the Café

Below are mp3 files and videos from a March 23, 2010 (3/23/10) evening of poetry and performance art at the Café...

the introduction to the Café
and the poem Every Minute I Can Get
from the book The Beauty and the Destruction
which can also be found in Google Books
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of the open mic intro at the Café in Chicago 3/23/10 & the poem Every Minute I Can Get

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the poem
Every Minute I Can Get
from the book The Beauty and the Destruction
which can also be found in Google Books
Rather read it? Then read “Every Minute I Can Get
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live at the Café in Chicago 3/23/10
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live at the Café in Chicago 3/23/10
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(the 3rd in the series “a hundred Milton Berles Fly Away”)
dedicated to Warren Peterson
performed live 3/23/10 at the Café in Chicago
the Nirvana song
(First covered by Mom’s Favorite Vase in the 1990s, with Warren Peterson on guitar)
Verse Chorus Verse / “Sappy”
(the links below can also be found at the the Second Axing web page)
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live at the Café in Chicago 3/23/10

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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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