Janet Kuypers
20180610 
TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY! Join mer Monday might down in Austin to Stephanie’s “Fort to Famous” weekly open mic at The Buzz Mill, because I am thrilled to be the feature with poetry and music in my show titled “Eleven” live 6/11/18 at ~9PM! Get ready for my eleven-themed poetry that is accompanied by full music and sound effects (I’m even doing a song in this show too), because this is bound to be a great one-of-a-kind night at The Buzz Mill on 6/11/18, so I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180610
And even though I own a clay court t-shirt, I (OF COURSE) had to wear my custom-made “Legends are born in June” t-shirt with a photo I took of Nadal on it for the winning match.
Janet Kuypers Today marks the 11th time Raphael Nadal won the French Open, and tomorrow, June 11th, I’ll be doing my p
oetry & song feature titled “Eleven” at Stephanie ’s Fort to Famous open mic night at The Buzz Mill in Austin! 20180610
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Janet Kuypers
20180610
It was excellent-cool (OF COURSE) to see Nadal win the French Open this morning...
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Janet Kuypers
20180609 
I am so freaking out watching my American Sloane in the French Open this morning - they keep talking about her strength, and how she has the south side of Chicago mentality, so go Sloane!
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Janet Kuypers
20180608
Hey, after the weekend’s over if, you don’t have any plans Monday might, come on down in Austin to Stephanie’s Fort to Famous open mic weekly at The Buzz Mill, because I am thrilled to host a feature with poetry and music in a show titled “Eleven” 6/11/18 at The Buzz Mill at 9PM! Get ready for poetry accompanied by full music and sound effects, because this is bound to be a great one-of-a-kind night at The Buzz Mill on 6/11/18, so I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180607
But wait a minute, automated gif files of my readings also appear from some horizontal photos of my readings.
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Janet Kuypers
20180607
When enough photos are taken at readings, automated gif files of my readings crop up too...
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Janet Kuypers
20180607
I hear a lot of music played at Stephanie’s Fort to Famous open mic weekly at The Buzz Mill, so I am thrilled that we will not only be playing a song (that we’ve performed in 11 states) during my “Eleven” feature 6/11/18 at The Buzz Mill, John is also orchestrating piano music to bring original piano recordings to join his live acoustic guitar through most of my poetry readings too! So if you think you’ve heard me performing poetry before, you’ve never heard it with way, accompanied by full music and sound effects! This is bound to be a great one-of-a-kind night at The Buzz Mill 6/11/18, & I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180605
Less than one week away, come to the Fort to Famous open mic at The Buzz Mill in Austin MONDAY NIGHT, 6/11/18 starting at 8:00 PM, and stay for the Janet Kuypers feature, starting @~9:00 PM, aptly titled “Eleven”! In this Janet Kuypers ~1/2-hour long poetry feature, hear poems — and a song — related to the number 11, all performed with background sound effects and acoustic music. Get there for them distributing select copies of the Janet Kuypers chapbook of poems (and song) performed during this feature, and make sure to not miss this one-of-a-kind event!
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Janet Kuypers
20180602
June is finally upon us (what a great time of year), & Scars Publications just released the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “The Painting” - available online anywhere, and in print, in Amazon sales throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe! (Writers and artists in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Abbey Faith Serena, Allan Onik, Ana Vidosavljevic, Andy Schenck, Beau Sherman, Cathy Porter, Cecilia Kennedy, Christina Basher, Donald Hubbard, Edna C. Horning, Elizabeth York Dickinson, Erin Farias, Francis Raven, James Mulhern, Janet Kuypers, JD DeHart, Kyle Cisco, Marc McMahon, Marcus Vance, Milton Ehrlich, Mitchel Montagna, Rae Monroe, Roger G. Singer, Ron Richmond, Suki Litchfield Kristin Litchfield, Teneale Moyer, Tom Bal, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Bennett, Fabrice Poussin, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Lavren Le’Clore, and Olivier Schopfer.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180601
Wow, cc&d has been alive and kicking for 25 years... I am thrilled to share today that Scars Publications just released the v284 6/18 25-year anniversary issue as a 6x9 ISBN# paperback book titled “Shining”, with not only poetry, performance art, the boss lady’s editorial, prose, the lunchtime poll topic, and philosophy monthly sections, but ALSO a #metoo section for this anniversary issue! This book is now available for sale through Amazon in the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe, but all lovers of Scars and cc&d living in Austin, TX who want to SEE a physical copy before they buy the book themselves, I’ll be reading from this book at Half Price Books (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX) on Wednesday, June 6th from 1-3 PM for a feature reading! Check out great writing and artwork with contributors including Allen F. McNair, Arthur Ford, ayaz daryl nielsen, Brian Looney, Charles Hayes, Christina Jackson, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Eric Burbridge, Greg G. Zaino, Hareendran Kallinkeel, Janet Kuypers, Jenean McBrearty, Laura Hudson, Linda M. Crate, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Gullickson, R. N. Taber, Rae Monroe, Retta Lewis, Ronald Charles Epstein, Russell Licciardello, Sandra Cobb, Thom Woodruff, Xanadu, David J. Thompson, David Russell, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Kyle Hemmings, Patrick Fealey, Rose E. Grier, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, & Westley Heine in “Shining”.
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Janet Kuypers
20180531
The English professor at Sacred Heart University just sent me a copy of the front cover of the upcoming book “Unlocking the Word: An Anthology of Found Poetry,” coming from Lamar University Literary Press on July 1. As far as I know, this is the world’s first major anthology of “found poetry” and I am THRILLED to be one of the 54 contributors from across the country in this book with 4 poems - “found poem”, “found haiku”, “Quoting Twitter with a found haiku”, and “erasure poem: One of the Most Hated Women in America”. As the professor stated, a “found poem” works because the poet who discovers it is able to find poetry in ordinary language from non-literary sources, and discovers the aesthetic possibilities of all words - no matter where they originally appear. Look for this book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ABE Books, Powell’s, and more by July 1.
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Janet Kuypers
20180531
Edward, I can’t believe it has been since before the total eclipse since we’ve seen each other, so I have to say this from afar... I hope you have the BEST birthday!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20180530
Okay, Suzanne, this is usually how our dinners go when we are at home. When we eat at the dining room table, Zach sits in the chair tucked in under the table and puts his paw on John’s leg. Then I look to my right and I see Mynx do this.
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Janet Kuypers
Janet Kuypers Good thing you mentioned this at the Poetry Aloud open mic, so I put it on my calendar... I am looking forward to reading poems from my poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2” for everyone today!
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Janet Kuypers
20180518, via Twitter
we’ve learned how to take our cues for being perfect by being generic, and having no substance at all. So, let’s go and start the show, time to turn your camera toward yourself... open your eyes wide - but don’t smile too hard, (@janetkuypers’ poem “popular & useless”, part 3)
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Janet Kuypers
20180518, via Twitter
All these things are so much more known than you or me. All of these things are so popular, and they all have no substance. So, maybe the selfie stick makes sense. If we all want to be popular, if we all want to be famous, maybe... (poem “popular & useless”, part 2)
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Janet Kuypers
20180518, via Twitter
A part of us wants to be famous, we want to be known and loved. if I’m wrong, explain to me the selfie stick. but think about it, the most popular things, I mean, more popular than people, are products. Coke. Harley. Kodak. Levi’s. Nike. Even 7/11. (“popular & useless”, part 1)
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Janet Kuypers
20180516, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube from @janetkuypers
See a 36+ minute YouTube video (L T56) of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”, and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” at the official beginning 4/29/18 of the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall.
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Janet Kuypers
20180516, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube from @janetkuypers
See a 36+ minute YouTube video (L2500) of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”, and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” at the official beginning 4/29/18 of the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall.
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Janet Kuypers
20180516
Suzanne, I was recently told that cats are mortally afraid of aluminum foil (I don’t know how someone learned this; I think someone wanted their cat to not shed on the couch, and if they put tin foil on the couch, the cat wouldn’t step on it). So I was going to eat a piece of string cheese, and I KNEW my cat would harass me for some, so I grabbed the Reynolds Wrap out of the drawer, saw there was a loose piece there and brought it to the couch next to me. Just placing it there kept my cat crouched behind the foil. Eventually, they stood - but refused to move their paws ON the foil. I was sitting right there, my head 3 feet away from their head, and they never moved or made a sound for cheese. It was an amazing experiment.
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Janet Kuypers
20180515
Suzanne, it really is amazing how Mynx will still pose that that when I happen to have a seat somewhere.
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Janet Kuypers
20180511
I’ve marked it on my 2018 datebook, but now I’ve also said I’m attending the Weekly johnmac Radio Show on May 13th on their Facebook event listing! I must thank radio show host John F. McMullen profusely for interviewing me THIS SUNDAY, May 13th, 2018 in what I thought was a one-hour radio show, but the event listing shows it may be up to 2 hours! I have a lot of history to go over, and a lot on my plate right now, so i’m sure this is going to be a really unique radio show interview - and I hope you can turn in Sunday night at 7:00 PM EST!
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Janet Kuypers
20180511
Join me and tune into the Janet Kuypers hour-long interview during the 234th episode of the “johnmac Radio Show” Sunday, May 13th at 7:00 PM Eastern time) by clicking
http://www.blog talkradio.com/johmac13/ 2018/05/13/the-weekly-johnmac-radio on your browser. You can even call 646 716-9756 on your phone -- you can even call in and join us on the radio! I am thrilled w/ my hour-long interview in “interviews with interesting people”, and I hope you can join us - if not by calling, then at least by tuning in!
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Janet Kuypers
20180511
Join me and tune into the Janet Kuypers hour-long interview during the 234th episode of the “johnmac Radio Show” Sunday, May 13th at 7:00 PM Eastern time) by clicking
http://www.blog talkradio.com/johmac13/ 2018/05/13/the-weekly-johnmac-radio on your browser. You can even call 646 716-9756 on your phone -- you can even call in and join us on the radio! I am thrilled w/ my hour-long interview in “interviews with interesting people”, and I hope you can join us - if not by calling, then at least by tuning in!
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Janet Kuypers
20180510
Join me and tune into the Janet Kuypers hour-long interview during the 234th episode of the “johnmac Radio Show” Sunday, May 13th at 7:00 PM Eastern time) by clicking
http://www.blog talkradio.com/johmac13/ 2018/05/13/the-weekly-johnmac-radio on your browser. You can even call 646 716-9756 on your phone -- you can even call in and join us on the radio! I am thrilled w/ my hour-long interview in “interviews with interesting people”, and I hope you can join us - if not by calling, then at least by tuning in!
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Janet Kuypers
20180510
Yay! C Ra McGuirt and I became Facebook friends 8 years ago today. It’s a shame that we moved to Austin, making it hard to meet to when he is in Nashville...
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Janet Kuypers
20180509
Join me and tune into the Janet Kuypers hour-long interview during the 234th episode of the “johnmac Radio Show” Sunday, May 13th at 7:00 PM Eastern time) by clicking
http://www.blog talkradio.com/johmac13 /2018/05/13/the-weekly-johnmac-radio on your browser. You can even call 646 716-9756 on your phone -- you can even call in and join us on the radio! I am thrilled w/ my hour-long interview in “interviews with interesting people”, and I hope you can join us - if not by calling, then at least by tuning in!
