Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
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NASA Project (written for the show 6/11)
Listen: ( 3:00)  to this recording from Fusion... Or order the entire CD set from iTunes: 
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   NASA Project and Moonlight from the show 6/11 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive |
  Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02 |
  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose NASA Project live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (from a Canon fs200 camera) |
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose NASA Project live 9/17/15 at Story Teller Night at Roots Room in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot) |
See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’ 2018 Poetry Bomb at Graffiti Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
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See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’ 2018 Poetry Bomb at Graffiti Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
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Needy Person, 2005
 Watch this YouTube video live, the Café 09/09/08, Chicago |
See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at Poetry Visualized live at the Café 09/09/08
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at YouTube live at the Café 09/09/08
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No There Isn’t, 2005>
 Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem no there isn’t (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem no there isn’t (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S) |
New Vacuum Cleaner 2010
Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08 |
Watch the YouTube video 06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking) |
See feature-length YouTube
video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café
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Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems |
90% Sure (Dreams 07/06/06 Two) 2010
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 09/29/09 |
No One Will 2010
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the “line drawing” filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with an metallic filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with an pastel sketch filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (1:00) live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life
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See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life
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See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life
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nonfiction
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:
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Not For Me Yet, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live, the Café 09/09/08, Chicago |
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at Poetry Visualized live at the Café 09/09/08
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at YouTube live at the Café 09/09/08
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Not Getting Better, 2005
Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (a 2 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Now You’re Nothing To Me 2010
See the video of Now You’re Nothing To Me & Dreams 09/07/07 live 07/08/08 (6:48) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Now You’re Nothing to Me” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading |
Watch this Youtube video of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem) |
Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets” |
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Watch this YouTube video read live at the Café 07/08/08 |
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