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See YouTube video 12/3/16 with Janet Kuypers in her show “Akitu” at Expressions: Festive Seasons in Austin reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” to live electric bass w/ bow (this video was filmed from a Canon PowerShot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 12/3/16 with Janet Kuypers in her show “Akitu” at Expressions: Festive Seasons in Austin reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” to live electric bass w/ bow (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook Akitu with “open flame for the celebration” “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, & “Everyone Celebrates Together”.

See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “yearning to break free”, “Every Soul Celebrates” and “Stairs” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Lumix camera).

See YouTube video from 5/27/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “yearning to break free”, “Every Soul Celebrates” and “Stairs” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2017 Book Release Readings 12/6/17 from the cc&d 12/17 book “Flawed Cadaver”, with her Akitu poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2017 Book Release Readings 12/6/17 from the cc&d 12/17 book “Flawed Cadaver”, with her Akitu poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “endings bring light”, and “Everyone Celebrates Together” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Entering the War Room”, and “Job that Only Paid the Bills” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)..

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Entering the War Room”, and “Job that Only Paid the Bills” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, and “Utopia Never Happened” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Evolving, Connecting and Confounding”, and “Utopia Never Happened” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity” (written 12/9, on and for the 1941 date the “Subsequent Nuremberg trials” begin with the “Doctors’ trial”, of physicians and officers involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder through euthanasia), “Zealots Intentions” (written 12/10, on and for the anniversary of the 1520 date Martin Luther burned his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine at Wittenberg’s Elster Gate), “Top of the Mountain” (for 12/11, International Mountain Day), “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics” (written 12/11, on and for the anniversary of the 969 date Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes), “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry” (written 12/12, on and for the anniversary of the 1889 death of British Poet Robert Browning, b 7 May 1812), and “Every Soul Celebrates” (for 12/13, Saturnalia), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/9/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Zealots Intentions”, “Top of the Mountain”, “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, “Knowing a Mastery of Poetry”, “Every Soul Celebrates”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/9/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Every Soul Celebrates Janet Kuypers 11/29/16 A poet once described Saturn mythology. “Saturn, it says, devours its children. Yes, it’s true, I know it.”* But I never paid attention to that mythology, I love a gas giant planet with moons like our Earth at it’s creation, a celestial giant with some moons that couldn’t come together, that formed a nebulous sheet of rings instead. ‘Cause even though science isn’t mythology, it is truly beautiful. I’ve always said that, until I heard of the stories of Saturnalia... When you think of a celebration, you might think Mardi Gras or the New Year’s ball drop in New York City. You might even think of the decadence of Brazil’s Carnival, but none of that matches the chance for people to get together, from rich to slaves, and be treated as equals, to celebrate the crops and share the abundance of the year. Because during Saturnalia this ancient Roman festival honored Saturn as a deity, a god of agriculture, liberation, and time. So it only seemed fitting after annual harvest that during this dinner festival, all slaves would be first served, as if they were the masters of the house. This was a time to celebrate prosperity, after the crops were good — and because Saturnalia was a holiday, businesses and government offices were closed, and no war was declared on this day. Roman poet Catullus called Saturnalia “the best of days”, and the Augustan poet Horace called this supreme (and decadent) liberty a “December liberty”, a leisure “free of grievous ambition.”** And as the end of the year approaches, isn’t that what we all look for? We’ve worked so long, we’ve accomplished so much, maybe now we should remind ourselves that sometimes we have to stop to switch things up a bit. Because if Saturn rules agriculture, liberation and time, then let’s use this time to liberate ourselves, and celebrate our fortunes in any form with every soul we see.   * Ai, “The Good Shepherd” ** “Horace and the Didactic of Freedom”

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