Welcome to the Chamber

Enjoy the 2016 poetry & prose (and don’t forget the artwork) anthology from Scars Publications, titled the Chamber of select poetry, flash fiction and longer prose/short stories in this one-of-a-kind 2016 annual collection book, which contains select accepted writings chosen from 2016 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine...

the Chamber
the Scars 2016 poetry & prose collection book

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below is a listing of the accepted writers and titles (of writing or artwork) in this collection. all artwork printed inside the book is in grayscale.

	AUTHOR	TITLE

Editor’s Choice Contest Winner

	Paul Bellerive	At Danny Hannigan’s Old Times Tavern The Naturalist

Poetry (plus artwork)
	\tRichard Schnap	No Comment

	Denny E. Marshall	Haiku (peppered)

	Corey Cook	stillborn

	Joann Spencer	Weekend Father

	Kenneth DiMaggio	Poem #4 from The Oxycodone Highway

	C. D. Bonner	Fall

	Liz Yohemoore	Stone Singing

	A.J. Huffman	I’ve Been Trying to Think

	Doug Draime	Sentences (halls)

	Liam Spencer	Volumes

	Kristen Welker	The Calling

	Peter Halliday	once, i was waiting

	Marc Carver	ME

	Stefan Benz	summerlong

	Linda Golden	What I Was Told

	Al Ortolani	Turquoise Stone

	Nathaniel Sverlow	a measure of time

	JoyAnne O’Donnell	Flower’s Essence

	Indunil Madhusankha	Paradox

	CEE	The Speeding Effect of Aging

	Üzeyir Lokman Çayci	DSCN4231 UZEYIR HK9K art

	Ryan V. Stewart	Night over Lower Manhattan

	Charles Hayes	Home

	David Michael Jackson	Haystacks art

	Michael Lee Johnson	Jesus in a Nighttime City (V3)

	David J. Thompson	Storage Tanks Jesus art

	I.B. Rad	Don’t bite the hand

	Simon Perchik	untitled (letter)

	Rose E. Grier	Repose At 97 art

	John Grey	Tight

	George Gott	Abundance

	Michael Ceraolo	SHE: A Fable for the 21st Century

	Xanadu	Drama Flying Celestial Club Remix art

	Brian Looney	Decades Hookah Possessed art

	A.S. Coomer	Seven Chords

	Katie Moore	An Aged Affair

	Blake Corrao	Angry Letter From A Dead Son to A Remarried Mother

	Victor Pearn	In 1959

	Marlon Jackson	Representing

	Liam C. Calhoun	It’ll be crimson tonight

	Stephen Toft	Autumn Haiku

	Ken Allan Dronsfield	Palette of my Soul

	Ben Macnair	Did you see the moon tonight?

	Gregg Dotoli	Us

	Kayla Katsuda	The Four Seasons

	Joshua Sinclair	Family

	Wesley Furukido	Untouchable

	Casey Powers	The Strength of a Family History

	Chris Butler	in the closet

	John Grey	A Get-Together Ten Years Down the Road

	Janet Kuypers	Entering the Lake of Fire

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Entering the Lake of Fire, unless it happens to you, Open Book, electromagnetism, an edited version of the poem Everything was Alive and Dying, Death Takes Many Forms, and Under the Sea.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Entering the Lake of Fire, unless it happens to you, Open Book, electromagnetism, an edited version of her poem Everything was Alive and Dying, Death Takes Many Forms, and Under the Sea.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), w/ Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon P.S.), with Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

		See YouTube video live of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entering the Lake of Fire from memory 10/8/15 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa at Uncommon Ground in Chicago (Canon fs200)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Entering the Lake of Fire & New To Chicago from memory 10/8/15 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa at Uncommon Ground in Chicago (Cfs)

		See YouTube video 11/22/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entering the Lake of Fire at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 11/22/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with Us, Actually Touching, Entering the Lake of Fire, & Unique Noise.

		Download poems in the free chapbook Like a Lamb to the Slaughter of the NEW poems read 9/2/15 at the Café Gallery show in Chicago

		Other Souls

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperation and Other Souls at the 5 year anniv. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cfs)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems True Happiness in the New Millennium, Just Desperation and Other Souls at the 5 year anni. of the open mic Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing in Wicker Park, Chicago (Cps)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), with an edited version of Communication, plus Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon Power Shot), with an edited version of Communication, plus Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

		Download poems in the free chapbook Farewell Chicago of this & other poems read 8/14/15 at a live Chicago show

		jihadists and astrophysics

		See YouTube video of the poem jihadists and astrophysics, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

		See YouTube video of the poem jihadists and astrophysics, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jihadists and Astrophysics live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jihadists and Astrophysics live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

		See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot).

