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(250 x 190, 3.1 seconds, 3.1 meg)

What you see below is a slew of poetry and prose readings Some are raw, some are reverbed, some are slightly edited, some have background noises, and some are live readings with audiences. Following this massive list of links to readings (including live open mike readings of Kuypers’ work by Kuypers as well as by John Yotko). However, you can also follow these links to see a listing of raw Janet Kuypers poemtry read by Oz Hardwick (U.K.) or read by Monica Fowler (Missouri), or read by Jared Smith (Colorado) or read by Charlie Newman (Chicago) or read by Jeff Helgeson (Chicago) or read by Esteban Colon (Chicago) or read by Wayne Allen Jones (Chicago).

A Beacon Alone published in the book Oeuvre. 1:35, recorded 08/06/04

Accounts for the Need of Gun Control January, 1995

1:33, recorded 02/28/08

the original writing

A Child In The Park

(5:30, recorded 07/04/06)

   

Acknowledge

1:13, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

A Crying Baby

:47, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

the original writing

addict.

1:43, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Adjusting Your Beliefs

2:22, recorded 07/04/07 prose for the 07/17/07 performance art Show Living in a Big World

After The Wreckage

(1 meg)

Recorded 2/20/01, 175k

recorded 08/06/06, 1:21

(2001, 14.9 meg)

(1:21, 10/25/06)

Afraid Of Telling The Truth

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:01 read for the book Duality

Against My Will

Recorded 3/4/01

the raw mix (1.7 meg)

(1.8 meg)

the raw mix (24.3 meg)

(2:24, recorded 07/04/06)

old time radio filter; 2:48, recorded April 2002

2:39, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

Age

(4:12, recorded 07/04/06)

A Great American

2:15, recorded 05/31/07

A Happy Ending To Everything

vocals recorded 10/01/06, :51

Aim Carefully

1:17, vocals track read & sampled 09/25/09

the original writing

Airbags — for Security and Defense

(vocals only track, 1:29, recorded 10/14/05)

a letter

5:21, vocals track read & sampled 08/27/09

the original writing

A Letter to our Political Leaders an essay, read after the polititcal portion of Questions in a World Without Answers and before portions of the poem True Happiness in the New Millennium on 11/09/04 Written in 1997, this essay was also published in the books Contents Under Pressure, Exaro Versus, and Survive and Thrive.

a Life Goes By

4:09, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

A Little Angel Inside

vocals recorded 10/08/06, 2:49 read for Singular Endings

All I Can Capture

4:13, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

All Men Have Secrets Written in 1990, this poem has also been published in the books Hope Chest In The Attic, and Survive and Thrive and Oeuvre. :40, recorded 08/06/04

recorded 08/06/06, 0:36

   

All My Problems Disappear

1:19, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

   

All The Loose Ends

:35, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

All These Reminders

old time radio filter; 2:01, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

with vocal presence delay; 2:01, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

the original writing

All Your Fault

Recorded 2/20/01

(2001, 13.4 meg)

(1:15, 891k)

old time radio filter; 1:15, recorded April 2002

the original writing

Almost the Best Part

:42, recorded 08/14/07

the original writing

a Man Calls a Woman

1:54, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

a Microcosm of Society

13:52, vocals track read & sampled 08/27/09

the original writing

And I Don’t Care

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:19 read for the book Duality

And I’m Wondering

Recorded 3/2/01

the raw mix (1.5 meg)

the raw mix (21.4 meg)

3/4/01 (2:07, 496k)

(recorded 03/24/05) read in the feature art gallery performance art show in Chicago 04/01/05 conflict•contact•control.

And What I Want To Know

3/4/01 (6.6 meg)

Recorded 3/4/01

the raw mix (1.7 meg)

(24.5 meg)

(3/4/01, 29 meg)

recorded 3/4/01 (2 minutes, 25 seconds, 568k)

(recorded 03/24/05) read in the feature art gallery performance art show in Chicago 04/01/05 conflict•contact•control.

An Innocent Glance

(0:25, recorded 07/04/06)

Andrew Hettinger

the Raw Mix in a file

Recorded 3/2/01

the raw mix (3.9 meg)

(4.1 meg)

the raw mix (57.2 meg)

(5:47, recorded 07/04/06)

old time radio filter; 6:46, recorded April 2002

with canyon echo; 6:51, recorded April 2002

the original writing

    

(And You Could Hold Me)

(:26, vocals track WHISPERED 08/19/08)  (:49, whispered vocals track 08/19/08 with an echo filter)  (:47, whispered vocals track 08/19/08 with a delay filter)

:21, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage

6:31, vocals track read & sampled 07/29/09

the original writing

  

Any Help At All

:48, vocals track 05/13/08

(vocals track for CD Death Comes In Threes, 20 seconds)

the original writing

Anyone Good Enough

(0:34, recorded 04/23/06)

the Apartment

Two prose pieces: The Apartment and Clay, read live at the Cafe in Chicago 03/15/05

A Retired Policeman Talks About Suicides He’s Seen.

