Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
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Following... or Killing
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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 |
On My Own/Successful Woman
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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)
prose form the 2/15/05 show “How Do I Get There?”:
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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
Watch the YouTube video (3:10) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
Watch this YouTube video (5:54) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
| Listen to this collaboration of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j |
Listen to & download 
this track from the DMJ Art Connection |
A Retired Policemen Talks About the Suicides He’s Seen, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece, on the Entropy Project |
| edit this poem in wandering words... rearrange the words... or make a new poem either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)! |
Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
  Watch this YouTube video of the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John yotko music (on the Canon Camera) |
 Watch this YouTube video  of Kuypers 10/07/11 in the Omniphonic Challenge at St. Paul’s (performing in the de-sanctified church), with John Yotko pre-recorded and live music (from the Sony Camera) |
Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Canon Camera)
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Watch this Complete feature video of the ENTIRE Omniphonic Challenge show 10/07/11 (with this poem) St. Paul’s (de-sanctified church), with John Yotko music (on the Sony Camera)
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Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems |
Watch this YouTube video of the her mini-feature INCLUDING THIS POEM (with background base by John Yotko) live 10/11/11 at the Café |
An Outline to the Apex of Rites of Passage, 2005
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Listen Live at the Café, 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
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 3 CD set) |
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 from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection
Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life |
 Watch this YouTube video (6:55) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 ...or watch this above YouTube video at aol video  or on wn.com  |
Watch the YouTube video (6:18) 02/26/08 live, the Cafe, Chicago |
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Listen: (8:46) to this recording from Fusion |
Listen to the live readingfrom the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03 |
See YouTube video
Live at St. Mary’s Cemetery (at his gravesite) in Champaign IL 05/27/11
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Because This Is What We Do, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One |
Watch this YouTube video (1:07, at the Coors Brewery in Golden, CO 06/15/07) |
Watch this YouTube video (2:08, live at the Cafe 07/10/07) |
| Listen from Kiki, Jake & Haytstack off the CD an american portrait |
Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08 |
Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CD etc....Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News, 2005
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Order this iTunes track: from Chaotic Elements (2 CD set, w/ live bonus track from the show Seeing Things Differently)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Watch this YouTube video of the first 4 poems performed (3:58) at the Red Lion Pub 08/14/07 at the live show Seeing Things Differently |
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Listen to the CD from the 09/20/05 performance art show SIN
(Scars Internet News)
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Watch the YouTube video 1:32, live at Jesse Oaks 04/17/08 |
| You can also see the above YouTube video at Watch U Online |
Watch this YouTube video (1:21) from the Chicago performance art show SIN live 09/20/05 |
see the entire performance of SIN (the Scars Internet News show) live 09/20/05, via the Internet Archive |
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Burn It In, 2005
Watch this YouTube video (5:03, of just the poem) live at the Yammer Chicago mini-feature 11/17/99 |
Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) |
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Listen to the live readingfrom the Side A/Side B feature 12/09/03 |
Watch this YouTube video (5:18) live at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07 |
Listen to this live  atLive at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
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Watch the YouTube video (:56) live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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Watch this YouTube video (5:22) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos os Islands |
Watch this YouTube video (5:13) recorded of dancing Boobies (birds called Nazca Boobies, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island 12/25/07, Galapagos os Islands) |
Watch this YouTube video (2:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06 |
| You can also see the above YouTube video at blinkx and Google Video |
see the entire performance at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive |
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Listen to the full show read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06. |
Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out |
 Watch this YouTube video (4:32, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out |
 Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State |
Watch this YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 2/27/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 2/27/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem |
 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 2) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 1) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 2) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).
