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13 Years of Poetry & Prose
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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08
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See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Photograph, Nineteenth Century”, “On An Airplane with a Frequent Flyer” and “Some People Want to Believe” from “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Photograph, Nineteenth Century”, “On An Airplane with a Frequent Flyer” and “Some People Want to Believe” from “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” (that also appears in the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks”), plus her new poems “Only Considering Women’s Rights” and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” to close her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she close through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” (that also appears in the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks”), plus her new poems “Only Considering Women’s Rights” and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” to close her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” she close through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Room of The Rape”, “White Knuckled” + showing its Slovak translation, “Women’s Very Existence” + showing its Slovak translation, “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” + showing its Slovak translation, “Thank You, Women who Work I” + showing its Slovak translation, and “Photograph, Nineteenth Century” + showing its Slovak translation from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/22 issue collection book “The Paths Less Traveled” and her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” on 1/4/23, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video This YouTube video was also filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; both were posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Photograph, Nineteenth Century

that woman                         that picture
the images of beauty and softness
of something that shouldn’t be touched
that couldn’t work             that can’t work
the sepia toning                 oh how ancient
oh the dependency            oh the degradation

my mind has been cluttered
society’s a bastard
I can’t see the women
I see the hat            the feather
the adornments of beauty
the preposterous impractical way
she has been made to be seen
and not heard

she’s only an image
she was forced with an image
is it a shame            is it a sin
and now I’ve been tainted
with the knowledge of society
with the knowledge of it’s motives
and now I can’t even see the beauty
I can only see the oppression

“oh, it’s not like that anymore” they say
as I wipe the make-up off my eyelids
and wonder who I’m trying to impress


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