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Janet Kuypers
20180509
I am pleased to share with you that Scars Publications has now released the framed art pages from Helen Bird, A.K.A. Inksanity - and more artwork from Helen Bird will hopefully be added to this art page listing as well! These multi-colored ornate pencil and ink drawings were made into an Inksanity book, but you can now some of her artwork at the Scars Publications art pages any time. As an added bonus, this artwork will now appear in future issues/books of cc&d, so check for future issues as well for all to enjoy!
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Janet Kuypers is  eating sushi with John Yotko at  Kome. 20180508
We forgot the 18-year anniversary card I gave him at dinner yesterday, and we didn’t take our picture here, so this is our belated anniversary picture with our sake (and yes, he has sushi and mine is vegetarian)...
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Janet Kuypers
20180508
Join me and tune into the Janet Kuypers hour-long interview during the 234th episode of the “johnmac Radio Show” Sunday, May 13th at 7:00 PM Eastern time) by clicking
http://www.blog talkradio.com/johmac13/ 2018/05/13/the-weekly-johnmac-radio on your browser. You can even call 646 716-9756 on your phone -- you can even call in and join us on the radio! I am thrilled to have an hour-long interview in “interviews with interesting people”, and I hope you can join us - if not by calling, then at least by tuning in!
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180508
Join me and tune into the Janet Kuypers hour-long interview during the 234th episode of the “johnmac Radio Show” Sunday, May 13th at 7:00 PM Eastern time) by clicking
http://www.blog talkradio.com/johmac13/ 2018/05/13/the-weekly-johnmac-radio on your browser. You can even call 646 716-9756 on your phone -- you can even call in and join us on the radio! I am thrilled to have an hour-long interview in “interviews with interesting people”, and I hope you can join us - if not by calling, then at least by tuning in!
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Janet Kuypers updated her profile picture. 20180508
After visiting Chicago for the week around photographing the total solar eclipse 8/21, it seems perfect to show this photo as a memento for the great time - and the great city.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko. 20180507
I love you, John Yotko. Happy only 18 (apparently we should sign up our marriage because it’s old enough to be drafted...) years. This video only covers a select few moments in our past, like posing with your parent’s large Christmas wreath, having dinner in India, to us in my mom’s dress after watching a string quartet playing Mozart’s The Dissonant after our flight back from China, to us on a boat off Kenosha at Lake Michigan before moving - and even us at Circle Brewing. We’ve done more than this one little video could ever show...
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Janet Kuypers
20180505
So, dinner was good, we had leftovers, but I noticed that when we asked for silverware, they gave it to us in separately sealed paper packages. And all the liberal radical environmentalist in me could think was, how much paper and glue do they waste doing this? So they really need to do this to ensure to us that this place isn’t filthy?
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Janet Kuypers
20180504
I’ve got a Star Wars marathon playing on the tv next to my desk while I’m working today, so... May the 4th be with you.
May the fourth be with you. 201860504
On Tumblr, Twitter and facebook 20160504.
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Janet Kuypers
20180502
Suzanne, I said before that when I have string cheese Mynx come too close. I should make it clear that both Mynx AND Zach do that...
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Janet Kuypers
20180501
For all my cc&d peeps itching to get a hold of the brand-new copy of the v283 5/18 issue as a 6x9 ISBN# paperback book titled “About the Arts”, I’m pleased to say that it is now available for sale through Amazon in the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe. For those lovers of Scars living in Austin, TX who want to SEE a physical copy before they buy the book themselves, I’m thrilled to share that I will HAVE that book - AND Down in the Dirt book “The Church”, AND the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book anthology “Not a Trace”, AND the Down in the Dirt January-April 2018 issue collection book anthology “At Midnight” I will hopefully share readings from them all TODAY, Wednesday, 5/2/18 from 1-3 PM at Thom’s “Community poetry @ Half Price Books” reading event. I really hope to see everyone at Half Price Books (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX) TODAY, Wednesday, May 2nd from 1-3 PM to be a part of this one-of-a-kind feature reading!
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Janet Kuypers
20180501
Thank you to Cynthia Johnson for letting me use this painting of yours for the cover of the v283 5/18 issue of cc&d magazine, titled “About the Arts”. While I wait for the printer to go through an EXTRA round of proofing (so it’s online, but the print issue might not be available until tomorrow) I wanted to post the cover spread here so people could see more of the actual painting. I have seen this painting for years, and the best question to pose is: What is this a painting OF? There are many interpretations, and you can find out the answer if you get the book, but if anyone can postulate what they think this is a painting of, I would love to hear it (I’m sure the painter would, too).
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Janet Kuypers
20180501
Spring is officially upon us! Because it’s May 1st, Scars Publications just released the May 2018 issue (v282) of cc&d magazine, now available as not only the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “About the Arts”, now available for Amazon sale throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe, but also as a free Internet issue web page! (Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Adam Randolph, Allen F. McNair, Arpit Rohilla, Brian Looney, Charles Hayes, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Edward Lee, Eric Burbridge, Fabrice Poussin, Greg G. Zaino, Hareendran Kallinkeel, Harry Singh, Makhan Sidhu, Indunil Madhusankha, Janet Kuypers, John Amendall, Joshua Copeland, Linda M. Crate, Matthew McAyeal, Megan Mealor, Michael Ceraolo, Preeti Singh, Retta Lewis, Roger N. Taber, Robert Ronnow, Ronald Charles Epstein, Sterling Jacobs, Vince Barry, Aaron Wilder, Allen F. McNair, Daniel S. Weinberg, David J. Thompson, David M Jackson, David Russell, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Patrick Fealey, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, and Westley Heine, with cover of a painting by Cynthia Johnson.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180501
Spring is officially upon us! Because it’s May 1st, Scars Publications just released the May 2018 issue (v157) of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “The Church” - available online anywhere, and in print, in Amazon sales throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe! (Writers and artists in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alandya Durand, Allan Onik, Angela Boswell, Carlos Frigo, Donald Dewey, Emilio Iasiello, J.T. Siemens, Janet Kuypers, Joe Reister, Joseph S. Pete, Kassandra Hei, Liam Spencer, Lisa Gray, Marc McMahon, Matthew McAyeal, Miki Michele Byrne, Robert Ronnow, Robert Ruzicka, Roger G. Singer, Tom Ball, Zachary Jarrett, Carolyn Poindexter, Denny E. Marshall, Eleanor Bennett, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Olivier Schopfer, and Rene Diedrich.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180429
I had a great time yesterday at the only “Poetry Aloud” Georgetown poetry round-robin get-together for National Poetry Month, and we figured out a broad theme for the NEXT “Poetry Aloud” on May 12th. Because it is just after the Janet Kuypers and John Yotko May 7th wedding anniversary, I postulated having the theme be anything LOVE-related, but then it occurred to me that May 7th is also the day Germany officially surrendered in WWII, so why not ALSO include the broad notion of WAR - so the writing prompt for the May 12th “Poetry Aloud” is either WAR, or LOVE (or both? Someone even said yesterday while at Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX the phrase “I surrender to love”). So, poets going to the next “Poetry Aloud” on May 12th at the Georgetown Public Library, your suggested writing prompts are both LOVE and/or WAR. See you at “Poetry Aloud” on May 12th when Michael Gullickson and Joyce Gullickson come back to hosting “Poetry Aloud”!
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Janet Kuypers
20180429
TODAY is the BIG DAY! Join us for Austin’s 2018 Poetry Bomb!, hosted by Janet Kuypers, for a round-robin poetry gathering at the Graffiti Wall! Event listings for this annual event to cap National Poetry Month exist not only with a Facebook event page but ALSO with an Eventful page, so join us TODAY, SUNDAY, 4/29, and come read poetry with me by 3:30 PM at the far left side of the Hope Gallery - in the LAST YEAR the Poetry Bomb will ever get a chance to get together at the always-changing iconic Graffiti Park in Austin! This isn’t about ego, it’s about sharing poetry with the world and letting everyone know about this art form - so let’s all get together and Facebook live stream everyone’s poetry for the WORLD to hear!
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Janet Kuypers
20180428
Just in time to order this weekend, Scars Publications has released this literary treat - the cc&d January-April 2018 issue collection book “Not a Trace”! You can order this issue anthology directly from the printer, now available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe too! Check out a copy of this brand new issue collection book release today!
(Contributors of writing and artwork to this book include Adam Szetela, Adrian Slonaker, Ahsan Jilani, Alexandria Simmons, Alicia Morrison Berdeguez, Allen F. McNair, Arpit Rohilla, Bob Johnston, Brian Looney, Brittany Micka-Foos, Calvin Becker, CEE, Cheryl Townsend, Christopher Hivner, Corey Cook, D. D. Renforth, DA Gray, Dan Fitzgerald, Daniel Ross Goodman, Daniel S. Weinberg, David J. Thompson, David M Jackson, David Michael Jackson, David Russell, David Turton, Douglas J. Ogurek, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Drew Marshall, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Elizabeth Krop, Emily Jade Walker, Eric Bonholtzer, Eric Burbridge, Erren Kelly, George K. Karos, I.B. Rad, Ian Bowman, Janet Kuypers, Jeff Dosser, Joe Follansbee, John Amendall, John Carter, John Grey, Joshua Copeland, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Kilmo, Kyle Hemmings, Liam Spencer, Linda M. Crate, M.C. Rydel, Matthew McAyeal, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Gullickson, Nicole Brissette, Norm Hudson, Patrick Fealey, Peter LaBerge, R. N. Taber, Ray Strawn III, Richard Stevenson, Robin Barratt, Roger N. Taber, Ronald Charles Epstein, Rose E. Grie, Rose E. Grier, Sarah Webb, Shake the Poet, Stephanie Mada, Suraj Alva, Teddy Duncan, the HA!Man of South Africa, Thom Woodruff, Tory Stosse, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Westley Heine, and Xanadu.)
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180428
TOMORROW is the BIG DAY! Join me (Chicago poet Janet Kuypers) as I host the 2018 Austin Poetry Bomb round-robin poetry gathering at the Graffiti Wall! Event listings for this annual event to cap National Poetry Month exist not only with a Facebook event page but ALSO with an Eventful page, so mark your calendar for TOMORROW, SUNDAY, 4/29, and come read poetry with me by 3:30 PM at the far left side of the Hope Gallery - in the LAST YEAR the Poetry Bomb will ever get a chance to get together at the always-changing iconic Graffiti Park in Austin!
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Janet Kuypers
20180428
TODAY is the BIG DAY! Come to the only “Poetry Aloud” Georgetown poetry round-robin get-together for National Poetry Month with guest host Janet Kuypers, which not only has a Facebook events page, but also an AllEvents listing! Join us TODAY, 4/28, from 12:30-2:30 and follow the signs to the 2nd floor of the Georgetown Public Library to this event, with suggested writing prompts of “I am not a Robot” or “Two Parades”! Be careful with traffic and parking, because this weekend is also The Red Poppy Festival in downtown Georgetown, and come to a poetry open mic with (unplugged) music at the Georgetown Public Library for a perfect finale for the 2018 National Poetry Month!
