Live “Celebrating with Song” 07/12/11 feature at the Café in Chicago IL     On mini-feature night at the Café in Chicago, Janet Kuypers closed the open mic evening off by reading a few poems, and singing a few covers (previously covered with Warren Peterson of the 1990s acoustic alternative band “Mom’s Favorite Vase”, because July 12th is Warren’s birthday).     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 “Celebrating with Song” of Kuypers reading her poem “Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes”, then her covering (in the style of MFV’s “stripped” version of this cover) the Eurythmics song “I Need You” (music pre-recorded by John Yotko), the poem “Decision․ then her covering (in the style of MFV’s “slow” version of this cover) the Smiths song “London” (music pre-recorded by John Yotko), then the twitter-length poem “Choices․, followed by her poem “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” See feature-length YouTube video 07/12/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry at Chicago’s the Café weekly poetry open mic See the YouTube video from the lip camera of Kuypers’ feature Celebrating with Song on 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago ...on to the poems and songs: (in the order they were read during the show) Janet Kuypers reading her poem Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes Rather read it? Then read the original writing Listen (1:04, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café Janet Kuypers singing (covering) the “stripped” version of the Eurythmics song I Need You (for MFV guitarist Warren Peterson’s Birthday) Listen (3:44, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café Watch this YouTube video with the Edge Detection filter, live 07/12/11 at Watch this YouTube video with the Sepia Tone filter, live 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago Watch this YouTube video with the Film Age (older) filter, live 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago Watch this YouTube video with the Threshold filter, live 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago Janet Kuypers reading her poem Decision Rather read it? Then read the original writing Listen (1:20, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café Janet Kuypers singing (covering) the “slow” version of the Smiths’ song London (for MFV guitarist Warren Peterson’s Birthday) Listen (1:55, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café Watch this YouTube video with the Edge Detection filter, live 07/12/11 at Watch this YouTube video with the Sepia Tone filter, live 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago Watch this YouTube video with the Film Age (older) filter, live 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago Watch this YouTube video with the Threshold filter, live 07/12/11 at the Café in Chicago Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Choices Rather read it? Then read the original writing Listen (:14, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café Janet Kuypers reading her poem Update 2011 on the Man who Loved me Rather read it? Then read the original writing Listen (1:49, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café ..ADDED Bonus: (additional readings before her feature) Janet Kuypers reading her poem Unconscious Rather read it? Then read the original writing Listen (1:31, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café Janet Kuypers reading her poem Conflicting Convictions Rather read it? Then read the original writing Listen (1:10, 07/12/11) Or watch the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café See the YouTube video of Kuypers from the lip camera 07/12/11 at Chicago ’s the Café the introduction to the Café, and Kuypers’ new poems “Unconscious” and “Conflicting Convictions” Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 07/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with new poetry