(0:40, recorded 05/13/06)

Arrowhead

1:30, recorded 02/28/08

1:30, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

the original writing

A Stand off

(:53, recorded 03/18/06)

Athena

(recorded 03/24/05) read in the feature art gallery performance art show in Chicago 04/01/05 conflict•contact•control.

At Least I Have This

from How Do I Get There? vocals track

At Least That’s What I Hear

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:27 read for the book Duality

A Socially Accepted Target

06read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Autumn

:58, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

the original writing

a reading of hand-written journal entries from the book Autumn Reason: an undated entry (rape themed)

(0:32, recorded 07/04/06)

a reading of hand-written journal entries from the book Autumn Reason: 02/17/83 10:55 PM (good news from work)

(0:25, recorded 07/04/06)

a reading of hand-written journal entries from the book Autumn Reason: 09/07/82 at 10:22 PM (the homeless wanting money) (a job versus a career)

(0:46, recorded 07/04/06)

a reading of hand-written journal entries from the book Autumn Reason: 11/06/82

(0:31, recorded 07/04/06)

A Woman Taking About Her Rapist Friend

(2:30, recorded 04/23/06)

Bad Tricks with the Cue Stick

(vocals only track, 1:16, recorded 10/14/05)

Backbone Family Act

:51, vocals track 05/25/11 of “Experimental Poetry”telephone recording

the original writing

Barbie

3:06, vocals track read & sampled 07/29/09

the original writing

   

Because I am Told

:17, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

Because There’s Nothing To Tell

(193k)

Recorded 3/1/01

(1.1 meg)

(15.7 meg)

recorded 3/4/01 (1 minute, 33 seconds, 363k)

recorded 4/15/02 (1 minute, 21 seconds, 317k)

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

1:37, recorded 08/14/07

Because This Is What We Do Written in 1997, this poem has also been published in the books Etc. and Oeuvre. 1:20, recorded 08/06/04

(1:19, recorded 07/04/06)

Been a World Leader

2:34, vocals track read 7/18/12 with a vocal effects “male” sounding voice

the original writing

Before I Learned Better

(0:57, recorded 04/23/06)

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

live from the Cafe, 09/21/04

Being God Written in 1998, this poem has also been published in the books Etc. and Oeuvre.

2001 (5.6 meg)

(289k)

Recorded 3/1/01

the raw mix (1.7 meg)

(1.7 meg)

the raw mix (24.8 meg)

recorded 3/4/01 (7:27, 574k)

(vocals track for CD Death Comes in Threes, 2:24)

Recorded 08/06/04

Recorded 08/06/04

Recorded 08/06/04

Recorded 08/06/04

2:30, recorded April 2002

old time radio filter; 2:30, recorded April 2002

reverb and canyon echo; 2:31, recorded April 2002

the original writing

4:25 (the version from the 4 CD set Fusion, on WSUM radio show WordSalad 08/14/08)

Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News

(vocals only track, 1:11, recorded 10/14/05)

1:24, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

Breaking Their Heart

1:35, recorded 02/20/08

1:44, recorded 08/14/07

the original writing

Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer

4:22, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Broke the Reflection

:58, vocals track read 03/23/12

the original writing

The Burning

(1.2 meg)

(a computer generated collection piece)

(a computer generated collection piece)

Performed live 08/28/04 at the Chicago poetry Fest. The 5 poems read were: Too Far, The Burning, I’m A Record Now, New To Chicago and Fantastic Car Crash.

1:31, live 01/09/06 at Molly Mallone’s

(1:18, recorded 03/18/06)

(only the words “think of how these were the hands that should have pushed you away from me”, recorded 03/18/06) (only the words “think of how these were the hands that should have pushed you away from me”, recorded 03/18/06) (original old beat in the background, with only the words “think of how these were the hands that should have pushed you away from me”, smoothed so it’s not so static-filled) (this is the 03/18/06 reading, with the original, old smoothed beat and words in the background)

1:38, recorded live at the book release for Jared Smith 05/19/07 at Corosh Restaurant (1072 N. Lincoln, Chicago)

old time radio filter; 1:12, recorded before 06/11/01

old time radio filter and reverb, 1:12, recorded before 06/11/01

Burning Building Written in 1998, this poem has also been published in the books Etc. and Oeuvre.