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Janet Kuypers
20180427
Got any plans Sunday afternoon (on the last weekend during National Poetry Month)? Then might I suggest the “2018 Austin Poetry Bomb” (hosted by Janet Kuypers and derived from Chicago’s annual “The Poetry Bomb”, where we pick a place on the last Sunday in April and bomb it with poetry)? 2018 is witness to a great round-robin poetry gathering at the far-left side of Graffiti Wall, which now has not only has a Facebook event page but ALSO an Eventful page, so mark your calendar for THIS SUNDAY, 4/29 at 3:30 in the afternoon - and who knows how long it will last! We can even live film it for Facebook on our smartphones, so come read poetry with me by 3:30 PM at the far left side of the Hope Gallery - in the LAST YEAR the Poetry Bomb will ever get together at Austin’s iconic Graffiti Park!
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Janet Kuypers
20180427
Just in time for the weekend, Scars Publications has released this literary treat - the Down in the Dirt January-April 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight”! You can order this issue anthology directly from the printer, now available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe too! Check out a copy of this brand new issue collection book release today! (Contributors to this book include Adam Kluger, Adel Aaron, Alex Rezdan, Allan Onik, Amy Jo Huffman, Andrea Chancey, Andrew Hogan, Andrew Rivera, Anita G. Gorman, Ann Christine Tabaka, Anna Kander, Anna Lewis, Barry Hill, Bekah Steimel, Benjamin Selesnick, Bob Strother, Bonnie E. Carlson, Brandy Montilione, Bruce McRae, Carlos Frigo, Carolyn Poindexter, Cecelia Burto, Chris Niemi, Chris O’ic-42818-/E0-001-113935253-7?vs=1" target="blank">Eventful listing, mark your calendar. Give yourself extra time because of The Red Poppy Festival going on in downtown Georgetown this weekend, and come to a GREAT poetry open mic at t’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Eli Jacqueline Mary Wallace, Fabrice Poussin, Feston Altus, Gaby Bedetti, Gale Acuff, Gary Van Haas, Greg Eckert, Gregg Dotoli, Harvey Havel, Ian Mello, Isabelle Kenyon, Isaiah Granado Finley, J. Ray Paradiso, James N. Thomas, James Wylder, Janet Kuypers, Jeffrey L Higgs, Jeri Langert, Jim Farren, Johann Sam, John (Jake) Cosmos Aller, John Dorroh, John Paul King, John Zedolik, Jon Wesick, Julie A Martin, KB Imle, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Kevin Grimm, Kevin Z. Garvey, Kristyl Gravina, Kyle Cisco, Kyle Donahoe, Kyle Heger, Kyle Hemmings, Lawrence Basher, Lee Conrad, Leonard Scott, Liam Spencer, Logan Lane, M. Griffith, M.C. Rydel, Marc Larue, Marc McMahon, Marlon Jackson, Martina Comorkova, Megan Mealor, Michael J. Harrington, Michael Miller, Michael Perez, Millard C. Davis, Mo myers, Nancy Zhang, Neil Flory, Olivia Keepe, Olivier Schopfer, Pam Munte, Rajagopal Kaimal>, Rajah-Nee Reynold, Rebecca Kelly, Rene Diedrich, Richard Bullard, Robert C. Weissenberg, Robert E. Donohue, Roger G. Singer, S. Clay Sparkman, Scarlett R. Algee, Shane Ryan Bailey, Shannon Woodard, Sharon Hajj, Sheikha A., Stefanie Bennett, Susan Marie, T. William Wallin, Tom Ball, Tyler White, W.E. Brower Jr., and Westley Heine, with cover photography from John Yotko.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180427
TOMORROW is the BIG DAY! Come to “Poetry Aloud” Saturday, April 28th, 2018 (4/28/18) from 12:30 - 2:30, follow signs to a room on the 2nd floor of the Georgetown Public Library for great round-robin poetry and occasional (unplugged) music! I am honored to host this Georgetown poetry event as the ONLY “Poetry Aloud” get-together for National Poetry Month, so get directions on the Facebook events page AND the Eventful listing, mark your calendar. Give yourself extra time because of The Red Poppy Festival going on in downtown Georgetown this weekend, and come to a GREAT poetry open mic at the Georgetown Public Library for a perfect finale for the 2018 National Poetry Month!
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Janet Kuypers
20180425
So Facebook tells me I have been Facebook friends with Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels for 8 years, and it is great to see these photos from Beach Poets and Mercury Cafe and the Café Gallery and WZRD Radio, and we are trying to see if I can make it early for a WZRD radio interview on September 22nd this year (because I have tickets to see tennis’ Laver Cup, and I *think* it might run all day which would stop me from making it to the 3-6 PM Radio show). We can hopefully work something out, because I LOVE being on WZRD Radio with Cathleen, and I don’t want to miss this chance while I’m in Chicago again!
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Janet Kuypers
20180425
Granted, this post states that today marks 8 years of Facebook friendship with Dina Stuart, but there are a lot of people I have been friends with for years on these pages, and I just think it is insanely cool to see so many photos of group photos over the years while I ran “the Café Gallery”.
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Janet Kuypers
20180425
And it’s so appropriate to see a link to 8 years of friends through Facebook with Esteban Colon too! How perfect to see right now, when I know that even though I am in Austin, I’ve done the Poetry Bomb (started by Buddha309 and Esteban) SINCE 2010, and THIS SATURDAY I am hosting the Austin Texas installment of the Poetry Bomb at the far-left side of Graffiti park (before it is closed down forever)!
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Janet Kuypers
20180425
I was just looking back at some of the photos from these shows together, so it’s a riot that I see on my memories page today these reflections of me and David Buddha 309...
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180424
The Janet Kuypers’ hosted 2018 Austin Poetry Bomb round-robin poetry gathering at the Graffiti Wall now not only has a Facebook event page but ALSO an Eventful page, so mark your calendar for THIS SUNDAY, 4/29, and come read poetry with me by 3:30 PM at the far left side of the Hope Gallery - in the LAST YEAR the Poetry Bomb will ever get a chance to get together at this iconic Austin location!
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Janet Kuypers
20180423
Suzanne, when I have string cheese at my chair, Mynx does this to me (this is how she becomes an insistent kitten)...
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180422
It is 1 week until the 2018 Austin Poetry Bomb, hosted by Janet Kuypers, gathering at the Graffiti Wall! Check out the Facebook event page, mark your calendar, and come read poetry with me at the far left side of the Hope Gallery - in the LAST YEAR the Poetry Bomb will ever get a chance to get together at this iconic Austin location!
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Janet Kuypers
20180421
Michael Gullickson, one of the regular hosts of this venue, just informed me that The Red Poppy Festival is going on in downtown Georgetown the same weekend as the “Poetry Aloud” poem mic. He tells me it will be quite busy, so be prepared for congested traffic and parking... But don’’t forget that the theme (suggestion for writing prompt) is “I am not a Robot” or “Two Parades”, check the Facebook events page, mark your calendar, and come to a GREAT poetry open mic at the Georgetown Public Library for a perfect finale for the 2018 National Poetry Month!
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Janet Kuypers
20180419
Cool, now that the Djokovic / Thiem match in Monte Carlo is over, I get to enjoy Nadal playing - this is excellent!
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Janet Kuypers
20180419
While watching the US Men’s Clay Court Championship this month, I didn’t get to see the really big names play - so this morning I turn on the news while reading the paper and I think, wait, I should try to Tennis Channel. Lo and behold, Djokovic is live right now playing a fierce match with Thiem in Monte Carlo. How excellent-cool to get my tennis fix.
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180418
Come to the ONLY “Poetry Aloud” Georgetown open mic for National Poetry Month with guest host Janet Kuypers! Check the Facebook events page, mark your calendar, and come to a GREAT poetry open mic at the Georgetown Public Library - follow signs in the library to join us on the 2nd floor for round-robin poetry as the perfect finale for the 2018 National Poetry Month this year!
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180415
It is 2 weeks until the 2018 Austin Poetry Bomb, hosted by Janet Kuypers, gathering at the Graffiti Wall! Check out the Facebook event page, mark your calendar, and come read poetry with me at the far left side of the Hope Gallery - in the LAST YEAR the Poetry Bomb will ever get together at this iconic Austin location!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Castle Hill Graffiti. 20180414
Shhh... don’t tell anyone... even though Graffiti Park is closed at night, I thought we could stop by - since two weeks from tomorrow we’ll meet here at 3:30 PM Sunday, April 29th for the 2018 Austin Poetry Bomb! I’ll meet you on the left- hand side for round-robin poetry readings!
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Crown and Anchor Pub. 20180414
Little too much country music for us. As we decide to leave they start playing punk. Should we stay? Too risky... they may start playing country again.
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180412
Come to the ONLY “Poetry Aloud” Georgetown open mic during National Poetry Month in 2018! I am honored to guest-host the “Poetry Aloud” Georgetown open mic on Saturday, April 28th, 2018 (4/28/18) from 12:30-2:30 PM in a room on the 2nd floor of the Georgetown Public Library - follow signs in the library to join us for round-robin poetry as the perfect cap to National Poetry Month this year!
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Janet Kuypers
20180412
Yay, we got back in time from watching tennis at the US Men’s Clay Court Championship to make it to the early Kick Butt Coffee poetry session... Thom, thank you for posting this photo of John and me at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic 4/8/18 in Austin on your “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.https://www.facebook.com /photo.php?fbid=10156462101105362 &set=pcb.1222075981258693 &type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Janet Kuypers
20180411
It was fun seeing Donald Young, Reilly Opelka, Denis Kudla, Dustin Brown, and Ryan Harrison (and more) playing tennis at the US Men’s Clay Court Championship last weekend, but I’m glad I got back to the early Kick Butt Coffee poetry session... Thom, thank you for posting this photo during the “Spoken and Heard” open mic last Sunday, 4/8/18 in Austin on your “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.https://www.facebook.com /photo.php?fbid=10156462099930362 &set=pcb.1222075981258693 &type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180410
Come to the left-side of Graffiti Park on Sunday, April 29th (the last Sunday in April) 2018 at 3:30 PM for round-robin poetry with Janet Kuypers for the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb (to bring poetry where you normally wouldn’t hear it) - at the LAST Poetry Bomb at Hope Gallery at Graffiti Park!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20180408
It is 3 weeks until the Austin installment of the 2018 Poetry Bomb, hosted by Janet Kuypers at Graffiti Wall! Check out the Facebook event page, mark your calendar, and come read poetry with me at the far left side of the Hope Gallery!
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Janet Kuypers
20180401 ∙ JibJab
Enjoy the colored Easter eggs today, and Happy Easter!
