Janet Kuypers This was supposed up upload last night, but the Brat Stop upload failed from the 1st half of the Steelers game. 20141229
Janet Kuypers
20141228 
You see, the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue of cc&d magazine, v253, is titled “the Curve of Arctic Air,” and the image on the covers is from an insanely snowy road with poles along the road, and I didn’t know WHICH way the image looked better. See from the attached images of covers and cover spreads (front cover images have lines denoting a half inch from the edges of the covers, and all of the images of cover spreads have additional lines for bleed for printing as well as lines to define where the spine appears). On some covers the poles are on the back cover, and the other way has the poles on the front cover.
I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION as to which looks better. (In theory, I could release both so people can choose which they want, but if everyone likes one versus the other I’ll only release the photo one way.) So I would really like to know your thoughts, so you can help me decide which would be a better cover for the first ISSN#/ISBN# cc&d release for 2015!
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Janet Kuypers
20141228
We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Don’t Tread on Me (from cc&d magazine, issue 214, November 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers & artists in this issue include Jeff Wyman, CEE, Je’free, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, John Thompson, Peter Bates, Michael Hoag, David Thompson, Eric Obame, Tom (WordWulf) Sterner, Janet Kuypers, Fritz Hamilton, Changming Yuan, Maricelle Jeannette, Rose E. Grier, K.D. Iredale, Barbara Panos, Lana Santorelli, George Gott, Lauren M. Jones, Terry-Hamilton Poore, Anne B. Scheerer, Kris A. Threadgoode, Natascha Tallowin, Christopher Cervelloni, Aaron Wilder, Michael Fourman, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Rex Sexton, Cheryl Townsend, Rufus Ryan, Seger Lansdale, Tray Drumhann, Mel Waldman, Anne Turner Taub, the HA!man of South Africa, Michael Ceraolo, and John Duncklee.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141227
We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Lines of Intensity (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 88, November 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers and artists included in this issue are Fritz Hamilton, Roger Cowin, John Ragusa, L. Burnette Clark, Ines Lopes, Pierrino Mascarino, Mel Waldman, Brian C. Slaughter, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Matthew Theberge, Melinda J Nevarez, Sean MacKendrick, Benjamin Brindise, Ernest Williamson, Paul Galarraga, David Sowards’ cartoon, Natalie van Dyk, Leland Thoburn, Jessica Barido, Tristan Marajh, Ben Macnair, and Valerie Goodwine. Ira Joel Haber created the artwork for the book’s cover.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141226
With a perfect cover for the winter months, we have reduced the price of the 2010 book Entering the Ice Age (from cc&d magazine, issue 215, December 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers and artists contributing to this book/issue include poetry from kalifornia, CEE, Je’free, John Thompson, Eric Obame, Tom (WordWulf) Sterner, Fritz Hamilton, Changming Yuan, Mel Waldman, Terry-Hamilton Poore, Lana Santorelli, Janet Kuypers, Jane Stuart, Emmanuel Jakpa, Carol Garth, John Grey, Maxwell Baumbach, Hank Sosnowski, Brooke Bailey, R. N. Taber, Hank Threadgill, Louie Crew, prose from Natascha Tallowin, Anne Turner Taub, Marco Bisaccia, Derek V. Hunter, John Duncklee, ArunPrakash Dn., Margaret Karmazin, Billie Louise Jones, Amanda Berthault, and art from Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, the HA!man of South Africa, Nick Brazinsky, Eric Bonholtzer, Jay Marvin (with a painting), John Yotko, Cheryl Townsend, Aaron Wilder, David Thompson, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, and Mark Graham.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141226
With a perfect cover for the winter months, we have reduced the price of the 2010 book When the World Settles (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 89, December 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Contributors to this book/issue include Regan M. Barry, Fritz Hamilton, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Melinda J Nevarez, Pierrino Mascarino, Ira Joel Haber (with art), Jess Steven Hughes, John Ragusa, Tim Pompey, H.D. Brown, Kelli Landon, Jarrett Fulton, Nicholas Conley, Christopher Hanson, Kevin Limiti, Ernest Williamson art, Frank De Canio, Sonja Condit Coppenbarger, and Brad Buchanan.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141225
It might not be a white Christmas here in Chicago this year, but we have reduced the price of the 2011 book Into the White (with a snow-covered tree gracing the cover, from cc&d magazine, issue 216, January 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers & artists in this issue include CEE, Nick Brazinsky, Je’free, John Thompson, Brian Hosey, Natascha Tallowin, Fritz Hamilton, Changming Yuan, Lana Santorelli, Jay Marvi, Carol Garth, Maxwell Baumbach, David Thompson, Hank Sosnowski, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Hank Threadgill, Janet Kuypers, Rebecca Shepard, R. N. Taber, Jon Mathewson, Derek V. Hunter, John Duncklee, Anne Turner Taub, Aaron Wilder, Mike Carson, David Thompson, Billie Louise Jones, John Yotko, the HA!man of South Africa, Amanda Berthault, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Jim Meirose, J. Kent Allred, Peter Bates, Sonia Segura, Mark Graham, and Eric Bonholtzer.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141225
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Along the Surface (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 90, January 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers and artists included in this issue are Fritz Hamilton, John Ragusa, H.D. Brown, Christopher Hanson, Kelli Landon, Frank De Canio, Tim Pompey, Luke Laubhan, Brad Buchanan, Sara Sather, Don Ray Crawford, Kofi Campbell, Kevin Heaton, Jon Mathewson, Christopher Klim, Ira Joel Haber, Boyd Lemon, Doug Downie, Edward C. Burton, Mel Waldman, Roger Cowin, and cover art by John Yotko.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141225
It’s been a great year! Thanks for being a part of it.
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Janet Kuypers
20141224
I don᾿t care if you believe in Santa Claus, but it᾿s kind of funny to go to noradsanta.org to see a government agency actually TRACK Santa.
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Janet Kuypers
20141224
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Life... from Nothing (cc&d magazine, issue 217, February 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
(Writers included in this issue are John Thompson, Je’free, Fritz Hamilton, CEE, Rebecca Shepard, Jon Mathewson, Matthew Guzman, Kristine Ong Muslim, Michael Larrain, R. N. Taber, Robert Lawrence, Janet Kuypers, Sara Basrai, Nick Brazinsky, GPA (The Poetic Unsub), Judith Ann Levison, Michael Ceraolo, Joy Davis, Maxwell Baumbach, Lucy Winrow, Dennis Kerr, D Fitz, Kenneth DiMaggio, Tom Roby, Jenna Mary, AE Baer, C.S. Fuqua, Linda Webb Aceto, Michael Battram, Anne Turner Taub, John Duncklee, Barbara Villemez, Oz Hardwick, Rufus Ryan, Sonia Segura, Alex Moreaux, Cynthia Black, David Thompson, Mark Bohm, R.M. Kozan, and Andrew Bowen.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141224
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book the Line to Power (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 91, February 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
(With the book starting with a note from the editor, writers and artists included in this issue are Fritz Hamilton, H.D. Brown, John Ragusa, Tim Pompey, Jon Mathewson, Boyd Lemon, Kelli Landon, David Sowards (cartoon), Christopher Frost, Frank De Canio, Kevin Heaton, Roger Cowin, Kaye Branch , Luke Laubhan, Michael de Mare, Mike Berger, Ph.D., Nick Checker, R. M. Kozan, Ryan Priest, Valerie Goodwine, Bela Feketekuty , Natalie Nigro, Kristine Loobeek, Andrew Olson, A.J. Longabaugh, and Mel Waldman.).
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20141223 
Nice to know Bodega will be open New Year’s Eve... @Bodega
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Janet Kuypers
20141223
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Fear the Forsaken (cc&d magazine, issue 218, March 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
(And so you know, contributors of poetry, prose & art in this book include poetry from Oz Hardwick, Fritz Hamilton, Janet Kuypers, John Thompson, CEE, Je’free, Jon Mathewson, Kristine Ong Muslim, Michael Larrain, Robert Lawrence, GPA (The Poetic Unsub), Judith Ann Levison, Joy Davis, Maxwell Baumbach, Lucy Winrow, Dennis Kerr, Dan Fitzgerald, Kenneth DiMaggio, Jenna Mary, Peter LaBerge, Michael Ceraolo, Linda Webb Aceto, David Thompson, Mark Graham, Michael Battram, Michael Lee Johnson, and Christy Hicks, prose by Barbara Villemez, Anne Turner Taub, Sara Basrai, Rufus Ryan, Sonia Segura, AE Baer, Stefan V.S. Gibson, Paul Sohar, and Philip Kuan, and art from Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Nick Brazinsky, Cheryl Townsend, John Yotko, Aaron Wilder, Jay Marvin painting, the HA!man of South Africa, Eric Bonholtzer, Brian Forrest, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141223
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Down In It (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 92, March 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which is available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
(So you know, contributors include Fritz Hamilton, John Ragusa, Frank De Canio, Mike Berger, Ph.D., Bela Feketekuty , Robert James Russell, Ronald Brunsky, Mel Waldman, Norm Hendricks, Bogdan Tiganov, Ben Macnair, Jennifer Geist, Andy Heath, Heather Burke, John Sheirer (with a story and a photo), Edward Wells II, T.G. Schoenberg, Tanuj Solanki, Emma Eden Ramos, K.R. Helms, Paul Galarraga, Chris Dietzel, and Charlie Wirth.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141222
We have been reducing the price of the 2011 issues also released as ISBN# books... The January - March 2011 issues (which includes 3 Down in the Dirt magazine issues Down In It, the Line to Power and Along the Surface as well as 3 cc&d magazine issues Fear the Forsaken, Life... from Nothing and Into the White) were all published from the lulu press (and not the amazon.com affiliate), so I want to know - if ANYONE is interested in these books being re-released as a 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book for sale in the U.S. (and possibly available for sale in the U.K. and continental Europe is anyone requests it) for only $9.99 - meaning, if anyone WANTS to purchase a copy, LET ME KNOW. Check out all of the books by title mentioned above for sale at the CD / Book Sale page at Scars Publications for details, and LET ME KNOW if you would like a discounted copy of any of these books.
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Janet Kuypers
20141222
I’m stocking you up through the love month - February 2015 for a great open night get-together: stock up your 2015 with cool poetry features - like the Jackie Wolk feature - and go to open mic readings at the Café Gallery February 18th 2015! It should be a GREAT night, and I hope EVERYONE can make it!
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Janet Kuypers
20141222
Here’s an early shout-out for excellent 2015 get-together: stock up your 2015 with cool poetry features - like the TENTATIVE Jeff Helgeson feature - and go to open mic readings at the Café Gallery January 21st 2015! I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it to this event (which means, sniff sniff, no video recording for this event - so this night is your ONLY CHANCE to see this great performance night), but Bob Rashkow is hosting with the GUEST HOST Dave Decic! I’m so sad I’ll be missing out on this event, but I hope EVERYONE can make it!
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20141221
Wanted to show Sabrina McGregor her bracelet, and Cindy and Dave Johnson the necklace they gave from Oahu... @bratstop
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Janet Kuypers, via
20141221
We WERE each wearing red or green, but you can’t tell we’re dressed for Christmas early. @bratstop
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Janet Kuypers, via
20141221
No tigers, but lions and bears (oh my) - my cat laying there Zach is supposed to represent a lion as I wear my Forte shirt...
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Janet Kuypers
20141221
As a discounted end-of-the-year present, w have reduced the price of the 2011 book Falling Into Place (which was based on the 18 year anniversary issue of cc&d magazine, issue 219, April 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(And so you know, contributors of poetry, prose & art in this book include poetry from Fritz Hamilton, Je’free, CEE, Kristine Ong Muslim, Judith Ann Levison, GPA (The Poetic Unsub), Joy Davis, Maxwell Baumbach, Lucy Winrow, Dan Fitzgerald, Kenneth DiMaggio, Michael Hoag (with a poem and a drawing), Marcin J. Kuhn, Sid Yiddish, Kevin Heaton, Michael Ceraolo, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, and Mel Waldman, prose from Anne Turner Taub, Barbara Villemez, Ronald Brunsky, James R. Silvestri, Erica McBeth, Thomas Horan, Melissa Kosciuszko, Bob Rashkow, Kyle Garret, Wes Heine, and Barbara D’Souza, and art from the HA!man of South Africa, Hubble Telescope photography, Mark Graham, David Thompson, Aaron Wilder, a painting from Jay Marvin, Cheryl Townsend, Nick Brazinsky, Brian Forrest painting, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141221
As a discounted end-of-the-year present, we have reduced the price of the 2011 book Wake Up and Smell the Flowers (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 93, April 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99! (So you know, the cover art is by John Yotko, and contributors include Fritz Hamilton, Ben Macnair, Sarah Mallery, Danielle Bredy, Micah Thorstenson, Elizabeth Mitchell, Victor Phan, Richard Fritz Hamilton, Frank De Canio, John Ragusa, Ben Macnair, T.G. Schoenberg, Sarah Mallery, Tony Brown, Valerie Goodwine, Razsaveh Richardson, Micah Thorstenson, Janet Kuypers, Danielle Bredy, Richard Shelton, Mark Murphy, Robert Levin, John Atkinson, Dion Beary, Ryan G. Beckman, Chris Schafer, and Steve Baba.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141220
What are YOU doing for St. Patrick’s Day? I just got tickets to see Laurie Anderson perform at the Harris Theater in Chicago.
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Janet Kuypers
20141219
As a discounted end-of-the-year present, w have reduced the price of the 2011 book Unknown (which was based on the 18 year anniversary issue of cc&d magazine, issue 220, May 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(And so you know, contributors of poetry, prose & art in this book include poetry from Je’free, CEE, Fritz Hamilton, Kristine Ong Muslim, Maxwell Baumbach, Kenneth DiMaggio, Brian Forrest, Kevin Heaton, Michael Ceraolo, Mel Waldman, Kriste A. Matrisch, Julie Kovacs, Michael H. Brownstein, I.B. Rad, John Duncklee, Toni Menden, and R. N. Taber, prose from Anne Turner Taub, Melissa Kosciuszko, Ronald Brunsky, Wes Heine, Bob Johnston, Jim Meirose, Ted Rashkow, Nely Cab, and Tendai R. Mwanaka, and art from Melvin F. Ballew, Jay Marvin, Nick Brazinsky, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, the HA!man of South Africa, David Thompson, Mark Graham, Aaron Wilder, Cheryl Townsend, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141219
As a discounted end-of-the-year present, we have reduced the price of the 2011 book Looking Beyond (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 94, May 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(For those who want to be in the know, contributors include Fritz Hamilton, Ben Macnair, Sarah Mallery, Danielle Bredy, Micah Thorstenson, Elizabeth Mitchell, Victor Phan, Richard Shelton, Allie Claus, Mitchell Waldman , Caleb Yarborough, Jasmyne Suggs, Megan Price, Edward Rodosek, John Silvio, Peter LaBerge, Iftekhar Sayeed, John Ragusa, and Clinton Van Inman.).
