Janet Kuypers’ info about a 30 minute “Book release & Book Reading” at Half Price Books in Austin 3/1/17     Because March 1st is the day Scars Publications releases books “Lost in America” from cc&d magazine and “What Remains” from Down in the Dirt magazine, Janet Kuypers was asked to read material from these new books in Half Price Books Community Poetry, so she made a reading of not only poems from the books “What Remains” and “Lost in America” but also selections from past cc&d book releases.     Below are writing links and video links from March 1st 2017 (3/1/17, or 20170301), where performing a 25 minute poetry reading in Austin at Half Price Books.     Before the show started she also released an online chapbook of the writings she was making available for her to read in this poetry book reading (in the order they were to be performed). She did not distribute copies of this chapbook to the people in the audience of the bookstore (since she didn’t know how many poems selected from the books she would be able to perform in her reading), but she made sure the chapbook “Book Release & Book Reading” was available online even during her reading, so anyone could (and can) download as the chapbook 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.     The full list of pieces selected that she read in this reading included first poems from past issue/books from cc&d magazine... Including potentially “Vanishing Scars” and “Fuming in the Morning” from 1/17 “Rhetoric and the Written Word”, “X-rays and Broken Hearts” from 6/16 “the “the 23 enigma”, “Koi Ponds and Concrete” from 5/16 “a perfect solitude”, “of independence or freedom” from 11-12/15 “When the Walls are Paper Thin”, “eight ball answers all” and “violent affair” from 5-6/15 “a Mad Escape”, “holding my skin together” from 1-2/15 “the Curve of Arctic Air”, “one summer traveled” from 7-8/14 “And Then He Moved”, “Each Half is the Enemy” and “explaining what condoms are for” from 5-6/14 “Invisible Ink”, and “Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds” from 3-4/14 “Shot Out of a Cannon”. After she read those she read poems from the current book releases: her Periodic Table of Poetry bonus poem “Smelling Sulphur on Nine One One” for “What Remains”, then “newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species” and “Quieted Soul” and lastly her Periodic Table of Poetry bonus poem “Pluto, Plutonium & Death” from “Lost in America”).     Video only recorded the fist few minutes of the show (cutting off the first poem, “Vanishing Scars”), but after the reading she did come back to the podium to read a poem slated as the final poem in her show “Exploring spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin at the Bahá’í Faith Center, “Original Snowbirds”.     Below are video links to the live performance of poetry reading at Half Price Book 3/1/17 at Half Price Books in Austin.

Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 Book Release & Book Reading at Half Price Books See YouTube video of the intro to the Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 poetry Book Release & Book Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with the beginning of her poem “Vanishing Scars” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera). See YouTube video of the intro to the Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 poetry Book Release & Book Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with the beginning of her poem “Vanishing Scars” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, then given a Cinematic Overlay). See YouTube video of the intro to the Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 poetry Book Release & Book Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with the beginning of her poem “Vanishing Scars” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, then given an Edge Detection filter). See YouTube video of the intro to the Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 poetry Book Release & Book Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with the beginning of her poem “Vanishing Scars” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, then given a Posterize filter). See YouTube video of the intro to the Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 poetry Book Release & Book Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with the beginning of her poem “Vanishing Scars” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, then given a Sepia Tone filter). See YouTube video of the intro to the Janet Kuypers 3/1/17 poetry Book Release & Book Reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with the beginning of her poem “Vanishing Scars” (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, then given a Threshold filter). View or download the free PDF chapbook Book Release & Book Reading with “Smelling Sulphur on Nine One One”, “newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species”, “Quieted Soul”, “Pluto, Plutonium & Death”, “Vanishing Scars”, “Fuming in the Morning”, “X-rays and Broken Hearts”,, “Koi Ponds and Concrete”, “of independence or freedom”, “8 ball answers all”, “violent affair”, “holding my skin together”, “one summer traveled”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “explaining what condoms are for”, and “Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds”. Added Bonus: After the show, Janet Kuypers read a poem from her 3/4/17 show. Janet Kuypers read her poem “Original Snowbirds” See YouTube video live 3/1/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Original Snowbirds” at Half Price Books Community Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera). See YouTube video live 3/1/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Original Snowbirds” at Half Price Books Community Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera, then given a Posterize filter).