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Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach Poets Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem 25:19, from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the open mic at the Café and then the reading of this poem, read in Chicago 11/23/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems Catching a Muscovy, into Couldn’t Take It Home 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park poetry and music event in Austin TX (iPhone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems Catching a Muscovy, into Couldn’t Take It Home 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park poetry and music event in Austin TX (iPhone, Posterized).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Catching a Muscovy” from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2” live 5/21/18 at Buzz Mill open mic (video filmed from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Catching a Muscovy” from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2” live 5/21/18 at Buzz Mill open mic (Samsung Galaxy S7; Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Catching a Muscovy” from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2” live 5/21/18 at Buzz Mill open mic (Samsung Galaxy S7 w/ a Sepia Tone filter.

See YouTube video in Austin of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Catching a Muscovy” from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 38 v2” live 5/21/18 at Buzz Mill open mic (Samsung Galaxy S7 w/ a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Twin”, “Catching a Muscovy” and “Changing the Locks” from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v2” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Twin”, “Catching a Muscovy” and “Changing the Locks” from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v2” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Manganese Growing” her poem “Last Before Extinction” (read from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” and her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”), and her poem “Catching a Muscovy” (read from the the cc&d May 2008 v184 issue book “That was the Time”) live 9/14/19 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Manganese Growing” her poem “Last Before Extinction” (read from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “The Flickering Light” and her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”), and her poem “Catching a Muscovy” (read from the the cc&d May 2008 v184 issue book “That was the Time”) live 9/14/19 at “Poetry Aloud” in Georgetown (Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Catching a Muscovy One year, Doc Wiggins decided he wanted to shoot one of the Muscovy ducks and have it for Thanksgiving. As far as ducks go, the Muscovies are pretty ugly - the males look something like turkeys, and in Southwest Florida, in this heavily pop- ulated area, they are so used to people that they will walk up to you, expecting food. Well, one year, bless his heart, Doc Wiggins decided he wanted to shoot one for Thanksgiving dinner, so I taught him how to use my rifle and we went to a nearby lake. Then Doc started to worry. “What if my bullet ricochets off the water and hits something else?” So he was in a bit of a panic, trying to figure out what to do. So I told him just to sit tight a minute, and sure enough, a Muscovy walked right up to him and looked at him. So Doc looked at me, then the duck, and just picked it up and brought it home. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.