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Listen (or live: ) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her first 4 poems performed (“the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons”, & “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, 3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 8/14/97 in her Chicago show “Seeing Things Differently” (this video is on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

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

Never before seen on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl)” (written in 1997) from her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by AmJaz for the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this Archive video of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” (23:21) live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by AmJaz for the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork, including her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl)”, “The Men At The Construction Site”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “And What I Want To Know”, “And I’m Wondering”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “Athena”, “Military Police”, “Too Far”, and “Communication ‘05” (from the Internet Archive, this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (8/14/97) “Seeing Things Differently”, or order ANY track from this CD “Seeing Things Differently” through iTunes any time.

Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (2 CD set, w/ live bonus track from the show Seeing Things Differently)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

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

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 08/03/10

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers (as open mic host) introducing the open mic at the Café in Chicago 08/03/10 before Kuypers read this poem while playing the guitar

Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 08/15/10 in Chicago (with John Yotko on guitar)

Watch this YouTube video 11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

Watch this YouTube video 1:10, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

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

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

See YouTube video 05/03/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX(this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl) live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (Canon Power Shot).

See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See a 36+ minute YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and Thom Woodruff going back and forth with poetry; where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Helping Men in Public Places”, “I Want”, and “Last Before Extinction”, then John Yotko read a poem he just wrote the day before, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Warren Stories” and “Kurt Irons”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “Never Did the Same”, “All These Reminders”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, and “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, then Thom spoke, then Janet Kuypers read her poems “My Mother My Mother My Mother”, then her prose “NASA Project”. and finally her poem “Moonlight”, all read from her performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” 4/29/18 at Austin’s the 2018 Poetry Bomb at the Baylor Street Art Wall (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “The Muse, the Messiah”, and “Paranois” from her book “Chapter 38 v2” (followed by a song by John) at “Poetry Aloud” 5/26/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “The Muse, the Messiah”, and “Paranois” from her book “Chapter 38 v2” (followed by a song by John) at “Poetry Aloud” 5/26/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her haiku “dreams” and her “Seeing Things Differently” poems “The Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her haiku “dreams” and her “Seeing Things Differently” poems “The Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 11-12/18 book “Hurricane Katrina”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl) Janet Kuypers Kurt Irons was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide Kurt Irons while intoxicated stole a truck and drove it straight into another truck and killed a thirty-seven year-old woman according to police reports, Kurt Irons was surprised by the arrest by the fact that he was charged with vehicular homicide Kurt Irons was quoted as saying “dudes it’s just a girl, man it’s a girl - nothing but a girl” Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.