		See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Nikon CoolPix S7000).


Flash Fiction (plus artwork, with interspersed poems in italics)

	Katherine McCormick	The Breaking

	Janet Kuypers	*years*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem years from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem years from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “years” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/14/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).


	Talon Lawrence	Betrayal

	Janet Kuypers	*knife*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knife live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

		See YouTube video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

		Download this poem and more in the free PDF file chapbook “6 Second Poems”, Download all poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku knife as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knife in Scars Publications’ 2016 Down in the Dirt book the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/23/16 (filmed w/ a Samsung smartphone)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “knife” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/15/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “knife” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/18/16 (this video was filmed in Austin Texas at Jim’s diner for breakfast from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Wes Smith	Life Over Breakfast

	Janet Kuypers	*scorches*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku scorches live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku scorches live 4/23/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

		Read the Janet Kuypers twitter-length poem scorches in the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku scorches from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/27/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Droid Maxx)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “scorches” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/16/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “scorches” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/18/16 (this video was filmed in Austin Texas at Little Woodrow’s Techridge from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Terry C. Ley	A Stormy Beginning

	Janet Kuypers	*forever*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku forever as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, hard light saturate)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku forever from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking live outdoors in New Orleans 5/29/16.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “forever” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/17/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “forever” from Scars Publications’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/18/16 (in in Austin Texas at BJ’s, from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Drew Marshall	Inpatient Impressions

	Janet Kuypers	*existence*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku existence in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS HAIKU

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “existence” from Down in the Dirt’s “the Breaking” for the 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Texas.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku existence 4/24/16 at the end of her readings at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku existence 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at the end of her readings at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “existence” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/21/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Debasis Mukhopadhyay	No country for a Jew

	Maria-Jose Villamar	Our Date

	Peter Halliday	pursuing propinquity

	Janet Kuypers	*job*

		See YouTube video (C) of Bob Rashkow reading the Janet Kuypers haiku job in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video (S) of Bob Rashkow reading the Janet Kuypers haiku job in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem job (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem job (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku job from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking (New Orleans 5/29/16, 1).

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku job from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking (New Orleans 5/29/16, 2).

		Order this haiku in the Janet Kuypers book 100 Haikus, or in the 2014 collection book Partial Nudity.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “job” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/16/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

		*form*

		Order this book in the Janet Kuypers haiku collection book 100 Haikus, or in the 2014 collection book Partial Nudity.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku form live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku form live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “form” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/22/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Allan Onik	The Forgotten Isle

	Janet Kuypers	*defenses*

		See YouTube video of poet Bruce Matteson reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku defenses live 6/2/14 in Chicago

		See YouTube video of Bruce Matteson (C, posterized) on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku defenses in the “Partial Nudity” book show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Bruce Matteson (S, posterized) on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku defenses in the “Partial Nudity” book show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku defenses with the Down in the Dirt magazine / book the Breaking while she was blindfolded 5/19/16 in Austin TX.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “defenses” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/19/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Ariel Nichols	I almost got Caught

	Janet Kuypers	*guide*

		See YouTube video of poet R. Gibbons reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku guide live 6/2/14 in Chicago

		See YouTube video (C) of R. Gibbons on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku guide in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video (S) of R. Gibbons on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku guide in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem guide (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem guide (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku guide from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “guide” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/24/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Eric Burbridge	Count Your Blessings

	Janet Kuypers	*fog*

		See YouTube video (C) of Tom Roby reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fog in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video (S) of Tom Roby reading the Janet Kuypers haiku fog in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” WITH THIS HAIKU READING (C) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fog in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku fog in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (S crop glow)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “fog” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/23/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Dene Williams	The Beer

	Terry C. Ley	Friends and Neighbors

	Sej Harman	Prisoners

	Janet Kuypers	*cage*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem cage from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem cage from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku cage from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “cage” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/25/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

		*choke*

		See YouTube video (C) of Jenene Ravesloot reading the Janet Kuypers haiku choke in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video (S) of Jenene Ravesloot reading the Janet Kuypers haiku choke in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem choke (in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem choke (in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/3/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, crop & color)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku choke from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “choke” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/20/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Bob Strother	Once Is Enough