2001 (4.2 meg)

(Raw) (216k)

Recorded 3/1/01

(1.3 meg)

the raw mix (18.5 meg)

3/4/01 (1:50, 429k)

2:00, recorded 08/06/04

2:00, recorded 08/06/04

2:00, recorded 08/06/04

2:00, recorded 08/06/04

(read live at Coffee Chicago were the poems Burning Building and Worn Out 08/06/04)

Read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha

Read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha

Read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha

Read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha

Read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha

2:01, recorded 08/14/07

Burn It In

(4:57, recorded 07/04/06)

 

Burn Through Me

(:30, vocals track 08/19/08)

:27, recorded 04/03/08

:38, recorded 04/03/08 weith an echo filter and a delay filter

(0:33, recorded 04/23/06)

the original writing

A Cacaphony of Poems

Recorded 2/20/01

(2001, 14.2 meg)

(1 minute, 24 seconds, 329k, recorded 2/23/02)

Canned Condolences

1:48, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

2:31 on WSUM radio show WordSalad 04/09/09)

Can’t Answer That One

(0:48, recorded 04/23/06)

Carpet

1:12, recorded 08/14/07

the original writing

Carrying Me Thrugh

0:24, vocals track read & sampled 09/25/09

the original writing

Chain Smoking

10:03, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

   

Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes

1:09, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

Chances Two: Here I Am

(0:44, recorded 07/04/06)

Change My Perspective

Performed 3/29/05, live at the Cafe in Chicago

1:18, recorded 08/14/07

Change Your Clothes

1:32, vocals track read & sampled 07/29/09

the original writing

Changing Garments

old time radio filter; :31, recorded before 06/11/01

old time radio filter and reverb, :31, recorded before 06/11/01

older recording, :36, recorded 05/17/07 for the book The Elements book & chapbooks

the original writing

recorded 4/15/02 (32 seconds, 128k)

Part of a series of 5 poems read live at the Lake Demented Poets 3/23/02, including 1. Changing Garments, 2. Supposed To Be Done, 3. Making Sense Out Of The Insane, 4. Someone Give Me the Answers, and 5. Feel So Much. (4:22, the movie is 4:51). Download it in any of these formats: AIF file, AU file, Real Audio file, mp3 file, low-res wave file, CD quality wave file, or Quicktime movie file.

Chess Game Again

Performed 11/09/04, live at the Cafe

2:08, recorded 02/28/08

the original writing

Chicago

:23, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

:25, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

Chicago, West Side

1:23, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Childhood Memories one

1:15, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Childhood Memories two

2:03, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Childhood Memories three

:58, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Childhood Memories four

:52, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Childhood Memories five

1:03, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Childhood Memories 6

Performed 09/07/04, live at the Cafe The two poems were read live: Christmas Eve with “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” played on the guitar, and Childhood Memories 6 with guitar in the background, leading to their singing “Imagine” (originally by John Lennon) (full recording 7 minutes, 19 seconds)

1:07, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Children, Churches and Daddies

recorded 4/15/02 (1 minute, 33 seconds, 363k)

(1:36, 01/20/03)

(1:26, 10/23/06)

Christmas at the Old House

3:00, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Christmas Eve

Performed 09/07/04, live at the Cafe The two poems were read live: Christmas Eve with “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” played on the guitar, and Childhood Memories 6 with guitar in the background,leading to their singing “Imagine” (originally by John Lennon) (full recording 7 minutes, 19 seconds)

(1:18, recorded 03/18/06)

Choose Your Fate: by Knife or by Car

(vocals only track, :56, recorded 10/14/05)

Cigarette Butts are Lethal

(vocals only track, 1:00, recorded 10/14/05)

Civil War

recorded 4/15/02, with the treble boosted (23 seconds, 92k)

6 poems were read live at the Chicago open mic The Cafe: civil war, mean to me, domestic violence in america, nashville, tennessee, never did the same, morning will be kind, and each morning on 08/03/04

(:16, 198k)

old time radio filter; :11, recorded April 2002

the last line of the poem whispered; :11, recorded April 2002

the original writing

Clay

Two prose pieces: The Apartment and Clay, read live at the Cafe in Chicago 03/15/05

(4:24, recorded 07/04/06)

Clouds Over Blue Sky’s

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:02 read for Singular Endings

communication (the original full version)

recorded 08/06/06, 6:21

Communication ‘05

(recorded 03/24/05) a 1997 poem edited in 2005 and read in the feature art gallery performance art show in Chicago 04/01/05 conflict•contact•control.

