book “100 Haikus”.

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku foreverlive 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, hard light saturate)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku forever from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking live outdoors in New Orleans 5/29/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “forever” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/17/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “forever” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/18/16 (filmed in Austin Texas at BJ’s from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

For Far Too Many Years (verses 1, 2, and 3 on Twitter)

See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, while she guest-hosted Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “For Far Too Many Years” (which was also read from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”), plus “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “Brittle”, “Meningitis, Six Feet Under”, and “Bamboo”, while she was guest-hosting the “Open Mic Showcase 8/17/19 at Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publi cations 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, 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

form (haiku, on Twitter)

Find this in Janet Kuypers’ “Partial Nudity” collection book or in the her haiku
book “100 Haikus”.

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku form live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku form live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “form” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/22/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

for mom

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem for mom live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem for mom live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

For My Car Or My Life

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaotic Elements
(a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes

CD:

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One

Watch half of the show video

from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

Watch the intro & poem video

from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (5:11)

See YouTube video

from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

Listen

to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

See YouTube video
(5:11) performed live of the beginning of the 3/18/03 live show Death Comes in Threes.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem For My Car Or My Life live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem For My Car Or My Life live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

For Now I’ll Think
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
foretell

mp3 podcast (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

For The Moment

Experimental Poetry: Forward

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fought live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku fought as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku fought as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Sony camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fought from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “fought” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/8/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7).

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’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her haiku “fought”, then her Life and Death and everything between poems “Violations Tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

found (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku found live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See YouTube video
9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku found as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon camera, video flipped and posterized)

See a Vine video

of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku found as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “found” from Down in the Dirt’s v138 July/August 2016 issue/book Suicidal Birds as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/8/16 (Samsung Galaxy S7).

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, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

found haiku (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video (C) of Joffre Stewart reading the Janet Kuypers’l found haiku in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (S) of Joffre Stewart reading the Janet Kuypers’l found haiku in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Found Haiku from memory in conversation live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 8/27/14 (w/ 2 features!) at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago - where this poem was read

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length found haiku from the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 1/22/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See a Vine video from 2/1/16 of
Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length found haiku from Scars Publications’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “found haiku” 12/5/16 as a JKPoetryVine video in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v139 9/10 2016 book “the Relic, the Effort, the Yell”.

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 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “of his thirst” and “found haiku”, then her haiku poems “defenses”, “hold”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Spoken and Heard” 9/2/18 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Hitler-themed haiku poems “found haiku”, “Jimbo”, and “love” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “found haiku”, “Jimbo”, and “love” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

found pandemic haiku

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “found pandemic haiku” and her poem “Journeys on a Train” (for “Workin’ on the Railroad” day, the Saturday before Labor Day) read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her “found pandemic haiku” and jer poem “Journeys on a Train” (for “Workin’ on the Railroad” day, the Saturday before Labor Day) read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems (including this one) in her “Taking off the Mask” feature and chapbook (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems (including this one) in her “Taking off the Mask” feature and chapbook (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “found pandemic haiku”, “Everyone’s Afraid”, “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, “Because of Fire”, “Underground History”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, “No One Reports for Women”, “like nothing ever happened”, “United We Wonder”, “Knew the Word”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” in her poetry feature “Taking off the Mask” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera and zoomed; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “found pandemic haiku”, “Everyone’s Afraid”, “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, “Because of Fire”, “Underground History”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, “No One Reports for Women”, “like nothing ever happened”, “United We Wonder”, “Knew the Word”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” in her poetry feature “Taking off the Mask” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

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

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

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)

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

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

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!

from the plush horse stories - four syllables
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

Watch the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Arrowhead” 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera (from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”)

Watch the YouTube video
Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

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)

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 periodica table poem

Francium, of the feline persuasion
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

free (haiku, on Twitter)

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

See YouTube video (S) of Jerry Pendergast reading the Janet Kuypers haiku free in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See YouTube video (C) of Jerry Pendergast reading the Janet Kuypers haiku free in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem free (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem free (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku free 12/2/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt v139 9/10 2016 issue/book “the Relic, the Effort, the Yell”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Freedom Just Past The Fence

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Watch the YouTube video

(2:21) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05

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(2:18) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

See YouTube video
(2:16) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer, middle eastern man in front of me and her flash fiction Private Lives III, the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois, and then John came on stage and read her poem Freedom Just Past The Fence as well John’s poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus.

