Janet Kuypers featured reader at the “July 2019 Book Release Reading” at Austin’s Community Poetry 7/3/19

July 3rd marked the July 2019 Book Release Reading, where Janet Kuypers was one of the featured readers at the monthly venue Community Poetry at Half Price Books (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX). During her four readings, Kuypers read some of her poetry from the Down in the Dirt1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” and the the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, but in her first two readings she got the chance to read all of the poetry insert poems and all of the Letters to the Editor poems in the cc&d old school 2019 reprinting the cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”.     Below are video and writing links to the live performance of poetry readings from July 3rd 2019 (7/3/19, or 20190703), in Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books event.

Janet Kuypers reads poetry from the poetry insert section in the back of the 2019 reprinting of the cc&d v79 May 1996 retro release titled “Poetry and Prose” 7/3/19 live for Community Poetry at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, 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 poetry from the Letters to the Editor section in the back of the 2019 reprinting of the cc&d v79 May 1996 retro release titled “Poetry and Prose” 7/3/19 live for Community Poetry at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). Thom Woodruff, thank you for taking Janet Kuypers photos f reading her poems and prose from the Letters to the Editor and the poetry insert sections of the cc&d v79 2019 reprint of the May 1996 issue, as the book “Poetry and Prose”, live 7/3/19 during Community Poetry at Half Price Books in Austin. Janet Kuypers reads poetry for the country, and poems appearing in the July 2019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, + poetry from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” 7/3/19 in Community Poetry at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). Thom Woodrufftook these photos during Community Poetry at Half Price Books 7/2/19 while I was reading poems related to this country (including “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and “Just Names”, complete with showing off its accompanying Twitter / Instagram / Tumblr image). Janet Kuypers reads poetry appearing in the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life” 7/3/19 in Community Poetry at Half Price Books See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her Instagram and twitter poem “Ominous Day”, then her poems “Bamboo” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her Instagram and twitter poem “Ominous Day”, then her poems “Bamboo” and “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, from the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). Thom Woodruff took these photos during Community Poetry at Half Price Books 7/2/19 while I was reading poems related to this country (including “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and “Just Names”, complete with showing off its accompanying Twitter / Instagram / Tumblr image).