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Janet Kuypers
20180401
Happy Easter! This is no April Fools, because Scars Publications just releases the April 2018 issue (v282) of cc&d magazine, now available as not only the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “War of Water”, now available for Amazon sale throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe, but also as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Allen F. McNair, Bob Johnston, CEE, Corey Cook, DA Gray, David J. Thompson, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Elizabeth Krop, Erren Kelly, I.B. Rad, Janet Kuypers, Joe Follansbee, John Carter, Joshua Copeland, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Kilmo, Linda M. Crate, M.C. Rydel, Michael Ceraolo, Nicole Brissette, Norm Hudson, Patrick Fealey, Roger N. Taber, Stephanie Mada, Xanadu, Aaron Wilder, Cheryl Townsend, David M Jackson, Daniel S. Weinberg, David Russell, Eric Bonholtzer, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Peter LaBerge, Rose E. Grier, and Westley Heine.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180401
Happy Easter! This is no April Fools, because Scars Publications just releases the April 2018 issue (v156) of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “My Name Is Nobody” - available online anywhere, and in print, in Amazon sales throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe! (Writers and artists in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Allan Onik, Andrea Chancey, Anita G. Gorman, Ann Christine Tabaka, Anna Lewis, Benjamin Selesnick, Bonnie E. Carlson, Brandy Montilione, Carlos Frigo, Christina Lacourte, DC Diamondopolous, Drew Marshall, Feston Altus, Gary Van Haas, Gregg Dotoli, Harvey Havel, Isabelle Kenyon, Janet Kuypers, John Dorroh, John (Jake) Cosmos Aller, KB Imle, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Kevin Grimm, Lawrence Basher, M. Griffith, Mo myers, Marc McMahon, Michael J. Harrington, Millard C. Davis, Olivia Keepe, Rajagopal Kaimal>, Scarlett R. Algee, Shannon Woodard, Susan Marie, T. William Wallin, Tom Ball, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Fabrice Poussin, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Olivier Schopfer, and Rene Diedrich.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180401 ∙ JibJab
Happy Easter, from J. C. and the Gang...
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Friends and Allies Brewing. 20180331
Janet Kuypers, the Dutch girl, is sampling the Kale Cesar Salad and I had the Mushroom Tamales from The Ginger Amadillo food truck as we enjoy some of Friends and Allies refreshing beverages. BTW, she&*#8217;s having a Belgian Quadruppel. Janet says, “Hey grandma!”
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John Yotko is  eating dinner with my love with Janet Kuypers at Half Step. 20180330
First time at Half Step. Janet brought me to the Dalí exhibit in town then over to Graffiti Park to scope out a spot for the 2018 poetry bomb on April 29th at 3:30 in the afternoon. The over cube reminded Janet of the glacial ice I pulled from the Southern Ocean.
Janet Kuypers John might be squinting, but his hands are probably cold from reaching over the Zodiac to pull the glacial ice out of the Southern Ocean. 20180331
When he finally got the ice out of the water... 20180331
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Janet Kuypers
20180329
Suzanne, when Mynx first came into our house, I taught her that whenever I rubbed her belly she could get me to scratch her head by flipping her head upside-down. To this day, she still does this.
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Janet Kuypers
20180328
Thom, thank you for posting this photo as I was reading poetry from my paperback perfect-bound book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” during the “Poetry Aloud” open mic last Saturday, 3/24/18 in Georgetown on your “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
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Janet Kuypers
20180327
The only reason I wore that basketball jersey is that March Madness is going on right now... but Thom, thank you for posting this photo as I was reading my poem “Decision” during the “Poetry Aloud” open mic last Saturday, 3/24/18 in Georgetown on your “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
https://www.facebook.com/ photo.php?fbid=10156412770470362 &set=pcb.1211455215654103 &type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Janet Kuypers
20180326
And Thom, thank you for posting this group photo (with John in it!) from “Poetry Aloud” 3/24/18 while I’m holding the cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait” and my 2015 journal/poetry/photography book “Bon Voyage!” - which was right before I found out that I am hosting the only “Poetry Aloud” open mic during the 2018 National Poetry Month, at the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
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Janet Kuypers
20180326, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (This video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180325
Thom, thank you for posting this group photo from Poetry Aloud 3/24/18 at the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page. https://www.facebook.com/ photo.php?fbid=10156280427065362& set=pcb.1182373055228986& type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180325
Not only am I honored to have the change to read from new Scars Publications books in mini-features every month through “Community Poetry @Half Price Books,” but in April 2018 I am THRILLED that I have been chosen as the GUEST HOST of this monthly feature reading event! Come join us at Half Price Books (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX) On Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 from 1-3 PM for a round-robin with multiple features. I am looking forward to multiple ~10-minute readings from Vernon Rust and Helen Bird (and I am looking forward to sharing readings from new books too) - and I am REALLY looking forward to YOU joining us for the ONLY “Community Poetry @Half Price Books” 2018 event for National Poetry Month!
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Janet Kuypers
20180324, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Posterize filter.)
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at The Local Outpost. 20180323
So John just pulls into the next place, and I can’t escape the horse shoes decorating this place. (Yes, it’s still strange to be a northerner living in Texas.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180323
So Suzanne, when a bird was actually chirping at my office window sill this morning, Mynx was looking up at the window. By the time I got my camera ready Mynx got TO the window, and, of course, the bird flew away.
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Janet Kuypers
20180323, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Threshold filter.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180322, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (This video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & w/ an Edge Detection filter.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180321
Thom, thank you for posting this group photo from 3/21/18 through Recycled Reads at the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
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Janet Kuypers
20180320, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180320, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Threshold filter).
This is also on Tumblr and Pinterest. |
Janet Kuypers
20180320, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Posterize filter).
This is also on Tumblr and Pinterest. |
Janet Kuypers
20180320, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 3/15/18 in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, the Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, and Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl” (cut off). (video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given an Edge Detection filter).
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Janet Kuypers
20180318 ∙ JibJab
Okay, so I didn’t give hats to everyone (or even wear a green hat), but I *did* color my hair green, and wore a green t-shirt - and a green St. Patrick’s Day necklace and green earrings and 4 green rings (it’s handy that my wedding ring is Alexandrite green). Hope everyone had fun yesterday on St. Patrick’s Day!
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Janet Kuypers
20180318 ∙ JibJab
I forgot to share this lucky card for St. Patrick’s Day yesterday, so that’s probably why I did n’t suddenly come into piles of gold. (That’s what I get for sharing this St. Patrick’s Day card late.)
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180316
I didn’t get any live photos while we were playing last night at Recycled Reads, but some video hopefully will come out that I can share with everyone in a week or two. And once again, thanks to Recycled Reads for this chance, because we were both honored to play an hour and 45-minute music set during Austin’s SXSW week for you (and the people in the store - who did stop and take a seat while we played too)!
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Louise Gail Richardson is with Janet Kuypers and 5 others. 20180316
Open Mic Showcase
Tomorrow, Saturday 03/17/18
Recycled Reads, 5335 Burnet Road
Be a part of it.
Recite, sing, joke, play, dance, perform!
Or you can listen, browse, buy books, WiFi.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180315
TODAY is the BIG DAY! See the “South-by Set” of music with Janet & John! Come to their ~ 1-hour 45-minute music set during SXSW music week TODAY - Thursday, 3/15/18 from 6 PM until 7:45 PM live at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Road, in Austin, Texas 78756). Enjoy the music while looking through great books at Recycled Reads, which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. Janet Kuypers (vocals) and John Yotko (guitar) will perform original music on acoustic guitar as well as covers that span 5 decades of Rock and Roll. Janet & John even plan in the middle of their show to perform a cover on a mandolin — so this will be their most unique music show to date. See the event listing, & come to their 2nd music show in the Austin area!
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Janet Kuypers
20180314, via Twitter
Stephen Hawking postulated that black holes (due to quantum effects near the event horizon) do not suck absolutely everything in, & it is now called Hawking Radiation. Stephen Hawking graced the scientific world, and you will be missed. Like him, I hope we all continue to learn.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180314
TOMORROW is the BIG DAY! See the “South-by Set” of music with Janet & John! During this ~ 1-hour 45-minute music set during SXSW week TOMORROW, on Thursday, 3/15/18 from 6 PM until 7:45 PM at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756) - hear the music while looking through great books at Recycled Reads, which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. Janet Kuypers (vocals) and John Yotko (guitar) will perform original music on acoustic guitar as well as covers that span 5 decades of Rock and Roll. Janet & John even plan in the middle of their show to perform a cover on a Mandolin - so this is bound to be their most unique music show to date. Mark your calendar, check out the event listing, and we hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180314
Suzanne, I tried to get another photo of Mynx, and no, this is not a photo of anger but her in mid-yawn.
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Janet Kuypers
20180314
Mynx wouldn’t shuck and jive in a photo for me this time Suzanne, probably because it was after I fed her. But she did try to make an attempt at a pose, I think...
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180313
Two days and counting! Come to the “South-by Set” of music with Janet & John! During this ~ 1-hour 45-minute music set during SXSW week on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until 7:45 PM at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756) - hear the music while looking through great books at Recycled Reads, which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. Janet Kuypers (vocals) and John Yotko (guitar) will perform original music on acoustic guitar as well as covers that span 5 decades of Rock and Roll. Janet & John even plan in the middle of their show to perform a cover on a Mandolin - so this is bound to be their most original show to date. Mark your calendar, check out the event listing, and we hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180312
I am kind of psyched that during our Janet & John “South-by Set” of music during SXSW here in Austin we are going to break up the acoustic guitar music set with a song played with a Mandolin right in the middle of our show! We are both stoked & honored to have close to a 2-hour music set during SXSW this Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until ~closing time at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756), which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. We’re mixing our set up with originals and covers spanning 5 decades, so mark your calendar during SXSW! We hope to see everyone stop by!
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Janet Kuypers
20180312
Yes, I was pulling John’s guitar out 3/10/18 because yes, John and I were practicing new songs we plan to play at our “South by Set” of music THIS THURSDAY at Recycled Reads... So Thom, thank you for posting this photo from Poetry Aloud on your “Thom’s Friends! ~ World Poets & Musicians” page.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180312
Played 3 new songs this afternoon at Craft & Racked Wine Bar (including one on Mandolin) that we will be performing a Janet & John “South-by Set” of music during SXSW here in Austin! We are both thrilled & honored to have close to a 2-hour music set during SXSW on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until ~closing time at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756), which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. We’re mixing it up with originals and covers spanning 5 decades, so mark your calendar! We’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at
Georgetown Public Library. 20180311
Joyce, thank you for taking pictures of John and I at Poetry Aloud yesterday, practicing for our Recycled Reads 3/15 “South by Set”!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180310
It’s less than a week from today that we will be performing a Janet & John “South-by Set” of music during SXSW here in Austin! We are both thrilled & honored to have close to a 2-hour music set during SXSW on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until ~closing time at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756), which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. We’re mixing it up with originals and covers spanning 5 decades, so mark your calendar! We’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 3 others at Georgetown Public Library. 20180310
Had a great time today reading bones-themed poetry and Periodic Table poetry AND singing songs with John playing guitar that we plan to play in our Austin South-by-Set of music 3/5 at Recycled Reads! Thanks for the well-wishes from everyone today at Poetry Aloud!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180308
It is one week from today that we will be performing a “Janet & John” “South-by Set” of music during SXSW here in Austin! We are both thrilled & honored to have close to a 2-hour music set on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until ~closing time at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756), which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. We’re mixing it up with originals and covers spanning 5 decades, so mark your calendar! We’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180308
I know, like it’s not hot enough in Texas in the summer already... But it is cool that my name will be on the mission with a probe that will plunge through the sun’s atmosphere.
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Janet Kuypers
20180307
8 days and counting... We are so pleased to perform a “Janet & Johnᰵ South-by set of music during SXSW here in Austin! We are both honored to have close to a 2-hour music set on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until ~closing time at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756), which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. So mark your calendar! We’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180307
TODAY is the BIG DAY! I am looking forward to being one of the featured readers THIS AFTERNOON, Wednesday, March 7th at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (yes, that’s at Half Price Books on 5555 N Lamar Blvd in Austin, TX) in a reading from 1-3 in the afternoon! Thom set up this great reading space, and I am honored to have this opportunity to read material from new Scars Publications book releases - I may read from the March 2018 issue (v155) of Down in the Dirt, titled “Dear Reader”, the March 2018 issue (v281) of cc&d magazine titled “The False Portrait”, and the cc&d 9-12 2017 issue book “Language of Untamed Spirit”. But actually, I think it’s cool that I’ll be reading from Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” - I could read poems like “Just by Holding His Hand”, “Origin, from the Micro to the Micro”, “Violence and Peace Both Work”, “Ernesto”, “Just Thinking About It”, “Political Merry-Go Round”, and “Verge on Meditation”. But from this giant book, I could also read all of the poems from the 10/1/16 show “Masquerading in Costumes& Personas” (with “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman”)! Really, this will be the only performance of this book like this, so I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180306
Okay, Suzanne, Mynx posed like this for me today, and I said I would send them, so here’s today’s Mynx fix for you...
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library. 20180306
John and I are so pleased to be South-by set of music during SXSW here in Austin, that last night we were looking for new songs to accentuate our show coming up in JUST OVER A WEEK (btw, we’re adding The Beatles, Queen, and R.E.M.)... I am honored to have close to a 2-hour music set on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 from 6 PM until ~closing time at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78756), which is one of the venues hosting events for SXSW this year. So mark your calendar! We’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180306
TOMORROW is the BIG DAY! I am looking forward to being one of the featured readers Wednesday, March 7th at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (yes, that’s at Half Price Books on 5555 N Lamar Blvd in Austin, TX) in a reading from 1-3 in the afternoon! Thom set up this great reading space, and I am honored to have this opportunity to read material from new Scars Publications book releases - I may read from the March 2018 issue (v155) of Down in the Dirt, titled “Dear Reader”, the March 2018 issue (v281) of cc&d magazine titled “The False Portrait”, and Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky”. But actually, I think it’s cool that I’ll be reading from the cc&d 9-12 2017 issue book “Language of Untamed Spirit” - I could read a haiku poem “eminence”, or very short prose like “Driving By His House”, but I could also pick and choose from performance art poetry throughout this book as well, including 3 poems from the 2/4/17 show “Exalted Love”, or almost all of the poems from the 4/1/17 show “Erasure Poems”. I could read ALL of the poems from the 5/6/17 show “Time to Start the Show”, or even all of the poems from the 12/3/16 show “Akitu”! Really, this will be the only performance of this book like this, so I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180305
Am looking forward to being one of the featured readers Wednesday, March 7th at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (yes, that’s at Half Price Books on 5555 N Lamar Blvd in Austin, TX) in a reading from 1-3 in the afternoon! Thom set up this great reading space, and I am honored to have this opportunity to read material from new Scars Publications book releases - I may read from Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” or the cc&d 9-12 2017 issue book “Language of Untamed Spirit”, or the March 2018 issue (v155) of Down in the Dirt, titled “Dear Reader”. But actually, I think it’s cool that I’ll be reading from the March 2018 issue (v281) of cc&d magazine titled “The False Portrait”, with haiku poems like “brain” and “escape” or any of the poems from the “performance art” section of the magazine - “Finding Peace” - with poems like “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”. Really, this will be the only performance of this book like this, so I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180305
Just found out that John Yotko and I (Janet Kuypers) are confirmed for a 6-7:45 pm performance, to do a South-by set on March 15th, 2018 at Recycled Reads (5335 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas). Will post more information as it comes, and wish us luck!
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Janet Kuypers
20180303
Am looking forward to being one of the featured readers Wednesday, March 7th at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (yes, that’s at Half Price Books on 5555 N Lamar Blvd in Austin, TX) in a reading from 1-3 in the afternoon! Thom set up this great reading space, and I am honored to have this opportunity to read material from new Scars Publications book releases - I may read from Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” or the cc&d 9-12 2017 issue book “Language of Untamed Spirit”, or the March 2018 issue (v281) of cc&d magazine titled “The False Portrait”. But actually, I think it’s cool that I’ll be reading from March 2018 issue (v155) of Down in the Dirt, titled “Dear Reader”, with poems like “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams” or “Queen of Multimedia for a reason” or even “everyday objects equal performance art”. Really, this will be the only performance of this book like this, so I hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20180301
I love it when a new month is upon us, because that means that Scars Publications releases the March 2018 issue (v281) of cc&d magazine, now available as not only the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “The False Portrait”, now available for Amazon sale throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe, but also as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Ahsan Jilani, Brittany Micka-Foos, Christopher Hivner, Dan Fitzgerald, David J. Thompson, David Turton, Douglas J. Ogurek, Drew Marshall, Eric Burbridge, Erren Kelly, Janet Kuypers, Jeff Dosser, John Amendall, Joshua Copeland, Michael Ceraolo, Patrick Fealey, R. N. Taber, Richard Stevenson, Robin Barratt, Ronald Charles Epstein, Suraj Alva, Teddy Duncan, Thom Woodruff, Aaron Wilder, Allen F. McNair, Brian Looney, Cheryl Townsend, David Michael Jackson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, the HA!Man of South Africa, Kyle Hemming, Rose E. Grier, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.)
Janet Kuypers I wonder if anyone notices that the painted man is the image of Michael Stipe of R.E.M. (it’s a painted overlay of a photo I took when I saw him when he planted a tree in Urbana, IL in 1990)...
20180302
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Janet Kuypers
20180301
I love it when a new month is upon us, because that means that Scars Publications releases the March 2018 issue (v155) of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “Dear Reader” - available online anywhere, and in print, in Amazon sales throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe!
(Writers and artists in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Adam Kluger, Allan Onik, Anna Kander, Bekah Steimel, Cecelia Burton, Chris O’Halloran, Christina Kosch, Daniel David Sapp, David Turton, Doug Hawley, Douglas J. Ogurek, Drew Marshall, Fabrice Poussin, Janet Kuypers, Jeri Langert, Johann Sam, Jon Wesick, Kevin Z. Garvey, M.C. Rydel, Marc McMahon, Martina Comorkova, Michael Miller, Rebecca Kelly, S. Clay Sparkman, Shane Ryan Bailey, Stefanie Bennett, Carolyn Poindexter, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, J. Ray Paradiso, Olivier Schopfer, and Rene Diedrich.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180227, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie”. (Samsung S7 camera, from a table).
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Janet Kuypers
20180227, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie”. (Samsung S7 camera, from the bar).
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Janet Kuypers
20180227
After taking a break for lunch today, I turned the channel to Fox News. I have no idea who Dana Perino was taking to, or what political b.s. they were talking about, but I left it on only because the man she was talking to was talking from Chicago and he was green screened with live footage of cars driving over the Chicago River near LaSalle and Wacker.
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Janet Kuypers
20180227
I didn’t know which photo was the best to show off the Lemaire Channel in Antarctica — (A) giant snow-covered mountains, (B) the ice UNDER the Southern Ocean waterline as part of an iceberg, (C) glaciers all along the waterline that are totally natural and peaceful, but also looking like mass destruction, or (D) the first Orca whales of the season swimming up to us. So, I thought I’d share them all! I am honored to share this photo journey to the Lemaire Channel & Orcas in their first sighting this season in Antarctica, photographed 11/19/17, now available! Enjoy them all as one of the framed art pages from Scars Publications for free.
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Janet Kuypers
20180225
I made this call out at a recent Georgetown poetry open mic (“Poetry Aloud” 2/24/18), but I should make it here to everyone in the Facebook world. The 25-year (some call it Silver) anniversary issue of cc&d magazine at Scars Publications is collecting poetry and prose (or even essays) right now, and I usually ask that if anyone has material related TO cc&d, or even to the anniversary, to send it to cc&d through http://scars.tv/ccd.
But I ALSO want to suggest, because we have a small supplement #metoo section in this issue, that if any women out there have anything they would like to share in supporting women’s rights, or sexism, or rape or abuse, we would LOVE to see that be a part of the 25-year anniversary issue too. If you don’t have the email for sending submissions, look for it at scars, or even message me here asking for it. And let’s ALL make a difference with the 25-year anniversary issue (released 6/1/18) of cc&d!
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Janet Kuypers
20180225
My eyes may be closed in this photo because (A) I’m wearing a camping t-shirt and thinking about sleep, (B) or maybe I’m commiserating with the book I’m about to read from, “When You Dream Tonight”, or (C) I’m trying to get so much info out about the book as well as telling people to submit cc&d themed poetry for the June 2018 25-year (Silver) anniversary issue coming out in a few months, I don’t know. Either way, Thom, thank you for posting this photo from the Poetry Aloud open mic 2/24/18 at the “Thom’s Friends! ~ World Poets & Musicians” page.
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Janet Kuypers added 3 new photos — with John Yotko at Craft & Racked Wine Bar. 20180223
The following comments and 3 photos are by Ron Kewin:
I attended Janet and John’s live music performance last night at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock.
It started out with a great vibe and plenty of fun energy. Wily yet direct, cheeky yet hopeful.
John’s guitar work was smooth but emphatic when it needed to be. His blues rifts were outstanding and just the right touch. I liked his vocals/harmonies with Janet - I’d like to hear more of those!
Janet was lively, in your face, unafraid; jabbing with no apologies. But she also brought tenderness, and vulnerability on many songs. Her admirable lyrics are uninhibited and ask the right questions.
I admire their tenacity, their range of styles, and spirit of independence, mixed with funky defiance.
All in all a wonderful set that kept us listening with eagerness to their refreshing renditions.
Thanks for the music - I look forward to more!
** Thank you, Ron, for attending our performance (and for the photos, and for the comments). We will keep anyone apprised of our future music plans. - Janet
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko
at Craft & Racked Wine Bar. 20180222
TODAY IS THE DAY! I hope everyone has already made plans to come to Round Rock Texas on Thursday, February 22rd, 2018 (2/22/18) for the Janet Kuypers and John Yotko 2+ hour Live Music show at Craft & Racked Wine Bar (1400 E Old Settlers Blvd Suite 203, Round Rock, Texas 78664). We will not only be doing some of our original music (including Janet’s MFV original music, and Feedback original music) but also covers from the past 5 decades, including songs we are sure you will want to sing along with. John and I are both super-hyped to be performing in our longest live show to date, and I REALLY hope you all will make it to our first, truly original music performance from us, starting by 7 PM!