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” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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” (this video was fiolmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “September 11, 2001” and “observations: nine and six” from her book “Say Nothing” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Freedom just past the Fence”, “September 11, 2001” and “observations: nine and six” from her book “Say Nothing” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic 1/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scratch the Surface”, “Freedom just Past the Fence” and “Before Taking Over the Controls” in her “Revealed” book reading at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” 11/17/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; this video was also 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” (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 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” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With

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).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With” from the cc&d May 2021 v309 issue “Excavation” outside the Brewtique before a local brewers meeting for “The Café Gallery 5/12/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With” from the cc&d May 2021 v309 issue “Excavation” outside the Brewtique before a local brewers meeting for “The Café Gallery 5/12/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating”, “Our Demons Can Mark Us”, “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With”, “Exploring Evolution”, and “Outsider” from the “Excavation” section of the cc&d May-August 2021 issue collection book “What If” 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

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating”, “Our Demons Can Mark Us”, “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With”, and “Exploring Evolution” (cut off) from the “Excavation” section of the cc&d May-August 2021 issue collection book “What If” 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; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

from the new orleans poems - French Quarter
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
on a page of 3 poems about New Orleans

Watch the YouTube video

Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/22/08

See YouTube video

of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08

Frisbee By The Lake
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

from Hydrogen to Nothing (a bonus poem from the“Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung)

See the Samsung video upside-down,
all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb

Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook
the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 5/29/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) with 2011 Hotel music “playing with blocks and whotnot” by the HA!Man of South Africa

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 5/29/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) with 2011 Hotel music “playing with blocks and whotnot” by the HA!Man of South Africa

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from Hydrogen to Nothing live 6/26/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/26/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago — and reading this poem

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “from Hydrogen to Nothing” (bonus poem for 1, H), and “Bismuth” (83, Bi) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/10/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “from Hydrogen to Nothing” (bonus poem for #1, H), and “Bismuth” (#83, Bi) from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 2/10/18 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “From Hydrogen to Nothing” for National Nothing Day (1/16), “Opposite” for National Opposite Day (1/20), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” for National Penguin Day (1/20) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live 1/18/20 the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (w/ a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “From Hydrogen to Nothing” for National Nothing Day (1/16), “Opposite” for National Opposite Day (1/20), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” for National Penguin Day (1/20) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” live 1/18/20 the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (w/ a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See this YouTube video (posted 7/6/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus Periodic Table bonus poem “from Hydrogen to Nothing” 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 Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 7/5/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus Periodic Table bonus poem “from Hydrogen to Nothing” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen Three: Glow for Me” and “Hydrogen laced with Pi”, then her Periodic Table poems “Hydrogen Cyanide” and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” 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 was also filmed fro a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling, which was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

(from) In the Air

Watch the YouTube video
(:34) the part referencing Fort Myers Florida, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears

See the entire performance
of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

from In the Air

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Rapeugees”, “Objectifiable 2021”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “from In the Air”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Extension of “Him””, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Vacuum of Space”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “the Measuring Scale”, and “Oh, She Was a Woman” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from In the Air” (from her book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and “Use Any Angle” (from the books “a Mural of a Forest” and “Testa ment”) live at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in,

Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video of (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video of this reading live at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram,

and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream of this reading in Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; linked on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

from Looking for a Worthy Adversary

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling” (written on Sword Swallowing Day, 2/24), and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (for World Theater Day, 3/27), both from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 8/16/21, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” starting ~5:55, “Sometimes the Light” starting ~14:22, “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26, “We All Want That” starting ~31:20, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” starting ~37:30, “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” starting ~41:00, and “Out to the Horizon” starting ~1:04:20)(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 8/16/21, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” starting ~5:55, “Sometimes the Light” starting ~14:22, “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26, “We All Want That” starting ~31:20, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” starting ~37:30, “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” starting ~41:00, and “Out to the Horizon” starting ~1:04:20 (filmed w/ a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera w/ a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers on WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM 8/16/21 from WZRD, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” starting ~5:55, “Sometimes the Light” starting ~14:22, “The Room of The Rape” starting ~17:26, “We All Want That” starting ~31:20, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” starting ~37:30, “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” starting ~41:00, and “Out to the Horizon” starting ~1:04:20 (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 8/16/21, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” (starting ~5:55), “Sometimes the Light” (starting ~14:22), “The Room of The Rape” (starting ~17:26), “We All Want That” (starting ~31:20), “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)” (starting ~37:30), “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (starting ~41:00), and “Out to the Horizon” (starting ~1:04:20) (this video was filmed and streams live from a Samsung S7 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets (+ sharing its online image)”, and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the v319 3/22 cc&d book “Barn Cats” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets (+ sharing its online image)”, and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the v319 3/22 cc&d book “Barn Cats” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/6/22” 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, Twitt er, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video (posted 8/17/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Poetic License 3/6/22 open mic chap book poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” 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 #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 8/16/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Poetic License 3/6/22 open mic chap book poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” 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 (video 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 “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 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 and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Poetic License 3/6/22 open mic chap book poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
This Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera was also released with a Hue Cycling, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon

See YouTube video
of this poem read live at the 07/19/11 mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago at her feature Astronomy 101

Enjoy this YouTube video 7/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her feature Astronomy 101 @ Chicago’s the Café (this video post appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Download this writing in the free 7/19/11 PDF
“Astronomy 101”
feature chapbook from a live show at the Café in Chicago which includes the poems “Orion”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Travel through Space”, “Moonlight”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Universe... Now In Color ”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, in the show.

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

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

See YouTube video 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

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers finalé feature “Night Sky” at the 2019 Texas Night Sky Festival in Driftwood, TX 11/14/19, reading her astronomy-themed poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Earthrise”, (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Orion (2019 edit)”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, (from) “Universe... Now in Color”, (from) “Queen of the Night Sky”, and (from) “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, all with John on guitar (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facbook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers finalé feature &“Night Sky” at the 2019 Texas Night Sky Festival in Driftwood, TX 11/14/19, reading her astronomy-themed poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Earthrise”, (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Orion (2019 edit)”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, (from) “Universe... Now in Color”, (from) “Queen of the Night Sky”, and (from) “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”, all with John on guitar Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facbook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

View & download the free chapbook Night Sky with the poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Moonlight”, “Earthrise”, (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Orion (2019 edit)”, “Envision it in the Night Sky”, (from) “Universe... Now in Color”, (from) “Queen of the Night Sky”, and (from) “Quest Beyond an Icy Tail”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Earthrise”, and select portions of “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, as some of the intro poems to her finale feature & chapbook “Night Sky” at the 11/14/19 Texas Night Sky Festival during her Poetic License open mic 12/1/19, hosting “Poetic License” on 12/1/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Earthrise”, and select portions of “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, as some of the intro poems to her finale feature & chapbook “Night Sky” at the 11/14/19 Texas Night Sky Festival during her Poetic License open mic 12/1/19, hosting “Poetic License” on 12/1/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Society, Glossed Over”, then her poems “Earthrise” and (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” (2 poems from her chapbook “Night Sky”) read from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, live 1/11/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Society, Glossed Over”, then her poems “Earthrise” and (from) “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” (2 poems from her chapbook “Night Sky”) read from the Scars Publi cations 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, 1/11/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “guard” (written 9/26, on and for National Situational Awareness Day), then her poems “Vampires and Blood-Sucking Mosquitos Alike” (written 10/6, on and for Garlic Lover’s Day), “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” (for mid-October’s Astronomy Day), “Kill with Impunity” (written 10/7, on and for the 1900 birthday of Heinrich Himmler), “Octopi and Brains” and “Octopi Target McDonald’s” (for 10/8, World Octopus Day), “Because of Fire” (written 10/8, on and for the start of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, that lasted 2 days), “Judging the Chicago Seven” (written 10/9, on and for the day of the beginning of the 1969 trial against the Chicago Seven), and “‘the Robot Zombie Witch Girl’ revisited” (for 10/10, National Zombie Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/6/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “guard”, then her poems “Vampires and Blood-Sucking Mosquitos Alike”, “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Kill with Impunity”, “Octopi and Brains” and “Octopi Target McDonald’s”, “Because of Fire”, “Judging the Chicago Seven”, and “‘the Robot Zombie Witch Girl’ revisited” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/6/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthrise”, and “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from the “Performance Art” section of the cc&d August 2021 v312 issue/paperback book “Secrets” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthrise”, and “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from the “Performance Art” section of the cc&d August 2021 v312 issue/paperback book “Secrets” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” 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 #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthrise”, and “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from the “Performance Art” section of the cc&d August 2021 v312 issue/paperback book “Secrets” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthrise”, and “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from the “Performance Art” section of the cc&d August 2021 v312 issue/paperback book “Secrets” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 8/1/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthrise” and “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from the cc&d 5-8/21 issue collection book “What If”; 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 “Earthrise” and “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from the cc&d 5-8/21 issue collection book “What If”; 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 and given a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

from Other Souls

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12^th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13^th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14^th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24^th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29^th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29^th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12^th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13^th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14^th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24^th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29^th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29^th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

