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Contact•Conflict•Control Listen to studio mp3 file or live mp3 file tracks from the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control, or order ANY CD track from amazon.com.
Indian Flux Listen mp3 file to this poem with music from DMJ Art Connection off the CD Indian Flux, or order this or ANY track off the CD from iTunes.
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(1:31) at a pool 06/16/07 in Denver, Colorado
video New on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “The Men At The Construction Site(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).
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live at Beach Poets 08/15/10 in Chicago (with John Yotko on guitar)
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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
video See the full show of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in the Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State (this was filmed from the TV camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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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)
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to the intro to the 05/03/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with this poem
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
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 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 “the Men at the Construction Site” (+ also showing its “Farsi translation” of the poem) from the Scars Publications 2022 collection book “Running Out of Time” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), “Okay, it’s all about the Oxygen” + image from the v203 1/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Gravity of Imagination”(that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Indium” from the cc&d September-December 2022 issue issue collection book “Unable To Escape It” (that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 1/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video This was also released as a Facebook live video stream, which was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

the men at the
construction site

a woman told me
that scientists did an experiment
where a woman
first walked past a construction site
with her head down


no one bothered her,
no one noticed her
everyone at the site left her alone


then, later in the day,
she walked past again
in the same outfit, with the same stride
but this time she walked with
her head up,
more confidently


and that’s when she got
the calls, the whistles
from the men at the construction site


and you tell me it’s not deliberate
and you tell me it’s not an effort
to keep women in their place


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