Welcome to the Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition for safety in the social distancing     The August 2nd 2020 Poetic License open mic in Austin Texas could not be held at its usual Recycled Reads public bookstore because of Covid19/ Coronavirus social distancing, so to bring everyone together, host Janet Kuypers started a Facebook event page for this venue, and at the usual start time (3:30 PM CST on the first Sunday of the month) it became public for anyone to post poetry, prose, or music via text, audio files or video uploads. This Poetic License meeting was shared via a Zoom meeting, live Facebook streams, and YouTube videos. Because of this, Poetic License goes/went beyond Austin, because anyone is welcome to share at this space. BONUS videos throughout August of August events poems read ON the event dates from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” are also at the bottom of the page!

Follow video and writing links below for poems Janet Kuypers performed at the Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition. Janet Kuypers readings during the Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition (3:30-5:30 CST Sunday, August 2nd, 2020) See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11 on Robert G. Ingersoll’s 1833 birthday), “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day), and “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day) from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, and “Just to Craft” from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading the Thom Woodruff poem “Death Waits Outside” before introducing Thom to read, from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” (named after his poem in the book) during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the first poem she ever wrote from memory, “Under the Sea”, then reading her poems “Effigy” (written 8/28, the 1955 day Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in a lynching, galvanizing the civil rights movement, the 1957 day U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered to prevent the voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the 1963 day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech), “Keep Looking Happy” (written 8/26, the the 1920 day the U.S. 19th Amendment was certified, given women the right to vote), and “Violent Endeavour” (written for when the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere, the Soviet Venera 4 to Venus) from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading the first poem she ever wrote from memory, “Under the Sea”, then reading her poems “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius” (written 8/13, International Left Handers Day), “Once You Found Fame” (written 8/15, the 1914 date a servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin), and “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, and “Value of What Money Does” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi) and “Voyager” (written for the August 25, 2012 date NASA’s Voyager 1 started the Interstellar Mission into the unknown), and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” and “Voyager”, and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense Plus a bonus August reading! Find a poem read ON the August date from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” in August, after the open mic date... See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus August poem “Exploited Color in Books” (written 8/14, the calendar day of the 1457 date the first Book was Printed in Color), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 8/14/20 as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense