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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

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

Watch the YouTube video (1:48) live 08/05/07 at Beach Poets

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

Watch this YouTube video of part two of the “40” show live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

Watch this YouTube video of part 2 of the “40” show w/ camera 2 @ the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10

Watch the Full Video from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

Watch the Full Video from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/24/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/24/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/24/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry (including this poem)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Precinct Fourteen, Philosopher at the Blue Note and newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Precinct Fourteen, Philosopher at the Blue Note and newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

precinct fourteen it was a long night for us, starting out at your apartment with your roommate’s coworkers coming over and making margaritas until two in the morning, but of course we then decided that the best thing to do would be to go out and so off to the blue note we went, found some interesting people to talk to, closed the bar, i think that was the first time i ever did that, closed a late- night bar, i mean, and at four-thirty you drove me home down milwaukee ave and i know it angles, and you can see the traffic light for oncoming traffic as easily as you can see your own light, but i’m sure the light was green, and not red like the cops said, when they pulled you over. you could have been in big trouble that night, no insurance, no city registration sticker, a michigan driver’s license when you’d lived in illinois for over a year now, a cracked windshield, running a red light, probably intoxicated. so they brought us to the station at five a.m., and all they did was write you a ticket, and they gave me a business card, said if we had any problems to give them a call. you drove me home, and the cops met us there, too, hitting on me again, and although we both agreed that the night was a lot of fun, even with the involvement of the fourteenth precinct, i still believe that damn light wasn’t even red. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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