Chicago Calling at Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago’s Café Ballou live in Chicago October 3rd 2011 (10/036/11) of interactive Chicago poetry/performance artists with people outside the greater Chicago area     Janet Kuypers did a set of poetry at Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago’s Café Ballou, on October 3rd 2011 (10/3/11), which was a part of the 6th annual month-long set of performances for Chicago Calling. Other poets and musicians also performed in this evening, and we also vive video of the entire evening of performances.     Kuypers read (primarily) poems from her book Contents Under Pressure (which is now in it’s 2nd printing) for later release as part of audio CD releases of her book, and had all of the poems flow into one another (instead of stopping for applause between each short poem), so she made a point to have the themes of the poem flow into one another. She hoped this would mean shoe could perform more, and people could get a better feel of the music from the HA!man of South Africa as well (swince the performances were about interactive work with Chicago nad people from outside of Chicago).     All of her poems in this show were accompanied by music from the HA!man of South Africa. The first poem out of the set was also released in the Janet Kuypers/HA!man of South Africa 3 CD set Burn Though Me, the remainder of the pieces broadcasted live were from additional HA!man of South Africa musical tracks.     However, after she read poems from her book Contents Under Pressure, she finished her set with a different version of the previously performed piece (with music from the HA!man of South Africa, and additional vocals from the (now living in Colorado) poet Jared Smith) the poem “Last Beofre Extinction” (which was also performed and released in Seeing a Psychiatrist). the Janet Kuypers Waiting 4 the Bus 10/3/11 show See Complete feature video of Janet Kuypers live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. See Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, including Janet Kuypers performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. View the individual poems read from the Janet Kuypers mini-feature below: Civil War Rather read it? Then read “Civil War” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Civil War” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. On the California Streets Rather read it? Then read “On the California Streets” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “On the California Streets” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. Russians at a Garage Sale Rather read it? Then read “Russians at a Garage Sale” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Russians at a Garage Sale” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. Sometimes the Light Rather read it? Then read “Sometimes the Light” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Sometimes the Light” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. This You Don’t Hate. Rather read it? Then read “This You Don’t Hate.” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “This You Don’t Hate.” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. Bring Her Back Rather read it? Then read “Bring Her Back” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem #8220;Bring Her Back” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. Loved You the Most Rather read it? Then read “Loved You the Most” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Loved You the Most” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. Last Before Extinction Rather read it? Then read “Last Before Extinction” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Last Before Extinction” live 10/3/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa. And thank you to those who hosted this event (like Buddha 309) and those who took photos of this event (like Esteban Colon)... Added Bonus Watch videos from Kuypers in her first Chicago Calling performance at Studio 914 and the Chicago Underground Library Slate and Marrow Rather read it? Then read “Slate and Marrow” See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Slate and Marrow” 10/1/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Slate and Marrow” and “In These Times” 10/1/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling In These Times Rather read it? Then read “In These Times” See YouTube video Janet Kuypers reading her poem “In These Times” 10/1/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Sony), for Chicago Calling See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “In These Times” 10/1/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling See YouTube video f Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Slate and Marrow” and “In These Times” 10/1/11 at Studio 914/Chicago Underground Library (Canon), for Chicago Calling About the Author     Janet Kuypers has a Communications degree in News/Editorial Journalism (starting in computer science engineering studies) from the UIUC. She had the equivalent of a minor in photography and specialized in creative writing. A portrait photographer for years in the early 1990s, she was also an acquaintance rape workshop facilitator, and she started her publishing career as an editor of two literary magazines. Later she was an art director, webmaster and photographer for a few magazines for a publishing company in Chicago, and this Journalism major was even the final featured poetry performer of 15 poets with a 10 minute feature at the 2006 Society of Professional Journalism Expo’s Chicago Poetry Showcase. This certified minister was even the officiant of a wedding in 2006.     