	Joe Randazzo	Burning What’s Left Of The Castle

	Steve Sibra	A Drowning Boy Visits the House of the Recent Dead Morocco

	Denny E. Marshall	*haiku (sign)*

	Sarah Parfait	Watermelon Farm

	Robert Laughlin	Forced Move to a Small Apartment

	Carrie Ives	Lightning Louise

	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz	Pattern from Saturn art

	Priscilla Pilar Estrada	The Important Blues

	Janet Kuypers	*difference*

		See YouTube video of poet Jackie Wolk reading Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku defenses live 6/2/14 in Chicago

		See YouTube video (C) of Jackie Wolk on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku difference in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video (S) of Jackie Wolk on video reading the Janet Kuypers haiku difference in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (C, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem difference (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem difference (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku difference from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine 5/30/16.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “difference” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/5/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Tiffeni Crawford	6 Feet Under

	David Michael Jackson	Man on Wall art

	Brittany Kearney	Coming Home

	Janet Kuypers	*stagger*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku stagger live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

		See YouTube video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

		Download this poem in the free chapbook “6 Second Poems”, w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku stagger from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book the Breaking live in New Orleans 5/29/16.

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku stagger from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

	Tim T.K.	Family

	Janet Kuypers	*kindness*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku kindness live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

		See YouTube video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

		Download this poem in the free chapbook “6 Second Poems”, w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku kindness as a looping JKPoetryVine video live live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku kindness from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book 6 Feet Under as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

	Suzanne Pearman	a Midwestern Eulogy

	Kyle Hemmings	Grass Man On Bench art

	Phil Temples	Blood of the Lamb

	Allison Whittenberg	Something in Between

	Wes Heine	10665760 art

	Russ Bickerstaff	A Walk With Norm

	David Russell	Face art

	Rod Dixon	Across the Water and in the Shade of the Trees

	Janet Kuypers	Private Lives Three (the elevated train, Chicago Illinois)

		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 (from 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.

	Nora McDonald	Boys and Bluebonnets

	Sterling Jacobs	Paying It Forward

	Betty J. Sayles	Daughter of the Woods

	Dave Nelson	College Days Are Swiftly Fleeting

	D. D. Renforth	No Ship is Big Enough

	Aaron Wilder	High Season 01 art

	Steven K. Smith	Night

	Poetic	Please Read the Letter

	Kyle Hemmings	Who’s Girl art

	Mike Brennan	Date of Discharge

	Steve Sibra	Hitler’s Woman

	Kathryn Trattner	Negative

	Luis Herrera	Tests Aren’t the Only Things with Difficult Choices

	Janet Kuypers	*mister*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mister live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mister live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem mister (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem mister (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku mister from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

	Mario “Maxx” Hassell	The Chamber

	Janet Kuypers	*floor*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Sony)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku floor as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Canon camera)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku floor as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed with a Sony camera)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku floor from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive as a looping JKPoetryVine video 5/30/16.

	Kendra Burns	Shot

	Janet Kuypers	*ever leave me*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem ever leave me live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs200, FlCrSat)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem ever leave me live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

		Download poems in the free chapbook Farewell Chicago of this & other poems read 8/14/15 at a live Chicago show

		See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot)

		See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000)

	Jazmine Dorsey	John

	Janet Kuypers	*John*

		Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (C) reading her poem John (edited) at the open mike 8/4/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poem John (edited) at the open mike 8/4/12 Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago

		See YouTube video (C) of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems (“Sheri”, “Where To Go” & “John (edited)”) 8/4/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

		See YouTube video (S) of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems (“Sheri”, “Where To Go” & “John (edited)”) 48/4/12 at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus

	Jamanda Parker	Thriller

	Eleanor Leonne Bennett	london wpo bebe 168 art

	Melanie Greenwood	Destiny

	Stephan Deemer	The Wolf

	Janet Kuypers	*easy*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku easy in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS HAIKU

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers’ haiku easy @ the pond @ Jan & Palos drives 6/5/15 (Motorola)

		See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku easy from Down in the Dirt’s Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

	Jaron Panikkar	Time Is Madness

	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz	Prisoner of Time art

	Andrew Estep	The Life of a Thief

	Janet Kuypers	*run*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem run from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem run from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku run from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

	Antonio Ingram	Cadillac Vision

	Alex Kingsley	Blackmail the Devil

	Janet Kuypers	*evil*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem evil from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem evil from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku evil from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude as a looping JKPoetryVine video after Poetry Plus in Georgetown 5/27/16.

