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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, and “One With Wildlife” from the Down in the Dirt 9/20 v175 book “In the Singularity” 9/1/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, and “One With Wildlife” from the Down in the Dirt 9/20 v175 book “In the Singularity” 9/1/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quignogs: make Someday Today” (written 9/15, on a holiday for “Someday”), “Keep Looking for Hope” (written 9/16, on Anne Bradstreet Day, the day the British poet Anne Bradstreet passed way in 1672; b. 1612), “Bamboo” (for World Bamboo Day, 9/18), and “Only Man on Earth” (written 9/21, on the International Day of Peace) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/15/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, “Bamboo”, and “Only Man on Earth” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/15/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (video filmed and streamed w/ a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron from the Big Bang”, “Extension of Violence, Cute as a Button”, “Engineering with Creativity”, “One With Wildlife”, “Onto a Page”, “Explore your Imagination”, “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, and “Keep Looking for Hope” from the v175 “In the Singularity” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron from the Big Bang”, “Extension of Violence, Cute as a Button”, “Engineering with Creativity”, “One With Wildlife”, “Onto a Page”, “Explore your Imagination”, “You’ve Tucked us Women Away”, and “Keep Looking for Hope” from the v175 “In the Singularity” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

Keep Looking for Hope Janet Kuypers 9/16/19, on Anne Bradstreet Day, the day the British poet Anne Bradstreet passed way in 1672 (b. 1612) When you are uprooted from everything you know, sent to live in the opposite of everything you know, times may seem too tumultuous, too taxing to take. So what I would always do, no matter my workload, was allow me this time, this space to write, to reflect. My writing was published more where I once lived — let me have that in my new home too, please, let me tackle the challenges of my faith, as I now tackle my struggles with the sufferings of life — and let me do this with my pen. I now travel to stay with my husband, for if ever two were one, then surely we.* I am blessed when we are together, and when he supports me beyond my taking care of our home, but also by him supporting my writing. Because writing isn’t considered an acceptable role for women, so men assume my goal is rebelling against societal norms. A minister may even say that publishing a book was outside of the realm of what women were supposed to do, but I am not interested in what society’s norms are. My homesick imagination only led to developing this inquiring mind and philosophical spirit. I cannot approve of the stereotype that women are inferior to men; we struggle, suffer, and grow strong beside any man, and our sex is not void of reason**. So remember, while I bear hardships, I still use my sarcastic, sardonic tone to prove there is hope. You may not see it in my writing, but keep looking for it, and hope — you’ll find it. Trust me.   * from her poem “to my Dear and Loving Husband” ** “Our sex is not void of reason”, from the Anne Bradstreet poem “In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory”

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