She sang with acoustic bands “Mom’s Favorite Vase”, “Weeds and Flowers” and “the Second Axing”, and does music sampling. Kuypers is published in books, magazines and on the internet around 9,300 times for writing, and over 17,800 times for art work in her professional career, and has been profiled in such magazines as Nation and Discover U, won the award for a Poetry Ambassador and was nominated as Poet of the Year for 2006 by the International Society of Poets. She has also been highlighted on radio stations, including WEFT (90.1FM), WLUW (88.7FM), WSUM (91.7FM), WZRD (88.3FM), WLS (8900AM), the internet radio stations ArtistFirst dot com, chicagopoetry.com’s Poetry World Radio and Scars Internet Radio (SIR), and was even shortly on Q101 FM radio. She has also appeared on television for poetry in Nashville (in 1997), Chicago (in 1997), and northern Illinois (in a few appearances on the show for the Lake County Poets Society in 2006). Kuypers was also interviewed on her art work on Urbana’s WCIA channel 3 10 o’clock news.     She turned her writing into performance art on her own and with musical groups like Pointless Orchestra, 5D/5D, The DMJ Art Connection, Order From Chaos, Peter Bartels, Jake and Haystack, the Bastard Trio, and the JoAnne Pow!ers Trio, and starting in 2005 Kuypers ran a monthly iPodCast of her work, as well mixed JK Radio — an Internet radio station — into Scars Internet Radio (both radio stations on the Internet air 2005-2009). She even managed the Chaotic Radio show (an hour long Internet radio show 1.5 years, 2006-2007) through BZoO.org and chaoticarts.org. She has performed spoken word and music across the country - in the spring of 1998 she embarked on her first national poetry tour, with featured performances, among other venues, at the Albuquerque Spoken Word Festival during the National Poetry Slam; her bands have had concerts in Chicago and in Alaska; in 2003 she hosted and performed at a weekly poetry and music open mike (called Sing Your Life), and from 2002 through 2005 was a featured performance artist, doing quarterly performance art shows with readings, music and images.     Since 2010 Kuypers also hosts the weekly Chicago poetry open mic at the Café, while also broadcasting the Cafés weekly feature podcasts (and where she sometimes also performs impromptu mini-features of poetry or short stories or songs, in addition to other shows she performs live in the Chicago area).     In addition to being published with Bernadette Miller in the short story collection book Domestic Blisters, as well as in a book of poetry turned to prose with Eric Bonholtzer in the book Duality, Kuypers has had many books of her own published: Hope Chest in the Attic, The Window, Close Cover Before Striking, (woman.) (spiral bound), Autumn Reason (novel in letter form), the Average Guy’s Guide (to Feminism), Contents Under Pressure, etc., and eventually The Key To Believing (2002 650 page novel), Changing Gears (travel journals around the United States), The Other Side (European travel book), The Boss Lady’s Editorials, The Boss Lady’s Editorials (2005 Expanded Edition), Seeing Things Differently, Change/Rearrange, Death Comes in Threes, Moving Performances, Six Eleven, Live at Cafe Aloha, Dreams, Rough Mixes, The Entropy Project, The Other Side (2006 edition), Stop., Sing Your Life, the hardcover art book (with an editorial) in cc&d v165.25, the Kuypers edition of Writings to Honour & Cherish, The Kuypers Edition: Blister and Burn, S&M, cc&d v170.5, cc&d v171.5: Living in Chaos, Tick Tock, cc&d v1273.22: Silent Screams, Taking It All In, It All Comes Down, Rising to the Surface, Galapagos, Chapter 38 (v1 and volume 1), Chapter 38 (v2 and Volume 2), Chapter 38 v3, Finally: Literature for the Snotty and Elite (Volume 1, Volume 2 and part 1 of a 3 part set), A Wake-Up Call From Tradition (part 2 of a 3 part set), (recovery), Dark Matter: the mind of Janet Kuypers , Evolution, Adolph Hitler, O .J. Simpson and U.S. Politics, the one thing the government still has no control over, (tweet), Get Your Buzz On, Janet & Jean Together, po•em, Taking Poetry to the Streets, the Cana-Dixie Chi-town Union, the Written Word, Dual, Prepare Her for This, uncorrect, Living in a Big World (color interior book with art and with “Seeing a Psychiatrist”), Pulled the Trigger (part 3 of a 3 part set), Venture to the Unknown (select writings with extensive color NASA/Huubble Space Telescope images), Janet Kuypers: Enriched, She’s an Open Book, “40”, Sexism and Other Stories, and the Stories of Women. Three collection books were also published of her work in 2004, Oeuvre (poetry), Exaro Versus (prose) and L’arte (art).