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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set

Watch this YouTube video (:57) studio session 11/13/07

Watch the YouTube video (1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection

Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

Listen: (:49) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video (:46, of just the poem) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Martyr and the Saint” with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 12/18/11 poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems (music from the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) with this writing

Enjoy this YouTube videof Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Martyr and the Saint” with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets” (plus showing her Dutch translation of the poem) and “the Martyr and the Saint” (plus showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon in the Air” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her new poem “Once and Future Rights” during her “Poetic License 10/2/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets” (plus showing her Dutch translation of the poem) and “the Martyr and the Saint” (plus showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon in the Air” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her new poem “Once and Future Rights” during her “Poetic License 10/2/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oriental” (+ showing its Chinese translation), “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere” (+ showing its Hindi translation), “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing its Dutch translation), “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing its Dutch translation), and “the Martyr and the Saint” (+ showing its Dutch translation) from the books “The Paths Less Traveled” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the 2/1/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

the martyr and the saint they gave their daughter the name of the Patron Saint of television and the television’s always been one thing she hated about him or was it the drinking that he needed more than her the business has gone bad I’m a failure I’m not a man he said he respected her then he’d call her a twenty dollar whore from Vegas and the mother would hold the child, the saint, the pure angel hold her ears and hope she couldn’t hear Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.