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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Polonium” from her 1/30/13 Poetry Saloon at Noon poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: a Man Calls a Woman” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Polonium” from her 1/30/13 Poetry Saloon at Noon poetry feature, and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: a Man Calls a Woman” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading multiple poems in multiple reading rounds at the (tentatively) last “Poetry Aloud open mic 10/26/19” at the Georgetown Public Library, while Janet Kuypers guest-hosted. In the first round, she read her poem “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 2 she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Didn’t Think Anything of It”, and “Join Me” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In round 3 she read her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Just Let Me have my Space” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she read her poem she wrote AT this open mic (on 10/26/19), “Undulating Nexus”. In round 4 she read her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Cadmium and Cancer” (#048, Cd), “Indium, trying to get through” (#49, In), “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley” (#50, Sn), “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” (#51, Sb), and “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te). In round 5 she read her poems “Venezuela was Mowed Down by Tanks”, “Our Demons can Mark Us”, “Bolt of Lightning”, “Unchecked Electricity”, and “Only Nineteen” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera & given a Sepia Tone filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Just the Right Words”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” from the Down in the Dirt 2/21 v180 book “Eclipsed” for The Café Gallery 2/10/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Just the Right Words”, and “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free” from the Down in the Dirt 2/21 v180 book “Eclipsed” for The Café Gallery 2/10/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Let Me Have My Space”, “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Only Remember Fragments (dreams 3/21/19)”, “Just the Right Words”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free”, and “United We Wonder” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Let Me Have My Space”, “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Only Remember Fragments (dreams 3/21/19)”, “Just the Right Words”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free”, and “United We Wonder” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Xylograph:  My Story  Must be Free Janet Kuypers 2/5/19 No one ever thinks of how I feel. Artists. Philosophers. Novelists. They all think nothing of me, and use me until they destroy me. They pay no notice of me, unless I can serve their selfish purposes. They give me no regard, and then they take a razor to me, peeling me away until they can use me to their own ends. After smearing me all over their pages, they even rub away parts of what I have left until what they have splattered is to their liking. They’re taking my blood, what is deep inside me, smearing it around into something altogether unholy. And all this time I want to share my story with the world, but I cannot sculpt what is inside of me in a way the rest of the world would ever understand. Like moulding clay, my graphite soul would relay a lifetime of torture from those who only understood abusing me to only meet their own petty needs. Save me from this fate: etch my words into engravings, letter by letter, to print them for the world to see, so they may finally understand           what for millennia they have done to me.   (this poem is about a pencil.)

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