the Café Gallery

Below are videos from a January 7 2015 (1/7/15, or 20150107) evening of poetry at the Café Gallery, at Gallery Cabaret...

the open mic 1/7/15 at the Café Gallery (and the Patrick Hurley feature)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Patrick Hurley feature 1/7/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

Janet Kuypers reads writing appearing in the 2015 “need to know” literary date book With Henry Soznowski’s poem “Wrong Reflection”, Mel Waldman’s poem “Oblivion”, Linda Webb Aceto’s poem “Six of One...”, Mike Brennan’s "“inner Reservations”, CEE’s poem “Think About It... How Do We Really Know?”, Andrew L. Miller’s poem “Shadow Key”, and Cheryl Townsend’s poem “my stepfather tried”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading writing appearing in the 2015 “need to know” literary date book (including Henry Soznowski’s poem “Wrong Reflection”, Mel Waldman’s poem “Oblivion”, Linda Webb Aceto’s poem “Six of One...”, Mike Brennan’s "“inner Reservations”, CEE’s poem “Think About It... How Do We Really Know?”, Andrew L. Miller’s poem “Shadow Key”, and Cheryl Townsend’s poem “my stepfather tried”) live 1/7/15 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading writing appearing in the 2015 “need to know” literary date book (including Henry Soznowski’s poem “Wrong Reflection”, Mel Waldman’s poem “Oblivion”, Linda Webb Aceto’s poem “Six of One...”, Mike Brennan’s "“inner Reservations”, CEE’s poem “Think About It... How Do We Really Know?”, Andrew L. Miller’s poem “Shadow Key”, and Cheryl Townsend’s poem “my stepfather tried”) live 1/7/15 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon Power Shot)

Janet Kuypers reads writing appearing in the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates including the David Hernandez poems “Drinking from the Chalice of Silver” and “The Age I Fear”, then the Zoe Broome poem “Veteran”, followed by three Janet Kuypers haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading writing appearing in the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates (including the David Hernandez poems “Drinking from the Chalice of Silver” and “The Age I Fear”, then the Zoe Broome poem “Veteran”, followed by three Janet Kuypers haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn”) 1/7/15 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

Janet Kuypers reads her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d magazine, titled Beyond the Gates live 1/7/15 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems, “falling”, “sort”, and “upturn” from the v252 issue of cc&d mag, titled Beyond the Gates live 1/7/15 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon Power Shot)

Janet Kuypers reads her haiku poems “octopi and brains”, and “octopi and dogs” from the v126 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled a Rural Story (with “octopi and brains” and “octopi and dogs”))

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “octopi and brains”, and “octopi and dogs” from the v126 issue of Down in the Dirt mag, titled a Rural Story live 1/7/15 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poems “octopi and brains”, and “octopi and dogs” from the v126 issue of Down in the Dirt mag, titled a Rural Story live 1/7/15 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery (Cps)

Janet Kuypers reads her poem Depth of Field read from the collection book Need to Know Basis (extended edition)

Rather read it? Then read the poem Depth of Field

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Depth of Field from the book Need to Know Basis (extended edition) live 1/7/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from Canon video camera)

Janet Kuypers reads her poem Out of Place (dreams 12/3/13) read from the collection book Need to Know Basis (extended edition)

Rather read it? Then read the poem Out of Place (dreams 12/3/13)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Out of Place (dreams 12/3/13) from the book Need to Know Basis (extended edition) live 1/7/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon video camera)

There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live performances are included in Live at the Café 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 at many online locations, including iTunes.

There is also a (more recent) 4 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live performances are included in Dobro Veče (“Good Evening” in Serbian) includes not only recordings from 2006, 2007 and 2008, but it also contains past Poetry Wheels, and recordings of performance art shows like Twitter Inside at Regina’s Place in Logan Square 5/21/10. Bonus tracks include live recordings from at the Chicago State University Power Networking for Success show, as well as Café Ballou (Waiting4the Bus). You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, like iTunes.

There is also a 4 CD set of the final performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 4 CD set of live performances are included in “hmmm” includes not only recordings from 2010 and 2011, but it also contains recordings of different performance art shows, including her final show ever performed at the Café on 27/271/11, titled “hmmm”. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Cafe Ballou, Cafe Mestizo, Beach Poets, and more... You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry at many online locations, including amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.