Live “Astronomy 101” 7/19/11 feature
at the Café poetry open mic in Chicago IL

video     On mini-feature night at the Café (the weekly poetry open mic she hosts) in Chicago, Janet Kuypers closed the open mic evening off by reading a few poems about astronomy (some old, but mostly new pieces), and in her show of poetry readings she included not only Aboriginal music softly for background music during her readings, but she also compiled a series of videos about the stars and costellations that were displayed during her show.

    On nights with no scheduled feature performer at the Café, all open mic readers are welcome to put on a ~10 minute performance. Because Kuypers in the past has used props and films in her poetry features, she decided that with reading these poems about astronomy, some video was in order. She found images and used screen savers on her computer to generate moving astronomy images, so she could then create custom films for her “Astronomy 101” feature.

    Follow the links below to read, see or hear poetry and short prose from this live Chicago book reading.

the Café’s mini feature video
of “Astronomy 101

of Kuypers reading her poems “Orion”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Travel Through Space”, “Moonlight / the Moon”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Universe... Not In Color” and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight
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...on to the poems:
(in the order they were read during the show)

Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Orion
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Envision It in the Night Sky
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Travel Through Space
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Moonlight / the Moon
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
from Orpheus to
Nuking the Moon
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Universe... Now In Color
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Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Eleven and Two, plus Eight
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