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Janet Kuypers  Darius Savage
20141219
I thought I would scare you (probably me more, with that blonde hair) with this past photo, and wish you a VERY Happy Birthday!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20141218 · Twitter ·
Also think @StephenAtHome had almost every star singing on stage with him, it was a RIOT. Will replay it to check out the all-star line-up.
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Janet Kuypers
20141218 · Twitter ·
And when it comes to @StephenAtHome and the Colbert Report, remember that being “Lincolnish” was the first word he floated in his intro!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20141218 · Twitter ·
Watching the LAST @StephenAtHome Report (glad I saw the word & Cheating Death w/ Prescott pharmaceuticals in the show). Here’s 2 truthiness!
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Janet Kuypers
20141218
As an early Christmas present (or for the third day of Hanukkah), we have reduced the price of the 2011 book Forever Bound (which was based on the 18 year anniversary issue of cc&d magazine, issue 221, June 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(And so you know, contributors of poetry, prose & art in this book include poetry from CEE, Je’free, Fritz Hamilton, Maxwell Baumbach, Kevin Heaton, Michael Ceraolo, Kriste A. Matrisch, Julie Kovacs, Michael H. Brownstein, I.B. Rad, Sid Yiddish, Mel Waldman, Laura Whelton, Jermaine Harmon, Edward Mycue, Sonja Kosler, and John T. Hitchner, prose from Anne Turner Taub, Wes Heine, Stan Hollingworth, Nely Cab, Kenneth DiMaggio, John Duncklee, and Irene Ferraro, and art from David Thompson, Aaron Wilder, Jay Marvin, Brian Forrest, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, the HA!Man of South Africa,Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Cheryl Townsend, and Eric Bonholtzer.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141218
As an early Christmas present (or for the third day of Hanukkah), we have reduced the price of the 2011 book See the World Burn (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 95, June 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(For those who want to be in the know, contributors include Fritz Hamilton, Richard Shelton, Micah Thorstenson, Alicia Parks, Mel Waldman, Clinton Van Inman, Kelley Jean White MD, Christopher Hanson, Emma Eden Ramos, Nicholas Conley, Roger Cowin, Victor Phan, Denny E. Marshall, John Rachel, Robert Levin, Christina Bejjani, Karen Delasala, Tom Ball, Justis Mills, Peter LaBerge, Malachi King, Ally Malinenko, Mark Chrisinger, Harold W Eppley, and Kim Farleigh.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141216
This is a call-out to all Chicago poetry & Chicago PLAYS & performance art lovers... This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 12/17, from 7-9PM) for the Jeff Helgeson (with Dave Gecic) feature, with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us for the LAST 2014 open mic celebration TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday night, 12/17/14, from 7-9PM at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20141216
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Exploding in the Scene (of cc&d magazine, issue 222, July 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(And so you know, contributors of poetry, prose & art in this book are Fritz Hamilton, CEE, Je’free, Brian Forrest painting, I.B. Rad, Rose E. Grier, Michael H. Brownstein, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Mel Waldman, Jermaine Harmon, Aaron Wilder, John T. Hitchner, Jay Marvin painting, Andy Roberts, Lawrence Gladeview, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Caleb Yarborough, Roger Cowin, Cherese Eudlyn Nelson, Janet Kuypers, Stephanie Kaylor, Anne Turner Taub, Wes Heine, Mark Graham, John Duncklee, Bob Strother, Billie Louise Jones, Stephanie Fleming, Shaun Corley, Bing Liu, Jonathan Seipp, A. A. Garrison, Cheryl Townsend, Rochelle Cartier, Meghan Frank, and Peter LaBerge.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141216
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book America the Lost (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 96, July 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
(For those who want to be in the know, people included in this book are Fritz Hamilton, Clinton Van Inman, Mel Waldman, Kelley Jean White MD, Roger Cowin, Christopher Hanson, Denny E. Marshall, Ally Malinenko, Justis Mills, John Ragusa, Jack Bristow, Marie Barry, Kyrsten Bean, Sarah Scharnewber, Jason Austin, Matthew Roberts, Rebecca L. Dupree, Lam Pham, Terry Ferrell, Lucie M. Winborne, Carl Scharwath, Linda Webb Aceto, and Janet Kuypers.).
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Janet Kuypers, via
20141215
You can see my mixed feelings over MNF...
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Janet Kuypers
20141211
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Moving the Earth (of cc&d magazine, issue 223, August 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99! (For those who want to be in the know, the cover art photography is by John Yotko, and people included in this book are Fritz Hamilton, Je’free, I.B. Rad, Rose E. Grier (with art), Andy Roberts, Nick Brazinsky (with art), Lawrence Gladeview, Roger Cowin, Stephanie Kaylor, Kelley Jean White MD, Nathan Riggs, Christopher Barnes, Peter LaBerge (with art), Michael Ceraolo, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci (with art), Kenneth DiMaggio, Chris Butler, the HA!man of South Africa (with art), Matthew Roberts, Janet Kuypers, Anne Turner Taub, Aaron Wilder (with art), Mel Waldman, David Thompson (with art), Stephanie Fleming, Bing Liu, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz (with art), John Duncklee, Billie Louise Jones, Alicia Parks, Roy Haymond, Cheryl Townsen (with art), S. Paul Bowen, a painting from Brian Forrest, Don Stockard, and Seger Lansdale.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141211
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Catch Fire in the Treetops (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 97, August 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99! (For those who want to be in the know, people included in this book are Fritz Hamilton, Christopher Hanson, Roger Cowin, Denny E. Marshall, Kyrsten Bean, Matthew Roberts, Victor Phan comic, Ash Krafton, Emma Eden Ramos, Mel Waldman, Carys Goodwin, Laine Hissett-Bonard, Karen Alea, Toni M. Todd, Carl Scharwath, Aaron Bragg, J.D. Isip, Edward Rodosek, Sheryl L. Nelms, Tom Fillion, Holly Day, and Janet Kuypers.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141210
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Autumn Again (of cc&d magazine, issue 224, September 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers
20141210
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Wisdom in Broken Hands (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 98, September 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers
20141209
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Up In Smoke (of cc&d magazine, issue 225, October 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers
20141209
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Symbols Manifest (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 99, October 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers
20141206
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book No Return (of cc&d magazine, issue 226, November 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers
20141206
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Grounded (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 100, November 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers
20141206
We have reduced the price of the 2011 book Perfectly Imperfect (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 101, December 2011) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (which was available for sale in the U.S., but TODAY was just released to U.K. and continental Europe markets too) for only $9.99!
