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video See YouTube video 10/16/16 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Ultimate Connectivity” at the Awesmic City Expo preview in Austin performing her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (with poetry that appears in the “Ultimate Connectivity” chapbook, this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video 10/16/16 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Ultimate Connectivity” at the Awesmic City Expo preview in Austin performing her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (with poetry in the “Ultimate Connectivity” chapbook, this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
Ultimate Connectivity chapbook Ultimate Connectivity show Get the free PDF file chapbook
Ultimate Connectivity
containing all the poems from the show, in order: “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, Ultimate Connectivity showUltimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war” from memory 10/16/16 in an excerpt from Thom’s group intro to the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).
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See YouTube video of Thom’s group intro to the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry, where Janet Kuypers says her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war” from memory (at ~12:30) 10/16/16 (Canon Power Shot camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading 5/3/17 of cc&d’s book “the New World” of performance art poetry in Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including her “Ultimate Connectivity” poems “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading 5/3/17 of cc&d’s book “the New World” of performance art poetry in Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including her “Ultimate Connectivity” poems “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony; ED).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony/Sepia).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poem “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony; Th).

Ultimate Connectivity:
trying to separate peace from war

Janet Kuypers
10/10/16

Wanted to see the other side of the world.
Wanted to roam the streets with wandering cows.
So I thought that docking at the Bay of Bengal
would lead to a great vegetarian communal experience.

But
women are second class citizens there, forced to
wear layers of clothes everywhere to hide themselves...

So I
walked along the naval base in Visakhapatnam,
wandered to the row of Emperor statues along the shore —

and I
wondered why two thirds of the statue plaques
(written in Hindi and English)
wrote that most people
were                     Emperor and poet.
Warrior and poet. Freedom fighter and poet.

Which made me think:
poetry is a platform for peace. And it made me
wonder, do we all live in this balancing act,
where we speak softly and carry a big stick.
Which creates the crucial question: do
we need war                           to have peace?
When is it possible to understand peace
if we haven’t gone through a battle to get it?

Human life has always had that uphill battle,
where we all work, we all fight some form of war, until
we will all finally feel peace.


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