4 pieces read live at the Cafe 10/19/04: Confident Women, the State of the Nation, the Flashback, and The Muse, The Messiah

live from the Cafe, 10/19/04

Contempt For Man

2:11, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Content With Inferior Men

(1:15, recorded 04/23/06)

1:21, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

   

Conversations, a Day of Grieving 01/22/04 one

1:39, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

Conversations a day of grieving, 1/22/94 two

:38 (v1), read by Monica Fowler, recorded 02/15/08

:57, recorded 06/27/07 read for the radio show book reading Seeing Things Differently

   

Conversations, a Day of Grieving 01/22/04 three

1:18, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

Conversations a day of grieving, 1/22/94 four

1:07, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Conversations a day of grieving, 1/22/94 five

1:45, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

1:10, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Conversations a day of grieving, 1/22/94 six

1:00, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Conversations a day of grieving, 1/22/94 seven

2:02, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Conversations a day of grieving, 1/22/94 eight

1:22, vocals track read 02/17/11, edited 2/18/11

the original writing

Coping With Her Leaving

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:19 read for Singular Endings

Coquinas

2001 (7.8 meg)

(454k)

(Raw) (401k)

Recorded 3/2/01

the raw mix (2.3 meg)

(2.7 meg)

the raw mix (34.4 meg)

recorded 3/4/01 (3:24, 796k)

(3:31, recorded 07/04/06)

Coslow’s

1:14, read by Monica Fowler, recorded 02/15/08

(1:33, recorded 07/04/06)

Couldn’t Reach It

1:55, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

2:04 on WSUM radio show WordSalad 04/09/09)

Couldn’t Take It Home

1:17, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Couch Potato

(vocals only track, :44, recorded 10/14/05)

the short story Crazy

(17:35, recorded 05/13/06)

just the text (11.7 meg)

the finished file (12.9 meg)

Daisy

5:03, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Dandelions for a Passing Stranger

2:20, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

David

(3:13, recorded 07/04/06)

Death

(:52, recorded 03/18/06)

Death And A Diamond Ring

vocals recorded 10/01/06, 2:01

Death Is A Dog

Recorded 2/20/01

(2001, 18.4 meg)

Written in 1998, this poem has also been published in the books Etc., the Elements and Oeuvre. The tracks below and 1:58, and they were recorded 08/06/04

(1.3 meg)

vocals recorded 10/08/06, 2:07 read for the book The Elements

old time radio filter; 1:48, recorded before 06/11/01

old time radio filter and reverb, 1:48, recorded before 06/11/01

the original writing

Death Sentence

vocals recorded 9/30/06, 3:25 read for Singular Remembrances

Death Takes Many Forms.

Recorded 2/20/01 (dedicated to Dave Jarvie

(2001, 50.4 meg)

recorded 4/15/02 (2:07, 497k)

vocals recorded 9/30/06, 4:50 read for the book Duality

old time radio filter; 4:46, recorded before 06/11/01

old time radio filter and reverb, 4:46, recorded before 06/11/01

the original writing

   

Deity Discipline

:09, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

Desirous

:58, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Didn’t Know What It Was

:17, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Doctor

3:25, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Domestic Violence In America, Nashville, Tennessee

6 poems were read live at the Chicago open mic The Cafe: civil war, mean to me, domestic violence in america, nashville, tennessee, never did the same, morning will be kind, and each morning on 08/03/04

(the “nose” poem, :21, recorded 03/18/06)

(poem involving a stick) 1:16, recorded 02/13/08

Read by John Yotko 3/4/01 (5 meg)

(Reverb) Read by John Yotko (160k)

Read by John Yotko 3/4/01

Read by John Yotko (955k)

the reverb mix, read by John Yotko (13.7 meg)

Read by John Yotko (3/4/01, 22 meg)

Done This Before

5:00, vocals track read & sampled 08/31/09

the original writing

Don’t Need The Crutches

1:13, recorded 08/14/07

the original writing

Door Frame

1:02, vocals track 05/25/11 of “Experimental Poetry”telephone recording

the original writing

Down the Drain

:33, vocals track recorded 06/03/09

the original writing which is diffent writing from this read

Dreams 01/19/04 two

recorded 09/21/04

Dreams 01/31/06 part 1 (train)