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Janet Kuypers HA! I got sick of trying to figure out how to transfer a YouTube video to my smart phone, so I just went INTO Vine on my smart phone and recorded the monitor. Quality’s not as good, but what the Hell, it’s displayed on a 2"x3" phone screen (so it can’t be that bad), and I was able to crop a little and for ease of use, this is a LOT easier. (Yeah! The Luddite finally added a video to Vine!) 20141203
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Janet Kuypers Glad you like. That cover pic is actually a photo of a gate in St. petersburg Russia; it seemed like a good cover for a title like Beyond the Gates... 20141203
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Janet Kuypers
20141202
So, without even owning a smart phone I am starting my twitter.com/JKPoetryVine account (which is ONLY designed for 6 second poetry video uploads to the Vine app, which is only for mobile devices), and I have been editing video to upload to YouTube, so that it links to twitter.com/JKPoetryVine. Now that I have created my first Vine video, I *still* cannot get the YouTube video up to Vine. Using an inactive smart phone for uploading, I think I have discovered that the only way to get videos to Vine is to film anything WITH your smart phone. And yes, another instructional video shows me that if I create any video with the phone, then link the phone to my hard drive, then find it’s temp contents and use that temp name for the already completed YouTube video on my hard drive (so apparently there is not point in YouTube for this, hmph) and MOVE that YouTube video (now with a name changed to the temp name of the Vine video I just made for reference) to the vine temp videos folder. THEN I should be able to go to the Vine app and use the *filmed* video I just made (which has been replaced with the YouTube video).
That is, if I could even get this excuse for a no-phone connection smart phone with Internet access to even be acknowledged on my Mac hard drive, the Windows laptop, of the Linux hard drive here.
I thought computers and apps were supposed to make life easier, and I have how many hoops to jump through to get anything accomplished?
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Janet Kuypers
20141202
This is a call-out to all Chicago poetry & music & performance art lovers... This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 12/3, from 7-9PM) for the double feature night with Michael Hoag and Dalice Malice features, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday night 12/3/14, from 7-9PM at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great feature night!
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Janet Kuypers C Ra, Is Prose an app page or a facebook page? (I try to be as much of a Luddite as I
can and not use apps, even though I am borrowing a dead phone to use vine for uploading 6 second poetry vines today). When I looked at the prose link it looked like a page, and that I could just drop in prose to it. What is the prose link you gave me about?
20141202
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Janet Kuypers Just found out that each of my 4 posted chapbooks was downloaded 27 times (one of them was downloaded 32 times) - not bad for one day of exposure to my chapbooks on another site...
20141202
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Janet Kuypers
20141201
Decided it is time to start discounting past magazine issues that were also released as ISBN# perfect bound books... v227 if cc&d magazine (the 12/11 issue) was also released as a U.S. amazon.com ISBN# book titled Wrapping it Up, and now we have just discounted that book price by more than 20%! Now you can order Wrapping it Up for only $9.99 - and the book is now ALSO available for sale not only in the U.S. , but also in the U.K. and throughout continental Europe! Contributors to this issue and book include Janet Kuypers, Fritz Hamilton, Dan Fitzgerald, Kenneth DiMaggio, William Doreski, Eric Shelman, Emerald Scott, Rochelle Holt, Michael Aspros, Chris Butler, Joseph Hart, Michael Lee Johnson, Anne Scheerer, Clinton Van Inman, Boghos L. Artinian MD, Jane Stuart, Bob Johnston, Mel Waldman, Richard E Marion, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Kelsey Hebert, John Bolen, Dylan Gilbert, Anne Turner Taub, Derek V. Hunter , Cheryl Townsend Rose E. Grier, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Oz Hardwick, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, and Brian Forrest.
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Janet Kuypers
20141201
Scars Publications’ cc&d magazine (v252, the Nov./Dec. 2014 issue) was just released for amazon.com sales as a perfect-bound book titled Beyond the Gates! Now, Beyond the Gates is a 2014 Scars Publications’ cc&d magazine (v252) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. Children, Churches and Daddies (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religios, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it’s inception in 1994, but starting in 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it’s usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. In honor of the 2014 ISBN# issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Cover art from this magazine / book is of a gate, photographed in St. Petersburg Russia 5/28/06. Writers and artists in this book include poetry by Janet Kuypers, I.B. Rad, Mike Brennan, David Hernandez, Zoe Broome, Madison Gardler, Fritz Hamilton, John Grey, CEE, Bill Yarrow, Eric Burbridge, Bill Kroger, Joshua Copeland, Julie L. Brown, Patrick Fealey, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Iftekhar Sayeed, Ash Medhurst, and Rex Sexton, with contributing artists Aaron Wilder, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, and Cheryl Townsend.
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Janet Kuypers
20141201
Scars Publications’ Down in the Dirt magazine (v126, the Nov./Dec. 2014 issue) was just released for amazon.com sales as a perfect-bound book titled a Rural Story! Now, a Rural Story is a 2014 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the Nov./Dec. 2014 issue release of the literary magazine Down in the Dirt.
Starting in 2014 Down in the Dirt magazine is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it’s usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. In honor of the 2014 ISBN# issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications. Perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include (in order in the book) David Hernandez, William F. Meyer, Jr. poem & art, David Hutt, Fritz Hamilton, Liam Spencer, A. Lenkeit, Eric Burbridge, Mark Scott, Eleanor Leonne Bennett art, William Ogden Haynes, Jeff Burt, Allen M Weber, Denice Penrose, William A. Greenfield, Kennita Ballard, Iftekhar Sayeed, Susan Rocks, Ronald Charles Epstein, Matt LeShay, Bob Strother, Justin W. Price, Janet Doggett, M.C. Rydel, H. D. Loughrey, Ralph Monday, Alex Patterson, Donald Gaither, and Janet Kuypers.
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Janet Kuypers Necklace was from Sandra Kuypers and the rings are from my mom - next to nothing is my own (how goth of me) 201341130
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Janet Kuypers
20141129
Just submitted many chapbooks to Poetry SuperHighway’s Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All, including the 2014 chapbooks Nerves of a Poet, “Unzip the Bodybag” (a chapbook accepted through Water of Life press for cool paper bag printing), Crossing Boundaries for International (and Interplanetary) Peace, 6 Second Poems (of haiku and short poems read live on Chicago’s WZRD Radio (88.3 FM) 9/27/14 to later appear in her poetry Vine), Visionaries Behind the Stars, this poetry is money!, Attacking with Poetry, Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat, as well as the 2013 chapbooks an Artist’s Take on Science, Book Expo 2013 Chicago, Nashville Halloween feature, a Curium Wedding Invitation, Pilsen, Periodically, Opening Act, Interview and Poetry, Mysticism vs. Science, Periodically on the Beach , Tag Team Reading, Science vs. Mysticism, In Homage, and Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash. (I know Scars Publications always lists them for free, but this is another way people can see these Scars chapbooks...)
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Janet Kuypers
20141128
The maps Lorelei used on the Thanksgiving table were excellent, but getting branches to add on the table and in a ring above the table with birds flying to LOCATIONS of people at the table was truly amazing.
