mini-feature at the Café with poems from the book Contents Under Pressure live in Chicago October 11th 2011 (10/11/11)     Janet Kuypers did a mini-feature to end the evening of mini-feature readings at the Café (5115 North Lincoln Ave., Chicago, at a weekly poetry open mike) on Tuesday, September 6th 2011, along with other poets for an evening of mini-featrures (including 4 poets with mini-features video recorded). Kuypers read 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 (as if they were all together to tell a story). She also played base guitar music in the background during most of her readings from musician John Yotko (who was in New York at the time andcould not attend the feature). the full Janet Kuypers 10/11/11 “Contents Under Pressure” mini-feature (with background base from John Yotko) Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers mini-feature (with background base by John Yotko) live 10/11/11 at the Café Below are the poems (in the order they were performed)... Why I’ll Never Get Married Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems a Socially Accepted Target Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems Service of Others Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems They See Independently Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems Where I Belong Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems a Man Calls a Woman Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems Best Friend Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems Pushed Aside Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems In Their Homes or In thge Streets Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book poems ...And the final poem (with no background muic)... a Retired Policeman Talks About Suicides He’s Seen. Rather read it? Then read the original writing Watch this YouTube video read live 10/11/11 at the Café in her mini-feature of Contents Under Pressure book 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 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).