Janet Kuypers reads her poetry in the “November 2018 Book Release Reading” live at Half Price Books 11/7/18 in Austin

November 7th marked he reading space where Janet Kuypers had six readings, where she read material from new Scars Publications books for Community Poetry!, which was the only meeting like this at Half Price Books (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX). This November 2018 Book Release Reading is also where she read from Scars Publications new book release, like the cc&d 11-12/18 6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book “Wait Until Dark” and the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book “Hurricane Katrina”. In one of her readings at this event, she also read from the May-August 2018 cc&d issue collection book “Across the Wall” and the May-August 2018 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Windows of Remembrance”.     Janet Kuypers, because she had 6 10-12 minute readings throughout this bookstore reading event, also shared poetry from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” (a book of the last year of performance show poems she performed in features in her last year living in Chicago). These multiple readings included readings of some or all of the events from her shows, including all but one of the “6 second poems” from her QZRD Chicago radio interview, all of the poems from her “Nerves of a Poet”, some of the poems from her “love” show, and all of the poems from her “Destruction Instructions” show.     Below are video and writing links to the live performance of poetry readings from November 7th 2018 (11/7/18, or 20181107) at Half Price Books in Austin for the Community Poetry! at Half Price Books event.

reading from the book “Hurricane Katrina” Janet Kuypers poetry readings from the Down in the Dirt 11-12/18 book release “Hurricane Katrina” 11/7/18 live at Half Price Books In Austin, TX See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her haiku “dreams” and her “Seeing Things Differently” poems “The Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her haiku “dreams” and her “Seeing Things Differently” poems “The Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). Thank you to Thom Woodruff for taking photos of Janet Kuypers reading from the Scars Publications Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books in Austin, Texas 11/7/18. reading from the book “Wait Until Dark” Janet Kuypers poetry readings from the cc&d 11-12/18 book release “Wait Until Dark” 11/7/18 live at Half Price Books In Austin, TX See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Life and Death and Everything Between” poems “Violations tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross” from the cc&d 11-12/18 book “Wait Until Dark”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Life and Death and Everything Between” poems “Violations tested”, “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross” from the cc&d 11-12/18 book “Wait Until Dark”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). Thank you to Thom Woodruff for taking photos of Janet Kuypers reading from the Scars Publications cc&d 11-12/18 book “Wait Until Dark”, during her feature at Community Poetry at Half Price Books in Austin 11/7/18. reading from the Chicago Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” Janet Kuypers 6-second poems from her “WZRD” radio show interview, read from her book “a year long Journey” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “WZRD” 6-second poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “WZRD” 6-second poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “WZRD” 6-second poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, and “couldn’t”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (PL2500). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “WZRD” 6-second poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, and “couldn’t”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (PL2500; Po). Janet Kuypers reads from her book “a year long Journey” 11/7/18 @ Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize). Janet Kuypers reads from the May-August 2018 cc&d issue collection book “Across the Wall”, the May-August 2018 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Windows of Remembrance”, and her book “a year long Journey” 11/7/18 @ Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her poem “Jumping, Flying” from the May-August 2018 cc&d issue collection book “Across the Wall”, her poem “You and I, Walking Through Georgetown” from the May-August 2018 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Windows of Remembrance”, and her “love” poems “Just You”, “Only Philosophy”, and her haiku “drowning”, from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her poem “Jumping, Flying” from the May-August 2018 cc&d issue collection book “Across the Wall”, her poem “You and I, Walking Through Georgetown” from the May-August 2018 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Windows of Remembrance”, and her “love” poems “Just You”, “Only Philosophy”, and her haiku “drowning”, from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Sepia Tone filter). Janet Kuypers reads from her book “a year long Journey” 11/7/18 @ Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Destruction Instructions” poems “one oh one destruction instructions: a Man calls a Woman”, “one oh two destruction instructions: Self-Destructive”, “one oh three destruction instructions: Run Faster”, “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: on Destroying a Relationship”, and “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: Use Drones to Kill”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56; Posterize). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Destruction Instructions” poems “one oh one destruction instructions: a Man calls a Woman”, “one oh two destruction instructions: Self-Destructive”, “one oh three destruction instructions: Run Faster”, “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: on Destroying a Relationship”, and “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: Use Drones to Kill”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).