Janet Kuypers’ poetry show from “Spring Awakenings” w/ music Exploring Spring     Below are writing links, video links and images from a March 4th 2017 (3/4/17, or 20170304) poetry performance of Janet Kuypers’ Austin poetry feature through “Spring Awakenings” live at the Bahá’í Faith Center (at 2215 E M Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723).     The theme of the night with other features was about spring (ergo the “Spring Awakenings” title), so Janet Kuypers started specifically with an old poem TITLED “Spring”, where she found a long runner of brown paper and literally painted the poem (with words in the reverse order) so she could “unroll” the poem to start her show. She them progressed to poem about experiences during the spring from being in school to quitting your job, or even enjoying something to drink with the new season). Kuypers thn shared a poem she wrote with someone else, titled “Springtime”, before finishing her show with a poem about the habits of certain birds i the spring. Her “Exploring Spring” show was also accompanied by recently recorded sounds of birds chirping outside, accompanying music by “Hotel Music” from the HA!Man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux, with “entering the ruines” from his “Hotel Music”), where she also had video of him playing his cello on a small screen joining her on stage.     Before the show started she also released copies of a chapbook of the writings she was performing in her show (in the order they were performed), and all of the pieces from this reading were also released electronically in a “Exploring Spring” chapbook, which you can download as a PDF file for free any time.     There is also a YouTube playlist of the videos of this show, and there are also two additional web page listings for the videos from this show — one is at Scars Video (at www.artvilla.com/scars), and the other is from the main listing at artvilla.     Below are video links and poetry writing links and images to the live performance of “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin.

The full show: the “Exploring Spring” feature with Janet Kuypers 3/4/17 See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow View or download the free PDF chapbook Exploring Spring of her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” performed in her 3/4/17 show.

Thanks to John for taking photos from the     “Exploring Spring” show at the Bahá’í Faith Center...

Thanks to Thom for taking photos from the     “Exploring Spring” show at the Bahá’í Faith Center...