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Listen off the 3 CD set Live at the Café

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Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

Watch this YouTube video (with the “line drawing” filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

Watch this YouTube video (recorded with a metallic filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

Watch this YouTube video (with the Pastel Sketch filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

Watch this YouTube video (with the Posterize filter) live at the Café in Chicago 03/16/10

Watch this YouTube video of the introduction at the Café in Chicago, & the poem Flooded War Memorieslive 03/16/10; at the Café; in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa)

Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo from the live feature “Games We Play”, including this poem (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic 3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” (by request), “Equality for Women” (written on and for International Women’s Day, 3/14), and “Check your Beliefs at the Door” live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” (by request), “Equality for Women” (written on and for International Women’s Day, 3/14), and “Check your Beliefs at the Door” live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” (by request), “Equality for Women” (written on and for International Women’s Day, 3/14), and “Check your Beliefs at the Door” live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” (by request), “Equality for Women” (written on and for International Women’s Day, 3/14), and “Check your Beliefs at the Door” 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gift of Motherhood 1”, “Thank You, Women Who Work I”, “Coslow’s”, “Chicago, West Side”, “All These Reminders”, “She Told Me Her Dreams I”, “Childhood Memories I”, “Christmas Eve”, “Flooded War Memories”, and “There I Sit”, in this “Slinging the Word” WLUW Chicago 88/3 FM Radio supplement from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” live 8/11/20 in her Tuesday night “Buidlers Book Club” reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gift of Motherhood 1”, “Thank You, Women Who Work I”, “Coslow’s”, “Chicago, West Side”, “All These Reminders”, “She Told Me Her Dreams I”, “Childhood Memories I”, “Christmas Eve”, “Flooded War Memories”, and “There I Sit”, in this “Slinging the Word” WLUW Chicago 88/3 FM Radio supplement from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” live 8/11/20 in her Tuesday night “Buidlers Book Club” reading (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Flooded War Memories it was st. patrick’s day, went to another country to see you met up with you at a hotel it was like we were never apart we talked like old friends, old war-time veterans who fought in a war together who shared our life stories while sitting in a trench together waiting for a bomb to strike it was st. patrick’s day, and everything seemed normal and right even though you lived far away and even though we had different life plans it was st. patrick’s day, i remember you laying down in the bath tub, like a little boy, splashing and playing in the water, not even flinching that i was there talking to you, naked in the tub it was st. patrick’s day, i wanted to get out, see the town and you didn’t want to move content in a dingy hotel room all i could think was that it was st. patrick’s day, and i was in another country, i wanted to get up and go and i don’t know what snapped in you on st. patick’s day, but i was in a dress, ready to go, and you knocked me down i remember being knocked on to one of those hotel beds in my panty hose and dress, and you strangled me it was like you were in the war again and you were fighting to the death but i thought we were on the same side why are you trying to hurt me and like a bull dog that finally listened to the commands of their master, you finally stopped, and there i was, your ally, the one that sat in the trenches with you all those years ago torn panty hose, bloody knees i never thought you’d fight one of your buddies, i swear * i got out and called for back up in the hotel lobby at the pay phone an older woman came up to me, asking if i was all right her question stopped me from hyperventilating i looked down at my torn hose, bloody knees and I said, i’m fine * i just knew i had to get out of there before more shells fell All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.