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 poetry is Copyright thru Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission. |
1990
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train tracks
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ugly house - or how a place holds a feeling
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1991
a Life Goes By
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A Microcosm of Society
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  Watch this YouTube video PART 1 of the story 10/19/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
 Watch this YouTube video PART 2 of the story 10/19/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
listen:  (16:01)or see the FULL story video
live at the Café in Chicago through Poetry Visualized, performed 10/19/10
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Christmas at the Old House
   Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger) |
Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Kdak Camera |
Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with Opera vocals by Suzanne Hettinger), from the Samsung Camera |
Watch this YouTube video of ther reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (music bt the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) including this writing |
Watch this YouTube video the majority (all but th last 2 poems) of her reading many poems 12/18/11 at the Café in Chicago (from the Kodak camera) including this writing |
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daisy
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dandelions for a passing stranger
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having company over
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how to cry
Knowledge
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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| Listen (6:58) (mixed 11/05/09) to this poetry, combined with GUMBO card game from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (5:15, of just the prose) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women
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See Kuypers’ full show videoor listen: (45:01, of the full show)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) |
Park Bench
Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
  Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
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salesman
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
salesman [translated from Spanish, back to English]
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Scars
This poem is in the Starite Cafe
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Watch the YouTube video (2:58) live 04/15/09 at the Cafe |
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection
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Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this prose “Scars” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after her Tag Team feature reading |
Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading “Scars” and “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after the Tag Team feature reading |
the Apartment
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| Listen (2:44) (mixed 04/23/08) to this poetry, combined with music from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion |
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Listen: (2:54) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (2:01, of just the prose piece) live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10 |
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Watch this YouTube video of part one of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of pt. 1 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10 |
Watch the Full Video from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive. |
Watch the Full Video from camera #2 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive. |
1992
a letter
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| Listen (5:42) (mixed 10/29/09) to this poetry, combined with Wonder Cafe from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
Age
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Watch the YouTube video or Listen: (to the studio recording)Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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Listen through the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux |
Watch this YouTube video (4:27) recorded of dancing Boobies or Listen: (4:16)(birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos Islands) |
Watch this YouTube video or Listen: (4:18)@ the Pacific Ocean 12/07 @ the Galapagos Islands |
Watch this YouTube videoor listen:  (4:30, of just the prose)live at the Café in Chicago 02/25/10 |
Watch the YouTube video of this reading with the intro & other writings, live 05/25/10 at the Café |
Chain Smoking
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Clay
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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Listen to the studio recording of this piece from the Beach Poets feature, 08/14/05 |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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See YouTube video (3:10) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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Listen to the recording for a YouTube water video from the Galapagos Islands 12/07 (4:29) |
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See YouTube video (4:36) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
doctor
[ doctor - in German ]
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Done This Before
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Watch this YouTube video or listen from iTunes: live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCafé in Chicago
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Or watch the complete video of The Other Side live, including this poem in Chicago 10/21/03 (3:01) |
Driving By His House
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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Watch the YouTube video (2:29) 02/26/08 Live at the Café in Chicago The above video is also on nool music |
Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (2:38, of just the prose) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women
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See Kuypers’ full show video or listen: (45:01, of the full show)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 |
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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) |
Listen live (2:23)Or watch the YouTube video Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11 |
See the YouTube full video of My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) at Trunk Fest, live 05/28/11, w/ this writing |
 
Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) |
Dysfunctional
 Watch this YouTube video or listen: (2:18)live at Regina’s Place 12/18/09 |
Fireflies
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1)  This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
having children one day
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How a woman falls in love