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Janet Kuypers
20180222, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
In honor of our 2-hour live show tonight at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock, enjoy YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/17/18 singing the Feedback song “Vintage Wine”, the Erasure song “How Many Times” (with John vocals), the Peter Gabriel song “Washing of the Water”, and the Fiona Apple song “Criminal” live at Open Mic Night at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko
at Craft & Racked Wine Bar. 20180221
Tomorrow is the big day... I hope everyone had already made plans to come to Round Rock Texas on Thursday, February 22rd, 2018 (2/22/18) for the Janet Kuypers and John Yotko 2+ hour Live Music show at Craft & Racked Wine Bar (1400 E Old Settlers Blvd Suite 203, Round Rock, Texas 78664). We will not only be doing some of our original music (including Janet’s MFV original music, and Feedback original music) but also covers from the past 5 decades, including songs we are sure you will want to sing along with. John and I are both super-hyped to be performing in our longest live show to date, and I REALLY hope you all will make it to our first, truly original music performance from us! (Our show is from 7-9, but the Facebook event listing shows our time from 6-9 - so we will be so we will be there to set up before 7 PM...)
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Janet Kuypers
20180221, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the The The song “Love is Stronger than Death” and the Morrissey song “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends” w/ John on guitar at the Kick Butt Coffee “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin 2/18/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180221, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the The The song “Love is Stronger than Death” and the Morrissey song “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends” with John on guitar at the Kick Butt Coffee “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin 2/18/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Smiths song “Ask”, the Michael Jackson song “Beat It” and the Depeche Mode song “the Bottom Line” (with altered chorus lyrics) w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Smiths song “Ask”, the Michael Jackson song “Beat It” and the Depeche Mode song “the Bottom Line” (with altered chorus lyrics) w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Church song “Under the Milky Way”, John Yotko’s song “What I’ve Been Through” and the Smiths song “What She Said” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Church song “Under the Milky Way”, John Yotko’s song “What I’ve Been Through” and the Smiths song “What She Said” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Edge Detect. filter).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Church song “Under the Milky Way”, John Yotko’s song “What I’ve Been Through” and the Smiths song “What She Said” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Church song “Under the Milky Way”, John Yotko’s song “What I’ve Been Through” and the Smiths song “What She Said” w/ John on guitar 2/17/18 at Recycled Reads in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).
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Janet Kuypers
20180220
Sarah DeMenge, though it looks like you are somewhere warm right now (nice palm trees and beach photos on your FB page), I thought I’d give you past images of us in Naples, Florida (and taunt you with childhood photos)... Happy Birthday!!!
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20180220, also shared via Twitter
#theburning #meeto #acquaintancerape #stoprape #survivor #novictimblaming #poetry #poem #janetkuypers #punishrapists #punishrapistsnotvictims
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Janet Kuypers, via
20180220, also shared via Twitter
#theburning #meeto #acquaintancerape #stoprape #survivor #novictimblaming #poetry #poem #janetkuypers #punishrapists #punishrapistsnotvictims
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Janet Kuypers
20180219
Live at the beginning of the “Poetry Aloud” poetry open mic at the Georgetown Texas Public Library February 10, 2018 (or 2/10/18, or 20180210), poets got together and each read a Ralph Hausser poem from the Ralph Hausser poetry book as a gift to Ralph Hausser.
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Janet Kuypers
20180218
Cool to see photos from a different perspective at Recycled Reads. Louise, thanks for posting this photo from during the open mic yesterday...
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Janet Kuypers
20180217, via Twitter
Thank you so much! Because there was a longer listing with links to many poems - and book, and CDs - I added a longer version of this interview at Scars... Thank you again @PebbleInWaters for everything you’ve done for this interview to happen!
http://t.co/pM7tcK5JAP http://t.co/PNYLOzBikg
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180216
I am honored that John and I will be performing in our first 2+ hour acoustic music performance in Round Rock, Texas at the Craft & Racked Wine Bar! John will be ready with his guitar, and I will be ready to sing both originals & covers spanning 5 decades! Enjoy the craft beers and wine - and the great food - at this great space, and be ready to join us and sing along in some songs with us on Thursday night, February 22nd (2/22/18) - who knows, we *might* even start early in our 7-9 PM show!
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Janet Kuypers
20180216, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Feedback’s song “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s song “Coming Back To You”, Fiona Apple’s song “Criminal”, and Ani DiFranco’ song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” w/ John on guitar 2/11/18 at B. B. Rover’s in Austin (video filmed from a Samsung S7 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180216, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Feedback’s song “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s song “Coming Back To You”, Fiona Apple’s song “Criminal”, and Ani DiFranco’ song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” w/ John on guitar 2/11/18 at B. B. Rover’s in Austin (from a Samsung S7; Posterize filter).
This is also on Tumblr and Pinterest. |
Janet Kuypers
20180216, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Feedback’s song “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s song “Coming Back To You”, Fiona Apple’s song “Criminal”, and Ani DiFranco’ song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” w/ John on guitar 2/11/18 at B. B. Rover’s in Austin (from a Samsung S7; Threshold filter).
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Janet Kuypers
20180216, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing Feedback’s song “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s song “Coming Back To You”, Fiona Apple’s song “Criminal”, and Ani DiFranco’ song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” w/ John on guitar 2/11/18 at B. B. Rover’s in Austin (from a Samsung S7; Edge Detection filter).
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Janet Kuypers
20180216
Now less than ONE WEEK AWAY, I hope EVERYONE can make it to Round Rock on Thursday, February 22nd (2/22/18) for the Janet Kuypers and John Yotko 2+ hour LIVE MUSIC show at Craft & Racked Wine Bar (1400 E Old Settlers Blvd Suite 203, Round Rock, Texas 78664). We will not only be doing ALL of our original music (including MFV original music, and Feedback original music) but also covers from the past 4 decades, including songs we are sure you will want to sing along with. John and I are both super-hyped to be performing in our longest live show to date, and I REALLY hope you all will make it to this one-of-a-kind music performance from us! (Our show is from 7-9, but the Facebook event listing shows our time from 6-9 - so we will be setting up and possibly starting before 7 PM...)
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Janet Kuypers
20180215 ∙ JibJab
I didn’t get the chance to send this out for Valentine’s Day yesterday, but it was an open window on my computer this morning waiting to be shared. I love you, John. You complete me.
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Janet Kuypers
20180214
After working on the interview on the other side of the planet, I extend my deepest gratitude to Jaideep Khanduja for compiling and releasing this marathon interview with @janetkuypers. Check out the blog listing at http://pebbleinthestill waters.com/janet-kuypers/ for not only an extensive 2018 interview - but also photos throughout my life and video links of my song title "“What We Need In Life” sung in other languages from a ship in Antarctica!
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Janet Kuypers
20180214
If all the romance of Valentine’s Day is getting you all hot and bothered, then let me offer these hot looking photos that might actually cool you off... I am honored to share this photo journey at mainland Antarctica, as we docked at Paradise Harbor. Come to mainland Antarctica as it was when photographed 11/19/17, now available - and seriously, all of these photos are so breathtaking that it is hard to decide which image should appear first in this photo display, but you can look through them all as one of the framed art pages from Scars Publications free online at any time.
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Janet Kuypers
20180214 ∙ JibJab
Happy Valentine’s Day! Get Chocolates - for you!
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Janet Kuypers
20180211
Before the weekend ends, enjoy a photo journey (of over 400 photos) at one of the stops in Antarctica. Come to Enterprise Island (with seals to greet you, and tons of great ice and wrecked whaling ships images from 11/18/17 - two of these have already been used as Down in the Dirt book covers), now available as one of the framed art pages from Scars Publications to view for free online at any time.
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Janet Kuypers is  eating beer with John Yotko at Mellow Mushroom (Round Rock, TX). 20180210
When driving back we thought we should look for a different place to eat. John pulls in the parking lot of Mellow Mushroom to look at the menu online, and when I saw they had tempeh hoagies and tofu and tempeh as pizza toppings, our decision was made. Added bonus: today the Pedernales hefeweisse is only $2 here!
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20180207
Looking forward to our 2-hour music show of covers and originals Thursday, February 22nd this year in our first acoustic music show in Texas! We are thrilled to performed at Craft & Racked Wine Bar for a truly one-of-a-kind show!
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Janet Kuypers
20180206, via Twitter
This poem appeared in 3 tweets, but it’s impossible to read it this way, so even though a link to the whole poem is there (http://t.co/SzAsvNNKPf), allow me to paste the entire poems here:
Violations tested
Janet Kuypers
3 tweet poem, 2/6/18
Was driving to meet someone
who had so little time off for lunch.
Was running late, still a few miles
on a stretch of 120 to their office.
So although the sign said 30, I went 55,
following a cop speeding down the street.
So after about a mile, that copper
turned his lights on and signaled me over.
And he walked over to my Saturn,
asked me if I knew how fast I was going.
And I replied, saying, “I don’t know,
I was just following you sir.” And I waited.
If he wrote me a ticket, there’d be a record
that he was speeding while not in pursuit.
If he wrote me a ticket, his faults would be
found... and cops wanna think they’re invincible.
So the cop finally said to me,
after looking at me for more than a moment,
“Watch what you’re doing, and
watch your speed in the future.” That’s all he said.
And I nodded very subserviently, “Yes sir.”
And I, a little bit slower, went on my way.
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Janet Kuypers
20180206
I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to Buzz Mill last night (though it’s nice to see my picture there, maybe I was there in spirit). John’s in class until 7, and we’ve started working on getting a 30-song set together for our show Thursday, February 22nd at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock.
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Janet Kuypers It’s official... come to Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock Texas Thursday night, February 22nd, 2018 (less than 3 weeks away!), for a 2-hour set of Janet and John originals and covers on acoustic guitar! The place is a GREAT venue, and I would love to see everyone join me for a fun night of music!
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Janet Kuypers
20180204 ∙ JibJab
I should start sharing all the love for Valentine’s Day with all of you (humorously or not)...
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Louise Gail Richardson is with
Janet Kuypers and 2 others. 20180203
Open Mic Poetry honors my fellow Recycled Reads host Ralph Hausser and celebrates Black History Month--I hope not from a strictly white perspective. The truth is that we never know who will show up. I fear it will be only the usual suspects. But we will do our best. Help us do it right. Join us from 3:30 to 5:30 PM today at Recycled Reads, 5335 Burnet Road. Poets, musicians, singers, actors, dancers, etc. are welcomed, as always.
