Janet Kuypers reads poetry in the “June 2017 Book Release Reading” at Half Price Books 6/7/17 in Austin

June 7th marked a June 2017 Book Release Reading of new books from Scars Publications, which saw the release of the books “Respect Our Existence or Expect Our Resistance” 24-year anniversary issue from cc&d magazine and “Embracing Shadows” from Down in the Dirt magazine. So Janet Kuypers was asked on June 7th to read material from these new books plus additional new 2017 collection books from cc&d’s “Things Found in Books” and Down in the Dirt’s “Study in Black” in the Community Poetry reading at Half Price Books in Austin.

As an added bonus, Janet Kuypers was asked to give two additional impromptu poetry book readings, so she read poetry both from her 2015 poetry/photo/journal book “Bon Voyage!’ (which included her poems “Everything was Alive and Dying” and “On a High Horse Like This”) as well as elements poetry (chosen and read on request) from “the Periodic Table of Poetry” (a book 3 years in the making, where Janet Kuypers wrote poems for every element in the Periodic Table - as well as bonus poems and poems about a select few compounds, where she read “Neon”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic and Syphilis” and the requested poem “Molybdenum”).     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 and writing links to the live performance of poetry readings June 7th 2017 6/7/17 at Half Price Books in Austin for the Community Poetry.

first reading Janet Kuypers poetry readings from Down in the Dirt’s book “Embracing Shadows” and cc&d’s June 2017 book “Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance” 6/7/17 at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Embracing Shadows” poems “Violence There” and “Quibbling over Religion”, then cc&d’s book “Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance” poem “Saving Fingers & Scooping Ice Cream” (+ Thom’s poem) in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “Embracing Shadows” poems “Violence There” and “Quibbling over Religion”, then cc&d’s book “Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance” poem “Saving Fingers & Scooping Ice Cream” (+ Thom’s poem) in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera and given a heatwave filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading second reading Janet Kuypers poetry readings from Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” and cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” 6/7/17 at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading third reading Janet Kuypers poetry readings from her 2015 photo/journal/poetry book about a vegetarian woman visiting India “Bon Voyage!” 6/7/17 at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Everything was Alive and Dying” and “On a High Horse Like This” for her “Bon Voyage!” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Everything was Alive and Dying” and “On a High Horse Like This” for her “Bon Voyage!” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading fourth reading Janet Kuypers poetry readings from her 2015 elements poetry book “the Periodic Table of Poetry” 6/7/17 at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Neon”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic and Syphilis” and “Molybdenum” for her “the Periodic Table of Poetry” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read her poems “Neon”, “Nickel”, “Arsenic and Syphilis” and “Molybdenum” for her “the Periodic Table of Poetry” book reading @ Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

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