From The Dead
This poem is in the Starite Cafe

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video of “Disenfranchised Doggerel”, Janet Kuypers’ show at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe (from camera #1 ), which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature

from Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queens Rule” (written 11/25, on and for the 1454 birthday of Catherine Cornaro, the Last Queen of Cyprus; d. 1510), “Expand and Save Yourselves” (written 11/26, on and for the 1504 date of the death of Queen Isabella I of Castile), “Underground History” (written 11/30, on and for the 1866 date work begins on the 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, in Chicago), “Your Burden” (written 12/1, on and for the 1847 birthdate of the American poet Julia A. Moore; d1920), “Under Our Own Feet” (written 12/2, on and for the 1942 date man achieved the 1st artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction), “Knew the Word” (written 12/2, on and for the 1818 date Illinois became the 21st state of the United States of America), and “from Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” (written 11/4, on and for Wildlife Conservation Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queens Rule”, “Expand and Save Yourselves”, “Underground History”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Knew the Word”, AND “from Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/1/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, “Knew the Word”, “Until I Get a Chance”, and “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the cc&d 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, “Knew the Word”, “Until I Get a Chance”, and “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the cc&d 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (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 “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publi cations cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publi cations cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publi cations cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, and “Knew the Word” from the Scars Publi cations cc&d magazine 12/21 v316 book “Man on the Street” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, and “Knew the Word” from the 9-12/21 cc&d book “The World Outside” 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 “Under Our Own Feet”, “(from) Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”, “Other Side”, “Ornaments from my Childhood”, and “Knew the Word” from the 9-12/21 cc&d book “The World Outside” 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

From Words to Wars

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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

See archive.org video from 9/9/08 of Janet Kuypers performing her entire show “Seeing a Psychiatrist” (13:33) at te Café in Chicago, which includes this and other poems (this film is from the Internet Archive).

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

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

Frozen Together

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live at the Cafe in Chicago 12/15/09

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live at the Café in Chicago 05/18/10

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read (with additional vocals from U.K. poet Oz Hardwich) 07/26/11, live at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 07/26/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poem “Frozen Together” (w/ U.K. poet Oz Hardwick vocals)

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of John Yotko reading from the 08/11 issue (v223) of cc&d magazine, live 08/09/11, at the Café in Chicago

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of the intro to the 08/09/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems, including “Aim Carefully”, John Yotko reading her poem “Frozen Together” and them covering the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds”

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Poem About This”, “Frozen Together” and her prose poem “Hurry Up and Wait”, then reading a portion of her short story “Crazy” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin(from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

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

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

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

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

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

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Who What Where When Why” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed 8½"x 8½" photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” and “Frozen Together” from the cc&d 11/17 v277 book “Warrior’s Light” at “Poetry Aloud” 7/28/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Underwater and Swimming” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poem “the Burning” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Frozen Together” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Spoken and Heard” 8/12/18 (Panasonic L T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words” and “Frozen Together” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 at Circle Brewery (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

from poems on religion - Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation

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performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

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live at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10

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of the open mic intro at the Café in Chicago 03/30/10 & the poems More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, and Hiding Vices

Watch the YouTube video
of all of the religion-inspired poems read live at the Café on 03/30/10: More Believable That Way, Thank You, Women Who Work 1, Thank You, Women Who Work 2, Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation, Hiding Vices, Gift of Motherhood 1, and Gift of Motherhood 2 (with the “line drawing” filter)

Full Stop

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Imzadi”
w/ poems read on 3/21/15
at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, including this poem.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as a bonus reading 5/5/20 the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week) from her perfect-bound ISBN# collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for the “Poetic License open mic 5/5/20 bonus reading” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v210 8/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “At th e Zoo” poems “one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive”, “Eugene’s limit”, and “Full Stop” during her “Poetic License 8/6/23 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 & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Fuming in the Morning

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, 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 (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinstagram

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, 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 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fuming in the Morning live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Fuming in the Morning live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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of Janet Kuypers hosting the poetry open mic 5/13/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago WITH HER READING THIS POEM

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” poems “Fuming in the Morning”, “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, and “Under His Bed”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Futility

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility” (written for Psychic Day, the 1st Sunday in August) and “Earthrise” (written 8/23, the 1666 day the first photo of Earth taken from the Moon), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility” (written for Psychic Day, the 1st Sunday in August) and “Earthrise” (written 8/23, the 1666 day the first photo of Earth taken from the Moon), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Manganese Growing”, “Manganese can cure us all”, “One Would be Chosen”, “Every Day is Sweetest Day”, “Katie”, “Know they are Loved”, “Burned into these Nightmares with a Pen”, “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the v188 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Skeletons” 10/6/21 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 live video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book anthology “Stardust in Hand” 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

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Futility”, “You Don’t Expect It”, and “Undulating Nexus” from the Scars Publi cations 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 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

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