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Janet Kuypers Lorelei (sister) too so much time to do this... Collected branches for the ring above and stripe below, she bought mini nests and mini pine cones, someone donated the big maps on the table to her, but she printed pages of maps of area close to where we all lived for making the birds - she even constructed the brown ring to hang from the ceiling out of PVC tube and a hula hoop to make an oval that she painted brown to match the branches. I think most people took birds with maps printed of the area near their home. It was really stunning, and we were trying to figure out how to photograph it all. 201341129
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Janet Kuypers Hey, wait a minute! This is Poetry Super Highway! They published like 13 things of mine (poetry and prose) back in 2000 (granted, their web listing is no longer up, but they accepted Christmas at the Old House, Clay, confident women, Coquinas, Daisy, Dandelions of a Passing Stranger, David, desirous, doctor, done this before, driving by his house, egg drop soup, have no backbone, and having children one day)... I don’t know if I have anything with those pieces in a chapbook to submit to them, but when I get the time, I will most definitely start sending things to them this weekend... 201341128
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Janet Kuypers
20141126
Just found out that the Fine Arts Building December 2014 show with my feature was cancelled; so much for my cover photo advertising the event. Also just found out that the first day of the Chi-Fi 2015 fest in March (where I am featuring with Star Trek poetry) starts not Thursday 3/19, but Friday 3/20. Guess I will have to update my performance art web page for upcoming shows.
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Janet Kuypers
I feel like I’m Swiss today to root for Federer because I watching
him win the W&S Open this year, and for all that Federer has ever won, he has never won this. (And yeah, I’m wearing my W&S Open 2014 artsy t-shirt and my metal necklace with mini tennis ball pendant.)
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Janet Kuypers
20141120 · Twitter ·
part 2: see more of the Universe. So, is the Universe expanding, or R we just seeing - and therefore creating a larger and larger Universe?
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Janet Kuypers
20141120 · Twitter ·
2 tweet poem: Is the Universe expanding? Scientists say yes, but some say things don’t exist til we observe it. With powerful telescopes, we
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Janet Kuypers
20141120
Come TOMORROW (Friday, November 21st 2014, 11/21/14) to Cafe Ballou ( 939 N. Western Ave. in Chicago) for the Cafe Cabaret event where I (and a select few others) feature for a GREAT performance art night! In my ~10 minute feature there (set to music from my last show last month with the HA!Man of South Africa at the Gallery Cabaret live 10/7/14) will feature brand-new emotional poems interspersed with never before read haiku poems from my books Partial Nudity) and 100 Haikus! I am SO looking forward to being a part of this show (hosted by Roberta Miles and G.P.A.), and I would LOVE it if you would like to come down and share this great event with me and other great artists!
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Janet Kuypers
20141119
Come to my feature (and features of other cool artists) at the Cafe Cabaret THIS FRIDAY, November 21st 2014 from 7:00 - 8:30 PM (ay the BYOB coffee shop Cafe Ballou, 939 N. Western Ave, in Chicago)! I will be one of the features this night, and I will read brand new poetry interspersed with never before performed haiku poems (and I’ll read them within 6 seconds so they can appear in my future “JK Poetry Vine” too). I’ll have music from the most recent HA!Man of South Africa Chicago show to accompany my performance, and... And I would LOVE to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20141118
This is a call-out to all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers... This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 11/19, from 7-9PM) for the Kottyn Campbell features, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday night 11/19/14, from 7-9PM at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20141117
Am looking forward to reading the new poems (interspersed with never before head haiku poems) in my feature this Friday at the Cafe Cabaret! (This is a cool set-up, I am one of a select few chosen performers in this Friday night show, so I’d love to see you at Cafe Ballou at 7pm for the show!
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Janet Kuypers
This match this morning for Djokovic and Kishikori was great. In the 1st set, Djokovic dominated (no surprise), but in the 2nd set it was like Kishikori woke up, and their plays (from both of them) were phenomenal to watch. Watching Kishikori win set 2 was GREAT. (I won’t tell you how the 3es set went, if you’re waiting for a reply to find out.)
I am just looking forward to see both of the Swiss men play it out this afternoon on ESPN for the final spot... 20141115
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Janet Kuypers, 20141114 · Twitter · (replying to tweets from @neiltyson and @Shadow__Creeper)
@neiltyson: When you think about it, there’s no actual evidence that your life passes before you at death. All those who’d know are dead.
@Shadow__Creeper What about the people who have had near-death experiences?
@neiltyson: What about the people who have had near-death experiences? // They’re not dead.
@Shadow__Creeper @neiltyson After I almost died, my life didn’t flash before my eyes. I tried 2 regain consciousness. http://t.co/gRQ8r9x7hk
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Janet Kuypers
And I was anticipating watching Federer playing Murray at this hour, since he was usually slated to play at 8am CST - I guess I’ll get to watch them later today! (And it is nice to see the Quorn ads on screens right now, John and I just made for dinner last night, instead of chicken Marsala, Quorn Riesling - and it was REALLY good...) 20141113
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Janet Kuypers
20141111
TWO DAYS IN A ROW Scars Publications releases TWO great collection books! Scars Publications JUST released the SECOND BOOK in the “Need to Know Basis” 2014 collection book series, with Need to Know Basis? (redacted edition), which is chock full of poetry and flash fiction and short prose! Contributors to 2014 issues of cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines were chosen for these 2014 Scars Publications collection books, and in THIS book (it is a long list of people, trust me) are great contributors (listed alphabetically) like A. Lenkeit, A.J. Huffman, Aaron Wilder, Aidan King, Alex Patterson, Allan Onik, Allen M Weber, Andrew H. Oerke, Andrew L. Miller, Andy Roberts, Anna Majeski, Anna Maria Hansen, Anthony Brazeau, Ash Medhurst, Becky Grush, Ben Macnair, Benjamin Sabin, Bill Kroger, Bill Tarlin, Bill Yarrow, Bob Strother, Brett Milam, Brian Forrest , Brian Looney, Brian Rodan, Bruce Matteson, C Ra McGuirt, C. Covey Mason, Caleb Holbrook, Cara Losier Chanoine, CEE, Charlie Newman, Cheryl Townsend, Chris Milam, Christopher Barnes, Clinton Van Inman, Corey Cook, Cynthia Lewis, Damian Sebouhian, Dan Fitzgerald, Daniel J O’Brien, Daniel S. Weinberg, Daniel Stockwell, Darcy Wilmoth, David Hernandez, David Hutt, David J. Thompson, David Michael Jackson, David Michael Schmidt, David S. Pointer, Denice Penrose, Devon Sova, Don Hargraves, Donald Gaither, Doug Draime, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Drew Nacht, Ed “Tough Gut” Wilson, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elly Moore, Eric Burbridge, Erica Haldi, Erren Kelly, Erve Beiser, Fred Miller, Frederick Pollack, Fritz Hamilton, Gabriella M. Belfiglio, George