[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]

Listen to studio or live tracks from the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control, or order ANY CD track from amazon.com.

Listen to this read Live at the Café, or order this track - or any track - off the 3 CD set Live at the Café any time through iTunes.

Listen live to the 2nd Axing perform this at the open mic Sing Your Life, or order any track from the CD release of Sing Your Life through iTunes.

Listen: (2:20) to this recording from Fusion, or order this track - or any track - off the CD Fusion through iTunes.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Athena (2:22) 4/1/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control.

Watch the YouTube video of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera

Watch the YouTube video of this poem 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera

See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera

See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/3/17 poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” at June is a Woman! in Austin’s the Bahá’í Faith Center, with her poems “you were meant”, “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “cover”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City”, and “Echo in my Mind”, all to audio of her playing electric bass with a bow while playing an acoustic guitar with a bow (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 6/3/17 poetry show “Meant to do Big Things” at June is a Woman! in Austin’s the Bahá’í Faith Center, with her poems “you were meant”, “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “cover”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City”, and “Echo in my Mind”, all while playing an acoustic guitar with a bow (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the poems from the free chapbook “Meant to do Big Things” of the poems she performed in her 6/3/17 “Meant to do Big Things” poetry feature/show, including “you were meant”, “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “cover”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City, “Echo in my Mind”, and the bonus poem “My brain was (2017 Streamline)”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading her “Meant to do Big Things” poems “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City”, “cover”, & “Echo in my Mind” from the cc&d 1/18 book “the End of the World” to people live (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; shared in 2021 on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr; & in 2024 on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading her “Meant to do Big Things” poems “Athena”, “a man calls a woman”, “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City”, “cover”, & “Echo in my Mind” from the cc&d 1/18 book “the End of the World” to people live (L56Th).

athena ladies and gentlemen high above the dancing elephants and the clowns driving around in their little cars honking their horns high above the lion tamers with their whips and chairs is our main attraction tonight: all eyes turn to Athena, the tightrope walker see her gracefully step out onto the paper-thin wire balance high above everyone else while all eyes are on her all without a net would you like to see her do a flip? a spin? touch the rope with her tiny, fragile fingers? Athena will put on the grandest of shows for you imagine, if you will, the fear she must feel: with one wrong move she falls to her death into the mouths of the lions in between the running clowns come, see her perform: watch her walk watch her move watch her shake this is the greatest show on earth Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.