(:38, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 01/31/06 part 2 (not the right cat)

(2:06, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 02/05/06 (lip synch)

(3:20, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 02/06/06 (Jolie/Pitt)

(1:43, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 02/07/06 (CDs and chants)

(1:09, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 02/10/06 (Hank)

(2:08, recorded 03/18/06)

3:12 (on WSUM radio show WordSalad 03/01/07)

Dreams 02/20/04 two

recorded 09/21/04

Dreams 03/11/04

recorded 09/21/04

Dreams 03/11/06 part 1 (sewage)

(:34, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 03/11/06 part 2 (pregnant)

(1:10, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 03/11/06 part 3 (book rights)

(:49, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 03/12/06 (office)

(3:29, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 03/16/06 (Jerry Springer)

(2:11, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 04/20/05

(3:03, recorded 05/09/05)

(“knife fight,” 2:52, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 05/26/05 (Eugene and Brian for drinks?)

(2:23, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 09/06/05 part 1 (Star Trek)

(2:12, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 09/06/05 part 2 (organs form a swimming cat?)

(2:26, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 09/24/05 (garage sale)

(2:30, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 12/24/05 (Aeon Flux Crawl)

(2:19, recorded 03/18/06)

Dreams 12/22/08: the Indescribable Infant

1:48, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

2:44 “Dream the Indescribible” on WSUM radio show WordSalad 04/23/09)

Driving by his House

3:13, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Each Morning

6 poems were read live at the Chicago open mic The Cafe: civil war, mean to me, domestic violence in america, nashville, tennessee, never did the same, morning will be kind, and each morning on 08/03/04

vocals recorded 10/08/06, :41 read for the book The Elements

Egg Drop Soup (or a response to a love letter)

3:07, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Enogh’s Enough

3:45, vocals track read 7/18/12 with a vocal effects “male” sounding voice

the original writing

the poem Envision It in the Night Sky

:31, vocals track 06/13/11 read in thecomputerized “Steven Hawking” voice

the original writing

Escape

:29, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

:24, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

:32, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

Escape my Brain Somehow

1:19, vocals track read 03/23/12

the original writing

Escaping Every Cage

4:17, vocals track read 03/23/12

the original writing

Eternal Struggle

0:20, vocals track read & sampled 09/25/09

the original writing

Everything Lives With Her

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:59 read for Singular Endings

Everything was Alive and Dying

Read live on WZRD Radio 6/02/02

Read by Jared Smith 12/11/05

vocals recorded 10/01/06, 6:56

8:03, vocals track mixed 05/27/09 the voice of Janet Kuypers, with the voice of Jared Smith

the original writing

Evil Floats

:08, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

:13, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

Expecting The Stoning

Recorded 2/20/01

(2001, 50.1 meg)

Read liveon WZRD Radio 6/02/02

Faith Comes Only

:49, vocals track read & sampled 08/21/09

the original writing

False Suicide

1:25, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Fantastic Car Crash

Recorded 2/20/01

(1.3 meg)

(2001, 19 meg)

Read live at Yammer 2/21/01 (1.6 meg)

recorded 4/15/02 (1 minute, 51 seconds, 435k)

This poem was performed live 08/28/04 at the Chicago poetry Fest. The 5 poems read were: Too Far, The Burning, I’m A Record Now, New To Chicago and Fantastic Car Crash.

vocals recorded 10/08/06, 1:51 read for the book The Elements

old time radio filter; 1:42, recorded before 06/11/01

old time radio filter and reverb, 1:42, recorded before 06/11/01

(vocals, 04/19/02, 1:42)

the original writing

Farmer

2001 (5.2 meg)

(Raw) (267k)

Recorded 3/2/01

the raw mix (1.6 meg)

recorded 3/2/01 (1.7 meg)

the raw mix (23 meg)

Read by John Yotko live at The Note 03/11/02 (2:58, 2.7 meg)

2:46, live 01/09/06 at Molly Mallone’s

2:42, recorded April 2002

old time radio filter; 2:42, recorded April 2002

in a low pitch with a light hallway echo; 2:45, recorded April 2002

the original writing

Father’s Tears

2:14, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Feel So Much

Part of a series of 5 poems read live at the Lake Demented Poets 3/23/02, including 1. Changing Garments, 2. Supposed To Be Done, 3. Making Sense Out Of The Insane, 4. Someone Give Me the Answers, and 5. Feel So Much. (4:22, the movie is 4:51). Download it in any of these formats: AIF file, AU file, Real Audio file, mp3 file, low-res wave file, CD quality wave file, or Quicktime movie file.

