the Café

Below are text links and videos from a March 2, 2010 (3/2/10) evening of poetry and performance art at the Café...

the introduction to the Café
and all poems read by the host afterward
(including accepted poems from cc&d magazine v206 and Down in the Dirt magazine v80)
video See YouTube video the introduction 3/2/10 to the open mic at the Café in Chicago (plus me reading original poems, and accepted poems from cc&d magazine v206 and Down in the Dirt magazine v80).

the poem
Passed Away
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the poem
Losing My Best Friend
written with David Jarvie
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Menu Poem
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the poem
Haiku (Sky)
written by Robert Lawrence,
which also appeared in the 03/10 issue of cc&d magazine
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the poem
Dinner Guest
written by Jackson Warfield,
which also appeared in the 03/10 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine
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the poem
no one will
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(the 2nd in the series “a hundred Milton Berles Fly Away”)
dedicated to Warren Peterson
performed live 3/2/10 at the Café in Chicago
the Eurythmics song
(First covered by Mom’s Favorite Vase in the 1990s, with Warren Peterson on guitar)
I Need You
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the Cafe

    There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Cafe, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live performances are included in Live at the Cafe includes not only recordings from 2003, 2004 and 2005, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 06/22/04, and Stripped from 06/07/05. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Coffee Chicago, Molly Malone’s, and even recordings from the Chicago Poetry Fest on both years, 2004 and 2005! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry for only $12.95 by sending an e-mail to Scars Publications.

Live at the Cafe - 3 disc set


the Cafe

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