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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (filed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry as the prelude to “Beach Poets 9/1/19 with Janet Kuypers”, including “Boron’s Birth” (#05, B), “Oxygen: The Price is Right” (#08, O), “Fluorine Crystalizes” (#09 F), “Neon in the Air” (#10 Ne), “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (#11 Na), “Magnesium Burn” (#012, Mg), “Aluminum Becomes Priceless” (#13, Al), “Silicon Complete”, “Silicon Implants”, and “Silicon: the Taco Meat Filling” (#14, Si), “Phosphorus Balances”, “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, and “Phosphorus: Willie Pete” (#15, P), “Sulfur, Suddenly” (#16, S), “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (#17, Cl), “Argon like my Exes” (#18, Ar), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (#19, K), “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (#20, Ca), “Scandium, Held Tightly” (#21, Sc), “Titanium for Spies” (#22, Ti), “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (#23, V), and “Chromium Shine” (#24, Cr) to scientists and poets at the Armadillo’s Pillow bookstore in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Elementary, the Coronavirus” and her poem “Zoos, Big Brains and Opposable Thumbs” from the cc&d July 2020 book “So Much Moon” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems Carbon Copy”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Elementary, the Coronavirus”, “Oxygen Save Me”, “Oxygen Feeds”, “Oxygen: the Price is Right”, “Oxygen makes superionic ice”, “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Neon in the Air”, “Sodium: Worth your Weight”, and “Magnesium Burn” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems Carbon Copy”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all”, “Nitrogen Needs”, “Elementary, the Coronavirus”, “Oxygen Save Me”, “Oxygen Feeds”, “Oxygen: the Price is Right”, “Oxygen makes superionic ice”, “Fluorine Crystalizes”, “Neon in the Air”, “Sodium: Worth your Weight”, and “Magnesium Burn” from the Scars Publications 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her two Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (+ displaying the image for the poem) and “Sodium turns into quantum tornadoes” (+ displaying the image for the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poem “White Knuckled” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), plus her new poem “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights” during her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic” 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 #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her two Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (+ displaying the image for the poem) and “Sodium turns into quantum tornadoes” (+ displaying the image for the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poem “White Knuckled” (plus showing her Slovak translation of the poem) from the v199 9/22 Down in the Dirt book “Tracks” that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), plus her new poem “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights” during her “Poetic License 9/4/22 global open mic she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Sodium: Worth your Weight” (+ shared the image), “Sodium turns into quantum tornadoes” (+ shared the image), and “Neon in the Air” from the books “The Paths Less Traveled” and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” for the 2/1/23 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, video Instagram, and Tumblr). #scarspublications
This YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Sodium:
  Worth your Weight

Janet Kuypers
7/28/19, #PeriodicPoetry @cenmag,
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Currency for Ancient Roman soldiers,
 it&s English name is derived from the word
 salary

Sodanum in Medieval times
 was used to cure headaches

When you’re asked
 if you’re worth your weight in salt
 know the real weight of the question


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