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Janet Kuypers
20180202
I still keep this issue/book on display in my office (I still love Chicago, and I love that John took this photo when flying home once). Because two years ago today Scars Publications released the print and Internet editions of cc&d magazine (the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue, v260), titled “Nighttime City”. (Writers and artists in this book include Donald Gaither, CEE, Liam Spencer, MCD, Ryan V. Stewart, Charles Hayes, Michael Lee Johnson, David J. Thompson, I.B. Rad, Jane Stuart, Robert Weinberg, Elizabeth Harper, Eric Allen Yankee, Janet Kuypers, A. J. Huffman, Patrick Fealey, Eric Burbridge, Jon Wesick, Rose E. Grier, Brian Forrest, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Brian Looney, David Michael Jackson, the HA!Man of South Africa, andJohn Yotko with the cover photo.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180202
I’ve been reading my Periodic Table poems from my book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” at open mics recently, and I think the next time I read I’ll have to read Ununpentium (which now has the name Moscovium). It was discovered on February 2nd, the same day of the year as the Russian philosopher Ayn Rand’s birth (though she was now raised in Moscow but St. Petersburg, whose name changed to Petrograd, then Leningrad before she moved to the U.S.). So in the future, I’ll read Ununpentium, not only for its discovery but also for her birthday.
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Janet Kuypers
20180201
Now that the month of love (for Valentine’s Day) is upon us, Scars Publications is pleased to release the February 2018 issue (v280) of cc&d magazine, now available as not only the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “Question Everything”, now available for Amazon sale throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe, but also as a free Internet issue web page! (Writers and artists in this book include Adam Szetela, Alicia Morrison Berdeguez, Arpit Rohilla, Calvin Becker, CEE, Dan Fitzgerald, Daniel Ross Goodman, Emily Jade Walker, Ian Bowman, Janet Kuypers, Joshua Copeland, Linda M. Crate, Michael Ceraolo, Patrick Fealey, Ray Strawn III, Sarah Webb, Shake the Poet, Thom Woodruff, Tory Stosse, Aaron Wilder, Brian Looney, Daniel S. Weinberg, David J. Thompson, David M Jackson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Peter LaBerge, Rose E. Grie, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, & Wes Heine.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180201
Now that the month of love (for Valentine’s Day) is upon us, Scars Publications is pleased to release the February 2018 issue (v154) of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “Renegade Winter” - available online anywhere, and in print, in Amazon sales throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe! (Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alex Rezdan, Allan Onik, Chris Niemi, Clay Carpenter, David Spicer, Deidre Jaye Byrne, Doug Hawle, Gale Acuff, Greg Eckert, Ian Mello, James N. Thomas, Janet Kuypers, Jim Farren, John Paul King, John Zedolik, Julie A Martin, Kristyl Gravina, Lee Conrad, Logan Lane, Marc Larue, Marc McMahon, Marlon Jackson, Nancy Zhang, Neil Flory, Robert E. Donohue, Sheikha A., Tyler White, Olivier Schopfer, Westley Heine, Carolyn Poindexter, Denny E. Marshall, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, and Rene Diedrich.)
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Janet Kuypers
Olivier Schopfer Only the best for my magazines. Glad you like it. (I still have a TON of additional photos to process from there, I just haven’t had the time to do so...)
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Janet Kuypers
20180130
So I just got a notice from Circle Brewing Company for an event tonight called FREE BEER TUESDAYS. There is an event listing that 4th Tap and Circle liked, with ABSOLUTELY NO INFORMATION about why it is called this. It’s at a video store, and there is no explanation of whether there actually is free beer, weekly (according to their schedule). It doesn’t allow posts on the event page so I cannot ask anyone what this means, and I highly doubt that these 2 local breweries are giving away free beer (or if there is a limit of beer in an effort to hype the video store). Can anyone explain this lack-of-communication event listing to me?
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Janet Kuypers
20180130, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, reading her poems “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “violation”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “unbounded”, and “quarrel” from the cc&d 9/12 2017 issue collection book anthology “Language of Untamed Spirit”, before reading her 3 haiku poems “eventually”, “enemies” and “blood” from the 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose collection book anthology “On a Rainy Day” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180130, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, reading her poems “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “violation”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “unbounded”, and “quarrel” from the cc&d 9/12 2017 issue collection book anthology “Language of Untamed Spirit”, before reading her 3 haiku poems “eventually”, “enemies” and “blood” from the 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose collection book anthology “On a Rainy Day” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180129, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180129, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers updated her profile photo. 20180128
After visiting Chicago for the week around photographing the total solar eclipse 8/21, it seems perfect to show this photo as a memento for the great time - and the great city. — at The Adler Planetarium.
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Janet Kuypers
20180126
Just in time for the weekend, enjoy a photo journey of one of the stops in Antarctica. Come to Cuverville Island (with literally hundreds of photos of Gentoo Penguins taken 11/18/17), now available as one of the framed art pages from Scars Publications for free viewings.
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Janet Kuypers
20180126
It stinks that I have misplaced my signed Marin Cilic fan from 8/16/15, but it’s good that he’s made it to the finals for the Australian Open this year.
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Janet Kuypers
20180125
You go through really choppy waters when entering the Southern Ocean to visit the 7th continent...
so join me on a photographic journey through the Drake Passage (for photos taken 11/16 and 11/17 in 2017), because this way the waters won’t seem so rough. Enjoy these images, now available as one of the framed art pages from Scars Publications.
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Janet Kuypers
20180124 via Twitter
Two years ago today I shared a Gillian Anderson tweet about watching the X Files today. That was 2 years ago, but tonight the X Files is on with an episode from a different director that they’re hyper-praising for its strangeness, so I guess this post two years later to the day works perfectly as well (I hope everyone is looking forward to the X Files episode with me tonight too)...
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Janet Kuypers
20180122
This is my official call-out to give ultra-props - and more importantly, good vibes - to not only my poetry friend but also the man I handed my Chicago open mic host baton to in the race to keep the poetry scene amazing and thriving, Dave Gecic. This guy is so cool that he even baffles doctors - so I want every single one of you out there to give Dave Gecic all the love and support in the world!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20180115, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including “much”, “out”, “can’t get you”, “of his thirst”, “know”, “pleading”, “coincidence?”, “found haiku”, “close”, “defenses”, “destroy”, “floor”, “hold”, “forever”, “jumped”, “study”, “Even with no Wish Bone”, “addiction”, “stagger”, “everyone”, “last”, “bruised”, “organs”, “choke”, “ends”, “explosions”, “fit”, “fought”, “heaviness”, “extinct”, “feel”, “escape”, “opening”, “pant”, “strike”, “civil”, “found”, “need”, “kill”, “kindness”, “run”, “pet”, “John’s Mind”, “humans”, “mirror”, “elusive”, “keep”, “greatest”, “instead”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “life (Periodic Table haiku)”, “life (2000)”, “timing”, “Two Not Mute Haikus”, “He’s An Escapist”, “Ending a Relationship”, “nightmares”, “knife”, “free”, “years”, “groove”, “errors”, “job”, “jobless”, “out there”, “gone”, “console”, “form”, “knowing”, “oil”, “cage”, “evil”, “faith”, “guide”, “behind”, “sort”, “barbed”, “difference”, “predator”, “blood”, “easy”, “existence”, “judge”, “fog”, “upturn”, “Translation (2014 haiku)”, “sting”, “enemies”, “Deity Discipline (stretched haiku)”, “Ants and Crosses”, “energy”, “knees”, “force”, “you”, “this is only a test”, “misogyny”, “ourselves”, “key”, “scorches” (from a Lumix 2500 camera).
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20180115, via Twitter
I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including “much”, “out”, “can’t get you”, “of his thirst”, “know”, “pleading”, “coincidence?”, “found haiku”, “close”, “defenses”, “destroy”, “floor”, “hold”, “forever”, “jumped”, “study”, “Even with no Wish Bone”, “addiction”, “stagger”, “everyone”, “last”, “bruised”, “organs”, “choke”, “ends”, “explosions”, “fit”, “fought”, “heaviness”, “extinct”, “feel”, “escape”, “opening”, “pant”, “strike”, “civil”, “found”, “need”, “kill”, “kindness”, “run”, “pet”, “John’s Mind”, “humans”, “mirror”, “elusive”, “keep”, “greatest”, “instead”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “life (Periodic Table haiku)”, “life (2000)”, “timing”, “Two Not Mute Haikus”, “He’s An Escapist”, “Ending a Relationship”, “nightmares”, “knife”, “free”, “years”, “groove”, “errors”, “job”, “jobless”, “out there”, “gone”, “console”, “form”, “knowing”, “oil”, “cage”, “evil”, “faith”, “guide”, “behind”, “sort”, “barbed”, “difference”, “predator”, “blood”, “easy”, “existence”, “judge”, “fog”, “upturn”, “Translation (2014 haiku)”, “sting”, “enemies”, “Deity Discipline (stretched haiku)”, “Ants and Crosses”, “energy”, “knees”, “force”, “you”, “this is only a test”, “misogyny”, “ourselves”, “key”, “scorches” (from a Lumix T56 camera).
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Janet Kuypers
20180112, via Twitter
(Part 1 of @janetkuypers’ poem “Hunting for Life” written 1/8/18)
If you’re on the hunt for aliens, start studying a rover in Antarctica. NASA’s got its sights on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, who bows and flexes from tugs amp;& pulls of it’s massive planet’s gravitational pull.
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Janet Kuypers
20180108
And Thom, thanks for posting this group photo from the 1st Recycled Read of the year (1/7/18) at the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156180495605362&set=pcb.1160906440708981&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Janet Kuypers
20180108
Thom, thank you for posting this photo from Recycled Read (proving that we’re good listeners) 1/7/18 at the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156180500670362&set=pcb.1160906440708981&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Louise Gail Richardson is with
Janet Kuypers and 2 others. 20180104
Join the usual suspects for Open Mic Poetry (and music, comedy, theatre, etc.) this Sunday, January 7th 3:30 to 5:30 at Recycled Reads, 5335 Burnet Road.
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Janet Kuypers 20180103
Kottyn Campbell, have a wonderful birthday!
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Janet Kuypers
20180101
Happy New Year! And with the new year, Scars Publications released the January 2018 issue (v279) of cc&d magazine, now available as not only the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “the End of the World”, now available for Amazon sale throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe, but also as a free Internet issue web page! (Book contributors: Adrian Slonaker, Alexandria Simmons, CEE, D. D. Renforth, Drew Marshall, Emily Jade Walker, George K. Karos, I.B. Rad, Janet Kuypers, John Grey, Kilmo, Liam Spencer, Linda M. Crate, Matthew McAyeal, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Gullickson, Patrick Fealey, Ray Strawn III, Ronald Charles Epstein, Thom Woodruff, Aaron Wilder, Daniel S. Weinberg, Westley Heine, David J. Thompson, David Russell, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowic, Eric Bonholtzer, Rose E. Grier, & Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180101
Happy New Year! And with the new year, Scars Publications released the January 2018 issue (v153) of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “Farewell to Seafaring” - available online anywhere, and in print, in Amazon sales throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe! (Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Amy Jo Huffman, Adel Aaron, Allan Onik, Andrew Hogan, Andrew Rivera, Barry Hill, Bob Strother, Bruce McRae, Clay Carpenter, DC Diamondopolous, Dominic Lim, Don Ray Crawford, Eli Jacqueline, Gaby Bedetti, Gregg Dotoli, Isaiah Granado Finley, Janet Kuypers, Jeffrey L Higgs, James Wylder, Kristyl Gravina, Kyle Donahoe, Kyle Cisco, Kyle Heger, Lawrence Basher, Leonard Scott, Liam Spencer, Marc McMahon, Megan Mealor, Michael Perez, Pam Munte, Rajah-Nee Reynold, Richard Bullard, Robert C. Weissenberg, Roger G. Singer, Sharon Hajj, W.E. Brower Jr., David M Jackson, Denny E. Marshall, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Bennett, Fabrice Poussin, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Olivier Schopfer, Rene Diedrich, and Westley Heine.)
