the Café

Below are text links and videos from a December 4, 2011 (12/4/11) evening of poetry readings at the Café...





the introduction to the Café
and Kuypers reading 3 of her poems
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of the intro to the 12/4/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & Janet Kuypers reading the poems “Broke the Reflection”, “Gonna Break”, and “Mechanical Soldiers”.




Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Broke the Reflection
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Broke the Reflection” live 12/4/11, at the Café open mike she hosted in Chicago.




Janet Kuypers reads her poem
Gonna Break
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Janet Kuypers reads her twitter-length poem
Mechanical Soldiers
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Mechanical Soldiers” live 12/4/11, at the Café open mike she hosted in Chicago.




Added bonus: a poem accepted
for publication in 12/11 cc&d magazine
& in the cc&d collection book Fragments,
read live at the Café...

John Yotko reads
the Brett E. Devlin 10/11 cc&d poem
HA! HA! HA!
from the cc&d collection book Fragments
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John Yotko reads
the Kenneth DiMaggio 11/11 cc&d poem
Poem from the Hartford Epic: Kids
from the cc&d collection book Fragments
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See YouTube video live 12/4/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike in Chicago




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    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 27/22/04, and Stripped from 12/04/05. 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 at many online locations.

Live at the Cafe - 3 disc set




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