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Change My Perspective, 2005
Listen Live at the Cafe,now available in a 3 CD set | |
Watch this YouTube video live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago You can also see the above video at Imvite | |
see the entire performance live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago with film from the Internet Archive | |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:32) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
Chess Game Again, 2005
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Watch the YouTube video (2:49) 02/26/08 Live at the Cafe in Chicago |
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Listen: (2:38) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08 |
Watch the 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
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Watch this 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 |
Communication, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
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Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
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watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) |
Watch this YouTube video (8:18) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 Also see this video at TRUVEO & 630 info See the above YouTube video on redo or even netlog (explore)... Check out this video on websurf Or see more info about this video about websites at cascadiacomic.com |
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Listen: (6:46) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch the YouTube video (2:22) 04/01/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control |
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Order this iTunes track: from Chaots in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Watch this YouTube video (4:05) live 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success JK poetry show  |
 See the full Youtube show live JK poetry show w/ gutar 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success with “Type A Person” & “Communication” |
Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out |
Watch this YouTube video (5:56, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out |
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Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State |
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Watch this YouTube video (34:48) of Kuypers in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 with this writing at Swing State |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon Power Shot), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls. |
Coquinas, 2005
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, in New Orleans 12/28/08 |
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Order this iTunes track: from Chaots in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Order this iTunes track: at two locations: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:
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Watch this YouTube video (3:47) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach |
See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11 |
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 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 of the intro to the 12/18/11 poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poems (music from the HA!man of South Africa, vocals by Suzanne Hettinger, guitar by John Yotko) with this writing |
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 Kodak 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 |
Dreams 1/14/04, 2005
Dreams 1/19/04 one, 2005
Dreams 2/20/04 one, 2005
Everything was Alive and Dying, 2005
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Listen in different versions: on the 5 CD set the Chaotic Collection
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection,off the CD Indian Flux or Listen to & download this from the DMJ Art Connection
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears |
Get this studio track from the CD release based on the first Janet Kuypers performance art show (at Red Lion 8/14/97) Seeing Things Differently
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See this archive.org film (8:28, 05/15/07) |
Watch this YouTube video (8:06, 05/15/07) This video was also published in the Hyperbolic Poetry Ezine (08/14/08 issue) and World-Class-Poetry.com |
Watch the YouTube video (6:32) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03 |
See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive |
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Watch this YouTube video (3:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06 |
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see the entire performance at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive |
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Listen to the full show or the poem read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.
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Order this iTunes track: from Chaots in Motion (a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster CD:
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Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show |
Or watch the FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show |
Listen to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) to the studio track (1:32, 10/25/06) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.
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Watch this YouTube video (8:58) in Chicago w/ the HA!man of South Africa on cello, the Café 10/05/10 |
Watch this YouTube video (8:00) live 10/08/10 at the Chicago Public Library (Avalon Branch), with cello from the HAman of South Africa |
Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out |
Watch this YouTube video (6:47, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out |
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Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State |
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Watch this YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera |
Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera |
See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam |
Watch the YouTube video of this Kuypers reading the poem live 1/26/13 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Canon) |
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Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach |
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See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11 |
Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Everything was Alive and Dying live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Everything Was Alive and Dying from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Everything Was Alive and Dying from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon fs200) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 2 sets of 3 poems each, including the poems Death is a Dog, Everything Was Alive and Dying and Fantastic Car Crash in set 1, and Too Far, the Burning and Under the Sea in set 2, 8/11/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems
Entering the Lake of Fire,
unless it happens to you,
Open Book,
electromagnetism, an edited version of the poem
Everything was Alive and Dying,
Death Takes Many Forms, and
