a Very Goth Beach Party
Beach Poets Sunday, July 3rd 2011 (7/3/11)

    Janet Kuypers featured at Beach Poets at Loyola Beach in Chicago (Greenleaf and the lake, just east of Sheridan Road and 4 blocks north of the Loyola el stop, near Heartland Cafe), hosted by Cathleen Schandelmeier and Peter Bartels, on Sunday, July 3rd 2011, along with blues musician and poet Cousin Bones (when she met him at Beach Poets the previous year, she immediately asked him to feature at the poetry/performance art open mic she hosts at the Café). Because when she met Cousin Bones the previous year at Beach Poets, he came with his guitar fressed in all black (black shirt and pants and shoes, on the beach in the middle of the day), so she knew she had to wear black to this feature while he played guitar behind some of her poetry and call this show “a Ver Goth Poetry Feature”.

     Because of a “mini spy camera” she just got (and to test to see how the mini camera works), Kuypers taped the camera to the brim of her black cap (while the hat had a Morrissey image promoting Vegetarianism, along with the Smith album title “Meat is Murder” — to make her goth image look more complete, of course) and got an additional recording of actually just her mough as she performed the entire show. Because the camera (and the camera’s microphone) was so close to her, her vocals from this camera are slightly distorted, but it is a loud additional vocal rendition of this performance (with fewer noises from the beach or the audience in this audio recording).

    Most of the poems chosen for this show were ready for background music from Cousin Bones, but a select few pieces — a poem that was meant to be sung (which John sang along with) and one3 song at the end of the show (that Janet Kuypers wrote the lyrics for and helped design the music for with John). The last poem in the show was also a suggestion for everyone to sing any song to while she read (and John sang, and Cousin Bones, played the harmonica to). So check out the chapbook and the video links below from this live beach performance!.

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a Very Goth Beach Party, a Janet Kuypers chapbook



before the show started...
someone read a Kuypers twitter-length poem
and Kuypers read another twitter-length poem
(because Kuypers handed out free copies of a modified
hard copy of the chapbook “Pocket Poetry”)




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Dentist in Iraq
Rather read it? Then read “Dentist in Iraq
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Dentist in Iraq” BEFORE the live Chicago show of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Rex reading the Janet Kuypers poem
Our Lady of Humility’s Hypocrisy
Rather read it? Then read “tOur Lady of Humility’s Hypocrisy
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See YouTube video of the lip cam of Janet Kuypers hearing Rex read Kuypers’ poem “tOur Lady of Humility’s Hypocrisy” in Chicago before her feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




on to the poems...
(listed in the order they were read)



“a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 06/29/11
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Look at the Downs”, then singing her song/poem “Made Any Difference”, then reading her poems “Egg for a Week”, “Escaping Every Cage” (with twitter-length poem “Labeled Me Again” read inside poem), “Eat Me Alive”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and singing her song “Tight Rope Affair” (with Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music)..
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video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/3/11 “a Very Goth Beach Party” live feature at Beach Poets, with her reading her poem “Look at the Downs”, then singing her song/poem “Made Any Difference”, then reading her poems “Egg for a Week”, “Escaping Every Cage” (with twitter-length poem “Labeled Me Again” read inside poem), “Eat Me Alive”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and singing her song “Tight Rope Affair” (with Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music).
video See feature-length YouTube
video from the eye-cam of Janet Kuypers in her 7/3/11 “a Very Goth Beach Party” live feature at Beach Poets, with her reading her poem “Look at the Downs”, then singing her song/poem “Made Any Difference”, then reading her poems “Egg for a Week”, “Escaping Every Cage” (with twitter-length poem “Labeled Me Again” read inside poem), “Eat Me Alive”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and singing her song “Tight Rope Affair” (with Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music).




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Look at the Downs
Rather read it? Then read “Look at the Downs
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Look at the Downs” in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Look at the Downs” in the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Janet Kuypers SINGING her poem
(John Yotko background)
Made Any Difference
Rather read it? Then read “Made Any Difference
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made Any Difference” in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made Any Difference” from the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Egg for a Week
Rather read it? Then read “Egg for a Week
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Egg for a Week” in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Egg for a Week” from the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Escaping Every Cage
with the twitter-length poem read inside the poem
Labeled Me Again
Rather read it? Then read
Escaping Every Cage”...
Or “Labeled Me Again”.
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See YouTube video of JUST Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Escaping Every Cage” in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”
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See YouTube video of JUST &Janet Kuypers reading her poem #8220;Escaping Every Cage” from the lip cam in the live feature 7/3/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”
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See YouTube of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Every CageandLabeled Me Again” in the 7/3/11 Beach Poets “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Every CageandLabeled Me Again” from the lip cam live 7/3/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”
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See YouTube video of JUST Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Labeled Me Again” 7/3/11 in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature at “Beach Poets” in Chicago
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See YouTube video of JUST Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Labeled Me Again” from the lip cam in the live feature 7/3/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets”




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Eat Me Alive
Rather read it? Then read “Eat Me Alive
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Eat Me Alive” in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Eat Me Alive” from the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Janet Kuypers reading her poem
Letting Ourselves Go
Rather read it? Then read “Letting Ourselves Go
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Letting Ourselves Go” in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Letting Ourselves Go” from the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Janet Kuypers singing her original song
Tight Rope Affair
(Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music)
Rather read it? Then read “Tight Rope Affair
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song “Tight Rope Affair” (Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music) in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song “Tight Rope Affair” (Janet Kuypers lyrics, John Yotko music) from the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 7/3/11 at “Beach Poets”.




Janet with her goth rose bunch (of stems), with Cousin Bones

Cousoin Bones (holding his guitar), and Janet Kuypers
(with her bunch of goth rose stems), grinning after the show