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Watch this YouTube video live at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

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

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

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

Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life

Watch the YouTube video 10/03/06 the Lake County Poets Society on TV 4 times, 12/06

You can also see the above television YouTube video at Google Video

Watch this YouTube video (2:16) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

You can also see the above YouTube video at Google Video

see the entire performance src="../kuypers/imaBR> at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive

Listen to the full show or the poem read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.

Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

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

Enjoy YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the State of the Nation” with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading a number of her poems & prose including this writing (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, accompanying opera vocals from Suzanne Hettinger, and guitar from John) live 12/18/11 at the Café weekly poetry open mic she hosted in Chicago on the LAST night this open mic was held at the Café before moving to a new location (this video was filmed from a Samsung camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 12/18/11 poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems (music from the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) with this writing

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Kodak camera

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung camera

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The State of the Nation at the open mic 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (video filmed from the Canon camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The State of the Nation at the open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from the Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt 7-8/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose “‘Type A’ Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt 7-8/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose “‘Type A’ Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie” and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose ““Type A” Person”, in 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’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, where she read her “Finding Where We’re From and the Future” performance art poems “Barbie” and “Burn It In (reaching the end edit)” from the cc&d 7-8/18 book “Black and White”, then she read her Down in the Dirt 6/18 book “The Last Guru” performance art “Live at Café Aloha” poem “The State of the Nation” and her prose ““Type A” Person”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poems “The State of the Nation”, “The Deep End”, and “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” during “Poetry Aloud” to a live audience (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poems “The State of the Nation”, “The Deep End”, and “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” during “Poetry Aloud” to a live audience (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Outsider” written for Brian Lamont which will appear in the August 2019 release of the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “the State of the Nation” from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the cc&d v79 May 1996 2019 release “Poetry and Prose”, and then sings the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” during the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Outsider” written for Brian Lamont which will appear in the August 2019 release of the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her poem “the State of the Nation” from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the cc&d v79 May 1996 2019 release “Poetry and Prose”, and then sings the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” during the “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 7/7/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “This Halloween”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 1996 v79 book “Poetry and Prose” in her first reading, then later reading her poems “Exude More in Black” “Zynsky’s Manifesto” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 10/27/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” open mic (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “This Halloween”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 1996 v79 book “Poetry and Prose” in her first reading, then later reading her poems “Exude More in Black” “Zynsky’s Manifesto” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 10/27/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 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 (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 “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 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 through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

the state of the nation my phone rang earlier today and I picked it up and said “hello” and a man on the other end said, Is this Janet Kuypers? and I said, “Yes, it is, may I ask who is calling?” and he said, Yeah, hi, this is George Washington, and I’m sitting here with Jefferson and we wanted to tell you a few things. And I said “Why me?” And he said Excuse me, I believe I said I was the one that wanted to do the talking. God, that’s the problem with Americans nowadays. They’re so damn rude. And I said, “You know, you really didn’t have to use language like that,” and he said, Oh, I’m sorry, it’s just I’ve been dead so long, I lose all control of my manners. Well, anyway, we just wanted to tell you some stuff. Now, you know that we really didn’t have much of an idea of what we were doing when we were starting up this country here, we didn’t have much experience in creating bodies of power, so I could understand how our Constitution could be misconstrued and then he put in a dramatic pause and said, but when we said people had a right to bear arms we meant to protect themselves from a government gone wrong and not so you could kill and innocent person for twenty dollars cash and when we said freedom of religion we included the separation of church and state because freedom of religion could also mean freedom from religion and when we said freedom of speech we had no idea you’d be burning a flag or painting pictures of Christ doused in urine or photographing people with whips up their respective anatomies but hell, I guess we’ve got to grin and bear it because if we ban that the next thing they’ll ban is books and we can’t have that and I said, “But there are schools that have books banned, George.” And he said Oh. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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