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video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in part one of her feature. Then she read her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in part one of her feature. Then she read her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video when Janet Kuypers was featured in a half-hour Texas Nafas Poetry television show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), where, while being interviewed about her poetry, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (this DVD of the entire TV show was also posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Texas Nafas Poetry - poems from Janet Kuypers Download for free or read online the PDF chapbook Public Access Poetry, including her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)” (bonus poem), “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (bonus poem), and “And I’m wondering”.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching her feature on a half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show February 1st, 2020 (2/1/20, or 20200201), watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given an Edge Detection filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads(filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56; Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Fireflies” from her “Getting Wire” show and read from her poetry performance art book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, and then her poems “Didn’t Think Anything of It” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” 3/3/19 @ “Recycled Reads(video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection booka Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection booka Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection booka Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection booka Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written on and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), “Last Before Extinction” (for Endangered Species Day), and “One by One, the Beech Trees Fell” (for D-Day), all from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written on and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), “Last Before Extinction” (for Endangered Species Day), and “One by One, the Beech Trees Fell” (for D-Day), all from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written on and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), “Last Before Extinction” (for Endangered Species Day), and “One by One, the Beech Trees Fell” (for D-Day), all from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written on and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), “Last Before Extinction” (for Endangered Species Day), and “One by One, the Beech Trees Fell” (for D-Day), all from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”;, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (video Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video ofJanet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written on and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) for her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” and from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” at her hosting her the “Poetic License” open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 8/4/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video ofJanet Kuypers reading her 2019 poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written on and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) for her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” and from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” at her hosting her the “Poetic License” open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 8/4/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part one her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part one her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, “That Dress”, “Escape to Peace”, and “Uncharted Land” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Beach Poets bonus feature at the Armadillo’s Pillow” reading poetry from 2 books, including her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her 2019 poetry books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” and “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “nonetheless”, “brittle”, “brain”, “Quiver in Thought”, “Opens the Way”, “Became a Circus”, and “Listen to Life”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her haiku and poems “know”, “extinct”, “This is Only a Test”, “elusive”, “Vase of Tulips”, and “That Dress” from her 20019 poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the feature to the “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Earshow sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera);
this video was posted on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Earshow sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Earshow sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Janet Kuypers feature 9/6/19 at Chicago’s In one Earshow sharing poetry from 2 book, reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her books, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Ever Get It Back”, and “oceans”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Quilled for Poets”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “”, “One Year After, the Icing on the Cake”, and “Eyes”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Eighteen and Eight Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poem “Last Before Extinction”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poem “Bolt of Lightning”, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” book poems “Feeling of False Ownership”, “Kept my Eye on You”, and “You are Born to Do”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “Object to Slavery while Protecting Slave Labor” and “Eternal Never Ending Now” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout 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), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout 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), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)(video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout 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) (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout 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) (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).
JanetJanet 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”.
JanetJanet 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”, and “quarrel”.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, all read from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show, live at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center 12/14/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, all read from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry”, of poems that were performed during her appearance on a half-hour long Texas Nafas Poetry 2020 television show, live 12/14/19 at the Poetry Aloud open mic at the Grace Heritage Center (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, then her poems “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, originally from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but appearing in and read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, as one of the readings in her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, then her poems “Death Takes Many Forms (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, and “Us, Actually Touching”, originally from her Scars Publications bonus cc&d chapbook “Public Access Poetry” but appearing in and read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”, as one of the readings in her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” from the cc&d 2/20 v294 issue/book “Mask” 2/2/20 during her Poetic License open mic 2/2/20, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” from the cc&d 2/20 v294 issue/book “Mask” 2/2/20 during her Poetic License open mic 2/2/20, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition)” and “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” from the recently-released Concrete Mist Press Anthology, followed by her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, at the beginning of the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (rom a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition)” and “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” from the recently-released Concrete Mist Press Anthology, followed by her cc&d 4/20 v296 Amazon book “Aesthetic” poem “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, at the beginning of the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Opposite”, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “(Less Than) Two Minutes With Ayn Rand”, and her prose “Valentine’s Day Over 25 Days Away” from the v294Mask” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Opposite”, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “(Less Than) Two Minutes With Ayn Rand”, and her prose “Valentine’s Day Over 25 Days Away” from the v294Mask” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 5/30/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
nafas live For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers (airing 5/30/20). During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book (pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” for public access television in her 2020 “Nafas” interview/poetry show, for “8 poems, 8 days, 8 invites” poems for The Russian Almanac #PeetMeNotLeave (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the second airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 11/19/20, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstv
nafas live For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 11/19/20. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, 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).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Thom Woodruff’s poem My Turkey is a Vegetarian from “the 2021 poetry review date book”, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 the annual poetry and art collection book “inside the box” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” 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). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading Thom Woodruff’s poem My Turkey is a Vegetarian from “the 2021 poetry review date book”, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 the annual poetry and art collection book “inside the box” to close the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers watching the fourth airing of her half-hour “Texas Nafas Poetry” TV show 1/7/21, watching her interview and her poem readings of “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperstv
nafas live For everyone outside of Austin, TX (and anyone who cannot see Public Access TV in Austin during the live re-broadcast), enjoy this live Facebook streaming video of the Texas Nafas Poetry show, interviewing poet Janet Kuypers that was re-broadcast 1/7/21. During this TV show interview, Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m wondering”, all read from assorted Janet Kuypers poetry books. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstv
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “My Kind of Town”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “Unique Noise”, “X-raying Metal Under my Skin”, “God Eyes”, “Lambs to Heaven’s Gate”, “Effigy”, “You Have No Idea”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, and “Eternal Never Ending NowEternal Bever Ending Now from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” early, and at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “And I’m Wondering” from her poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 7/28/21 @ the “Wednesday Night Poetry” open mic at Kollective Coffee + Cafe in Hot Springs, AR, followed by John reading a poem (this video was filmed from a Panasonic 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “And I’m Wondering” from her poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” and “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 7/28/21 @ the “Wednesday Night Poetry” open mic at Kollective Coffee + Cafe in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
Nafas Enjoy the Facebook live video stream of the majority of the 10/18/21 television re-broadcast of the Janet Kuypers Texas Nafas TV show that aired on Austin Public Access TV at 1:00 PM CST, interviewing Janet Kuypers and her poem Nafas readings of Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “the Burning”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Everything Was Alive And Dying (12/8/19 studio TV show recording)”, “Us, Actually Touching”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, and “And I’m Wondering”.


