Read Modern Chicago and American poetry from Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

Radium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung)

See the Samsung video upside-down,
all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb

Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook
the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Radium live at “Poetry Love Letters” 7/12/13

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading the poems Radium and Uranium live at “Poetry Love Letters” 7/12/13 (with the Watercolor filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Radium’s Faint Light poem on Facebook and Twitter

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Rhenium: the little element that could”, “Osmium when capitalism prevails”, “Iridium blankets the earth”, “Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer”, “Francium, of the feline persuasion”, “Radium’s Faint Light”, “Actinium & the next-gen for cancer”, “Protactinium, and voilà... rocks?”, “Curium’s radioactive glitter”, “Berkelium can recycle radioactivity”, “Californium’s a double-edged sword”, “Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, “Nobelium is fought for in transfermium wars”, “Nobelium: war or peace”, “Lawrencium: were we wrong?”, “Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Roentgenium, too scarce to waste”, “Copernicium makes the worlds go ‘round”, “Flerovium, doubly magic?”, “Livermorium, vanishing in our grasp”, and “Tennessine is what I get...” (+ showing the images that accompany poems) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Radon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video
of this poem read live outdoors
at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

See YouTube video
of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/4/12 at Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading both “Radon” and “Copper” from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 12/4/12 at Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap

Radon: just a little’s enough
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read 36 of her Twitter-length Periodic Table poems (including this one) as her select “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems from her book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” in her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” feature (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

r.f.b.

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video
of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

Enjoy this feature YouTube video from 9/3/11 of the Janet Kuypers mini-feature (with this poem) at Café Mestizo in Pilsen (Chicago), of poems from her book Contents Under Pressure for a later audio CD release, plus singing a bonus poem as the finalé with John on guitar (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperssinging

Rain (1986)

Rain (1994)
Rain - in Dutch

Listen

from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack
off the CD an american portrait

See YouTube video
(:37) audio CD studio session “etc.” book reading

Listen: (1:14)

to this recording from Fusion

See YouTube video
(:41) read while filming the remainder of a rain storm 05/05/08. The video footage is of water hitting a puddle in a driveway, reflecting treetops.

Order this track from Amazon
from the poetry audio CD

etc.
...Or order the entire CD set
from Amazon.

raking leaves

See YouTube video

read live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach poets
See entire performance video, which contains this poem

(25:19) from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video
(:46) live 04/12/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 4/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, including the Janet Kuypers poems “Raking Leaves”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen”, and “Twin”, read from the ISBN# paperback book “The Window” ... Then her reading the poem “the Big Bang” by Joy Davis from the April 2011 issue v219 of cc&d magazine... Then her singing / covering with John the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime”, a song written in 1925 (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry in multiple rounds during her hosting the “Poetic License” 11/3/19 open mic at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”. In round 1 she reads her poem “Keep Your Chin Up” that she wrote that day (11/3/19) because November 3rd is cliché day, as the opening to the open mic. In round 2 she reads her poem “Death” from the Poetry Wheel 6/26/08, then her poems “Gift of Motherhood One”, “Thank You, Women Who Work One”, “Coslow’s”, “Childhood Memories One”, “Christmas Eve”, and “There I Sit” from her “Slinging the Word” chapbook and Chicago WLUW Radio interview 3/18/08, and her poems “Alexi”, “a New Patient”, “Catching a Muscovy”, “Changing the Locks”, and “Childhood Memories Five” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. In round 3 she reads her poems “Climbing Trees”, “Conscious of It”, “False Suicide”, “Hiding Vices”, “Twin”, “Masquerade”, “Raking Leaves”, “They Called It Trust”, and “They Tried” from her Poems on the Beach 7/13/08 Chicago Beach Poets feature and all read from the cc&d 2019 re-release of the May 2008 v184 book “That was the Time”. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; and it was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Raped With Words

See YouTube video
live 11/16/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video

of the intro from the Café poetry open mic in Chicago 11/02/10 and this poem

See YouTube video
Read by John Yotko, 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

See YouTube video
(1:17, read by John Yotko) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video
with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera then given a Black & White filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera, then given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera, then given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, originally in the cc&d v 284 25-year anniversary book “Shining”, and read from the (at the time unreleased) cc&d 5-8 2018 issue/chapbook collection book “Across the Wall”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words” and “Frozen Together” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Raped With Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues, released during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, plus her new poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life” and “Jihad Against Free Choice” to close her “Poetic License 8/7/22 global open mic” she close 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 janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Raped With Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book (on women’s issues, released during women’s history month) “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, plus her new poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life” and “Jihad Against Free Choice” to close her “Poetic License 8/7/22 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 #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Rape Education 1

See YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 02/23/10

See YouTube video
(with an emboss filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 02/23/10

See YouTube video
(with the “find edges” filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 02/23/10

See YouTube video
(recorded with an hp webcam)
live at the Café in Chicago 02/23/10

See YouTube video
(with the solarize filter)
live at the Café in Chicago 02/23/10

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her #metoo poem “Rape Education One” (also in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems “Cerium can soothe the soul” (+ showing an image for the poem), “Neodymium magnets up your nose” (+ showing an image for the poem), and “Samarium made the music play” (+ showing an image for the poem) that are also in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” and first performed during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature, all read from the v328 12/22 cc&d issue/book “Lasting Forever”, then closing with her poem “Information Carries Weight” (which is scheduled to be the first poem in the 2023 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”) to start her “Poetic License 12/4/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Rape Education 1”, “Rape Education 2”, and “Rape Education 3” from the books “Unable To Escape It” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

This is also a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Rape Education 2

See YouTube video
Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

See YouTube video
Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video (from the Internet Archive) of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” (camera #1) at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, w/ this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Enjoy the 7/31/09 archive video from camera #1 of Janet Kuypers’ show “Disenfranchised Doggerel” at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe, which includes this poem (on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature

Enjoy this YouTube video Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Rape Education Two” and “Rape Education Three” from the v328 12/22 cc&d issue/book “Lasting Forever” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 12/7/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersbookreading

Rape Education 3

See YouTube video

Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

See the video from YouTube
read from the book the Window live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

Reads Wrong

Realistic Dreams

Listen live to the 2^nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life, or order ANY track from the CD through iTunes.

Listen to a live track from the performance art show Dreams 2/3/04, or order ANY track from the CD through iTunes.

Listen

to this with
the Second Axing

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Realistic Dreams” (1:08) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Watch this YouTube video (1:07) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Realistic Dreams” from the television screen broadcast during her 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video

06/07/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)

See feature-length YouTube

video (21:47) of Kuypers reading her poems My First Time, Chicago West Side, Chess Game Again, Arrowhead, Realistic Dreams, Was Immune, To Be Different, Sunrise, Meant To Be, New Vacuum Cleaner and Skittery live 06/07/11 at the Café

See YouTube video
of the intro to the 06/07/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus 2 new poems, & Close Cover Before Striking poems

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 2/24/18 reading her poems “Realistic Dreams”, “She Told Me Her Dreams 1”, and “Dreams 02/20/04 one” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 2/24/18 reading her poems “Realistic Dreams”, “She Told Me Her Dreams 1”, and “Dreams 02/20/04 one” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Really Do Drive like Madmen

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Really Physically Heal

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 8/5/17 show “Finding Peace” in Austin, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”, w/ music from the HA!Man of South Africa’ “Wayward Waltz of the Skewed Mind”, + cricket sounds (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 8/5/17 show “Finding Peace” in Austin, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”, w/ music from the HA!Man of South Africa’ “Wayward Waltz of the Skewed Mind”, + cricket sounds (Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the poems from the free chapbook

“Finding Peace”
of the poems she performed in her 8/5/17 “Finding Peace” poetry feature/show, including both classic and new poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2018 Book Release Reading 3/7/18, where she read her cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait” haiku poem “escape”, and then her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” and “On a High Horse Like This” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2018 Book Release Reading 3/7/18, where she read her cc&d 3/18 book “The False Portrait” haiku poem “escape”, and then her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace” and “On a High Horse Like This” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video from 8/1/18 of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This” from the book “Not a Trace” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L T56).