Fighting I Can Do

Recorded 2/20/01

(562k)

(2001, 8 meg)

(47 seconds, 186k, recorded 2/21/02)

recorded 3/4/01 (187k)

(0:39, recorded 07/04/06)

   

Filled With Such Panic

1:23, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

Final Rally

vocals recorded 10/01/06, 3:42

   

Find Myself

:49, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

1:04, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

Fire Alarms

(0:25, recorded 07/04/06)

:32, vocals track recorded 06/03/09

the original writing which is diffent writing from the 06/03/09 read

Fireflies

4:03, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Fitting the Mold

(:36, part 0 - intro, recorded 05-10-05)

(1:40, part 1 - interview 1 (Jewish), recorded 05-10-05)

(3:12, part 2 - interview 2 (Muslim), recorded 05-10-05)

(9:33, part 3 interview 3 (Atheism), recorded 05-10-05)

(1:03, part 4 - ending, recorded 05-10-05)

Floating Away with the Tide

1:24, vocals track read & sampled 08/21/09

the original writing

Flooded War Memories

3:118/09/05 Performed live at the Cafe in Chicago

For My Car Or My Life

Forward

:42, vocals track 05/25/11 of “Experimental Poetry”telephone recording

the original writing

Freedom Just Past The Fence

Read by John Yotko at the Lake Demented Poets, Hendersonville, TN (1:36, 2.9 meg)

Read by John Yotko at the Lake Demented Poets, Hendersonville, TN (1:36, 1.5 meg)

Read by John Yotko at the Lake Demented Poets, Hendersonville, TN (1:36, 1.5 meg)

Read by John Yotko at the Lake Demented Poets, Hendersonville, TN (1:36, 374k)

Read by John Yotko at the Lake Demented Poets, Hendersonville, TN (1:36, 2.9 meg)

(160 x 140, 1 minute 39 seconds, 9.6 meg)

(2:01, recorded 07/04/06)

French Quarter

:56, recorded 02/28/08

the original writing

From the Dead

:30, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

the original writing

   

From Words to Wars

:21, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

:23, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

Fulfill Their Deepest Vocation

1:07, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Games we Play

1:59, vocals track read 03/23/12

the original writing

Gary’s Blind Date

(6.3 meg) recorded live 12/13/05 at the Cafe

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 3:22 read for the book Duality

Gasoline

(1:08, recorded 07/04/06)

Gears Get Caught In The Mud

Recorded 2/20/01

(869k)

(2001, 12.5 meg)

:41, recorded April 2002

(:39, whispered, 470k)

whispered, with hiss reduction; :39, recorded April 2002

the original writing

Gerbil

Recorded 2/20/01

(827k)

(2001, 11.9 meg)

(1 minute, 10 seconds, 275k)

1:04, recorded 08/14/07

Getting Quite Good At It

1:14, recorded 08/14/07

the original writing

Get It Over With

(vocals track for CD Death Comes In Threes, 1 minute 7 seconds)

Get Me Out Of This Cage

(recorded 04/27/05)

recorded 08/08/06, 3:23

Getting Quite Good At At

Performed 3/29/05, live at the Cafe in Chicago

God Eyes

2001 (11.5 meg)

Recorded 3/2/01

the raw mix (3.5 meg)

(3.6 meg)

the raw mix (50.8 meg)

recorded 3/4/01 (5:01, 1.1 meg)

1 of 3 poems read live at the Cafe 03/01/05: God Eyes, Looking for a Worthy Adversary, and More Than We Should Have.

vocals recorded 10/01/06, 5:25

God Will Save Me

(news poem, :37, recorded 06/04/05)

(vocals only track, :34, recorded 10/14/05)

Going Nowhere

1:10, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

the original writing

Gossip I

:38, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

recorded 09/21/04

the original writing

Gossip II

:28, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

recorded 09/21/04

the original writing

Gossip III

:37, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

recorded 09/21/04

the original writing

Grab The Other’s Neck

Recorded 2/20/01

(1.8 meg)

(2001, 26.9 meg)

recorded 4/15/02 (2 minutes, 55 seconds, 683k)

(2 minutes 16 seconds, samples 01/20/03)

(2 minutes 40 seconds, recorded 10/14/05)

2:57, recorded 08/14/07

3:16 (on WSUM radio show WordSalad 06/19/08)

   