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Janet Kuypers
20180101
Just saw that Dave Gecic and I apparently have been facebook friends for 7 years. It is cool to see old and new photos here of us, and I am glad he took over hosting my (once David Rubin, then Charlie Newman) poetry open mic (it is good to see “the Café Gallery” live on in a new form)...
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Trying a new place after a fine vegan dinner at Beer Plant (I agree with all the great reviews of the Buffalo cauliflower wings).
Thank you to John Yotko for taking photos of Janet Kuypers as she read from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” during Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic live 6/16/18.
Well, I knew the HA!Man of South Africa since working with him in the 10/15-16 2007 “A Foot Fantasia” show in Chicago, but it is cool to see that 7 years ago today Francois Le Roux and I became Facebook friends. It is cool to see the 100+ photos here, and it is also cool that I saw him and Joke in Austin last year - I only hope their whole family might make it to Austin this year too!
This is the only time anyone has ever seen this new book release — because it’s not even released yet — and it was cool to have the chance, in multiple readings, to read poems from past Chicago performance art shows. So Thom, thank you for posting this photo of me reading poetry from my proof copy of the Janet Kuypers 2018 performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 48 v1 (2009-2011)” during “Poetry Aloud” live 6/23/18 at the Georgetown Public Library on the “The Austin Poets Association” page...
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Before the book is even released... COOL! Thom, thank you for posting this photo of me reading poetry from my proof copy of the Janet Kuypers 2018 poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 v1 (2009-2011)” during the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library 6/23/18 on the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
Janet was glad Joe Brundidge happened to stop at the Spoken and Heard open mic tonight.
Thom, thank you for posting all of the group photos of us during the “Poetry Aloud” Georgetown open mic 6/23/18 at “Thom’s Friends! ~ World Poets & Musicians”.
First time visiting here. Pretty cool... a few bars scattered around. Janet had to hang with her fellow Chicagoan. I thought I’d hang with a fellow hillbilly.
The band is good but loud enough that the only way we could communicate was via text.
I had a great time today at Poetry Aloud - thanks for giving me the chance to share poetry from the proof copy of my upcoming poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 v1”!
So I go to Poetry Aloud today, and Joyce made me a birthday cookie with tons of excitement frosting and my name in sprinkles on top, and Thom even hands me a groovy-cool custom-made card. You guys are all the best!
Facebook even made a dorky video which only covers a fraction of the 70+ people who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. I cannot thank each one of you enough. Thanks a ton for everything!
Janet took over my “Prairie Birthday Bomb!” at B. B. Rovers for her birthday drink.
My love conmigo on her birthday. Happy Birthday Janet.
drinking birthday drinks with Janet Kuypers at 
I took Janet the birthday girl to Mothers’s for her birthday dinner. She likes it when she knows all the choices on the menu are vegetarian safe... and the Riesling is an added bonus here. Oh, the mole on my enchiladas was delicious.
Thank you to Thom Woodruff for taking photos of Janet Kuypers as she was reading her poetry 6/9/18 in “Poetry Aloud”.
Thank you to Thom Woodruff for taking photos of Janet Kuypers as she was reading her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Astatine”, and “Flerovium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 6/9/18 in “Poetry Aloud”.
Photos of Thom Woodruff during his poetry readings at “Poetry Aloud” 6/9/18.
The picture is in focus... it’s just the beer that makes it look fuzzy.
Celebrating birthday eve with a start at Circle. Happy Birthday Eve my love.
Because Facebook saw my listing of employment as Scars Publications / Self, they created a Facebook PAGE for Scars Publications. And it seems strange to advertise a Facebook page for Scars Publications when Scars is really well known at http://scars.tv, but I suppose if people search for Scars Publications in Facebook now, it will actually lead you to a Facebook page...
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Happy birthday, Kiley!!!
eating dinner and cocktails with Janet Kuypers at 
Getting Janet primed for the longest day of the year... oh yeah... and her birthday eve.
Had a good time talking to people about travel at this good neighborhood bar, and it took until days before my birthday to find the place (which has nothing to do with my nephew)..
They decided to interrogate Janet under red lights with that Spinners icon always looming overhead...
So I said, let’s take a picture at the Spinners table, and John lays down on it.
Early Happy Birthday to Janet and a thanks to Stephanie for hosting the open mic.
Just hit another new place. Time to head to Buzz Mill.
Janet said, “What you looking at me? Keep staring at me and I’ll rip your antlers off.”
So Facebook tells me that 6 years ago today is when Dave became Facebook friends (though I suppose we knew each other before then), but it is cool to see photos from visits to New York, Laura and Scotty’s wedding (and me as a blonde), your retirement ceremony, and even our most recent visit to see you...
Thank you to Thom Woodruff for taking photos of Janet Kuypers as she was reading from the Down in the Dirt 6/18 perfect-bound ISBN# book “The Painting” in her “June 2018 Book Release Reading” 6/6/18 in Austin’s Community Poetry @ Half Price Books.
Janet’s giving the manager her card to potentially set up a gig; I was just enjoying my Manhattan.
Glad we got the chandeliers in the background so you get the full effect of this fine establishment. Its a nice place for a drink and some pool or shuffleboard on a Saturday afternoon.
Half of the light in the Bar sign behind us are out, so I thought I should inform you, we are at a bar.
Yay! I had a great time today reading 6 rounds of poems from my bonus poetry public readings book “Chapter 38 v3”, and I loved hearing everyone read great poetry at Recycled Reads today!
I feel better. At this place, my ZiegenBock doesn’t cone with a big Texas state emblem (& it’s also 22, like my birthday, ounces, added bonus).
I said, let’s go some place different. So John drove north, explaining that he figured it might be cooler if we went north... and then he gets me a beer with the outline of Texas emblazoned across it, lucky me. (Yes, people who know me know that’s sarcasm. But it’s a big beer, so I’m satiated.)
Photos of Thom Woodruff during his poetry readings at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” 6/6/18.
Happy birthday, Joe!
Sabrina, let Joel know that happy birthday are being sent to him all the way from Austin, Texas !
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Okay, Suzanne, I originally put this video up for you four years ago today, but Mynx is still so adorable that this video of Mynx (who, when I rub her belly, flips her head over to entice me to scratch her head) is something I even still did with her this morning.
Janet Kuypers, via 
“When I was little I learned of Anne Frank.... https://t.co/3F7QoeJj07
I am pleased to share with you that Scars Publications just released a Down in the Dirt framed art set from Daniel de Culla - and any of these pieces of art may now also appear in future issues of Down in the Dirt magazine!
Thom Woodruff photos during his readings at the Austin “Recycled Reads” open mic 6/3/18.
Janet Kuypers
K a t e C u l l a n , have a WONDERFUL b i r t h d a y today! ! ! 
Thom, have a WONDERFUL b i r t h d a y today! ! !
Thom, thank you for posting this photo of me reading poetry from the Janet Kuypers book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” during “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library 6/9/18 on the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
Thom, thank you for posting this photo of me reading poetry from my smartphone during “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library 6/9/18 on the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
Speaking OF “Poetry Aloud”, Thom, thank you for posting this group photo from “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library 6/9/18 on the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
I was JUST able to locate these (previously lost) animations from photos that Thom took of my readings in “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library 5/27/18. So enjoy the horizontal animation of Janet Kuypers readings from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2”.
I was JUST able to locate these (previously lost) animations from photos that Thom took of my readings in “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library 5/27/18. Here’s vertical anim of Janet Kuypers readings from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2”.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is ten of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is nine of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is eight of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is seven of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is six of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is five of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is four of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is three of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is two of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So, since Thom took a bunch of different pictures from different angles on 6/3/18 during the “Recycled Reads” open mic of the Janet Kuypers reading from the June 2018 issue (v158) of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “The Painting”. So brace yourself, because this is one of the ten “The Painting” animated readings.
So my phone, when a few similar pictures are taken now decides to make animated GIF files out of all of the images. So this is so cute, an animation of group photos with everyone from Robin Barratt to Thom Woodruff to Janet Kuypers to Louise Gail Richardson to Nancy Fierstien to Garrison Martt to Reed Mindy to more I’m sure I forgot to name too!
attending Janet Kuypers “Eleven” poetry feature with John Yotko at 
Thanks so much to John for helping make my poetry reading a show with music (guitar and piano). I’m glad my show ended with a poem about how much I love you.
Yay! Smooches time with a great host! Thanks to Stephanie for giving me the chance to feature tonight through Fort to Famous at The Buzz Mill!
Apparently, Magic Jack had to point out the feature tonight...
Stephanie J Morrissey is with Janet Kuypers at 
Our feature has started!
Released the day of the show — Scars Publications is proud to announce the cc&d supplement release of the poems that will be performed in the feature “Eleven” TONIGHT at Stephanie’s “Fort to Famous” weekly open mic at The Buzz Mill (1505 Town Creek Dr, Austin, Texas 78741)... This PDF file chapbook for this show contains poetry that relates over the years to the number 11, and it is available for free today for anyone to view or download (because there won’t be enough physical copies of the chapbook for everyone attending tonight). Go to the Eleven Facebook events page for all the details on attending tonight (also for video uploads and photos later). If you can’t grab a physical copy of the chapbook “Eleven” tonight, enjoy these poems from Janet Kuypers before the live Austin performance tonight with this PDF file chapbook “Eleven” for free anytime!
And how perfect is THAT, Stephanie introducing me at Fort to Famous last week, and how appropriate, since my poetry feature there is TONIGHT... Thom, thank you for posting this photo before my reading at The Buzz Mill 6/4/18 on the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
Ah, wearing my June t-shirt at Fort to Famous (how appropriate, since my poetry feature there is TONIGHT)... Thom, thank you for posting this photo before the open mic at The Buzz Mill 6/4/18 on the “Austin Artmosphere Artists” page.
Janet providing some social commentary through prose.
My selfie with the audience after I read my poem “Popular and Useless” at Spoken and Heard...
watching 
eating 
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eating lunch with 
My only excuse is that we were getting ready to play a few songs live... 
Wow, I’m super-grinning in this photo (and so is 
Ah, he caught 
Yay, a pic showing off my book “
Wow, Bob Rashkow and I apparently became Facebook friends seven years ago (back in 2011, before he became my side-kick at 