Under the Sea. |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems
Entering the Lake of Fire,
unless it happens to you,
Open Book,
electromagnetism, an edited version of her poem Everything was Alive and Dying,
Death Takes Many Forms, and
Under the Sea. |
Expecting the Stoning, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
Watch the YouTube video (1:39) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07 See the above YouTube video on TRUVEO and AOL Video |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/3/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic intro 10/3/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, + poetry (including this piece) |
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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False Suicide, 2005
Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 07/13/08 |
07/13/08, Beach Poets
Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem (25:19) from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/08/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07,after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/08/10 |
Farmer, 2005
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD The DMJ Art Connection Disc One |
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
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Listen off the 3 CD set Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set bonus track from Molly Malone’s |
Listen: (3:31) to this recording from Fusion
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Watch this YouTube videolive 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church |
Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church (23:58, from the Internet Archive) |
Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago (23:58) from the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Farmer 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 poem Farmer 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! |
Freedom Just Past the Fence, 2005
Get this on Poetic Pieces -a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!). |
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Watch the YouTube video (2:21) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
Watch the YouTube video (2:18) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets |
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Watch this YouTube video (2:16) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
Gary’s Blind Date, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #1) |
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Watch this YouTube video Live at a Woman on the Beach (Beach Poets 08/02/09) (camera #2) |
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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 |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set, or Click on the CD cover to order tracks from the entire 3 CD set of Live at the Café |
Listen or order by clicking on the CD cover from this EP from Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers, in pb&j |
Watch this YouTube video 06/21/10, Café Ballou (at Waiting4the Bus), Chicago |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gary’s Blind Date live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gary’s Blind Date live 9/11/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
Get the Idea, 2005
God Eyes, 2005
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Listen with the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something |
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Order this iTunes track: in different formats: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:
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>Watch this YouTube video (6:16) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 |
Watch the YouTube video (3:53) Live at Changing Gears 06/17/03 |
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See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) w/ background musc from the the HA!Man of South Africa |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/10/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) w/ background musc from the the HA!Man of South Africa |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/10/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this poem |
Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, 2005
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This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22. |
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Listen: (3:26) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video (3:00) live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)
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He Told Me His Dreams Nine, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Watch this YouTube video (1:52) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04 |
Watch this YouTube video (1:11) the TV screen broadcast from the live Chicago show Dreams 02/03/04 |
Headache, 2005
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Listen to this with the Second Axing |
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing
at the open mic Sing Your Life |
Listen to this performed liveat the show Not Mute |
Watch the YouTube video (:49, 05/05/07) |
Watch the video (3:46) 3 poems read live (05/19/07) at the Jared Smith book release: Too Far, Headache & the Burning.from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08 |
| Listen to this performed live at The Cafe 11/04/03 (1:04, 1 meg) |
Holding my Skin Together, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
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Listen to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection off the CD Chaos In Motion |
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Listen: (1:06) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe’s Poetry Wheel (Mach 2) 08/26/08, Chicago |
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Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08 |
Hope and Taxes, 2005
I Dreamt About You Last Night, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Watch the YouTube video (1:51) live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 You can also see the above video at Files Tube |
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Watch this YouTube video (4:07) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
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Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa) |
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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 read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung Camera |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading PART of this poem (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading the poems “Touching Cobalt” and PART of the poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” (video cut off) at Chicago’s Poetry Love Letters |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/24/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/24/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poem “I Dreamt About You Last Night” |
See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a cappella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped & saturated).
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See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a capella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped/saturated w/ sci-fi filter).
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In the Air, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something |
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Listen to parts in the CD recording of this piece from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears: in the mountains:
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Watch this YouTube video (2:27) at the Denver airport 06/17/07 in Denver, Colorado |
Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World |
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See the above YouTube video from camera #2 on Astronaut Fancy Dress |
Watch this YouTube video of the most popular video Kuypers has ever released (1:54), 07/17/07 from Living in a Big World this video is also on Kid Mercury Blog You can also see this above video at technorati See the above YouTube video on Spoems as well as Lebanese Restaurants (really)... |
this is the lead video (of many Kuypers videos) on World News Network |
See the above YouTube video from camera #1 ondipity’s “the Painted Tower” |
See the above YouTube video from camera #1 at the encyclopedia” |
See the above video at Rip Dog Poems at Web Video Trends
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Watch the YouTube video (3:47) Live at Beach Poets 08/14/05 |
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Watch this YouTube video (6:54) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
Watch the YouTube video (:30) the part about mountains, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears |
Watch the YouTube video (:34) the part referencing Fort Myers Florida, live 06/17/03, Changing Gears |
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See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive |
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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 (12/4/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women |
See Kuypers’ full show videowith 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) |
Instead of Feeling Nervous, 2005
Watch this YouTube video (5:57) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07 |
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Joe Putz-a-vucki, 2005
 Watch this YouTube video from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 02/22/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, & her poetry in 2011 books, including this poem |
Last Before Extinction, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux |
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Watch this video:(05/16/07, 2:20) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video (2:31, 05/16/07) This video was also published in World-Class-Poetry.com |
Watch this video (05/16/07, 2:17) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Watch this video (05/16/07, 2:16) This film is from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video
6:25, of these three poems (White Knuckled, Last Before Extinction and And I’m Wondering) at the Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic at Jesse Oaks in Lake County (north of Chicago) on 05/24/07
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Watch the YouTube video (2:12) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets |
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Watch this YouTube video (2:38) recorded on the Pacific Ocean 12/07 near the Galapagos Islands |
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Listen: (2:42) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
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Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show |
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Or watch the FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show |
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Listen to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.
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Watch this YouTube video read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa |
Watch this 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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Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10 |
Watch this YouTube video of Jeff Helgeson reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting 4 the Bus open mike 4/2/12 |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Last Before Extinction (from the book Living in a Big World) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Last Before Extinction (from the book Living in a Big World) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems walking home from school, Hancock Suicide, Chicago, December 1994, a woman talking about her rapist friend and Last Before Extinction at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing (with a “darkness” theme) in Wicker Park, Chicago (Canon Power Shot)
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Magnum Opus, 2005
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On an Airplane With a Frequent Flyer, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux |
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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 (37:01) |
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Listen to the Second Axing
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Watch the YouTube video 1:51, shot at O’Hare Airport, just after a flight to Hawaii 12/2/01 |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:53) 07/17/07, Living in a Big World |
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Watch this YouTube video (1:54) 07/17/07, Living in a Big World |
One Summer, 2005
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People’s Lives Were at Stake, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set (order the CD by clicking on the CD cover or title)
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Listen: (4:49) to this recording from Fusion (or order the CD by clicking on the CD cover) |
(mixed 07/03/09) to this poetry, combined with Los - Break Free from the HA!Man of South Africa off the CD “Seeing a Psychiatrist”
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem People’s Lives were at Stake live 8/28/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
Please Drive Through, 2005
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Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera |
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Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera |
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See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam |
Poam: Militant Man With Schizophrenia, 2005
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/31/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 10/31/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, inlcuding this poem |
Praying To Idols, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set, as a bonus track from the Chicago Poetry Fest, 2005 |
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Listen: (1:58) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch the YouTube video or get the full audio track: live 08/27/05 at Poetry Fest
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Watch this complete video:12:22, of this poem in the entire 2005 Chicago Poetry Fest show on video (This film’s at the Internet Archive) |
Scars 2000, turned to prose in 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago |
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watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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Listen: (4:02) to this recording from Fusion |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 live 6/5/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading verses 1 and 3 of her poem Scars 2000 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 |
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs) |
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps) |
See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
Some People Want to Believe, 2005
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 02/24/09 |
Taking Out the Brain, 2005
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life |
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Listen: (1:16) to this recording from Fusion |
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Watch this YouTube video live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe |
Watch this YouTube video Live at Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09 |
Watch this full video from Chicago Calling, at the last night of poetry performance at Mercury Cafe 10/02/09, via 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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the Battle At Hand, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux |
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Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra |
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Listen to the CD recording for the 06/11/02 performance art show 6/11
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Watch the YouTube video Urbanation (2:48, 02/22/04) You can also see the above video on Yahoo or AOL video
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Watch this YouTube video (3:33) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 01/12/10 |
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Listen: (2:30) to this recording from Fusion |
(2:41)from the 6/11 show 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive |
Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02 |
the One at Mardi Gras, 2005
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes
03/18/03
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Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34) |
Watch part of the poem video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (1:59) |
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Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
Watch this YouTube video (1:59) performed live of the beginning of the 03/18/03 live performance art show Death Comes In Threes.
