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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Edith’s Lament” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” during the “Poetic License open mic 9/6/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Edith’s Lament” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” during the “Poetic License open mic 9/6/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the cc&d September 2021 v313 issue/paperback book “Choices” at the beginning to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 9/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the cc&d September 2021 v313 issue/paperback book “Choices” at the beginning to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 9/5/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Edith’s Lament Janet Kuypers 9/7/19, on the 1887 birthday of British poet Edith Sitwell People may look at me, think that this is all a ruse but my history is not a ruse, and the strangers to me, who were my parents our stormy relations ended with my father locking me away so... I had to get away and you can think this is all a ruse, you can think I am meant for no one and maybe I’m not but what you don’t understand is that this life I chose was the only life I could choose I had to immerse myself in art I had to be a part of it all any way I could I lived in Street Songs, The Song of the Cold I have lived in The Shadow of Cain and Still Falls the Rain. I have learned that after all that I’ve gone through my only choice is to be alive. It’s not eccentricity, it’s just that at this point I’m an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish* ...but I will still push for innovative trends — you’ll see it in my writing. You may think I’m a poser you may look at me and think that at the core I’m not real... but trust me, I’m as real as it gets, more real than you could ever know. So don’t judge me by what you think you know of me — look at my writing. Let it stand for itself.   * quote from Edith Sitwell, describing herself

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