Our Color,
        Our Gender,
                Our Creed

Janet Kuypers
1/21/19 (on Martin Luther King, Jr. day)

There is a house inside of me.
It’s a house with a rich heritage
brimming with the knowledge
of how our souls have flourished,
and about how it all can be so quickly taken away.

There is a house inside of me
that has had to shut down
to hide everything away, because
those who didn’t look like me
decided that I was nothing, and treated me accordingly.

There is a house inside of me.
It’s pulse has an infectious rhythm
that we’ve had to stifle, to hide from
your generic white bread world; we only
let it out when we’re alone, to save us from your madness.

There is a house inside of me.
I’ve hidden it away, I’ve sealed it up
and placed it deep within, brimming
with my history and my future, and I
don’t let it out when people can’t think of me as human.

There is a house inside of me.
I’ve put boards over the windows
to save myself from your storm.
With your wrath, I’ve learned to
not fight back — only because my captor won’t listen.

There is a house inside of me.
And this house will stand strong
even after you have raped me,
beaten me, tortured me, tried to
kill me, treated me as nothing. But you were so wrong.

There is a house inside of me.
And what you don’t realize is that
this house will outlast yours. Trust me.
If your house was built on distrust
and such blatant disrespect, your house is bound to collapse.

Because after all this time, and after
my wanting to fight, I have learned
that passive resistance is only part of
my story. Because in these struggles
I have gained a wisdom and a connection that is beyond

this house inside of me, beyond
this sharing, this inquisitive mentality.
So I want you to remember, this house
is a symbol for all like me, and for those
not like me too. Because, I have a dream that everyone

who has suffered like this — and even
those who have not — should share
their stories with all of the world,
no matter our color, our gender, our creed.
This is my dream. Because this is how we truly grow.


Copyright © Janet Kuypers.

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