The above video is also on AOL Video |
Watch this YouTube video live 03/08/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 03/08/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus the poems The One at Mardi Gras and Coslow’s, plus the Morrissey song Place in Hell covered |
Watch this YouTube video live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video llive 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
 Watch this YouTube video live with a Blue Screen Key Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Green Screen Key Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Pastel Sketch Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with an Old Film Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Metallic Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live in Chicago 02/20/12 at Café Ballou (the day before Fat Tuesday, via Waiting 4 the Bus) |
the State of the Nation, 2005
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
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Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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Listen live to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life |
Watch the YouTube video 10/03/06 the Lake County Poets Society on TV 4 times, 12/06 |
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Watch this YouTube video (2:16) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06 |
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see the entire performance at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive |
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Listen to the full show or the poem read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.
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Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08 |
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10 |
Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa) |
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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 read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Samsung camera |
Watch this YouTube video read live 12/18/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa), from the Kodak camera |
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 |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary) |
This is my Burden, 2005
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Listen: (5:24) to this recording from Fusion |
Watch this YouTube video live, the Cafe 12/16/08, Chicago |
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Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers reading poetry 02/28/08 |
Transcribing Dreams Three, 2005
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Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show Dreams (02/03/04) |
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Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently |
Watch this YouTube video (2:46) from the Dreams show, 02/03/04 |
Watch this YouTube video (3:17) the TV screen broadcastfrom the Chicago show Dreams, live 02/03/04 You can also see the above video on msn or Video First Game or msn (even at the Chinese YouTube.ch |
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Watch this YouTube video live 01/18/11 from the ISSN# & ISBN# book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite, live at the Café in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Transcribing Dreams 3 from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Transcribing Dreams 3 from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
Understood, 2005
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Understood live 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Understoodlive 1/29/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
Walking Home From School, 2005
Wedding Lost, 2005
Listen to this live recording as an mp3 file, a (low quality)  wav file or even as a real audio (.ra) file, performed live at Cafe Aloha 05/22/01. |
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Watch this YouTube video live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church |
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Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church (23:58, from the Internet Archive) |
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Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago (23:58) from the Internet Archive |
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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:
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Whether Or Not It Is From Religion, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something |
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/03/09 |
Who You Tell Your Dreams To, 2005
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Watch the YouTube video from the show Stop. live 09/10/02 in Chicago |
 Or see the full “Stop” show including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive |
Watch the YouTube video of a 10 minute portion of the 09/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece |
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Listen live from the 03/03/02 CD & the Chicago 09/10/02 performance art show Stop. Look. Listen. |
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| edit this poem in wandering words... rearrange the words... or make a new poem either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)! |
Watch the YouTube video (1:13) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe |
Or watch the complete video of the entire fortune featurette (13:33) 06/20/08 Live at Mercury Cafe |
Watch the YouTube video of this in a live Pilsen feature of poems in her book Contents Under Pressure 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo |
See feature-length YouTube video of many poems (including this one) read 09/03/11 at Café Mestizo from the live feature |
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 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Who You Tell Your Dreams To from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Who You Tell Your Dreams To from her book Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite live 11/20/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
prose adapted from 1998 recovery poetry:
A Lifetime Together, 2005
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem a Lifetime Together live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem a Lifetime Together live 6/19/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony) |
See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/19/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, in a video that contains this writing |
Afraid of Telling The Truth, 2005
Watch the YouTube video Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09 |
And I Don’t Care, 2005
Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
Are The Things That I Like, 2005
As I Recovered, 2005
Watch the YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, at a Florida gas station 12/27/08 |
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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13 |
