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paint a suicide picture
Park Bench
Passed Away 2010
   Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the “air brush” filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with a colorize filter) 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 (recorded with a metallic filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (with the Pastel Sketch filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/02/10 |
Passport To Outer Space
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World
People’s Lives Were at Stake, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
Order the audio performance of this track from the studio recording from the CD for the 10/05/04 performance art show Questions in a World Without Answers |
Listen  Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set (order the CD by clicking on the CD cover or title)
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Listen: (4:49) to this recording from Fusion (or order the CD by clicking on the CD cover) |
(mixed 07/03/09) to this poetry, combined with Los - Break Free from the HA!Man of South Africa off the CD “Seeing a Psychiatrist”
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  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem People’s Lives were at Stake live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
phone calls from Brian Tolle
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/21/11 live at the Café |
See feature-length YouTube video of Kuypers reading her prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” and her poem “How to Please a Woman” |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 06/21/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1)  This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Too Far” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, then her micro-prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” from her “Getting Wired” show, both performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poem “Each Trigger Pull” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Too Far” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, then her micro-prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” from her “Getting Wired” show, both performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poem “Each Trigger Pull” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56; Posterize).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Too Far” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, then her micro-prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” from her “Getting Wired” show, both performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poem “Each Trigger Pull” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Too Far” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, then her micro-prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” from her “Getting Wired” show, both performed from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poem “Each Trigger Pull” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia Tone).
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Please Drive Through, 2005
 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 main camera |
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 |
Poam: Militant Man With Schizophrenia, 2005
 See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
 See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, inlcuding this poem |
Pool Together Our Money, 2005
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Praying To Idols, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set, as a bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2005 |
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Listen: (1:58) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch the YouTube video or get the full audio track:  live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest
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Watch this complete video:12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video (This film’s at the Internet Archive) |
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Prepared For The Worst, 2005
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Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem |
Private Lives Three
Watch this YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09 |
Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive |
Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive |
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. |
Prom ‘97 — or Doing Things Right
Watch this YouTube video read live 08/23/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 08/23/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her short prose “Prom ‘97 — or Doing Things Right”
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