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku evil from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude as a looping JKPoetryVine video after Poetry Plus in Georgetown 5/27/16.

		See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku evil from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “evil” from Scars Publications’ cc&d Jan./June 2016 collection book Clouds over he Moon as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/3/16.

	Angelica Carter	Nine-Year-Old Eyes

	Abdulrahman “Manny” Sembawah	Honor

	Janet Kuypers	*knowing*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem knowing from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem knowing from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knowing from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

	King Wiz	Bloody Knuckles and Broken Bottles

	Doug Hawley	Meds

	Bill Wolak	Desire Burned Your Doors to Ashes art

	Nick Gregorio	Death Protects

	Janet Kuypers	*sting*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku sting live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

		See YouTube video 9/27/14 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio performing many poems, including this one (Canon)

		Download this poem in the free chapbook “6 Second Poems”, w/ poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

		See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku sting from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

	Stephanie Conley	Burning Sensation

	Roger G. Singer	*Blues Man*

	David A. Forrester	Long Long on the Moon Ride

	Fabrice Poussin	Enchanted art

	Rose Saundersl	Darkness

	Daniel Mark	An Open Letter to the Lady with a Dog

	Kyle Hemmings	dog 1 art

	Janet Kuypers	*heaviness*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem heaviness from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem heaviness from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (C, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku heaviness from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

Prose (plus artwork, with interspersed poems in italics)

	Zane Schneider	You Are Dad

	Janet Kuypers	*How He Failed*

	B. Mason	Corpus Christine

	Janet Kuypers	*study*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku study live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon camera)

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku study live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterized)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku titled study from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./Feb. 2016 issue book the Breaking (filmed 2/24/16 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku titled study from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./Feb. 2016 issue book the Breaking (filmed 2/24/16 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

		Order a copy of Janet Kuypers’ twitter-length haiku “Study” in the Down in the Dirt January/June 2016 issue collection book a Stormy Beginning.

		See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “Study” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/13/16 (this video filmed in Austin TX from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Jeff Nazzaro	A Million Red Tickets

	Kyle Hemmings	Antiques Red art

	Kevin James	Islam beyond the Quran: The Color of Water

	David Nelson Hilliard	Janine

	Abigail Smith	The End of June

	Jon Wesick	Dawn

	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz	47 Flavors art

	Patrick Fealey	El Dorado Flowers of Spring art

	Carol Murphy	Words

	Janet Kuypers	*brewery*

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku brewery from cc&d’s Scars Publications book a Perfect Solitude live on Bourbon Street 5/29/16.

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera).

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “brewery” from Scars Publications’ cc&d Jan./June 2016 collection book Clouds over he Moon as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/4/16.

	DC Diamondopolous	The Bell Tower

	Beaumont Sebos	Cops

	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz	a Little Anxiety art

	Don Maurer	The Worlds Worst Four-N-Sick Geologist

	Janet Kuypers	*explosions*

		See YouTube video (C) of Bob Lawrence reading the Janet Kuypers haiku explosion in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video (S) of Bob Lawrence reading the Janet Kuypers haiku explosion in the “Partial Nudity” book release show 6/18/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem explosions (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem explosions (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku explosions from cc&d’s v264 July/August 2016 issue/book Being Real as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/6/16 at BB Rover’s (Samsung Galaxy S7).

	Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt	A Brief Epic of Ecological Eroticism Progressive Soulmates Bond in Big Nature Spots

	Nora McDonald	Love your Fellow Man

	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz	Kind Woman art

	Bernard Otto	Around Goes What?

	Simon Easton	Shecky Shalom

	David J. Thompson	Jesus on Tires art

	Kimba Rose Williams	Skritch Skritch

	William R. Soldan	Suicidal Birds

	Janet Kuypers	*groove*

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem groove from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem groove from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

		See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “groove” from Down in the Dirt’s v138 July/August 2016 issue/book Suicidal Birds as a looping JKPoetryVine video 8/10/16 (Galaxy S7).

	Eliah Medina	Gregory Death

	Kyle Hemmings	Sky 1 art

	Jo Thomoson	Casual Tuesday

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