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See YouTube video 06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

See feature-length YouTube video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café

See YouTube video of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

meant to be Every day for two years she thought of him Every day for two years she woke up thinking he was next to her Every day when she would open her eyes she would find nothing One day he knocked on her door “I want you to meet my fiancee This is Marie” “It’s nice to meet you, Marie I wish you two the best” Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.