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Listen to this from Kuypers’ first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently, or order ANY track off the CD Seeing Things Differently through iTunes.

Order this iTunes track: from Chaots in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from the iTunes CD:

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

See YouTube video (2:22) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

See YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

See FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

Listen to the track (1:54 9/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 show The Cycle of Life.

Listen to this from Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j, or order ANY iTunes track from the CD 2 for the Price of 1.

Order this iTunes track: in different styles: from different readings: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or get the full CD:

Order this iTunes track: from the Close Cover Before Striking book reading, or order this iTunes track: from the Slate & Marrow book reading, on Chaotic Radio’s 5 CD set the Chaotic Collection

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem My MotherMy MotherMy Mother from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “I Want”, “Medication”, “More than we Should Have”, and “My motherMy motherMy mother”, all from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Parallel Universe”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My Mother My Mother My Mother” on Mother’s Day from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/10/20 as a “Poetic License” home edition bonus reading through a Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “My Mother My Mother My Mother” on Mother’s Day from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/10/20 as a “Poetic License” home edition bonus reading (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

My motherMy motherMy mother We went to see my mother this weekend. You see, my mother has cancer, and we decided to go across the country for a weekend to surprise her and see how she was doing. it was breast cancer, so it really was the best case scenario, i suppose, so i managed to put it out of my mind until we actually had to fly there The night before i couldn’t bring myself to pack. it was two in the morning when i finally pulled my suitcase out from the pantry shelf. i kept telling people at work, “well, you see, I have to go visit my mother because she has cancer, so I have to miss a few days of work,” but I was always able to say it so matter-of-factly until I had to actually visit her In fact, when my sister told me the diagnosis, it was right around Christmas time, and there was so much work to do and I still had presents to wrap and a meal to prepare and Christmas was supposed to be a happy time that I managed to postpone even thinking about it until we all decided to surprise her for a visit. And then I had to pack. To decide what to take, what to leave behind, put my life into a little black box with a handle and wheels, and go It shouldn’t be this way, and I knew that, I knew that I shouldn’t be visiting my mother under these circumstances and I knew how she never wants to think about bad things because they always make her cry and this would make her want to cry and cry because the only reason why we’re there is because things are bad But I wasn’t supposed to think that way, things would be just fine. So I finished packing at four in the morning and the next thing I remember is I was on the plane with my sisters, cracking jokes as we picked up the rental car. and then we got to mom and dad’s house and everyone was so happy to see each other, it was one big family reunion and we were laughing and talking and trying to figure out where we were all going to sleep and the sisters and dad walked into the front room to see if the couches were good enough to sleep on or if we would have to get out an air mattress and I was alone in the den with mom so I suddenly became serious and sat down next to her and asked her how she was really doing. And that is when she started to cry, saying that the cancer spread, but what she was most concerned with was the fact that she didn’t want to spoil the time that we came to visit her. But what I don’t think she understood was that we couldn’t have come at a better time, and nothing she could do would spoil our trip. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.