poetry reading on Hot Springs
 

Testament
Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature
Fighting for Justice
live at Hot Springs, AR’s Wednesday Night Poetry

    Chicago poet and Austin resident Janet Kuypers returned to Hot Springs, AR and was honored with the opportunity to perform her feature show “Fighting for Justice” for Wednesday Night Poetry (at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR) Wednesday, June 28th 2023 (she even dressed the part of Justice for this show).
    CyberWit.net recently published (during women’s history month, March 2023) the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”, so in her first poetry appearance in Chicago, her feature contains readings of poems from Part One of this book, all about women’s issues with poetry post-Roe v. Wade overturning in the United States.
    Enjoy the video links and poem writing links below for recordings from this live evening of the entire show performance!




The Feature performance:

Janet Kuypers’ full feature
Fighting for Justice” 6/28/23
video Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
video Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
video Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream on 6/28/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen








Janet Janet was quite animated in her performance of post-Roe v. Wade poems from her “Testament” book feature “Fighting for Justice” at Kollective Coffee+Tea for Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR, 2 days after the 1-year anniversary of the overturning... After her show, people in the teens through their 80s came up to her to talk about the effect of these laws — and her poetry.


 

 

Janet There was so much poetry to share on the week of the 1-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in my Hot Springs poetry feature “Fighting for Justice” that I may have rushed to get through all the poetry, but I thank Kai Coggin for this wonderful opportunity — and for these photos from my feature. The poems as performed are in the “Fighting for JusticeScars Publications online chapbook, and the full poems — and many more — are in the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament”, available for sale at Amazon.
 

 

Janet