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video See YouTube video 9/27/14 of the Janet Kuypers “Partial Nudity” book release & interview on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her haiku and poetry “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “Eight People Outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “My New Grocery List”, “Couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “addiction”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio
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video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, and “couldn’t”, all from her book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (PL2500).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, and “couldn’t”, all from her book “a year long Journey”, (PL2500; Po) for Community Poetry at Half Price Books.
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

couldn’t

Janet Kuypers
twitter-length poem 5/5/12
video

couldn’t get my fingers wet,
so in the shower
i wore surgical gloves.
couldn’t feel
if shampoo was lathering,
and couldn’t feel
if my hair was clean.

couldn’t
(poetry in a box)

Janet Kuypers
twitter-length poem5/5/12
couldn’tgetmyfingerswet,
sointheshower
iworesurgicalgloves.
couldn’tfeel
ifshampoowaslathering,
andcouldn’tfeel
ifmyhairwasclean.


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