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See YouTube video of Bill Yarrow reading the Janet Kuypers poem “One Summer Traveled” live 11/6/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (Canon).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix camera; Threshold).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix; Edge Detection).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Grandmother Charged with Murder” and “One Summer Traveled” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “(Less Than) Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Grandmother Charged with Murder” and “One Summer Traveled” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “(Less Than) Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burn it In (reading the end edit)”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “The Truth is Out There”, “Walking Home from School”, “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “One Summer Traveled” from the from the cyberwit.net 2021 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” 3/3/21, during the usual 1:00-3:00 PM CST time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

One Summer Traveled Janet Kuypers verse 3, 4 and parts of 5 of the poem “One Summer” edited & compiled 11/2/13 I know we had our differences, but I was looking forward to seeing you, to seeing southern California, the stores, the glamour, the beaches, the commercialism. And you, you had to cart me away with your religious troops to the wilderness, leaving me at a campsite while you went off to church. And I sat there for days, watching us, watching us become bloodthirsty, we were trying to hurt each other, we were like animals, you starting your life with me in tow. But at least I saw the redwood forests. # And traveling later, I never imagined how beautiful the east coast could be, rolling hills curling one state into another. We’d drive up a hill in the truck and I would lift my head, my chin as high as I could in anticipation to try to see the other side. I remember walking along the beach in Maine, restored buildings lining the rocky shore, the fog so thick you couldn’t see fifty feet in front of you. And people were suntanning. And I photographed the lighthouse - how do they work in the fog like this? It’s so thick, thick like the cigarette smoke coming from the inside of the truck when we would drive to antique shops in New Hampshire. Thick, like a powerful force overcoming someone, that holds you there, that doesn’t let go. Like us. # Watching this summer, this scenery travel past me streamline into blurred lines of color, I think of marriage. Probably not with you, I just think of marriage, to someone. Marriage, streamlining life into a blur. Settling down. Settling. It’s funny how your surroundings can change you.

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