Arthur, George Gott, George Semko, H. D. Loughrey, Henry Sosnowski, Holly Day, I.B. Rad, Jackie Smith, James Warner, Jane Stuart, Janet Doggett, Janna Willard, Je’free, Jean Wiggins, Jeff Burt, Jeff Wyman, Jenene Ravsloot, Jennifer Ihas, Jerry Pendergast, Jesse Martin, Jim Meirose, Joan Koerper, John Clayton Heinz, John Grey, John Paul Younes, Jon Brunette, Jordan Blum, Joseph Bodie, Joseph Kraus, Joshua Copeland, Jr., Judith Kaufman, Julie Kovacs, Julie L. Brown, Justin W. Price, K.D. Alter, kalifornia, Kelley Jean White MD, Kelly Haas Shackeforld, Kenneth DiMaggio, Kennita Ballard, Kerry Lown Whalen, Lennart Lundh, Liam C. Calhoun, Linda M. Crate, Linda Webb Aceto, Lisa Gray, Lyn Lifshin, M. Thomas, M.C. Rydel, Madison Gardler, Marina Manoukian, Mark C. Lane, Mark Herden, Mark Scott, Matt LeShay, Matt Marinovich, Matt Quinn, Matthew L. Hall, Matthew Schmidt, MCD, Mel Waldman, Melissa Davis, Meredith Wilshere, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Cluff, Michael Estabrook, Michael Hoag, Michael J. Grodesky, Michael Lee Johnson, Mike Brennan, Natasha Grewal, Nicholas E. Efstathiou, Oz Hardwick, Oz Hardwick bonus, Patrick Fealey, Patrick Hurley, Paul Bavister, Paul Bellerive, Paul Smith, Peter Hully, Peter LaBerge, Peter Layton, Peter McMillan, Pijush Kanti Deb, R. N. Taber, R. W. Lowrie, Rachel Park, Ralph Monday, Rex Sexton, Robert Bates, Robert Crowl, Roger Cowin, Roger G. Singer, Ronald Brunsky, Ronald Charles Epstein, Rose E. Griergraphy , Rurik Asher Baumrin, S. R. Mearns, S.L. Dixon, Samantha Memi, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Simon Perchik, Stanley M Noah, Stephen Todd Booker, Stephen V. Ramey, Susan Rocks, Tendai R. Mwanaka, Terri Muuss, Tom Roby, Tom Sheehan, Trevor Hackley, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Victoria Smith, Vittorio Carli, William A. Greenfield, William F. Meyer, William Ogden Haynes, Xanadu, Zoe Broome, and a little writing from me. Here are links to the Scars listing for the book as well as the printer link for this book too...
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Janet Kuypers
And THIS is the volume with TONS of poems and really short
prose, so there are TONS of pieces in this book... (And you know, the back cover lists all of the people in the book - but of course, since this is a "redacted" book, lines are over the names so it’s harder to read...) 20141112
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Janet Kuypers
20141111
I believe I heard Vice President Joe Biden say today in a speech that throughout history, veterans have been the best people
from this country, so I salute all the veterans I know, from Dave Johnson to Cynthia Johnson, to John Yotko, to Matt Yotko, and their father John. You are all the best.
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Janet Kuypers
20141111 · Twitter ·
Retweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson):
Mysteries of #Interstellar: In this unreal future, they teach unscientific things in science class. Oh, wait. That is real.
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Janet Kuypers
20141111 · Twitter ·
Retweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson):
Mysteries of #Interstellar: Can’t imagine a future where escaping Earth via wormhole is a better plan than just fixing Earth.
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Janet Kuypers
20141110
Just want to wish John Yotko and Dave Johnson and Cynthia Johnson happy birthday today...
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Janet Kuypers
20141110
SUPER THRILLED that the first Scars Publications collection book was JUST released today! “Need to Know Basis” - the EXTENDED edition, with longer pieces of prose in this book, along with interspersed poetry (and a block of poetry at the end for those poets who appeared a number of times in 2014 issues of cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines) is the first of a set of 2014 Scars Publications collection books, with great authors (listed alphabetically) like A. C. Lippert, Aaron Wilder, Alex Patterson, Amy Locke, Austin Harrington, Beaumont Sebos, Bill Kroger, Bill Yarrow, Bob Strother, Bradford Middleton, Brian Duggan, Brian Forrest, CEE, Cheryl Townsend, David Hernandez, David J. Tabak, Don Massenzio, Don Maurer, Doug Draime, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Edward Michel O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer photo , Eric Burbridge, Erica Haldi, Fritz Hamilton, I.B. Rad, Iftekhar Sayeed, Jenene Ravesloot, Jim Meirose, John Clayton Heinz, Jon Saunders, Joseph Bodie, Joshua Copeland, Justin W. Price, K. D. Walls, Katie Karambelas Hill, Kenneth DiMaggio, Liam Spencer, Liz Betz, Madison Gardler, Margaret Karmazin, Matt Marinovich, Matthew Hlady, Michael Andreoni, Michael Lee Johnson, Mike Brennan, Oz Hardwick, Patrick Hurley, Peter LaBerge, Rex Bromfield, Robley Browne, Ronald Brunsky, Rose E. Grier photo , Simon Perchik, Susan Rocks, Tom Roby, Wendy C. Williford, William Masters, and a little writing from me. Here are links to the Scars listing for the book as well as the printer link for this book too...
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Janet Kuypers
20141109 · Twitter ·
Watching Federer & Raonic in last tennis match of the year from them...If Federer beats everyone he’s ranked #1 again!
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Janet Kuypers
So when I was watching Federer yesterday, I saw on one of the ad panels an ad for “Quorn”, and I thought, that’s cool that a vegetarian product is advertising like that on the last major annual tennis event. So in honor of that, we made a point to buy some Quorn “meat”balls and “chik’n” cutlets to have this week. 20141110
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Janet Kuypers Watching Djokovic and Cilic live right now... 20141110
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Janet Kuypers Well, THAT was a quick match. But at least I get to see Federer against Nishikori live tomorrow morning at 8am CST - I am really looking forward to watching THAT tennis match... 20141110
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Chad Maier
I remember that piece are you kidding me lol. Thats why i was so excited to come here! His artwork everywhere, couldnt believe it. Worth a trip if you ever find yourself here  20141108
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Janet Kuypers
But it’s not in New Orleans. I mean, you’re in Austin and you
made it *that* far, you couldn’t make it the rest of the way to New Orleans? (P.S.: this is the only interesting OLD photo I could find from New Orleans; have not talked to Doug since after he got married, and Eugene, well, we’ve lost touch and he’s living in Austin too now as far as I know - I don’t even know if he’s still a vegetarian, and I’m approaching the 20 year anniversary since I became a vegetarian...). 20141108
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Janet Kuypers
We got off had lunch late and got on i80 at about the same time as if we waited on i76 for them to clear the wreck. 20141105
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Janet Kuypers
20141104 at 7:42pm
Then again, I forgot to mention that we previously enjoyed going to “the Pub” (a place where you stepped down
to enter the small bar, and I had some sort of pumpkin ale on tap). — with John Yotko
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Janet Kuypers
20141104 at 6:29pm
Thought I lost my purse after going with John Yotko to the gun range; we went back and found it there. Whew! John decided I needed a celebration drink, so we went to the New Baltimore bar and grill for Yuengling. — in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania.
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Janet Kuypers
20141104, via Twitter
Out of town w/ no chance 2 vote 2day, but with the many faces Chicago politicians put on, my vote wouldn’t matter...
