Janet Kuypers reads her poetry in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic live at the Georgetown Public Library 4/27/19     April 27th marked the first time Janet Kuypers hosted the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, which was the only meeting like this at the Georgetown Public Library (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX) during National Poetry Month in 2019. As host she welcomed poets and musicians up in this round-robin event, and during the round-robin reading Janet would read poetry (that sometimes related to the theme for this meeting, of the Notre Dame), in addition to her new poetry, and poetry from her 2014-2015 poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”.     Below are video and writing links to the live performance of poetry readings from April 28th 2019 (4/27/19, or 20190428) at the Georgetown Public Library for the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX event.

Janet Kuypers poetry readings: See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, starting the open mic by reading her poem “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance” (originally written on National Take a Chance Day) to a live audience for National Poetry Month (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, starting the open mic by reading her poe, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance” (originally written on National Take a Chance Day) to a live audience for National Poetry Month (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xystus to Foundation” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Quintessential Symbol” (about the Venus de Milo statue), then her poem “Jihadists and Astrophysics”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xystus to Foundation” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Quintessential Symbol” (about the Venus de Milo statue), then her poem “Jihadists and Astrophysics”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” (written on and for Victims of Violence Wholly Day), then her poem “Before Taking Over the Controls (2015 edit)”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” (written on and for Victims of Violence Wholly Day), then her poem “Before Taking Over the Controls (2015 edit)”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was given a Sepia Tone filter). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). When poet Robin Barratt could not attend and wrote poetry for the event, Janet Kuypers read poetry from Robin Barratt. See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads Robin Barratt’s poem “Fire: Notre-Dame de Paris 2019” to a live audience for National Poetry Month (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads Robin Barratt’s poem “Fire: Notre-Dame de Paris 2019” to a live audience for National Poetry Month (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads Robin Barratt’s poem “haiku on the edge” from Scars Publications’ “2019 Literary Review date book” to a live audience for National Poetry Month (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads Robin Barratt’s poem “haiku on the edge” from Scars Publications’ “2019 Literary Review date book” to a live audience for National Poetry Month (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).