See YouTube video from 8/1/18 of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her “Finding Peace” performance art poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Really Physically Heal (2017 edit)”, “Keeping the Peace and Coming to Peace”, and “On a High Horse Like This” fvrom the book “Not a Trace” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (P L 2500).

reason to stand
see this poem at SnakeSkin

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video
Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 06/25/11, with this writing

Download the chapbook with this writing in Striking with Nature and Humanity

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Apathy”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Meant to Be”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Over my Skin with Such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “Surprise”, “Reason to Stand”, and “Where to Go”, all from the poetry insert section in the back of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Apathy”, “Meant to Be”, “Hard of Hearing”, “Getaway”, “Leaving”, “Over my Skin with such Ease”, “Sadness”, “Sunrise”, “to be Different”, “New Vacuum Cleaner”, “Surprise”, “Where to Go”, and “Reason to Stand”, in set 2 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

red matter

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Red Matter in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Red Matter in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Download this poem in the free chapbook “Resistance is Futile”, of poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, with this poem.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems “Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (this video was recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” for Victims of Violence Wholly/Holy Day on April 4^th, “Red Matter” for First Contact Day on April 5^th, verse II ‘the Martyr’ of “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own, part II: “the martyr”” for the day Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 5^th, and “Quote Unquote Holiday for us Beer Drinkers” for National Beer day on April 7^th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” for Victims of Violence Wholly/Holy Day on April 4^th, “Red Matter” for First Contact Day on April 5^th, verse II ‘the Martyr’ of “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own, part II: “the martyr”” for the day Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 5^th, and “Quote Unquote Holiday for us Beer Drinkers” for National Beer day on April 7^th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Red Phosphorus (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her Periodic Table bonus poem Red Phosphorus live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her Periodic Table bonus poem Red Phosphorus live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, Edge Detection filter)

Reduced To Now

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Reduced To Now (an edit of her 2006 poem This Is What It’s Reduced To Now, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Jour ney” poems “Final Rally (2015 edit)”, “Reduced to Now”, and “Extinct on Planet Earth”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v340 12/23 cc&d issue/book “Blackbirds, Lyre birds, WeaverBirds” poems “Reduced To Now” (+ show image 1), “It Hurts in the Bones, 2015 edit” (+ show image ), &

“old school and high-tech monuments” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

refuse in a single church

See YouTube video

read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video

of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Samsung camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before It Occurred to Me” and “Refuse in a Single Church” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

relegated ((haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku relegated live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon)

See YouTube video 9/27/14 of the Janet Kuypers “Partial Nudity” book release & interview on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her haiku and poetry “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “Eight People Outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “My New Grocery List”, “Couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “addiction”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting” (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio

Download this in the free chapbook
“6 Second Poems”,
all read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku relegated as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (filmed on a Canon fs200 video camera)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku relegated as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon, flipped, with a heat wave filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2019 Book Release Reading 4/3/19, where she read her haiku poems “defenses”, “pleading”, “destroy”, “relegated”, “jumped”, “found haiku”, “instead”, “falling”, “upturn”, “sort”, and “love”, all from her poetry performance art collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “relegated”, “pleading”, “jumped”, “instead”, and “destroy” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic at Austin’s Kick Butt Coffee 6/18/19 (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera);
this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Religion

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See YouTube video
of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo

Remembering Death

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

See Complete feature video

of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show with this poem at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from Canon)

See Complete feature video

of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show with this poem at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from Sony)

See YouTube video

read live 11/27/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Remembering Your Involvement

Rendering Me

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Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #1, Chicago, 07/31/09)

See YouTube video
Live at Disenfranchised Doggerel (camera #2, Chicago, 07/31/09)

See YouTube video
(:28, 06/12/07, live at the Winking Lizard in Macedonia Ohio 07/24/09)

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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

See Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

Republican

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Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08

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See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Republican”, “Her Blood is Evaporating” and “Isn’t it Amazing” from “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

rescue ((haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku rescue live 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku rescuelive 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See Facebook live video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).

See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (facebook live video with a Threshold filter).

View or download the free PDF chapbook
“Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17
of all of the short Janet Kuypers poems she read from her live 4/30/17 reading in Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb (plus one bonus poem).

See YouTube video from 4/30/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her “Drop the Bomb” poems for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with control, earth, enjoy, unbounded, Just Thinking About It, Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Resurrecting The Dead
[in French] [in German] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[electronically translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

Listen

to this with
the Second Axing

Listen live

to the 2^nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life

See YouTube video

Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, performed live at Trunk Fest’s Triple Threat , her outdoor Evanston IL feature 07/24/11

See the full YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ feature “Triple Threat” at Trunk Fest, live outdoors in Evanston IL 7/24/11, which includes this writing (this video post appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

