[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]

Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/22/08

Listen to the CD recording of this piece from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears

Watch the YouTube video (:54) Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (1:06) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

the bridge to new orleans you have to pass the desolation before you get there long, long bridges overlooking swamps, decaying trees occasionally a home foundation crumbling wet wood peeling away what do those people see the people in those homes crocodiles, snakes bugs along the water a ripple of the murky water under the full moon the vultures perched along the treetops they have the isolation the beauty of the solitude but it’s a different kind of decay they see a different kind of decay a different kind Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.