A collection book was published in 1996 by Scars Publications called Slate and Marrow as a 1997 collection book with writing from assorted artists. Portions of this book (of only Kuypers’ writing) were used (with a new ISBN number) in the 25 year poetry collection book Oeuvre in 2004.     Since a new ISBN number was used for Kuypers’ writing included in the 25 year poetry collection book Oeuvre in 2004, S&M was created for release in 2007, now available not only for order as a paperback book, but also as a hardcover book. S&M contains all of the writings from Kuypers in the collection book of Slate and Marrow, but also new artwork and new writings from the same time period for this 2007 volume.     On this page you will see a listing of all of the writings included in this collection. Enjoy! Order the paperback book Order the hardcover book

part one (original writings)

My MotherMy MotherMy Mother

Seeing Things Differently

I See The Scene

Motions on the Planet

from Autumn Reason

Backbone Family Act

On An Airplane with a Frequent Flyer

Exploring Power

Sobering

Modern Day Footbindings and the Oppression of Women

Door Frame

Without Religion

Morning

the Twin Within

Slate and Marrow

Senses

part two (additional writings)

Our Anniversary

Paranoia

Dive

Other Horizons

Rain

A Stand-Off

St. Anthony’s Medallion

The Martyr and The Saint

Room

Paper

Johnathan

Two Years

Ring

Silence

Mask

Knife

Understand

James

Forward

Hole In The Heart

The Bridge To New Orleans

Ikebana

Decorating the Lockers

Death

Coslow’s

Resurrecting the Dead

I Seem to Know Animals

Tell Me

Tanya’s Stpry

Trying

Surprise

Precinct Fourteen

Taking Out The Brain

Arrowhead

poetry converted to prose

Chess Game Again

Burn It In

Chicago, West Side

Losing My Best Friend

Hancock Suicide, Chicago Dec

Getaway

Taking Out The Brain

This is my Burden

Gary’s Blind Date

Some People Want To Belive

Who You Tell Your Dreams To

Golfing with George Eastman

prose

Guilt

Brushes With Greatness

Dreams Turned Into Nightmares

Life, Liberty & Blocks of Cheese

Fish

colophon Designed using QuarkXPress v6.5, images were photographed using a Minolta Maxxum 5000 35mm camera and a variety of flatbed scanners in Chicago. Images were then edited in Adobe Photoshop v7.0, or altered in Adobe Streamline v4.0. Fonts in this collection include AGaramond (and Bold, BoldItalic and Italic, for body copy), Nueva Bold Extended (for the title), Helvetica Ult Compressed (for the Scars logo), Janet Big Cheese (for the icon of the man with the weights next to the Scars url on this copyright page), and Trajan Bold (for bullets). mages were photographed in Champaign, Urbana, Palos Park, and Chicago Illinois, as well as at a beach in central California.

About the Author     Janet Kuypers has a Communications degree in News/Editorial Journalism (starting in computer science engineering studies) from the UIUC. She had the equivalent of a minor in photography and specialized in creative writing. A portrait photographer for years in the early 1990s, she was also an acquaintance rape workshop facilitator, and she started her publishing career as an editor of two literary magazines. Later she was an art director, webmaster and photographer for a few magazines for a publishing company in Chicago, and this Journalism major was even the final featured poetry performer of 15 poets with a 10 minute feature at the 2006 Society of Professional Journalism Expo’s Chicago Poetry Showcase. This certified minister was even the officiant of a wedding in 2006.     She sang with acoustic bands “Mom’s Favorite Vase”, “Weeds and Flowers” and “the Second Axing”, and does music sampling. Kuypers is published in books, magazines and on the internet around 9,300 times for writing, and over 17,800 times for art work in her professional career, and has been profiled in such magazines as Nation and Discover U, won the award for a Poetry Ambassador and was nominated as Poet of the Year for 2006 by the International Society of Poets. She has also been highlighted on radio stations, including WEFT (90.1FM), WSUM (91.7FM), WZRD (88.3FM), WLS (8900AM), the internet radio stationsArtistFirst dot com, chicagopoetry.com’s Poetry World Radio and Scars Internet Radio (SIR), and was even shortly on Q101 FM radio. She has also appeared on television for poetry in Nashville (in 1997), Chicago (in 1997), and northern Illinois (in a few appearances on the show for the Lake County Poets Society in 2006). Kuypers was also interviewed on her art work on Urbana’s WCIA channel 3 10 o’clock news.     She turned her writing into performance art on her own and with musical groups like Pointless Orchestra,” “5D/5D” and “Order From Chaos,” and starting in 2005 Kuypers ran a monthly iPodCast of her work, as well as an Internet radio station (JK Radio) — she even manages the Chaotic Radio show (an hour long Internet radio show) through BZoO.org and chaoticarts.org. She has performed spoken word and music across the country - in the spring of 1998 she embarked on her first national poetry tour, with featured performances, among other venues, at the Albuquerque Spoken Word Festival during the National Poetry Slam; her bands have had concerts in Chicago and in Alaska; in 2003 she hosted and performed at a weekly poetry and music open mike (called Sing Your Life), and from 2002 through 2005 was a featured performance artist, doing quarterly performance art shows with readings, music and images.     In addition to being published with Bernadette Miller in the short story collection book Domestic Blisters, as well as in a book of poetry turned to prose with Eric Bonholtzer in the book Duality, Kuypers has had many books of her own published: Hope Chest in the Attic, The Window, Close Cover Before Striking, (woman.) (spiral bound), Autumn Reason (novel in letter form), the Average Guy’s Guide (to Feminism), Contents Under Pressure, etc., and eventually The Key To Believing (2002 650 page novel), Changing Gears (travel journals around the United States), The Other Side (European travel book), The Boss Lady’s Editorials, The Boss Lady’s Editorials — 2005 Expanded Edition, Seeing Things Differently, Change/Rearrange, Death Comes in Threes, Moving Performances, Six Eleven, Live at Cafe Aloha, Dreams, Rough Mixes, The Entropy Project, The Other Side (2006 edition), Stop., Sing Your Life, the hardcover art book (with an editorial) in cc&d v165.25, the Kuypers edition of Writings to Honour & Cherish, and The Kuypers Edition: Blister and Burn. Three collection books were also published of her work in 2004, Oeuvre (poetry), Exaro Versus (prose) and L’arte (art).