Retracing Steps Through History

Returning to Georgetown

See YouTube video 8/23/17 of Janet Kuypers’ poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then her show “Under My Skin”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Ernesto”, “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, “The Truth Is Out There”, “x-raying metal under my skin”, “X-rays and broken hearts”, “unique noise”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, and “Returning to Georgetown” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 8/23/17 of the Janet Kuypers’ poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then her show “Under My Skin”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Ernesto”, “Quivering against the Invading Enemy”, “The Truth Is Out There”, “x-raying metal under my skin”, “X-rays and broken hearts”, “unique noise”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, and “Returning to Georgetown” (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Hard Light filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Returning to Georgetown” (which was published as a “Sun Stanza” in “The Sun” newspaper 9/13/17) 10/13/17 at the “Enigmatist / Blue Hole” reading at the opening night of the Georgetown Poetry Festival (Lumix).

See this YouTube video 5/2/18 of Janet Kuypers’ May 2018 Book Release Reading, where she first read her Down in the Dirt 5/18 book “The Church” poems “JY asks”, “zoo / putting on a show”, “You and I, Walking Through Georgetown”, and “Returning to Georgetown”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2018 Book Release Reading 5/2/18, where she first read her Down in the Dirt 5/18 book “The Church” poems “JY asks”, “zoo / putting on a show”, “You and I, Walking Through Georgetown”, and “Returning to Georgetown”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “imprisoned / ignorance”, “control”, and “don’t”, and then her poem “Returning to Georgetown”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Accept Apart” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “imprisoned / ignorance”, “control”, and “don’t”, and then her poem “Returning to Georgetown”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Accept Apart” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and given a Posterize filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 12/8/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death is a Dog”, “Returning to Georgetown”, & “Only Voice He Could Hear”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart” at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/8/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Death is a Dog”, “Returning to Georgetown”, & “Only Voice He Could Hear”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Accept Apart” at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “open flame for the celebration” first performed in her ”Akitu” poetry feature and read from her poetry book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems”, then her poem “Returning to Georgetown” originally from her poetry feature “Under my Skin” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poem “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (written on and in honor of George Washington’s birthday) 2/23/19 while she hosted “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Revelation One: One-Four

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Revelation One: One-Four”, “Revelation One: Five-Eight”, & “Revelation One: Eleven” from the CyberWit.net

Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testa ment” outside at the remains of the pool of the Branch Davidian compound near the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tu mb lr).
You can also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on

Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

You can also enjoy this Facebook video post in video filmed and posted from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “I wrote this in the dark” book poems “Sulfur, Suddenly” + sharing its image (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”) and her poems “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution” “Eliminate All Rapists” “Revelation One: One-Four” “Revelation One: Five-Eight” and “Revelation One: Eleven” (which are also in the CyberWit 2023 book “Testa ment”) for the 5/3/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v207 5/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “I wrote this in the dark” poems “Sulfur” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “Revelation One: One-Four” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”) during her “Poetic License 5/7/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook,

Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Revelation One: Five-Eight

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Revelation One: One-Four”, “Revelation One: Five-Eight”, & “Revelation One: Eleven” from the CyberWit.net

Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

Revelation One: Eleven

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Revelation One: One-Four”, “Revelation One: Five-Eight”, & “Revelation One: Eleven” from the CyberWit.net

Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).

Rhenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Rhenium in her Crossing Borders for International (and Interplanetary) Peace feature, live in Chicago 10/9/14 at Cup & Spoon, for Chicago Calling (C)

Rhenium: the little element that could
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Rhode Island Is Neither A Road Nor An Island
Rhode Island Is Neither A Road Nor An Island - in Danish

See YouTube video
live at the Café in Chicago 06/15/10

See YouTube video
of the poem Rhode Island is Neither a Road Nor an Island, after the intro and before she read the Charlie Newman poem Yellow Rat Bastard for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/15/10

Rhodium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Rhodium live in Chicago 10/20/13 at her Pilsen Periodically mini-feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Rhodium live in Chicago 10/20/13 at her Pilsen Periodically mini-feature (Hue Cycling filter)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature “Pilsen, Periodically”, with her poems for the Pilsen Art Walk, “Praseodymium”, “Darmstadtium”, and “Rhodium” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

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“Pilsen, Periodically”,
from her “Pilsen, Periodically” 10/20/13 show where she read her Periodic Table of Poetry poems “Praseodymium”, “Darmstadtium”, and “Rhodium” live in Pilsen (Chicago).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v337 9/23 cc&d issue/book “Endless Possibilities” poems “X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes” (+ images 1 & 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”), “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Rhodium” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Rhodium’s Flava Flav poem on Facebook and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh) in an outdoor amphitheater right before the first Nitzer Ebb industrial concert in Austin, TX 9/19/19, which is linked on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr (video filmed with an iPhone 10).

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Niobium’s Demise”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets”, “Molybdenum’s War Inside”, “Technetium’s Inner Glow”, “Ruthenium for Free”, “Rhodium’s Flava Flav”, “Palladium, Ouro Podre”, “Silver from Vegas”, “Cadmium and Cancer”, “Indium, trying to get through”, “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley”, and “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Niobium’s Demise”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets”, “Molybdenum’s War Inside”, “Technetium’s Inner Glow”, “Ruthenium for Free”, “Rhodium’s Flava Flav”, “Palladium, Ouro Podre”, “Silver from Vegas”, “Cadmium and Cancer”, “Indium, trying to get through”, “Tin Foil Hats on Tin Pan Alley”, and “Antimony: Sordid and Violent” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

right direction (poem on Twitter and instagram)

Right In Front Of Me

Right There, By Your Heart

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Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)
2012 translation of Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)
in Slovak: Časť básne Práve Tam, pri Tvojom srdci
Verses 2 and 6 of this poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize

(5:21)
after 9/11 and part of Right There, By Your Heart
from the show 6/11 06/11/02

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live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02

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of Questions in a World Withough Answers live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

See YouTube video
12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

See YouTube video
l12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video
with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Right there, By Your Heart (from the book Prominent Tongue) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading poetry from assorted books at the 2013 Chicago Book Expo (S) - WITH THIS POEM

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading part of verse 2 of her poem Right there, By Your Heart at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading part of verse 2 of her poem Right there, By Your Heart at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000, Threshold filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “Confident Women” and “Thank You, Women Who Work I” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video, after Thom Woodruff read his poems “Texas Spring Awakening” and “How to be Invisible”, of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading 6/6/18, where she read her #metoo poems “White Knuckled”, “Raped with Words”, “Women’s Very Existence”, and “Right There, By Your Heart (v 2 & 6)” from the cc&d 6/18 25-year anniversary book “Shining” at “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).

Read all of the poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry show in her 6/11/18 poetry chapbook for her show

“Eleven” containing her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, and “Observer’s Love Poem”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, while she guest-hosted Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, then interview portions and her poem “Scratch the Surface” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, and then read her #metoo / Lunchtime Poll Topic essay/letter “Weighing on my Soul” and her poem “For Far Too Many Years” from her Chicago “In One Ear” show “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” in the performance art section of the cc&d v. 288 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Save the World”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6)”, “the Burning”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “Thank You, Women who Work (I)”, and “the Men at the Construction Site” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” for “The Café Gallery 3/31/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing the Dutch translation of the poem) and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)” (+ showing the Slovak translation of the poem) from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and her poem “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing the Dutch translation of the poem) and “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)” (+ showing the Slovak translation of the poem) from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and her poem “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Right There, By Your Heart” (plus shared the Slovak translation of the poem, both of which appear in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), her poem “Antimony” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion’s Rights” to start her “Poetic License 11/6/22 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Right There, By Your Heart” (plus shared the Slovak translation of the poem, both of which appear in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), her poem “Antimony” from the v327 11/22 cc&d issue/book “Plurality of Nothing” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), plus her poem “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion’s Rights” to start her “Poetic License 11/6/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d “Unable To Escape It” book poems “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing the Dutch translation) and “from Right There, By Your Heart” (+ showing the Slovak translation) that both also appear in the CyberWit 2022 book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, then her poem “Veins Burn Blue with Greatness” that are also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: September-December)” on 3/1/23 (the 1st Wednesday of the month, 1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Experimental Poetry: ring Rings Like Gravestones

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Rings like Gravestones 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Rings like Gravestones 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Robert

See YouTube video
live in Chicago 02/16/08
at Mercury Cafe (2:02)

Enjoy the full YouTube video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature (Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy the full Internet Archive video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

Roentgenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Roentgenium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Roentgenium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at MOST of her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Roentgenium, too scarce to waste
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Experimental Poetry: room

Rubidium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Rubidium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “burnt forest”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Sony; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v332 4/23 cc&d issue/book “Claustrophobia” poems “Rubidium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Domestic Violence in America Nashville, Tennessee (nose)” (which is also in the 2022 CyberWit.net book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), and “Only Pose What I Know” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testa ment”) to start her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This reading was also a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Rubidium Deep Red Explosions poem on Facebook and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poems “Manganese Growing” (#25, Mn), “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” and “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), “Cobalt Goblins” (#27, Co), “Nickel the Demon” (#28, Ni), “Copper in your Mouth” (#29, Cu), “Zinc as Philosopher’s Wool” (#30, Zn), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (#32, Ge), “Arsenic is the Cure” (#33, As), “Selenium Mixing” (#34, Se), “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (#37, Rb), “Strontium Save Me” (#38, Sr), and “Yttrium, Seeping” (#39, Y) after the #8220;Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Germanium: We Would Never Survive”, “Arsenic is the Cure”, “Selenium Mixing”, “Bromine’s Assault”, “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions”, “Rubidium leads the way to a new state”, “Strontium and 3-D time”, “Strontium Save Me”, “Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat”, “Yttrium, Seeping”, and “Zirconium Brilliance” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Germanium: We Would Never Survive”, “Arsenic is the Cure”, “Selenium Mixing”, “Bromine’s Assault”, “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions”, “Rubidium leads the way to a new state”, “Strontium and 3-D time”, “Strontium Save Me”, “Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat”, “Yttrium, Seeping”, and “Zirconium Brilliance” from the Scars Publi cations 2021 book release “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” 4/24/22 for the 2022 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems from the books “Claustro phobia” and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” and “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ shared the image for this poem), then her “Floating Island” book poems “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) and “Potassium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”) for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This was also a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her January-April 2023 cc&d issue collection book “A Mural of a Forest” poems “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ image) & “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (which are both also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her January-April 2023 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Potassium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Ta ble Poetry”), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee”, & “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Rubidium leads the way to a new state
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Ruminating (twitter-length poem)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem ruminating live 9/27/14 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (C)

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“6 Second Poems”,

which contains all of the poems read on 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3 FM radio, of not only haiku poems, but also additional twitter-length poems and some poems shortened to fit into 6-second line Vine videos.

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku ruminating as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon fs200 video camera)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku ruminating as a looping JKPoetryVine video on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon fs200, heat wave filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, reading her “WZRD” poems “civil”, “mirror”, “instead”, “need”, “eight people outside”, “floor”, “of his thirst”, “hold”, “fought”, “strike”, “console”, “relegated”, “extinct”, “couldn’t”, “ruminating”, “barbed”, “gone”, “out there”, “knife”, “pet”, “kindness”, “found”, “pleading”, “only”, “humans”, “stagger”, “At the Camp”, “Suicide (heat) Poem”, and “sting”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” (originally performed in the IPB show), “Ruminating” (originally performed in the “Celebrating with Song” show), “Guilt” and “Dreams Turned Into Nightmares” (originally performed in the Evanston “Striking with Nature and Humanity” show), all read from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

run ((haiku, on Twitter)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem run from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem run from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See Twitter video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku run from Down in the Dirt’s v137 Scars Publications book The Hive 5/30/16.

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length haiku “run” from Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt Jan./June 2016 issue collection book “a Stormy Beginning” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/10/16 (Austin; Samsung Galaxy S7).

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem “run” from Scars’ 2016 collection book “the Chamber” @ Banger’s bar as a looping JKPoetryVine video 12/31/16 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Run Faster

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from the 03/03/02 CD
& the Chicago 09/10/02 performance
art show Stop. Look. Listen.

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from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago

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of a 10 minute portion of the 09/10/02 poetry show Stop, including this piece

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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe

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to this recording from the CD Fusion, or order this track - or any track - off the CD Fusion through iTunes.

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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Get Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during 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 T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”

from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during 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

Running Toward Your Demise

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to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux, or listen to & download

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to the CD recording from the 09/20/05 performance art show
SIN (Scars Internet News)

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from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05

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of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive

rush (haiku, on Twitter and Instagram)

