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See YouTube video 2/25/17 of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku “universe”, then reading her poems “elusive imaginary creature” and “violence and peace both work” for “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/25/17 of Janet Kuypers saying her haiku “universe”, then reading her poems “elusive imaginary creature” and “violence and peace both work” for “Poetry Aloud” at the Georgetown Public Library this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “a Finch in the Window” poems “origin, from the macro to the micro”, “violence and peace both work”, “Masquerade” “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2017 Book Release Reading 10/4/17 of Down in the Dirt’s book “a Finch in the Window” poems “origin, from the macro to the micro”, “violence and peace both work”, “Masquerade” “Curium”, “This Halloween”, “This Halloween Again” and “Salesman” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video 11/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “violence and peace both work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” at the Buenos Aires Wildlife Preserve (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 11/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “violence and peace both work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” at the Buenos Aires Wildlife Preserve (Sony camera; Hard Light filter).

See YouTube video 11/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “violence and peace both work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” at the Buenos Aires Wildlife Preserve (Sony camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video 11/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “violence and peace both work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” at the Buenos Aires Wildlife Preserve (Sony camera; Threshold filter).

violence and peace both work Janet Kuypers 12/9/16 “We look up to the stars, and we reach out and pray...”                 - Matt Johnson In ancient times people looked up to the stars and saw heaven. Then they looked up to the stars and created gods etched to battle through the ages in constellations. Through time, the one thing I’ve discovered is that wherever we see peace and tranquility, where everything works, and falls into place, you can see the bad there too, almost like you can’t have one without the other. I imagine, if I ever got into heaven, it would be missing all of the vices we love. Even though I don’t gamble, I’m sure it wouldn’t be allowed there, and I couldn’t get a good German Riesling wine, or even a good Weise beer. What a jip. the afterlife is so boring. I like to sing, but If I have to sing Kumbaya one more time...* And if there’s a poetry open mic in Heaven, I’m sure all you’d hear are the Psalms of David, over and over, since that’s the only poetry in the Bible. In other words, what works for some, might not work for others. Because when we look to the stars, find peace, admire the tranquility of stars in the night sky, we don’t realize that those stars are actually evil, always exploding giants. What we see are often post-explosion nebula catastrophes with temperatures hotter than you could imagine. We look up to what we can’t reach and see peace and tranquility, where everything works together. But if we look closer, we can see the violence there too, and we can see how perfectly that bad stuff fits in as well.   * “Heathers”

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