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See YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago

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).

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).

Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 four i was ten when my grandfather died we visited him the week before and his last words to me were, “you’re the most beautiful girl in the world” i went to the funeral his eyes closed dressed in a suit hands folded he never wore a suit and everyone brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles talked about past weddings other times together i wanted to tell them to pay him some respect don’t laugh don’t be happy he’s in that coffin up there in the front of the room he’s dead they’re going to bury him tomorrow but this is how things were and i was only ten Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.