Chicago poet and Austin resident Janet Kuypers was honored to join poets and musicians at the Dripping Springs City Hall, where she was asked to do a feature for Thirsty Thursday on September 21^st 2017.

    Included in her poetry show, she started with guitar from John while singing and performing her poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”. In the remainder of her show, her poetry reading about all of the seasons as they change was accompanied by music recordings from the HA!Man of South Africa (including “big drops falling on my walk” and “the cold feeling of touch”, from his “Hotel Music”). The entire show was also accompanied by a random art generation on a computer screen of her images from around the world.

    Before the show started she also released a chapbook of all of the short poems she read in this show, and this chapbook “Seasons Change” is still available online even during her reading, so anyone could (and can) download the chapbook titled “Seasons Change” 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.

    One of the poems she read in this show was also printed in her new book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, and during one reading after the show, Janet Kuypers also read a poem from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” (“Quiver with no Home”) as well as a poem from her second new book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” (“Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph”).

    Enjoy the video links and poem writing links below for recordings from this live evening of the entire show performance!