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nonfiction
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Seven Miles
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Listen: (3:02) to this recording from Fusion |
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soybeans
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why i’d marry you
1994
Crazy
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Listen: (18:34) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video part 1 of the live reading show “crazy” in Chicago 10/20/09 |
Watch this YouTube video part 2 of the live reading show “crazy” in Chicago 10/20/09 |
Watch this YouTube video part 3 of the live reading show “crazy” in Chicago 10/20/09 |
Watch the full “crazy” show of Kuypers reading live in Chicago 10/20/09, from the Internet Archive |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Sony) |
See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece |
See YouTube video of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Kodak) including this piece |
See YouTube video of most of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Samsung), including this piece |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Samsung) |
dreams turned into nightmares
Watch the 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 |
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fish
Watch this YouTube video (10:35) 04/26/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books the Window, Blister and Burn (the Kuypers edition), S&M (as a paperback and as a hardcover), Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite , the Written Word, and Exaro Versus)
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Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 04/26/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago |
Guilt
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Watch the 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 |
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See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 06/25/11, with this writing |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak |
how you looked then
 Watch this YouTube video listen: (2:02) read live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago
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 Watch this YouTube video of the intro and readings (including this piece), live 01/18/11 at the Chicago open mic at the Café |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose How you looked then live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose How you looked then live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
 See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose! |
Private Lives Three
Watch this YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09 |
Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive |
The YouTube video of the 2009 Poetry Game Show can also be viewed at Poetry Visualized |
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Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive |
1995:
Leaving for Work
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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
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See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
Watch the YouTube video 05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking) |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems |
See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the prose leaving for work live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the prose leaving for work live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/5/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this writing |
Letter on Religion
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Tanya’s Story
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Tanya’s Story in Down in the Dirt magazine live 5/22/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (S) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose Tanya’s Story in Down in the Dirt magazine live 5/22/13 in Chicago at her the Café Gallery poetry open mic (C) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/22/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including this prose |
tell me
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
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Watch this YouTube video or listen: (2:06)live at Regina’s Place 12/18/09 |
Listen live (2:20)Or watch the YouTube video 
05/31/11 at the Café in Chicago (from her book Close Cover Before Striking)
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Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 05/31/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking poems |
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See YouTube video (19:36) of Kuypers 05/31/11 at the Café reading her writing:The Carpet Factory the Shoes, Taking Out the Brain, Tell Me, All the Loose Ends, Filled with Such Panic, Leaving for Work, Accounts for the Need of Gun Control, January 1995, Me or Him, Gun Dealers and Gas Stations, and Domestic Violence in America Nashville TN (stick)
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1996:
A Dream About Murder.
[ a Dream About Murder. in French ]
[ a Dream About Murder. in German ]
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Listen to a studio track or a live track off the CD andperformance art show Dreams (02/03/04) |
Watch this YouTube video (2:33) from the 02/03/04 Dreams show |
...or watch this above YouTube video at aol video.
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 Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera |
Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera |
Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Mini camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of her prose (and this writing) read at the WZRD radio show from the mini cam |
phone calls from Brian Tolle
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09) |
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See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
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See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/21/11 live at the Café |
See feature-length YouTube video of Kuypers reading her prose “Phone Calls from Brian Tolle” and her poem “How to Please a Woman” |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 06/21/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus her Close Cover Before Striking prose & poem |
Top of the Mountain
see this prose when it was published in Sparks winter 96 - volume 5 issue 4
Watch this YouTube video (1:28) Between Boulder and Denver, Colorado 06/17/07 |
Watch the 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 Triple Threat at Trunk Fest, live 07/24/11, which includes this writing |
1997:
Chicago, West Side (poetry turned to prose)
A (Fe)male Behind Bars
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brushes with greatness
brushes with greatness [in French] [in German]
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Watch the 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 |
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See the full YouTube video of Triple Threat at Trunk Fest, live 07/24/11, which includes this writing |