Grains of Sand

:41, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

Hancock Suicide, Chicago, January 1995

recorded 4/15/02 (2 minutes, 40 seconds, 626k)

(3 minutes, 7 seconds, engineered 01/20/03)

Written in 1995, this poem has also been published in the books Close Cover Before Striking and Oeuvre. The tracks below are 2:40, and were recorded 08/06/04

read live at the Chicago open mic The Cafe: Last Before Extinction and Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994 08/10/04

hand-grenades, chainsaws and fireworks (oh my)

(news poem, :22, recorded 06/04/05)

:30, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08

Hard as a Rock

1:47, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

Harder To Burn

vocals recorded 10/07/06, 1:46 read for Singular Endings

Hard of Hearing

(0:39, 11/03/06)

Having Children One Day

3:01, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Having Company Over

2:00, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

Headache

performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 381k)

performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 380k)

performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 127k)

performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 1 meg)

performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 380k)

(0:45, recorded 04/23/06)

1:01, recorded live at the book release for Jared Smith 05/19/07 at Corosh Restaurant (1072 N. Lincoln, Chicago)

Helping Men in Public Places

(4.2 meg)

(18.5 meg)

Recorded 3/3/01

(1.3 meg)

(3/3/01, 18.7 meg)

(the echo track)

(1 minute, 51 seconds, 433k)

Read Live at The Cafe 12/02/03

Read Live at The Cafe 12/02/03

Read Live at The Cafe 12/02/03

Read Live at The Cafe 12/02/03

Read Live at The Cafe 12/02/03

He Makes Me Think About These Things

:38, vocals track read & sampled 08/21/09

the original writing

Here Is Me

(0:19, recorded 07/04/06)

6:18, recorded 08/14/07

Here It Goes Again

for How Do I Get There? vocals track

with vocal presence delay; 2:48, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

the original writing

   

He’s Gone

:14, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

:17, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

He Told Me His Dreams 1

:43, recorded 06/27/07 read for the radio show book reading Seeing Things Differently

:47, vocals track recorded 06/03/09

the original writing which is diffent writing from th3 06/03/09 read

He Told Me His Dreams Two

:16, vocals track telephone recording 05/25/11

the original writing

   

He Told Me His Dreams 3

:38, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

He Told Me His Dreams 4

:56, recorded 06/27/07 read for the radio show book reading Seeing Things Differently

   

He Told Me His Dreams 8

:58, vocals track 05/13/08

the original writing

He Told Me His Dreams 9

1:20, recorded 06/27/07 read for the radio show book reading Seeing Things Differently

High Roller

(Raw) 74(k)

Recorded 3/2/01

the raw mix (444k)

the raw mix (6.4 meg)

from How Do I Get There? vocals track

(:42, recorded 03/18/06)

Holding my Hand

recorded 9/14/02 live at the Cafe (5:52, 8 meg) The 4 poems in this recording are: Holding My Hand, Let the War Begin, Isn’t It Amazing, and Panther.

(1:08, recorded 07/04/06)

Holding My Skin Together

Recorded 2/20/01

(829k) 2001

(2001, 11.8 meg)

(0:57, recorded 07/04/06)

:55, recorded April 2002

auditorium echo; :31, recorded April 2002

the original writing

Hole in hte Heart

:54, vocals track 05/25/11 of “Experimental Poetry”telephone recording

the original writing

How Are You

1:47, “telephone” vocals track read 06/28/09, sampled 06/29/09

1:53, vocals track with no vocals changes 05/20/09

1:53, vocals track with vocals changes 05/20/09

the original writing

How A Woman Falls in Love

6:45, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

How Do I Explain It

5:48, recorded 02/20/08

6:18, recorded 08/14/07

Recorded 2/20/01 Dedicated to John Yotko

(2001, 56.2 meg)

old time radio filter; 5:23, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

with vocal presence delay; 5:23, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

5:48, recorded 02/20/08

6:18, recorded 08/14/07 (not a very good quality recording)

the original writing

How Do I Get There? Multiple studio recording tracks designed for the 02/15/05 performance art show.

