 Janet Kuypers’ poetry show from “Greatest Love” w/ music  
Below are writing links, video links and images from a February 4th 2017 (2/4/17, or 20170204) poetry performance of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through “Greatest Love” live at the Bahá’í Faith Center (at 2215 E M Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723).The theme of the night with other features was about not just love (because Valentine’s Day is this month), but the “Greatest Love” , which can be interpreted philosophically in so many ways. So Janet Kuypers covered this very explicitly in her show about the love of a person, the love of nature, the love of astronomy, or even discovering the right book to bring the love of the right philosophy, bringing meaning to your life. Her “Exalted Love” show was also accompanied by music from Mozart (“the Dissonant”) rainforest sounds, and “Hotel Music” from the HA!Man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux, with “the story i am trying to tell” and “easy afternoon” both from his “Hotel Music”). Before the show started she also released copies of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show (in the order they were performed), and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a “Exalted Love” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time. There is also a YouTube playlist of the videos of this show, and there are also two additional web page listings for the videos from this show — one is at Scars Video (at www.artvilla.com/scars), and the other is from the main listing at artvilla. Below are video links and poetry writing links and images to the live performance of “Exalted Love” at “Greatest Love” in Austin. |
The full show:After the show...
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| Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Amber Beads” |
   See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers at the Bahá’í Faith Center (Canon Power Shot SX60) reading her poem “Amber Beads”. |
See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers at the Bahá’í Faith Center (Canon Power Shot SX700) reading her poem “Amber Beads”. |
| Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” |
See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” at the Bahá’í Faith Center (Canon Power Shot SX700). |
See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Praying to Idols” and “Unless it Happens to You” at the Bahá’í Faith Center (Canon Power Shot SX60). |
| Janet Kuypers reads her haiku poem “oceans” |
See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers at the Bahá’í Faith Center reading her haiku poem “oceans” (Canon Power Shot SX60). |
See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers at the Bahá’í Center reading her haiku poem “oceans” (Canon Power Shot SX60, Threshold). |
ADDED BONUS
Janet Kuypers read 4 poems from her last 3 poetry features in Chicago
(“Journey” in Hyde Park, “Farewell Chicago” at Poetry’s “Love Letter”,
and “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” at the Gallery Cabaret), plus all of the
“Exalted Love” poems in a 25 minute poetry reading 2/1/17 at Half Price Books.
| Janet Kuypers 2/1/17 poetry reading at Half Price Books |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
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During the evening, John took photos of people performing all evening at the Bahá’í Faith Center — including (in the middle of the photos) 98 images of Janet Kuypers.
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