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Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life, or order ANY track from the CD through iTunes.

Listen to a live track from the performance art show Dreams 2/3/04, or order ANY track from the CD through iTunes.

Listen to this with the Second Axing

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Realistic Dreams” (1:08) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

WWatch this YouTube video (1:07) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Realistic Dreams” from the television screen broadcast during her 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Watch the 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

Watch this 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 2/24/18 reading her poems “Realistic Dreams”, “She Told Me Her Dreams 1”, and “Dreams 02/20/04 one” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud” (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 2/24/18 reading her poems “Realistic Dreams”, “She Told Me Her Dreams 1”, and “Dreams 02/20/04 one” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud” <(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

realistic dreams I had a dream the other night; my dreams are different from other people’s dreams: other people’s dreams aren’t realistic, but mine always are. They stay with you longer that way, they make you think they really happened. Recently I had a dream that someone wanted to hurt me; they wanted to hurt me and they followed me and appeared in the same town as me and one day I was standing at a street corner and they were just standing there, talking to someone else, on the other side of the street. So I panicked, and I turned around and started running, ran down the block, dropped what was in my hands off at my house, and kept running. I don’t know how far I ran, or where I was running to, all I can remember is what I was running from. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.