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See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “the Kuipers Name”, “Not Getting Better” and “Only Half the Story” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Lumix camera).

See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “the Kuipers Name”, “Not Getting Better” and “Only Half the Story” in the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Sony camera).

the Kuipers Name Janet Kuypers, 09/02/06 #1 we’ve had to go sorting through the paperwork mom kept records of everything, probably dating back to nineteen seventy but they found baptism records, passport records, communion papers, birth certificates and we just noticed that on dad’s birth certificate his last name, and out grandfather’s name, is actually spelled “Kuipers” and I have records of our family back to our great great great great great grandfather, born in 1767 in Heusden and unless the records I was given were wrong our last name has always been Kuypers and dad has always gone by Kuypers but when I read this, I thought of the astronomer the Kuiper belt is named after us Dutch folk like astronomy, apparently so I don’t know what our name really should be and hey, all of the kids birth certificates say “Kuypers,” not “Kuipers” so I suppose it’s just funny the Dutch are great architects and we’ve been architects, or in the contruction business or like me, a photographer of architecture and it’s funny to see my name in astronomy and by chance someone spelling my dad’s name on his birth certificate with an “i” you know, to give me one more connection to something I love Copyright © Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.