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading a set of poems (“the Burning” and 3 near-death accident-related poems) live at Dan Shapiro’s rigged open mic in Logan Square (Chicago) at Cole’s bar 4/14/13 |
At Least That’s What I Hear, 2005
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Watch the YouTube video Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09 |
Watch this YouTube video l(1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That. |
But I Won’t, 2005
But You Know What I Mean, 2005
Crazy Women Talking: This Much I’ve Learned, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/03/09 |
Do That For Me Then, 2005
Watch this YouTube video live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis w/ C Ra McGuirt |
Do You Still Want To See Me, 2005
Enough So Far, 2005
get it over with, 2005
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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something This also exists in another version (called Life Passes You By) off the CD Indian Flux or Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03
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Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34) |
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Watch this YouTube video from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago |
Good Things Have Happened to Me Too, 2005
Had A Point, 2005
Here’s your chance, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
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Listen: (3:21) to this recording from Fusion |
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I Know It’s Not Going To Happen, 2005
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Listen: (2:44) to this recording from Fusion |
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Is it just me, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video C Ra McGuirt reading live at the 2009 Cana-Dixie Union 05/09/09, Memphis |
I’ve Done That, So Have You, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08 |
Janet Being Alone, 2005
jarv, 2005
Killing the Tired, 2005
Make Things Better, 2005
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Listen: (2:48) to this recording from Fusion |
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My Turn, 2005
Watch this YouTube video live, the Café 09/09/08, Chicago |
See video of the poems “Needy Person”, “My Turn” and “Not For Me Yet” at Poetry Visualized live at the Café 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 Café 09/09/08
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Needy Person, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live, the Café 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 Café 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 Café 09/09/08
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No There Isn’t, 2005>
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem no there isn’t (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem no there isn’t (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S) |
Not For Me Yet, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video live, the Café 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 Café 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 Café 09/09/08
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Not Getting Better, 2005
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Pool Together Our Money, 2005
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Prepared For The Worst, 2005
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Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon) |
Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which includes this poem |
Short-Term Advice, 2005
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Slow Painful Death, 2005
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Watch this YouTube video (1:25) read 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago |
So To Speak, 2005
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Someone Give Me The Answers, 2005
Watch this YouTube video recovery poems “Changing Garments”, “Supposed To Be Done”, “Making Sense Out Of The Insane”, “Someone Give Me the Answers”, & “Feel So Much” read live at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02 |
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Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34) |
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Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03
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Listen: (4:39) to this recording from Fusion |
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Someone Like Me, 2005
Stilts, 2005
Supposed To Be, 2005
suspend My Beliefs, 2005
| Listen to this collaboration of Peter Bartels & Janet Kuypers: pb&j |
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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
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Listen: (3:45) to this recording from Fusion Or order any track from the CD Fusion off of iTunes... |
| Listen (3:08, recorded 04/13/08) to either mix (2:49 withy a cool alternate voice effect, recorded 04/13/08) sampled by the DMJ Art Connection |
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Watch this YouTube video (2:17) read 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago It’s also on Yasak Tube 
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Watch this YouTube video live at Waiting 4 the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11 |
Watch this YouTube video of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting 4 the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11 |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
The Truth and Liars, 2005
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Truth and Liars (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C) |
Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Truth and Liars (on the anniversary of the day of her accident leading to this poem) 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S) |
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Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (C) |
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Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 recovery poems (INCLUDING THIS POEM) on the anniversary of the day of her near-fatal car accident on 7/14/14 at the “Poetry Love Letters” open mic (S) |
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 |
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Well, What About Me, 2005
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Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set |
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What I Go Through, 2005
What It All Means, 2005
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Listen: (7:39) to this recording from Fusion |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C, posterize) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem What it all Means from the book Burn Through Me live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S hue cycle) |
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
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