Janet Kuypers’ June is a Woman! show “Meant to do Big Things”     Below are video links and poem text links from a June 3rd 2017 (6/3/17, or 20170603) poetry performance (with Janet’s video recorded electric bass sounds with a bow, and her live playing an acoustic guitar with a bow) of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through June is a Woman! at Austin’s the Bahá’í Center (at 2215 E M Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723)about being a woman, and about what women go through.     Before leaving her Chicago home to live in Austin Texas, someone told her (which she left as a note on her desk, and was the impetus for her writing her twitter-length poem “you were meant”), “you were meant to do big things, which you are.” This note, when used s a reference to women, was the perfect title for her woman-themed show “Meant to do Big Things”.     Before the show started she also released copies to people there of a Scars Publications cc&d bonus release chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show (in the order they were performed), as well as a bonus poem she performed after her show titled “My brain was (2017 Streamline)” in the open mic. All of the pieces from this evening’s reading were also released electronically in an online “Meant to do Big Things” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.     Based on the YouTube Playlist, 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 poem text links to the live performance of “Meant to do Big Things” at June is a Woman! in Austin. (The background image is from a photo Kuypers took outside the airplane window over Naples FL before she took over the controls and piloted the airplane. Bottom 3 images are of her standing past the warning sign of Angel Terrace, swimming down to a white-tipped shark off the Galapagos Islands, and leaning on the plane after she piloted it. Additional older images include an edited video still of her in mid-flight after jumping out of an airplane.)

the “Meant to do Big Things” Janet Kuypers feature 6/3/17 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/3/17 poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” at June is a Woman! in Austin’s the Bahá’í Faith Center, with her poems “you were meant”, “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “cover”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City”, and “Echo in my Mind”, all to audio of her playing electric bass with a bow while playing an acoustic guitar with a bow (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/3/17 poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” at June is a Woman! in Austin’s the Bahá’í Faith Center, with her poems “you were meant”, “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “cover”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City”, and “Echo in my Mind”, all while playing an acoustic guitar with a bow (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow Download all of the poems from the free chapbook “Meant to do Big Things” of the poems she performed in her 6/3/17 “Meant to do Big Things” poetry feature/show, including “you were meant”, “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “cover”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City, “Echo in my Mind”, and the bonus poem “My brain was (2017 Streamline)”. After the show Kuypers performed one bonus poem. “My brain was (2017 Streamline)” See YouTube video 6/3/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My brain was (2017 Streamline)” after her poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” in Austin’ the Bahá’í Faith Center (L). See YouTube video 6/3/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My brain was (2017 Streamline)” after her poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” in Austin’ the Bahá’í Faith Center (S). Added bonus see raw video of Janet Kuypers playing an electric bass with a bow. playing an electric bass with a bow See RAW YouTube video of Janet Kuypers playing an electric bass with a bow, for audio use in her 6/3/17 poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” at June is a Woman! in Austin’ the Bahá’í Faith Center (Sony).

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