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Janet Kuypers
20141029
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls (well, at least boys and girls old enough to get into a bar for our open mic), the Café Gallery has JUST RELEASED the available feature dates for 2015! One click away from the main page for the open mic, check out the 2015 schedule at and look for a date you would like a 20 minute poetry, short story, music or performance art feature! (Features are 20 minutes long at the bar the Gallery Cabaret, and are video recorded for YouTube clips and for the weekly the Cafe Gallery podcast. Up to 2 features can appear any night, and open mic nights that fall on the LAST Wednesday of the month MAY be moved from the usual 7-9PM time to 9-11PM. Info ABOUT the open mic or specs about features is also one click away at the Café Gallery.).
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Janet Kuypers
20141021
As it is rapidly approaching Halloween (who knows, I might have a costume), this is a call-out to all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers... This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 10/22, from 7-9PM) for the Charlie Newman and G.P.A. (the poetic unnsub) features, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday night 10/22/14, from 7-9PM at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great DOUBLE feature night!
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Liam Spencer, Niki Gee, Eileen Tull, Lynne Roberts, Tarpza Tasha Bitt and Elizabeth Gomez like this.
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Eileen Tull this picture is absurdly adorable! 20141020
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Janet Kuypers I think it’s cool that I got this poem listed on artvilla with videos from my Poetry “Love Letter” 9/12/14 feature Visionaries Behind the Stars, because in this poem, I start by singing “a Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”, and I danced there wit my husband while I sang (since that was the song we danced to at our wedding).
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Janet Kuypers
20141013, via Twitter
It’s not enough that “Walter Whitman” follows me - I also got a note that “Walt Whitman” follows me on Twitter too...
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Janet Kuypers
20141013, via Twitter
I know Walt Whitman’s not alive, but it’s kind of cool to get an email like this, saying he is follows me on twitter.
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Janet Kuypers
20141010
And as for that Pam Miller feature, if you forget this spot on facebook (or don’t want to search through YouTube), you can always see her feature link at the open mic web site, where the Pam Miller feature has its own page!
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Janet Kuypers
20141009
Okay, one more plug... TONIGHT I am one of a number of features in the Chicago Calling event at Cup & Spoon (6-9PM at 2415 West North Avenue in Chicago). The theme of the night is Crossing Borders/Peace, and in light of my poetry with music from the HA!Man of South Africa tonight, I titled this Periodic Table poetry collection “Crossing Boundaries for International (and Interplanetary) Peace“ (which contains Periodic Table poems about other sides of the world coming together to create elements, AND about science fiction elements as well). I am super-psyched to perform at this coffee shop, and I hope to see EVERYONE there!
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Janet Kuypers
20141008
See YouTube video of the HA!Man of South Africa & Joke Debaere improvisational show (with Janet Kuypers performing 4 different poems from memory).
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Jenene Ravesloot
20141008
At the Gallery Cabaret for the Lucia Blinn and Pam Miller double feature with an open mic. What a great evening. Bill Yarrow, Patrick Hurley, Tom Roby IV, Jenene Ravesloot, Bob Raskow, Jerry Pendergast, Dan Weinberg, and Joffre Stewart read at the open mic. Janet Kuypers and Bob Raskow hosted the event and shared some of their own work. — with Janet Kuypers
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Janet Kuypers
20141007
But the more I look at PAST performance from the HA!Man of South Africa, the more CRAZY images I see from past performances with him. I am SO looking forward to the event tonight (and am super-psyched about ranting with the Magic 8 Ball on stage, which will answer all my questions for me on stage) - hopefully I’ll see you at the Gallery Cabaret tonight from 7-9PM for Francois Le Roux and Joke Debaere!
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Janet Kuypers
20141007
It’s a full moon tomorrow night, so you know what you have to do... Because this is a call-out to all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers... This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 10/8, from 9-11PM) for the Lucia Blinn and Pam Miller features, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday night 10/8, from 7-9PM at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great DOUBLE feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20141002
Though not all of the videos from my radio interview and reading at WZRD Radio 88.3 FM are finished (by the way, thank you SO MUCH Cathleen for allowing me the opportunity to share poetry with Chicago on the radio, and talk about my Partial Nudity book release!), I *did* at least release a free PDF file chapbook today of the 6 second poems I read during the radio show interview. (Those readings may later be put into 6 second vine videos, I’ll keep you posted on my poetry vine start-up.) But in the meantime, enjoy the 6 Second Poems chapbook of what I read on WZRD Radio 9/27/14!
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Janet Kuypers
20141001
I don’t know how many mornings I’ve seen the fog covering the trees in the clearings up here, so when an accepted writer in the Sep./Oct. 2014 issue of cc&d had a story called Approaching Front, the fog scenes are a perfect match! So, with v251 of cc&d now released, you can order a copy directly through the printer! There are a TON of cool writers and artists in this issue like Mike Brennan, George Arthur, Becky Grush, David Hernandez, Kenneth DiMaggio, Fritz Hamilton, Tendai R. Mwanaka, Zoe Broome, John Grey, CEE, Madison Gardler, George Gott, Patrick Fealey, I.B. Rad, Jean Wiggins, MCD, Bill Tarlin, Bill Yarrow, Vittorio Carli, Janet Kuypers, Daniel S. Weinberg, and Lennart Lundh, prose by Eric Burbridge, Joshua Copeland, Jim Meirose, Julie L. Brown, Aaron Wilder art , Ronald Brunsky, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, S.L. Dixon, Darcy Wilmoth, and Samantha Memi, and art from Eric Bonholtzer, Cheryl Townsend, and Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz. So check out the new issue today, which wil son be available for sale through amazon in the United States, the U.K., and continental Europe!
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Janet Kuypers
20141001
Well, it’s the beginning of October, which could only mean that the new issue of Down in the Dirt is released! a Creative Journey (with the never-ending train tracks on the cover, no less) was just released, with TONS of cool contributors, like Kerry Lown Whalen, William F. Meyer, Jr., Fritz Hamilton, David Hutt, Liam Spencer, Chris Milam, Brett Milam, Robert Bates, Eric Burbridge, Liz Betz, Drew Nacht, Matthew Hlady, Jennifer Ihasz, A. Lenkeit, William Ogden Haynes, John Paul Younes, George Semko, Janna Willard, David J. Tabak, Mark Herden, Donald Gaither, Lisa Gray, Austin Harrington, Michael J. Grodesky and Janet Kuypers - so get a copy today while it’s hot off the press!
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Janet Kuypers
20140927
If you’ve got a little time today, tune in and listen to WZRD radio (88.3 FM), because by 6:30 you can hear a lot of Janet Kuypers talk on the recently released poetry book set for Partial Nudity, with the other large volume Revealed, which were all also broken down into many mini books, like 100 Haikus, Give me the News
(of news and newsworthy poetry) Let me See you Stripped, Twitterati (‘the tweet elite’, of twitter-length poetry), Part of my Pain, Rape, Sexism, life & Death (with some Slovak translations), When you Dream tonight (if dreams poetry), and Say Nothing. Learn the inspiration of the books and check out poetry readings (of never-before read poems) at this on-of-a-kind radio show! — at WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM.
