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Two nights of death poetry:
“Knocking on Death’s Door”
at Café Ballou with Waiting4the Bus, and the Café weekly poetry open mic

    Because Cafe Ballou (with “Waiting4the Bus”) put a call out for poetry relating to death (something Janet Kuypers probably has too much of already anyway), Janet Kuypers wrote a few new poems to accompany an older poem she wrote after she was almost killed in a car accident while stopped at an intersection years ago.
    After reading her poetry, one audience member was surprised that she didn’t read her classic long poem about the death of someone close to her, so the next night, at the weekly open mic she hosts at the Café in Chicago, she read the last (brand new) poem about death, “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach”, and closed the open mic with the previously requested poem, “Death Takes Many Forms.”.

    Follow the links below to see the death-related poetry performed over two days at two live venues.

...below are nightly poem collections and indivifual poem videos:
(in the order they were read during the show)

Three poems read at Café Ballou 08/01/11
The Things They Did To You”, “keep looking for death
and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach
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of 3 death-related poems (including this one) live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11




Janet Kuypers readin her poem
The Things They Did To You
Rather read it? Then read the original writing
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11




Janet Kuypers readin her poem
keep looking for death
Rather read it? Then read the original writing
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11




Janet Kuypers readin her poem
You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach
Rather read it? Then read the original writing
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live at Waiting4the Bus at Café Ballou in Chicago 08/01/11




Two poems read at the Café 08/02/11
You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach
and “Death Takes Many Forms
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of her reading her death-themed poems 08/02/11You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” and “Death Takes Many Forms” at the Café in Chicago




Janet Kuypers readin her poem
You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach
Rather read it? Then read the original writing
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read 08/02/11, live at the Café in Chicago




Janet Kuypers readin her poem
Death Takes Many Forms
Rather read it? Then read the original writing
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Watch this YouTube video
read 08/02/11, live at the Café in Chicago





(recovery) For additional (older) poems relating to death (like the first poem in these two nights of readings), check out the book Recovery, of poems immediately after Kuypers was almost killed in her car, stopped at an intersection.