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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers in the cc&d free 2016 PDF file chapbook: New Beginnings Firsts and the Future of new poetry, edited poetry & classic poems live 11/5/16 in an Austin Texas show W/ accompanying acoustic guitar Click the title or the cover to download the free PDF file chapbook. |
 
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This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN#/ISBN# issue/book “Respect Our Existence or Expect Our Resistance” cc&d, v272 (the June 2017 issue - the 24 year anniversary issue) You can also order this 6"x9" issue as a paperback book:  |
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Order this writing in the issue book Nothing Lasts the cc&d May-August 2017 collection book |
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Order this Janet Kuypers writing from her most recent poetry book series: (pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems Order this 6" x 9" ISBN# perfect-bound book today of poems written mid-2015 - mid-2017 that were performed during her poetry shows & performances in Austin, TX
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| Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos
Janet Kuypers 11/3/16 with references from prose “How Do I Get to the Moon” and “Travel Through Space”, and poems “From Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Travel Through Space” and “Universe... Now In Color” When I think of the future, I think of astronomy, space, the final frontier — and you better believe that outer space is so poetic and all about the art. NASA even had an artist in residence, who learned that astronomers estimate the moon’s orbit every year pulls the moon farther and farther away from the earth... So if you remember the moon looking so big when you were young, well, you may have been right. Because if I think about it, maybe I’m not a writer, maybe I’m not an artist — maybe I’m an observer, like an astronomer, learning what makes everything everything because molecule by molecule, we originate from stars, and that makes us all linked by stardust. And like all star gazers who love astronomy, I assume I’ll never actually go into outer space. But it occurred to me: I have. Ever talked on the radio? Ever appeared on tv? Because all of those signals are shot out into space, they continue past our earth. towards the ends of the universe. I wonder what other stars have seen and heard my poetry by now, and I wonder if anything out there can decode our signals and understand what we say. So I keep looking at the images from Hubble, the mind-boggling colors from galaxies and nebulas... But NASA’s artist in residence talked about those telescope photos. Because when images come in, they’re all completely digital (a series of ones, a series of zeros) and there’s no color at all. Astronauts describe the cosmos as a vast black void — so scientists guess from the data how outer space should look. So they guess from radiation data, when red is hot and blue is cold, to make the images look the best. These outer space images are beautiful, but now, they’re literally an art form. The final frontier could be creative. Look at the evidence: imaging in astronomy is actually existential art. |