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video 5/28/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem “rush” in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 5/28/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem “rush” in the intro performance to “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (from a Sony camera & given an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, with “Only Half the Story”, “lost”, “rush”, & “you were meant” from the Down in the Dirt 1/18 book “Farewell to Seafaring”, then her poem “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)” from the cc&d 1/18 book “the End of the World” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, with “Only Half the Story”, “lost”, “rush”, & “you were meant” from the Down in the Dirt 1/18 book “Farewell to Seafaring”, then her poem “My Brain Was (2017 Streamline)” from the cc&d 1/18 book “the End of the World” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 6/6/18 of Janet Kuypers’ June 2018 Book Release Reading, where she read her Down in the Dirt Jan.-Apr. 2018 issue collection book “At Midnight” poems “rush”, “lost”, and “Only Half the Story”, then two poems from her “Eleven” chapbook, “Under the Sea” and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (sestina)”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ December 2018 Book Release Reading 12/5/18, where she read her haiku poems “oil”, “quarrel”, “judge”, and “rush”, and then her poems “Knew I Had to be Ready” and “On a High Horse Like This”, all from the Scars Publications 2018 collection book “Natural Light” during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic L2500).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter and Instagram haiku “Soul” and her haiku “Rush”, both from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” at “Spoken and Heard” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 8/4/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter and Instagram haiku “Soul” and her haiku “Rush”, both from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the multi-person intro to the “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, then given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “brewery”, and “Just Desperation”, then her haiku poem “rush”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” live 1/26/20 during the multi-person intro to “Spoken and Heard” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition, or Irony?”, “brewery”, and “Just Desperation”, then her haiku poem “rush”, all read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” live 1/26/20 during the multi-person intro to “Spoken and Heard” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and given a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Rushed

Visit the Kuypers Twitter page for short poems— join http://twitter.com/janetkuypers.

See YouTube video
llive at the Café in Chicago 10/05/10

See YouTube video
of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 10/05/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poems “You Cannot Burn Me” & “Rushed”

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publi cations 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Zealots Intentions”, and “Rushed” from the v304 issue of the cc&d 12/20 book “Reptile Lust” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (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 “Once Again Regain our Humanity”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Overturn the Futility”, “Zealots Intentions”, and “Rushed” from the v304 issue of the cc&d 12/20 book “Reptile Lust” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (video filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, “filed under fiction”, “Everyone Will React”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Rushed” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “Vote Early, Read Often” 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). #janetkuypers

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hide from the World”, “Knowing Panic Becomes a Picnic”, “filed under fiction”, “Everyone Will React”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Rushed” from the 2020 Scars Publi cations poetry and art collection book anthology “Vote Early, Read Often” 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

Russians At A Garage Sale

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of Questions in a World Without Answers live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

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read live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

See Complete feature video of Kuypers reading poems (including this poem) live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Russians at a Garage Sale (from the book Blister & Burn) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Russians at a Garage Sale (from the book Blister & Burn) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Russians at a Garage Sale”, “Private Lives 1”, and “Private Lives 4” from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her poems “Cast in Stone”, “Death”, “Children, Churches and Daddies”, and “Russians at a Garage Sale” from her “Book Expo 2013 Chicago” reading 11/24/13, then her haiku poems “enemies”, “faith”, “ants and crosses”, “census”, “easy”, “existence”, “falling”, and “eventually”, from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading 3/17/14 , all appearing in her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Ruthenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Ruthenium at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Periodic Table poetry (including this poem) at her Beach Poets feature “Periodically on the Beach” 7/21/13 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See this YouTube video (posted 5/18/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus poem “Ruthenium” for the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/18/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 5/17/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus poem “Ruthenium” for the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/17/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Ruthenium for Free poem on Facebook and Twitter

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#244, Ru) in an outdoor amphitheater right before the first Nitzer Ebb industrial concert in Austin, TX 9/19/19, which is linked on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr (video filmed with an iPhone 10).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru) in an outdoor amphitheater right before the first Nitzer Ebb industrial concert in Austin, TX 9/19/19, which is linked on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr (this video was filmed with an iPhone 10 and given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Zap My Will” (+ image) and her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden”, then her poem “Listen to Life” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 2022 collection book “Regarding Utopia” to start her “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Zap My Will” (+ image) and her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden”, then her poem “Listen to Life” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 2022 collection book “Regarding Utopia” to start hrt “Poetic License global open mic 4/3/22” 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 janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Rutherfordium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
also see this poem at Artvilla

Watch YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Rutherfordium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (C)

Watch YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Rutherfordium in her this Poetry is Money feature, live in Chicago 7/7/14 at “Waiting 4 the Bus” (S)

Download this poem in the free PDF file
this Poetry is Money chapbook,
w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence
Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

my hand to jkchair with moving hands, anim

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