Ecstasy
Watch this YouTube video read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago |
Watch this 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
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Gabriel
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Watch this YouTube video read live 08/16/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago |
Watch this Archive video the same video as above, from 08/16/11, at the Café through archive.org |
Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 08/16/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her short story “Gabriel”
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Getaway (poetry turned to prose)
Golfing With George Eastmen (poetry turned to prose)
How Are You
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Watch this YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09 |
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Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive |
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The YouTube video of the 2009 Poetry Game Show can also be viewed at Poetry Visualized |
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Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive |
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Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera |
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Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera |
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Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Mini camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of her prose (and this writing) read at the WZRD radio show from the mini cam |
I Remember
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Listen: (26:52) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video She read portions of her prose “I Remember” (with a talk about AIDS) live 10/18/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 10/18/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading part of her prose “I Remember” |
in the Projects
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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
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See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
Losing My Best Friend. (poetry turned to prose)
Ranting
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece, on the Entropy Project |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09 |
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Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive |
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The YouTube video of the 2009 Poetry Game Show can also be viewed at Poetry Visualized |
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Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive |
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Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Canon camera |
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Watch the YouTube video of this prose 08/28/11, first in in her book Contents Under Pressure, read on WZRD radio, from the Sony camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this writing) from the Sony camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 08/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (incliding this writing) from the Canon camera |
letter to a troubled friend
letters from war time
paint a suicide picture
Prom ‘97 — or Doing Things Right
Watch this YouTube video read live 08/23/11, at the Café open mic she hosts in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video
of the intro to the 08/23/11 weekly poetry open mic at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her short prose “Prom ‘97 — or Doing Things Right”
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seeing things differently
Watch this YouTube video of Part one of the short story or hear the full story: 12:03
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or See this YouTube video of Part two of the short story 11/09/10 live, the Café Chicago poetry open mic |
stalker - the final pages of fear
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Watch this YouTube video listen: (7:39, of just the story) 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women
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Watch this YouTube video (with the last line of the shory cut off on this video) 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women |
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See Kuypers’ full show video or listen: (45:01, of the full show)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 |
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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) |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (7:20) read w/ John Yotko live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago
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See YouTube video from the intro to the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, & her short story Stalker
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See YouTube video of two mini-features at the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, 1st of her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, then of her short story Stalker
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the twin within
Type “A” Person
Order this writing in the book The Boss Lady’s Editorials (the 2005 Expanded Edition)
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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears |
Watch the YouTube video (3:35)Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03 |
Listen to this live  atLive at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
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Listen to the recording w/ a YouTube video of dancing Boobies (birds) from the Galapagos Islands 12/07 (4:187:54) |
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Watch this YouTube video (8:03) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos Islands) |
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Listen to this live recording from the book Urbanation release show |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (5:30) live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10
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Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 10/12/10, w/ Kuypers reading her prose “Type ‘A’ Person” |
Watch this YouTube video or listen: (4:43) live 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success JK poetry show
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See the full Youtube show live JK poetry show w/ gutar 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success with “Type A Person” & “Communication” |
1998:
Driving To Champaign
Watch this YouTube video from Café Ballou (Waiting 4 the Bus), live in Chicago 02/06/12 |
Isn’t That What It’s All About
2012 translation of Isn’t That What It’s All About - in Slovak: “Nie je to to, o čom to všetko je”
Watch this YouTube video from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago |
1999:
the book Changing Gears
prose and letters that were written in 1997 and 1998, published in book form in 1999 and 2004.
2000:
Examine The Files
King of the Universe
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Listen: (3:23) to this recording from Fusion |
Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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(6:52)King of the Universe and Changing Garments from the show 6/11 06/11/02, from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02 |
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to this, from the DMJ Art Connection |
| Listen (2:46) (mixed 01/12/09) to this poetry, combined with music from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
Watch the YouTube video live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets |
Watch the full video of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show at Beach Poets, from archive.org |
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download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirth with all of the writing in the live show |
2002:
NASA Project (from 6/11)
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Listen: ( 3:00) to this recording from Fusion |
 NASA Project and Moonlight from the show 6/11 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive |
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Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02 |
The Effects of Nine One One (from 6/11)
video for boththe Effects of 9/11 and Right There, By Your Heart (5:21) This film is from the Internet Archive |
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Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02 |
2003:
the Book of Helena
the collection The Other Side, about travel through eight European countries during the war on terror (May 2003)
2004:
Travel Through Space
| written in 2004 for the show Questions in a World Without Answers, the Studio recording (1:14) and LIVE (1:36) versions are on CD 2 of the CD set Live: |
Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video or listen: (1:23, of just the prose) read 11/30/10, live at the Café in Chicago
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2005:
prose form the 02/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
Following... or Killing
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live track sample or download full track:  0:26 |
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studio track sample or download full track:
0:26 |
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vocals track, 0:20 |
Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
Generic Images of Love
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live track sample or download full track: 1:27 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 1:32 |
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vocals track, 1:23 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
Generic Stereotypes About Love
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live track sample or download full track: 1:25 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 1:21 |
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vocals track, 1:14 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
Hatred, When Love Should be Good
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live track sample or download full track: 0:49 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 0:51 |
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vocals track, 0:48 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
Love for the Stars, for What’s Out of Reach
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live track sample or download full track: 0:41 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 0:46 |
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vocals track, 0:39 |
| The original writing (written in 2005, for the show) |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
Macintosh Court
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live track sample or download full track: 1:03 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 0:58 |
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vocals track, 0:48 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
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live track sample or download full track: 1:44 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 1:42 |
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vocals track, 1:20 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
the Job Interview
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live track sample or download full track: 0:50 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 0:57 |
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vocals track, 0:42 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
The Moon and Astronomy (How Do I Get to the Moon)
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live track sample or download full track: 3:10 |
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studio track sample or download full track: 3:21 |
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vocals track, 3:09 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago |
prose adapted from classic poetry:
A Child in the Park, 2005
A Retired Policemen Talks About the Suicides He’s Seen, 2005
An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage, 2005
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1) |
Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2) |
See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
See the full a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) show video (08/02/09, from camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Andrew Hettinger, 2005
Because This Is What We Do, 2005
Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News, 2005
Burn It In, 2005
Change My Perspective, 2005
Chess Game Again, 2005
Communication, 2005
Coquinas, 2005
Dreams 01/14/04, 2005
Dreams 01/19/04 one, 2005
Dreams 02/20/04 one, 2005
Everything was Alive and Dying, 2005
Expecting the Stoning, 2005
False Suicide, 2005
Farmer, 2005
Freedom Just Past the Fence, 2005
Gary’s Blind Date, 2005
Get the Idea, 2005
God Eyes, 2005
Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, 2005
He Told Me His Dreams Nine, 2005
Headache, 2005
Holding my Skin Together, 2005
Hope and Taxes, 2005
I Dreamt About You Last Night, 2005
In the Air, 2005
Instead of Feeling Nervous, 2005
Joe Putz-a-vucki, 2005
Last Before Extinction, 2005
Magnum Opus, 2005
On an Airplane With a Frequent Flyer, 2005
One Summer, 2005
People’s Lives Were at Stake, 2005
Please Drive Through, 2005
Poam: Militant Man With Schizophrenia, 2005
Praying To Idols, 2005
Scars 2000, turned to prose in 2005
Some People Want to Believe, 2005
Taking Out the Brain, 2005
the Battle At Hand, 2005
the One at Mardi Gras, 2005
the State of the Nation, 2005
This is my Burden, 2005
Transcribing Dreams Three, 2005
Understood, 2005
Walking Home From School, 2005
Wedding Lost, 2005
Whether Or Not It Is From Religion, 2005
Who You Tell Your Dreams To, 2005
prose adapted from 1998 recovery poetry:
A Lifetime Together, 2005
Afraid of Telling The Truth, 2005
And I Don’t Care, 2005
Are The Things That I Like, 2005
As I Recovered, 2005
At Least That’s What I Hear, 2005
But I Won’t, 2005
But You Know What I Mean, 2005
Crazy Women Talking: This Much I’ve Learned, 2005
Do That For Me Then, 2005
Do You Still Want To See Me, 2005
Enough So Far, 2005
