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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 12/2/17 show “Who What Where When Why” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Who What Where When Why”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, “Jumping, Flying”, “Only Voice he could Hear”, “Passport to Outer Space” from the book “Say Nothing”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” (L 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 12/2/17 show “Who What Where When Why” @ “Expressions” in Austin, performing her poems “Who What Where When Why”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, “Jumping, Flying”, “Only Voice he could Hear”, “Passport to Outer Space” from the book “Say Nothing”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” (L T56).

View the 12/2/17 show poems in the free PDF file chapbook Who What Where When Why containing the poems “Who What Where When Why”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, “Jumping, Flying”, “Only Voice he could Hear”, her micro-prose “Passport to Outer Space”, and her poem “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet”.

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Underwater and Swimming”, then her poems “our futures” & “Mapping the Way to True Love” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Underwater and Swimming”, then her poems “our futures”; & “Mapping the Way to True Love” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2018 Book Release Reading 5/2/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” performance art poems “Who What Where When Why” “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Underwater and Swimming” and “On the Bridge” from the cc&d 5/18 book “About the Arts” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2018 Book Release Reading 5/2/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” performance art poems “Who What Where When Why” “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Underwater and Swimming” and “On the Bridge” from the cc&d 5/18 book “About the Arts” at “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 #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” show poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Who What Where When Why”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from her color photo book “Antarctica: Wildlife” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” show poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Who What Where When Why”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from her color photo book “Antarctica: Wildlife” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56; Cyan).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” show poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Who What Where When Why”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from her color photo book “Antarctica: Wildlife” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56; Edge Det.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” show poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Who What Where When Why”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from her color photo book “Antarctica: Wildlife” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56; Polarize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” show poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Who What Where When Why”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from her color photo book “Antarctica: Wildlife” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read her “Who What Where When Why” show poems “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Who What Where When Why”, “Underwater and Swimming”, “on the Bridge”, and “Visiting Pristine Places on the Planet” from her color photo book “Antarctica: Wildlife” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (PLT56; Threshold).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Underwater and Swimming” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poem “the Burning” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Frozen Together” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Spoken and Heard” 8/12/18 (Panasonic L T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Underwater and Swimming” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poem “the Burning” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Frozen Together” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Spoken and Heard” 8/12/18 (Panasonic L2500).

Underwater and Swimming Janet Kuypers 11/24/17 (in Río Gallegos) swimming with my best friend in a pool in the summertime, diving down in the deep end, flipping and springing to the sky could never compare to seeing Gentoo penguins, stocky birds actually swimming like porpoises underwater, then springing so high from the water, where we sat at the shoreline after watching the penguins dive in to the Southern Ocean’s frigid salt water group together, and then spring away like watching birds in flight, in formation we’d watch six or eight of these birds all spring up in the water together just to porpoise together in sync I think of my friend now, how we swam near the Great Lakes, south of the North Pole. And now, at the other side of the world I see it’s part of the beautiful whole

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