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A Child in the Park, 2005
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(3:10) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05
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(5:54) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands
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A Dream About Murder.
[ a Dream About Murder. in French ]
[ a Dream About Murder. in German ]

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “A Dream About Murder” (2:33) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera
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of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Mini camera
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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera
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video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera
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See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon P.S.).
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 in Austin reading her prose “A Dream About Murder” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at the “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 in Austin reading her prose A Dream About Murder from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at the “Recycled Reads” book reading (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “He Told Me His Dreams 4” & “The Dream” & her prose “A Dream About Murder” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads(this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “He Told Me His Dreams 4” & “The Dream” & her prose “A Dream About Murder” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads(Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Edge Detection).


A (Fe)male Behind Bars
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a letter
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of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Letter live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)
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the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”
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13 Years of Poetry & Prose
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a Life Goes By
the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose a Life Goes By from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “A Life Goes By”, then her poems “Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 four” and “Not Knowing” (all read for Grandparents Day), then her poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away(for the 9/8/1916 bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, after a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country motorcycle trip),Khrushchev(for the 9/13/1953 date Nikita Khrushchev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), and “Explore your Imagination” (written 9/14, on Live Creative Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” during The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “A Life Goes By”, then her poems “Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 four”, “Not Knowing”, “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Khrushchev”, and “Explore your Imagination” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” during The Café Gallery 9/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Samsung S9 camera).


A Lifetime Together, 2005
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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing


A Little Angel Inside 2010
SingularListen mp3 file
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off the CD Singular    Singular - Janet Kuypers & The DMJ Art Connection
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(2:45) read from her ISBN# book Distinguidhed Writing (the Kuypers edition) live 03/22/11 at the Café in Chicago
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of the intro to the 03/22/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago
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of Kuypers reading this poem 10/3/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)
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of Kuypers’ open mic intro 10/3/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, + poetry (including this piece)


A Microcosm of Society
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes: Janet Kuypers - Etc
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PART 1 of the story 10/19/10, live at the Café in Chicago
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PART 2 of the story 10/19/10, live at the Café in Chicago


A Retired Policemen Talks About the Suicides He’s Seen, 2005
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of this piece, on the Entropy Project
edit this poem in wandering words...
rearrange the words... or make a new poem
either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)!
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(1:54) 07/17/07 from
Living in a Big World
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Living in a Big World
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of the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Canon Camera)
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of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera)
video video Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Canon Camera)
video video Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)
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read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems
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of the her mini-feature INCLUDING THIS POEM (with background base by John Yotko) live 10/11/11 at the Café


Adjusting Your Beliefs
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World

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Afraid of Telling The Truth, 2005
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Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09


Age
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Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05
the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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Listen mp3 file through the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux
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(4:27) recorded of dancing Boobies
(birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez,
Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos Islands)
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@ the Pacific Ocean 12/07 @ the Galapagos Islands
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live at the Café in Chicago 02/25/10
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of this reading with the intro & other writings, live 05/25/10 at the Café
the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”
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13 Years of Poetry & Prose
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Aim Carefully 2010
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of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09
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at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor
via the Internet Archive
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of the 1st 10 minutes of the show the Cutting Room Floor from YouTube, at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

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read from the 08/11 issue (v223) of cc&d magazine, live 08/09/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago
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video 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”


All I Can Capture 2010
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live at the Café in Chicago 09/22/09
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Edge Detection filter)
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Posterize filter)
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (Watercolor filter)
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of Kuypers reading All I Can Capture and Momento Mori live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13


An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage, 2005
Live at the Cafe - 3 disc set Listen mp3 file Live at the Café,
now available in a 3 CD set from iTunes
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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1)
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Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2)
the Messenger
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the Messenger
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And I Don’t Care, 2005
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C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis


and What I Want to Know 2010
the poetry “Oh.” audio CD”
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the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control
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(3:02) 04/01/05 (April Fool’s Day)
Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show
Conflict • Contact • Control
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live at the Café in Chicago 12/15/09
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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)
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of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music bt the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing
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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Kodak Camera
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read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung Camera


Andrew Hettinger, 2005
the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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CD: Janet Kuypers - Chaos In Motion - Chaotic Radio CD: Napster
Listen mp3 file to the CD recording
of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange
the poetry “Oh.” audio CD”
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WZRD CD Listen mp3 file to this radio recording
from WZRD Radio (in a 3 CD set)
the poetry 5 CD THE CHAOTIC COLLECTION
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CD: Janet Kuypers - Chaotic Elements
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CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra
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Listen live mp3 file to the 2nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life
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(6:55) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07
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(6:18) 02/26/08 live, the Cafe, Chicago
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Listen mp3 file to the live reading
from the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03
Kuypers reading Andrew Hettinger at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Champaign See YouTube video
not yet rated Live at St. Mary’s Cemetery (at his gravesite) in Champaign IL 05/27/11


Are The Things That I Like, 2005
Are The Things That I Like 2010


Around the World... & Sweet Home Chicago
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As I Recovered, 2005
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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, at a Florida gas station 12/27/08
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the poetry 2 CD set CHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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ask me if i’m a truck 2010
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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera
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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera
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video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam


At Least That’s What I Hear, 2005
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Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09
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l(1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago
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of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.










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