MacIntosh Court vocals track

Job Interview vocals track

Successful Woman vocals track

Generic Symbols of Love vocals track

Generic Symbols of Love 2:03 (on WSUM radio show WordSalad 01/25/07)

Hatred when it should be Good vocals track

Looking for Love vocals track

Those Who Like To Kill vocals track

Loving Astronomy vocals track

the prose How Do I Get to the Moon

2:38, vocals track 06/13/11 read in thecomputerized “Steven Hawking” voice

the original writing

the last track from How Do I Get There?: a Moon & Astronomy Talk

vocals track

How I Imagine You

vocals recorded 10/08/06, :31 read for the book The Elements

How To Please a Woman

3:36, vocals track read & sampled 07/29/09

the original writing

How Many Times I’ve Done It

1:00, vocals track 03/23/09

2:11 “How Many Times” on WSUM radio show WordSalad 05/14/09)

How Much For Your Poem

4:198/09/05 Performed live at the Cafe in Chicago

How People Interpret My Words

:44, “telephone” vocals track read 06/28/09, sampled 06/29/09

:49, vocals track 05/20/09

:51, vocals track 03/16/09

the original writing

1:55 on WSUM radio show WordSalad 05/21/09)

Human Construct of Time

:54, vocals track read 03/23/12

the original writing

Hurry Up And Wait prose

2:43, vocals track recorded 06/03/09

the original writing

Hurt/Cold

(1:26, 11/03/06)

I Am The Woman Who Loves Pain

for How Do I Get There? vocals track

old time radio filter; :45, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

with vocal presence delay; :45, recorded May 2002 for the show/CD Stop.

the original writing

I Cannot Love / My (two poems)

:24, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

the original writing of “I Cannot Love”

the original writing of “My”

   

Ice Cubes

:48, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

I Don’t Care

:48, vocals track read & sampled 07/09/09

the original writing

I Don’t Want To

1:08, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

recorded 4/15/02 (1:10, 275k)

(0:51, recorded 07/04/06)

:39, recorded April 2002

old time radio filter; :41, recorded April 2002

the original writing

I Dreamt About You Last Night Dedicatied to Dave Jarvie

(2001, 39.2 meg)

(September 23, 2003 at 3:48)

(3:53, recorded 07/04/06)

If She’s There

vocals recorded 9/30/06, 1:53 read for Singular Remembrances

   

I Have Learned

:56, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

I Have My Dreams

:08 (v1), read by Monica Fowler, recorded 02/15/08

2:08 (v2), read by Monica Fowler, recorded 02/15/08

(0:09, recorded 07/04/06)

   

Ikebana

1:33, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

I Listen

1:25, vocals track read & sampled 08/24/09

the original writing

I’ll Push The Cart

vocals recorded 10/01/06, 1:37

   

I Look at the Letters Again

1:25, vocals track 04/21/08

the original writing

I’m Always the One

:15, “telephone” vocals track read 06/21/09, sampled 06/22/09

(0:12, vocals track 07/04/06)

the original writing

I’m A Record Now

Recorded 2/20/01

(938k) 2001

(2001, 13.5 meg)

(1 minute, 43 seconds, engineered 01/20/03)

Written in 2000, this poem has also been published in the books Etc. and Oeuvre. The tracks below are 1:22, and were recorded 08/06/04

This poem was performed live 08/28/04 at the Chicago poetry Fest. The 5 poems read were: Too Far, The Burning, I’m A Record Now, New To Chicago and Fantastic Car Crash.

(1:22, 10/25/06)

1:19, recorded 08/14/07

I’m Not Sick (But I’m not well)

2001 (1.3 meg)

(2001, 19.4 meg)

(vocals track for CD Death Comes in Threes, 1:45)

read liveon WZRD Radio 6/02/02

I’m Sure We Killed It

1:56, vocals track read & sampled 08/21/09

the original writing

I’m Tired

vocals recorded 9/30/06, 5:12 read for Singular Remembrances

I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much

:47 (v1), read by Monica Fowler, recorded 02/15/08

:42 (v2), read by Monica Fowler, recorded 02/15/08

recorded 4/15/02 (1 minute, 31 seconds, 122k)

(41 seconds, engineered 01/20/03)

(0:39, 10/24/06)

Read live at Cafe Aloha 4/23/02 (53 seconds)

I Must Believe

(0:28, recorded 07/04/06)

I Must Continue

1:17, vocals track read & sampled 07/29/09

the original writing

I Never Took a Life (Until I Took My Own)

Read by John Yotko 3/4/01 (6.4 meg)

Read by John Yotko 3/4/01

Read by John Yotko (1.9 meg)

Read by John Yotko (3/4/01, 28 meg)

Infallible

(0:56, recorded 04/23/06)

Instead of Feeling Nervous

5:47, recorded 08/14/07

the original writing

a television interview w/ Janet Kuypers on her artwork & photography

Watch this YouTube video (1:40) on Urbana WCIA channel 3 news live TV interview w/ Janet Kuypers