Read New Modern American Prose by Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

prose prose

Prose, Short Stories, and monologues
are sorted alphabetically.

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

Egg for a Week 2010

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Watch the YouTube video
of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

Watch the YouTube video
of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

See feature-length YouTube
video of many poems read 07/03/11
at Beach Poets from the live feature
“a Very Goth Beach Party”

See feature-length YouTube
video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

Enough So Far, 2005

Everything was Alive and Dying, 2005

Listen

in different versions:

on the 5 CD set the Chaotic Collection

Listen

to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux

or Listen to & download

this from the DMJ Art Connection

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

See this archive.org film

(8:28, 05/15/07)

Watch this YouTube video
(8:06, 05/15/07)

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

frame from mpeg show of practice session at the Lake County Poets Society 08/22/06

Watch this YouTube video

(3:22) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

see the entire performance

at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive

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.

Order this iTunes track:

from Chaots in Motion
(a 6 CD set)...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes or Napster

CD:

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.

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

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

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)

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

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order
the entire CD set from iTunes:

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 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.

Evicted Today 2010

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See the video from YouTube
read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
and the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Out of the Web,
live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10

Examine The Files

Expecting the Stoning, 2005

Listen

to the CD recording
of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange