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Be Free Of You 2010
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read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago


Because This Is What We Do, 2005
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(1:07, at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO 06/15/07)
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(2:08, live at the Cafe 07/10/07)
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an american portrait
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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08
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Before Taking Over the Controls 2010
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live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago
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live at New Year’s Unplugged


Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News, 2005
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(08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently
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1:32, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08
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(1:21) from the Chicago performance
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SIN live 09/20/05
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the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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the poetry 2 CD setCHAOTIC ELEMENTS
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of the first 4 poems performed (3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 08/14/07 at the live show Seeing Things Differently


brushes with greatness
brushes with greatness [in French] [in German]
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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, performed live at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11
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video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” 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’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Scars Publications 2022 annual collection book “Running Out of Time” prose “Seven Miles” and “Brushes with Greatness”, and her poem “Hydrogen: One Against One” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Build Your Own Cross 2010
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live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10
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of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign”
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(:36) read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago
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Burn It In, 2005
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(5:03, of just the poem)
live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99
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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago
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from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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from the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03
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(5:18) live at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07
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Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

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(:56) live at Beach Poets 08/14/05
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(5:22) recorded on the Pacific Ocean
12/07 near the Galapagos os Islands
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(5:13) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos os Islands)
frame from mpeg show of practice session at the Lake County Poets Society 08/22/06
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(2:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06
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read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.
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03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out
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(4:32, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out
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of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State
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(34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece
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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)
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of Kuypers reading this poem 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)
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of Kuypers hosting the open mic 2/27/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1)
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video video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)
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But I Won’t, 2005
But You Know What I Mean, 2005










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