the Janet Kuypers interview 9/7/19
for her 2019 book releases + poetry
readings @ WZRD Radio, 88.3 FM

    WZRD Radio (88.3 FM), w/ D.J. Cathleen Schandelmeier, had an hour-long afternoon interview with Chicago poet Janet Kuypers 9/7/19, visiting her hometown of Chicago for the week after Labor Day (after her move to Austin, Texas in October 2015).

    Because of this 2019 trip to Chicago, Scars Publications released two Janet Kuypers books to coincide with her journey to Chicago — where she also featured at (A) Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” at “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” and (B) the “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Ear”. She was pleased to share new poetry from new books at multiple Chicago venues.

    “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19𕒵 was a perfect cap to her journey, and a great way to share poetry from her two new Scars Publications perfect-bound paperback books, #8220>“Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)””(a 200+ page poetry 7½" x 9¼" collection book highlighting holidays and events throughout the calendar year) and “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (the 3^rd “pheromemes” 6" x 9" Janet Kuypers poetry book including shorter poems with images used to advertise the poems on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook —Some of these poems are also longer in this book, to round out the book to give the reader a better sense of the style of the author, plus all poems are in a 14-point typeface for easier reading).

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    Links to all videos as well as the individual poems are below on this page, so follow the links below for recordings from this live radio show event.

Video of portions of Janet Kuypers on WZRD Chicago radio 9/7/19 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera)

See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19𕒵, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19𕒵, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

Video of portions of Janet Kuypers on WZRD Chicago radio 9/7/19 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera)

See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19𕒵, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera).

See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19𕒵, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).

Hear SoundCloud audio of the full “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”. During her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33). Then she read “Escape to Peace” (starting ~39:41) and “Vase of Tulips” (started ~41:52) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. Later in the interview she read her poems “Elaborate Exaltation” (started ~45:51), “Listen to Life” (started ~46:18), the haiku “nature I” (started ~46:44), “after” (started ~47:12), and “quarrel” (started ~47:31), from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”.

Hear SoundCloud audio of all of the poem readings from “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl”, “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “Escape to Peace”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Listen to Life”, “nature I”, “after”, and “quarrel” from 2 new books.

after the live radio show...

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Hue Cycling filter).