performances with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 in Chicago     Sunday, October 16th 2011 (10/16/11, On the first Sunday of October), Janet Kuypers met with the HA!man of South Africa in two performances he held in Chicago. He performed at set during the day as the highlight of the NorthEastern Illinois UIniversity / WZRD Aids Prevention/Awareness forum, and he also performed a show on his own that evening at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary.     In the middle of the day (between performances), Janet Kuypers (with a brief appearance by the HA!man of South Africa also appeared on WZRD Radio, where not only did Kuypers recite poems (including the poem she would perform later that day in a show wqith the HA!man of South Africa, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary”), but hte DJ also broadcast previous show recordings of Kuypers reading poetry. Enjoy all three performances below!     During the first performance by the HA!man of South Africa, he accompanied poetry from Janet Kuypers with music (as she performed her poem “Death Takes Many Forms”). He also performed live music with Peter Dartels during the show. the Janet Kuypers additional performer in the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 afternoon music show at Recital Hall, in the WZRD AIDS Prevention / Awareness seminar at NEIU in Chicago See Complete feature video of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 afternoon music show at Recital Hall, in the WZRD AIDS Prevention / Awareness seminar at NEIU in Chicago Death Takes Many Forms Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago Though the poem “Death Takes Many Forms” appears in a the poetry collection book “Oeuvre”, it also appears in the many books below, all available for sale on line. After the AIDS benefit show, KJuypers went to the studio for WZRD Radio (88.3 FM) as the DJ played past poetry performance art from Kuypers, to talk about poetry. the HA!man of South Africa joined them briefly as well, and the video from this live radio show is below. FULL VIDEO of the WZRD radio show with Janet Kuypers 10/16/11 See the full YouTube video 10/16/11 of the Janet Kuypers appearance on WZRD radio, with her talking about and reading poetry (filmed from the Canon camera) For the individual poems... Janet Kuypers reading her poem True Happiness in the New Millennium Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/16/11 on WZRD radio (filmed from the Canon camera) Though the poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium” appears in a the poetry collection book “Oeuvre”, it also appears in the many books below, all available for sale on line. Janet Kuypers reading her poem Looking for a Worthy Adversary Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/16/11 on WZRD radio (filmed from the Canon camera) (Since the poem “Looking for a Worthy Adversary” was also performed later that evening in a HA!man of South Africa Chicago show, all book listings for this poem will appear with that reading on this web page.) Janet Kuypers listening to a recording th DJ played on WZRD radio of her in the past reading her poem Desire Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/16/11 on WZRD radio (filmed from the Canon camera) The poem “Desire” appears in the books below, all available for sale on line.     In the evening performance, Janet Kuypers joined the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) on stage for music to accompany her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary” and “Remembering Death” (the poem “Remembering Death” is a compilation of poems about the passing of her mother: “Harder to Burn”, “Wanting to Touch a Corpse”, “Knelt and Cried”, “A Little Angel Inside”, & “the Messenger”), & throughout the evening in his evening show additional musicians and singers joined him for this interactive show. the Janet Kuypers additional performer in the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary See Complete feature video of Kuypers’ poems in the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary the Janet Kuypers additional performer in Janet Kuypers’ performance in the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary See Complete feature video of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from the Canon camera) See Complete feature video of the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 evening music show at Chapel at the Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary (from the Sony camera) Looking for a Worthy Adversary Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago (from Canon camera) Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago (from the Sony camera) Though the poem “Looking for a Worthy Adversary” appears in a the poetry collection book “Oeuvre”, it also appears in the many books below, all available for sale on line. Remembering Death Rather read it? Then read the original writing This poem is generated from a separate poems (each section is from a different poem). Part I: writing from the poem Harder To Burn Part II: writing from the poem Wanting to Touch a Corpse Part III: writing from the poem Knelt and Cried Part IV: writing from the poem A Little Angel Inside Part V: writing from the poem The Messenger Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers performing this poem with the HA!man of South Africa 10/16/11 live in Chicago (from the Sony camera) The 2006 poems compiled & adapted for the poem “Remembering Death” originally appeared in the book “The Beauty and the Destruction.” Click the title or the book cover to order the book with all of these (and more) original poems. 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 NASA7#047;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).