Chicago Calling at the Café in Chicago live in Chicago October 4th 2011 (10/4/11) of interactive Chicago poetry/performance artists with people outside the greater Chicago area     Janet Kuypers did a set of poetry at the Café in Chicago, on October 4th 2011 (10/4/11), 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 she 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).     The first pieces poems of her’s in this show were accompanied by music from the HA!man of South Africa (where they previously released the 3 CD set Burn Though Me), but all of the music from this show (as well as the video footage of he HA!man of South Africa played the cello during the show) were filmed in the Avalon branch of the Chicago Public Library 10/08/10.     However, she also read pieces of poetry that had been performed in the past with other musicians from around the country. One track she used was from the back Bastard Trio (based in Madison, Wisconsin); she performed “Why Do You” (which she even received a compliment on from an audience menber after the show), which also appears on her Bastard Trio.JoAnne Po!wers Trio/Paul Baker 4 CD set Fusion.     Also, because of the years she has done a number of poetry/music pieces with the DMJ Art Connection (Based outside of Nashville Tennessee), she decided to perform a piece with music from David Michael Jackson, off their latest 2 CD release The Things they Did to You, and interject in water references in the poem “Down the Drain” more than Lake Michigan (like the original piece states), but also the Oranbge River in South Africa, the Wolf River in Tennessee and the Cuyahoga Roiver in Ohio (to give credence to where other musicians form this show lived).     Kuypers also had 2 pieces with music from Pointless Orchestra (Kent, Ohio)... This first one, “Japanese Television𔕹, can be found at Napster or amazon (though both original tracks from Pointless Orchestra and Janet Kuypers can be found through Janet Kuypers dot com or scars dot tv), but check out the final piece, “Woman’s Very Existence”. the Janet Kuypers the Café 10/4/11 show Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa Watch this Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW of most everyone live 10/4/11 at the Café for Chicago Calling, including Kuypers performing poetry with music & video You can also check out the intro (& outro) to Chicago Calling at the Café to hear about the evening, or future the Café features Watch this YouTube video of the intro and the outro to the 10/4/11 Chicago Calling night live at the Café in Chicago View the individual poems read from the Janet Kuypers mini-featrure below: They Tried with music from the HA!man of South Africa Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa You Feel More with music from the HA!man of South Africa Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa Irony with music from the HA!man of South Africa Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa Why Do You with musioc from Bastard Trio Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from Bastard Trio/B> Japanese Television with music from Pointless Orchestra Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from Pointless Orchestra Down the Drain with music from David Michael Jackson Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from the DMJ Art Connection Women’s Very Existence Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/4/11 in the the Café show 10/4/11, with music & video from Pointless Orchestra ADDED BONUS John Yotko feature readings before the Kuypers show contained writings from Janet Kuypers. Follow the links below to see the John Yotko readings of Janet Kuypers poetry. John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem The Last Time Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem Probably Not Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem The Hammer Falls Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem Make People Think Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem the Tears Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem the Mistakes he Made Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem Fire Alarms Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 John Yotko reading the Janet Kuypers poem Here is Me Rather read it? Then read the original writing See the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem, live in the “Chicago Calling” show at the Café 10/4/11 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).