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live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08
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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories
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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories
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See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State
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read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems
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of the her mini-feature INCLUDING THIS POEM (with background base by John) live 10/11/11 at the Café
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems A Man Calls a Woman”, “In their Homes or In the Streets”, “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers”, “Most Accurate Metaphors”, “the Measuring Scale”, “Content with Inferior Men”, and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much(of poems with Farsi translations) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems A Man Calls a Woman”, “In their Homes or In the Streets”, “Middle-Class Husbands and Fathers”, “Most Accurate Metaphors”, “the Measuring Scale”, “Content with Inferior Men”, and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (of poems with Farsi translations) from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22)”, “Finally Treated Fairly”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “the Measuring Scale” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), “Most Accurate Metaphors” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem), and “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much” (+ showing a Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 8/22 v198 book “My Name is Equality” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “A Man Calls A Woman” (+ showing the + Farsi translation of the poem), “In Their homes or In The Streets” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem), and “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ showing the Farsi translation of the poem) from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video This YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoetry

in their homes
or in the streets

some women are raped
in their homes or in the streets
by men whom we call “strangers”

some women are raped
in their homes or in the streets
by men we call psychiatrists,
doctors, college professors,
friends, lovers,
husbands and fathers

and some women are raped
in the streets or in offices
by men who merely sit there
and commit rape with looks
with smirks
with insults
with threats
                Bob Lamm, 1976


you’ll never understand

have you ever felt
that everything you did
from the clothes you chose to wear
to the way you styled your hair
to the way you walked down the street
to the way you sat at your desk

to whether you looked at people
as they passed you in the grocery store
when you picked up the food for the family

have you ever felt
that everything you did
was under the scrutiny
of half the world

that a stare could haunt you
if you looked too confident
or your eyes wandered for too long
and actually caught someone’s gaze

or your skirt was too short
or you didn’t cross your legs

or if you ate a banana
or happened to lick your lips

have you felt it
well, you’re not a woman


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