Read New Modern American Prose by Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

prose prose

Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
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the poetry audio CD set“HopeChest in the Attic”

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Daisy from the book Bare Minimum live 1/15/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Daisy from the book Bare Minimum live 1/15/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

facebook video of Janet reading her prose Daisy

See a facebook video of Janet Kuypers’ prose Daisy in the book Bare Minimum live at the Café Gallery poetry open mic 1/15/14 live in Chicago (Sony) at Gallery Cabaret

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of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Patrick Hurley feature 1/15/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, with this prose

dandelions for a passing stranger

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her prose dandelions for a passing stranger live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her prose dandelions for a passing stranger live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of 2 prose pieces by Janet Kuypers: dandelions for a passing stranger and How a woman falls in love live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of 2 prose pieces by Janet Kuypers: dandelions for a passing stranger and How a woman falls in love live 5/9/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, in 3 parts, reading her poetry 10/12/19 at the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library. In part 1, read her poem “Check Your Clock” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “Other People’s Worlds” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain”, then her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”, both of those last two poems also read from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Know What Planet She’s From” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her prose poem “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” read from the cc&d 2019 reprints of the May 1996 v79 issue book “Poetry and Prose”, then her poem “Ominous Day” from the cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” that also appears in (and is co-read from) her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 3, she reads her poem “Kind of Like a City” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles, and Bling”from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, in 3 parts, reading her poetry 10/12/19 at the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library. In part 1, read her poem “Check Your Clock” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “Other People’s Worlds” from the cc&d v291 7-8/19 book “Of This I am Certain”, then her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”, both of those last two poems also read from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Know What Planet She’s From” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her prose poem “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” read from the cc&d 2019 reprints of the May 1996 v79 issue book “Poetry and Prose”, then her poem “Ominous Day” from the cc&d v290 May-June 2019 26-year anniversary issue/book “a Rose in the Dark” that also appears in (and is co-read from) her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 3, she reads her poem “Kind of Like a City” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her poem “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles, and Bling”from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Decorating the Palm Trees 2010

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

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video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

Differences in China... Children & Trains
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World

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07/17/07
from Living in a Big World

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07/17/07
from Living in a Big World

doctor
[ doctor - in German ]

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Doctor from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Doctor from the book Don’t Listen. Read. live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Done This Before

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from the Chaotic Collection
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live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCafé in Chicago

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of The Other Side live, including this poem in Chicago 10/21/03 (3:01)

Click the cover to see this writing, or order this writing as it appears in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine

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of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Done This Before in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine live 9/18/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Done This Before in v118 of Down in the Dirt magazine live 9/18/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (S)

Don’t Go To Denny’s 2010

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live, Regina’s Place 01/15/10 Chicago

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live at New Year’s Unplugged

Do You Still Want To See Me, 2005
Dreams 1/14/04, 2005
Dreams 1/19/04 one, 2005

Dreams 1/19/04 one 2010

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from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Dog Stuck to my Face” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

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live at the Café in Chicago 10/06/09

Dreams 2/20/04 one, 2005

Dreams 9/7/07 2010

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read live at the Café 07/08/08

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(6:48) This film is from the Internet Archive

Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl 2010

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off the CD Indian Flux

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to this recording from Fusion

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Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09

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from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via the Internet Archive

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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Aeon Flux Crawl” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

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of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

dreams turned into nightmares

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

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Driving By His House
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Driving By His House” (2:08) live at the Café 2/26/08 in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

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12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

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12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

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with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

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Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poetry feature “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)” at Trunk Fest, live 5/28/11, where she performed her poems “the Burning”, “Death Takes Many Forms”, “Keep Them Apart”, “one by one, the beech trees fell”, her short prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Keep Driving”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well” (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow.

Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Driving By His House from the collection book Exaro Versus live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Samsung)

See YouTube video from 5/3/17 of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading at Half Price Books, where she said her haiku “uphill” then read her prose “Driving by his House” in “Hands that Hurt”, then her poems “Medication” and “Empty Chocolate Counter” in “Things Found in Books” (this video filmed from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video from 5/3/17 of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading at Half Price Books, where she said her haiku “uphill” then read her prose “Driving by his House” in “Hands that Hurt”, then her poems “Medication” and “Empty Chocolate Counter” in “Things Found in Books” (this video filmed from a Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 4/4/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky”, her haiku “eminence”, her short prose “Driving by His House”, and her poem “erasure poem: a Poetic History” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gary’s Blind Date” from her “a Woman on the Beach” show, “Being God” from her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” show, and then her poem “Keep Driving” and her prose “Driving by His House” from her “My Soul in the Trunk of my Car” Evanston show, all from her book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Driving By His House” & poems “What the Hell is She Complaining About” & “Burn It In” that were never

before shared from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” at Prost Alehouse during the 2025 Poetry Bomb on 4/27/25 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this YouTube video from video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).