to the Bottom of the Earth and Back
Janet Kuypers 20180926 feature
“to the Bottom of the Earth and Back”
live at Chicago’s In One Ear

    Chicago poet and Austin resident Janet Kuypers returned to Chicago for a week in September 2018; during her stay she was honored with the opportunity to perform her feature show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” for In One Ear (at the bar next to the Heartland Café, 7000 N. Glenwood, Chicago, IL 60626) Wednesday, September 26th 2018.

    Because Janet Kuypers knew she was coming back to Chicago for one week only, Janet Kuypers was thrilled that Scars Publications was able to release a number of books of hers — some entirely new, and some collections of her Chicago shows and past cc&d magazine work. These books included the 8½" square full-color full-bleed Janet Kuypers photography book “Antarctica: Earth’s Final Frontier” and the 8½" square full-color full-bleed Janet Kuypers photography (+ select Antarctica poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife” of animals in 7 locations, both photographed from the 1st 2017 passenger ship to the 7th continent. Additional book releases include interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, the cc&d boss lady v5 collection book “On the Edge”, the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” covering poetry shows and readings from 2009-201, and the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)” covering poetry shows and readings from 2011-2018. During this event she also sold some of her own copies to audience members after the show.

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




The Feature performance:

Janet Kuypers’ full feature
“to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” 9/26/18
video See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; B&W).
video See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Threshold).
video See YouTube video live 9/26/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Jumping, Flying”, “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, “Poem About This”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)”, “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)”, “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “Quieted Soul”, “The Page”, “Other Souls”, “yearning to break free”, and “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)”, from her show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” with chapbook “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” performed during the feature performance at In One Ear in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500;n Edge Det.).








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  Janet Thanks to John Yotko for taking photos in Chicago of Janet Kuypers while she was the poetry feature at the Chicago open mic “In One Ear” 9/26/18 and read her poetry to a live audience. Photos in this collection also include images from her poetry feature “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” (a poetry show where all the poems ware also released in a free PDF chapbook).


  Janet Thanks to John Yotko for taking photos in Chicago of Janet Kuypers while she was featured at the Chicago open mic “In One Ear” 9/26/18, where she performing her feature “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” (of poems that were also released in a free PDF chapbook). Photography from the iPhone also created “.mov” files of snippets and partial phrases of the Janet Kuypers readings.