Janet Kuypers’ “Fort to Famous” poetry show to music “Eleven”     Below are video links and poem text links from a June 11th 2018 (6/11/18, or 20180611) poetry performance (accompanied by guitar and piano music from John Yotko, accompanied by train sound throughout the show) of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through “Fort to Famous” at Austin’s The Buzz Mill (at 1505 Town Creek Drive in Austin).     In this show, Janet Kuypers’ decided to tackle the number eleven in many different forms throughout her show, from her first poem she ever wrote that was published when she was eleven, the acquaintance rape counselor poems she wrote 11 years after that, to nearly being killed on July 11th, to having her first show back in Chicago on June 11th, top coping with July 11, 2001. At the end of this show (cut off from video, but in the chapbook), she even read a penguin poem written in the 11th month last year, and ended her show with a poem from poems written 11 years after being happily married to John... in this show, she even included a song they have sung in 11 states.     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). All of the pieces from this evening’s reading were also released electronically in an online “Eleven” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time. (The added bonus is that the chapbook contains all of the poems performed in the show, so it also contains the non-video poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive” and “Observer’s Love Poem”.)     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 with its own web page from the main listing at artvilla.     Below are video links and poem text links to the live performance of “Eleven” at “Fort to Famous” in Austin. You can also visit the Facebook event page for this show any time for all of the videos as well.

the “Eleven” Janet Kuypers feature 6/11/18 See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter). See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter). See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter). See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter). See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter). Read all of the poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry show in her 6/11/18 poetry chapbook for her show “Eleven” containing her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, and “Observer’s Love Poem”. Added Bonus: videos of readings of poems from this show to share news about the show Janet Kuypers poetry readings from the Down in the Dirt January-April 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight”, plus poems from the chapbook “Eleven” live 6/6/18 at Half Price Books See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L T56). See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books, PLT56ED. See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books, PLT56ST. See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books, PLT56Th. See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (extreme sestina variation)” & “Observer’s Love Poem” from her chapbook “Eleven”, and then her eleven-themed new poem “popular and useless” (with a selfie with the audience) live 6/10/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (extreme sestina variation)” & “Observer’s Love Poem” from her chapbook “Eleven”, and then her eleven-themed new poem “popular and useless” (with a selfie with the audience) live 6/10/18 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).