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Listen to the studio recording from the CD for the 10/05/04 performance art show Questions in a World Withough Answers

watch the complete video of Questions in a World Withough Answers live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

Listen to the CD recording for the 06//11/02 performance art show 6//11

(5:21) after 9/11 and part of Right There, By Your Heart from the show 6//11 06//11/02 This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video live at 6//11 in Chicago 06//11/02

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 (2:58, 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)

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Right there, By Your Heart (from the book Prominent Tongue) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poetry from assorted books at the 2013 Chicago Book Expo (S) - WITH THIS POEM

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading part of verse 2 of her poem Right there, By Your Heart at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading part of verse 2 of her poem Right there, By Your Heart at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000, Threshold filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “Confident Women” and “Thank You, Women Who Work I” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “Confident Women” and “Thank You, Women Who Work I” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix; Black & White filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “Confident Women” and “Thank You, Women Who Work I” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “Confident Women” and “Thank You, Women Who Work I” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix camera; Threshold filter).

See YouTube video, after Thom read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video, after Thom read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).

Read all of the poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry show in her 6/11/18 poetry chapbook for her show “Eleven” containing her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, and “Observer’s Love Poem”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, originally in the cc&d v 284 25-year anniversary book “Shining”, and read from the (at the time unreleased) cc&d 5-8 2018 issue/chapbook collection book “Across the Wall”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, originally in the cc&d v 284 25-year anniversary book “Shining”, and read from the (at the time unreleased) cc&d 5-8 2018 issue/chapbook collection book “Across the Wall”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, while she guest-hosted Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing the Dutch translation of the poem) and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)” (+ showing the Slovak translation of the poem) from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and her poem “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing the Dutch translation of the poem) and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)” (+ showing the Slovak translation of the poem) from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and her poem “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Right There, By Your Heart” (plus shared the Slovak translation of the poem, both of which appear in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), her poem “Antimony” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion’s Rights” to start her “Poetic License 11/6/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Right There, By Your Heart” (plus shared the Slovak translation of the poem, both of which appear in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), her poem “Antimony” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion’s Rights” to start her “Poetic License 11/6/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d “Unable To Escape It” book poems “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing the Dutch translation) and “from Right There, By Your Heart” (+ showing the Slovak translation) that both also appear in the CyberWit 2022 book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, then her poem “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” that are also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: September-December)” on 3/1/23 (the 1st Wednesday of the month, 1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This was also a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Right There, By Your Heart II have you ever had that feeling before, you know, the one when someone is telling you something you don’t want to hear, like if someone was about to tell you that someone died and you knew what they were going to say and you still didn’t want to hear it, or if someone did something to you you didn’t like, like when you were little and the kids at the bus stop shot pebbles and spit balls at you every day because you were smart and you still had to go to the bus stop every morning and just try to ignore them? and when that happens it feels like a medium sized rock just fell into the bottom of your stomach, and you don’t want to move because you’re afraid that the rock will hurt the inside of your stomach and so you just have to sit there and hope the rock goes away? or else you get the feeling in your chest, right between your lungs, it feels like someone is pressing against the bone there, right there by your heart, and you’ve got to breathe, you’re not going to be able to take that pressure, that force any longer? VI i don’t know how many times the idea of seeing him went through my mind. at least once a week i’d imagine a scene where he’d confront me, and i’d somehow be able to fight him back, to show him that he didn’t bother me any more, to show him that the rock wasn’t there any more. to somehow be able to prove that i wasn’t a victim any more. i was a survivor. that’s what they call it now, you see, survivor, because victim sounds too trying for someone who has been raped. so i keep saying i’m over it but i keep imagining mark all over again, not raping me, but following me on the street, coming to my door with flowers, or sending me a valentine. but once, when i saw him walking out of a record store as i was walking in, the rock fell so hard that i thought i was going to be sick right there by the cash register, right there by those metal things at the doorway that beep when you try to take merchandise out of the store, you know what those things are, i just can’t think of what they’re called. but if i did that, then he’d know he was still winning, to this day. how many years has it been? how many years since he did that to me? how many years since i’ve been wanting to fight him, since i’ve been feeling that rock in my god-damned stomach? i managed to hide my face from him in the store so he didn’t see me as he walked out. when i saw he was gone, i wondered why i still felt the pressure in my chest. i thought the pressure was going to turn my body inside-out. i reached for my heart, grabbed at my shirt. maybe the pain was always there, right there, by my heart, but i try not to think of it until i go through times like those. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.