poem “after”, a haiku poem about how you can still stand tall and be strong after terrible things have happened to you, even after abuse or poverty or destruction you can still work to be strong and stand tall again, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

w poem “after”, a haiku poem about how you can still stand tall and be strong after terrible things have happened to you, even after abuse or poverty or destruction you can still work to be strong and stand tall again, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Zap My Will” (then showing the Instagram image highlighting it), “Dreams 2/3/19”, and her haiku “after” (then showing the Instagram image for it), live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (P.L. 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Zap My Will” (then showing the Instagram image highlighting it), “Dreams 2/3/19”, and her haiku “after” (then showing the Instagram image for it), live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “quarrel”, her twitter and Instagram poem “Ever was in Real Life”, her twitter and Instagram poem “Ever Since my Childhood”, and her Instagram and twitter haiku “After” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the multi-person intro at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “quarrel”, her twitter and Instagram poem “Ever was in Real Life”, her twitter and Instagram poem “Ever Since my Childhood”, and her Instagram and twitter haiku “After” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the multi-person intro at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 1) poems “after”, “choke”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, “Princess Diana, One Year Later”, “Explosive Energy”, “Touch (2019 edit)”, and “quake” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Leg acy” book (set 1) poems “after”, “choke”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, “Princess Diana, One Year Later”, “Explosive Energy”, “Touch (2019 edit)”, and “quake” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “DNA and Carbon in Asteroids (oh my)” originally read in her 5/10/13 poetry feature “Science vs. Mysticism and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, and her haiku “After” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “DNA and Carbon in Asteroids (oh my)” originally read in her 5/10/13 poetry feature “Science vs. Mysticism and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, and her haiku “After” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

after
Janet Kuypers
Instagram and twitter haiku, 1/10/19
after poverty,
I’ll fight abuse, destruction —
let me now stand tall

Hear SoundCloud audio of the full “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”. During her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33). Then she read “Escape to Peace” (starting ~39:41) and “Vase of Tulips” (started ~41:52) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. Later in the interview she read her poems “Elaborate Exaltation” (started ~45:51), “Listen to Life” (started ~46:18), the haiku “nature I” (started ~46:44), “after” (started ~47:12), and “quarrel” (started ~47:31), from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”.

Hear SoundCloud audio of all of the poem readings from “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl”, “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “Escape to Peace”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Listen to Life”, “nature I”, “after”, & “quarrel” in 2 books.

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