get it over with, 2005
Good Things Have Happened to Me Too, 2005
Had A Point, 2005
Here’s your chance, 2005
I Know It’s Not Going To Happen, 2005
Is it just me, 2005
I’ve Done That, So Have You, 2005
Janet Being Alone, 2005
jarv, 2005
Killing the Tired, 2005
Make Things Better, 2005
My Turn, 2005
Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 09/09/08, Chicago |
See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at Poetry Visualized live at the Cafe 09/09/08
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at YouTube live at the Cafe 09/09/08
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Needy Person, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 09/09/08, Chicago |
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at Poetry Visualized live at the Cafe 09/09/08
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at YouTube live at the Cafe 09/09/08
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No There Isn’t, 2005
Not For Me Yet, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 09/09/08, Chicago |
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at Poetry Visualized live at the Cafe 09/09/08
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See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at YouTube live at the Cafe 09/09/08
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Not Getting Better, 2005
Pool Together Our Money, 2005
Prepared For The Worst, 2005
Short-Term Advice, 2005
Slow Painful Death, 2005
So To Speak, 2005
Someone Give Me The Answers, 2005
Someone Like Me, 2005
Stilts, 2005
Supposed To Be, 2005
suspend My Beliefs, 2005
Take It All Away, 2005
That Adorable Together, 2005
That We Wish, 2005
The Same For You, 2005
The Things They Did To You, 2005
The Truth and Liars, 2005
Things I Find Charming, 2005
Things i’ve Needed, 2005
Thinks That Through, 2005
Well, Someone Is, 2005
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
Well, What About Me, 2005
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
What I Go Through, 2005
What It All Means, 2005
What Makes Me Real (Not To Share My Dreams Again), 2005
What the Truth Looks Like, 2005
When You’ve Only Got You, 2005
You Know What I’m Talking About, 2005
2006:
Letter To Mom (06/10/06)
Letter 09/16/06
Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
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Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago |
The Other Side — 2006 Edition
Journals of travels through northern European countries
(England, Germany, Estonia, a stop in Russia, then Finland, Sweden and Denmark)
portions of a novel in progress:
the Omega
the Delta
2007:
Adjusting Your Beliefs
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World
 Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
Around the World... & Sweet Home Chicago
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World this video can also be seen on FlixYa |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
Man Who Talks Loud... Say Nothing
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
Passport To Outer Space
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
Technology and Communication
from the 07/19/07 Chicago performance art show Living in a Big World
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World This video can also be seen at Technorati |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07from Living in a Big World |
2008:
Seeing a Psychiatrist:
Fear of Authority and Freud
| Listen (1:34) (mixed 08/26/08) to this poetry, combined with music from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
Seeing a Psychiatrist:
Hopelessness and Futility
| Listen (1:49) (mixed 08/19/08) to this poetry, combined with music from the HA!Man of South Africa creating “from Chicago the South Africa” |
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Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
| The “Seeing a Psychiatrist” video above is also at Love Destiny ... All you need is love... |
2009:
Hurry Up and Wait
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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
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See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube videolisten: (2:44) read from the April 2011 issue (v093) of Down in the Dirt magazine (which is also available as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book Wake Up and Smell the Flowerslive 04/05/11 at the Café in Chicago
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Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 04/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago as well as original writing, including this piece |
Jeremy, or Stallion?
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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
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See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
Warring Nations
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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09 |
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See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09 |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive |
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Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (6:18, of just the poem)live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10 |
2010:
poetry converted to prose:
A Little Angel Inside 2010
Aim Carefully 2010
All I Can Capture 2010
and What I Want to Know 2010
Are The Things That I Like 2010
ask me if i’m a truck 2010
Be Free Of You 2010
Before Taking Over the Controls 2010
Build Your Own Cross 2010
Canned Condolences 2010
Cashews 2010
Decorating the Palm Trees 2010
Don’t Go To Denny’s 2010
Dreams 01/19/04 one 2010
Dreams 09/07/07 2010
Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl 2010
Egg for a Week 2010
Evicted Today 2010
Faith Comes Only 2010
Fingers Black 2010
Fitting the Mold 2010
Flooded War Memories 2010
Four Syllables 2010
Frozen Together 2010
Going Nowhere 2010
Got on the Road Again 2010
Grab the Other’s Neck 2010
Helping Men in Public Places 2010
Ice Cream Stain 2010
In a Cardboard Box 2010
John Stories 2010
Joy 2010
Just Let Her Rest 2010
Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean) 2010
Keep Driving 2010
Keep me Sane 2010
Keep Them Apart 2010
Key To Survival 2010
Knelt and Cried 2010
Knotted Hate 2010
Left with a Hole 2010
Let Me Be 2010
Like I Was Never There 2010
Loss 2010
Loving Four 2010
More Believable That Way 2010
My Future Job Options 2010
New Vacuum Cleaner 2010
90% Sure (Dreams 07/06/06 Two) 2010
No One Will 2010
Now You’re Nothing To Me 2010
Only For One Night 2010
Our Couple In Love 2010
Passed Away 2010
Seven and Seven, Plus Eighteen 2010
“So” 2010
Sorry Flowers 2010
Sparkle 2010
Squid 2010
Story Telling 2010
Ten Minutes 2010
“that’s from the barbed wire” 2010
the Cycle of Life 2010
The Good “Doctor” 2010
the View of the Alley 2010
the Writing Of My Life 2010
Thinking. I hate that. 2010
Thirteen Seconds 2010
three minutes for three dollars 2010
Too Far 2010
Tribal Scream 2010
Trying to Change Fate 2010
Tuesday Nights 2010
Venture to the Unknown 2010
Waiting fro a Sign 2010
What the Hell is She Complaining About 2010
Where Does The Love Go 2010
Why I Didn’t See God 2010
Worn Out 2010
you’ll like them 2010
