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video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 10/8/17 singing and reading her poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, then reading her poem “Every Street Corner” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, and then singing the Bree Sharp Song “America” with John on guitar at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Sony).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 10/8/17 singing and reading her poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium (2017 Dripping Springs edit)”, then reading her poem “Every Street Corner” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, and then singing the Bree Sharp Song “America” with John on guitar at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Lumix).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she first read her haiku “He’s An Escapist” from the 4/18 book “War of Water” from cc&d, then she read her Down in the Dirt 3/18 book “My Name Is Nobody” haiku and short poems “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, before reading her longer poem “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she first read her haiku “He’s An Escapist” from the 4/18 book “War of Water” from cc&d, then she read her Down in the Dirt 3/18 book “My Name Is Nobody” haiku and short poems “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, before reading her longer poem “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she first read her haiku “He’s An Escapist” from the 4/18 book “War of Water” from cc&d, then she read her Down in the Dirt 3/18 book “My Name Is Nobody” haiku and short poems “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, before reading her longer poem “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersApril 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she first read her haiku “He’s An Escapist” from the 4/18 book “War of Water” from cc&d, then she read her Down in the Dirt 3/18 book “My Name Is Nobody” haiku and short poems “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, before reading her longer poem “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold).
video See YouTube video from 7/4/18 of Janet KuypersJuly 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “You Were Meant”, “enemy”, “A Happy Ending to Everything”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video from 7/4/18 of Janet KuypersJuly 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “You Were Meant”, “enemy”, “A Happy Ending to Everything”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L T56; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video from 7/4/18 of Janet KuypersJuly 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “You Were Meant”, “enemy”, “A Happy Ending to Everything”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading<
video See YouTube video from 7/4/18 of Janet KuypersJuly 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “You Were Meant”, “enemy”, “A Happy Ending to Everything”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “judge”, “quarrel”, “Every Street Corner”, and “Poem About This”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L 2500; Threshold).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “Who What Where When Why”, and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart”, plus her poem “On the Bridge” from the full-color photography and poetry book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, live 1/2/19 at her. “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “Who What Where When Why”, and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart”, plus her poem “On the Bridge” from the full-color photography and poetry book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, live 1/2/19 at her. “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, then zoomed in closer; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “Who What Where When Why”, and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart”, plus her poem “On the Bridge” from the full-color photography and poetry book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, live 1/2/19 at her. “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “Who What Where When Why”, and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart”, plus her poem “On the Bridge” from the full-color photography and poetry book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, live 1/2/19 at her. “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera that was zoomed; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).


Every Street Corner

Janet Kuypers
3/20/17

Was only allowed to visit
certain public places
when I was in Russia.
But the one thing
I did notice
was the surprising number
of well-armed guards
at every street corner.


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