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Janet Kuypers
20140926
It’s cool when Scars Publications gets a truly UNIQUE chapbook manuscript submission... This is why we’ve just released the 6" SQUARE A.J. Huffman poetry chapbook I Am Psychedelic, which is now available as a FREE downloadable PDF file!
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Janet Kuypers
20140926
Buddha 309’s feature web page is also at the open mic web site (with links to his pictures advertising this event too!), so check out that link any time..
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Janet Kuypers Sandra Kuypers
20140925
So I think a year or two ago I too pictures of us to try to mix people’s faces half and half, and I just found this buried on my computer. (Kind of weird, and a blast from the past, I know...) And since I wasn’t able to see family this weekend, I wanted to scream out a HUGE Happy Birthday to you!!!
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Janet Kuypers It will be great to see him and a bunch of great poets at the Buddha 309 Feature TONIGHT starting at 9:00 PM - hope to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20140923, via Twitter
Sorry AtlasShrugged, I already got this as a birthday gift. I didn’t realize how much I’d love it. It’s a must-wear.
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Janet Kuypers
20140923
Attention all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 9/24, from 9-11PM) for the Buddha 309 feature, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday night 9/24, from 9-11PM at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the open mic and the great feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20140923
How cool to see this again! My Poetry LifeTimes web page of 30+ published Haiku Poems was re-posted in the September 21 2014 issue of Poetry LifeTimes! If you check out the facebook page for Poetry Life & Times, links to the new issue (and so much more!) is all there! (It’s cool ti see the long list of my haiku poems there, including out, of his thirst, close, floor, extinct, last, scorches, organs, choke, explosions, fit, feel, pant, civil, need, kill, John’s mind, run, mirror, keep, Two Not Mute Haikus,free, groove, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, difference, blood, fog, and upturn...) Thanks for posting, Robin Hislop!
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Janet Kuypers
20140922
I am so thrilled I got to perform the MFV song What we Need in Life with the poem Fantastic Car Crash to a FILLED theater Sunday evening for Beast Women Rising! Thank you to Jilly Kewl and to Michelle for hosting this GREAT one night only event, and thanks to John for playing great guitar too! I am honored to have been chosen as a Beast Woman, and the ENTIRE performance was OUTSTANDING! Thank you to everyone who performed, and thank you to everyone who attended, making this such a phenomenal evening!
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Janet Kuypers
20140921
Had a great time last night watching the Beast Women show, & I hope (especially because it starts EARLY today!) that there’s even a LARGER turnout at The Den Theatre for BEAST WOMEN RISING tonight (7pm), where I am performing a song intermixed with a little poetry (as a poet and poetry open mic host, I can’t just sing a song, can I?)... But this is my first theater performance EVER, and it would mean the WORLD to me to see you there!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140920
Host Elizabeth Marino just posted an event listing for her Chicago Calling performance event at Cup & Spoon Coffeehouse (for Thursday October 9th 2014, 10/9/14 from 6-9PM, 2415 West North Avenue Chicago) and I am thrilled to have a 20 minute show there! This will be my FINAL installment of never before read Periodic Table poems, and it will have never heard in Chicago music from the HA!Man of South Africa - and I would love it if everyone could make it for this one-of-a-kind show!
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Elizabeth Marino Chicago Calling and I are pleased to include Janet as 1 of 7 features in this collaborative 9th annual event, using the work of Chicago-based artists linked to outside artists. Not a variety show, but a themed show (“Crossing Borders/ Peace”). We hope to listen to each other. 20140920
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Janet Kuypers
20140919, via Twitter
@neiltyson But I enjoyed photograph penguins @ Galapagos Islands (& see southern hemisphere constellations then too).
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Janet Kuypers
20140919 · Twitter ·
I’m tired of those stupid smiley-face emoticons. No emoticons express appropriate moods. If only I could make my own.
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Janet Kuypers
20140918
Without this being set up as a CHICAGO CALLING event (where Chicago artists present work with someone from outside the Chicago area) THIS is an unscheduled LIVE IMPROMPTU event for Chicago artists to perform live with someone pretty much literally from the other side of the planet! Everyone come out for this live event!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140916
Beast Women Rising is less than a week away - so come to the Den Theatre this Sunday for a GREAT Beast Women show! Beast Women Rising is this Sunday September 21st (yes, I perform a song and poem as performance art in, with John on guitar) at the Den Theatre at 7:00 PM (1329-1333 N Milwaukee). Also check out the flyer, that also has info on tickets online...
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Jenene Ravesloot
20140916
At Waiting 4 the Bus reading by Marc Frazier and Sandy Marchetti with Jenene Ravesloot, Tom Roby IV, Charlie Newman, Janet Kuypers, Elizabeth Harper, Esteban Colon, Robin Fine, John Goode, David Buddha-Hargarten, Wayne Allen Jones, and so many more. We had a great time. Cheers, Jenene
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Bob Baron Mass produced domestic beer? That doesn’t seem like your usual style... 20140912
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Janet Kuypers Got 2 Chicago early for a feature across the street at a chocolate store; the host was not even there yet, so we went to the only open place right across the street, so we didn’t have many beers
there to choose from. So I picked a Miller High Life in homage to TMBG singing about it in their song “Alienation’s For The Rich”, and then we went back for the open mic and I did my feature (which went over quite well, actually). 20140913
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Jenene Ravesloot
20140911
New finds from the Bill Yarrow and Bob Lawrence fabulous feature last night hosted by Janet Kuypers. If you weren’t there, you missed a great show at the Gallery Cabaret.
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Janet Kuypers
20140911
9/11 is a day we will never forget, but I would love it if you would remember that tomorrow is my feature of Periodic Table poems at Poetry Love Letter (after 7pm at Let Them Eat Chocolate, 5306 N Damen Ave, Chicago IL 60625). My feature (the same night as an additional comedic feature from Erin Lane) will cover a fleet of new Periodic Table poems in a show called Visionaries Behind the Stars (because a lot of the elements in my 9/12/14 show of poems talk about the PEOPLE the elements are named after, and some of them ARE really visionaries in the scientific world). Hopefully I will see you there!
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Jenene Ravesloot
20140910
At The Gallery Cabaret tonight with Janet Kuypers, Joffre Stewart, Daniel Weinberg, Bob Rashcow, Tom Roby IV, Jenene Ravesloot, Lucia Blinn, Liz Marino, Jerry Pendergast, Paul Ryan, and other poets. We had a fine time at Bill Yarrow and Bob Lawrence’s two-person feature.
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Janet Kuypers Just updated the chapbook of new Periodic Table poems I plan to read at this
feature... It’s titled Visionaries Behind the Stars because a lot of the elements I talk about Friday have poems that talk about the PEOPLE the elements are named after. Some are great stories too... 20140909
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Janet Kuypers
20140909
Attention all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 9/10, from 7-9PM) for the Bob Lawrence feature AND the Bill Yarrow feature, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday September 10th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at the Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great double feature night!
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Janet Kuypers There are TONS of Japan media sources covering Japan’s Nishikori, and NO Croatian news outlets (as far as I know) to cover Croatia’s Cilic in the US Open Tennis Championships going on right now. 20140908
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Janet Kuypers
20140905 · Twitter ·
Retweeted Phil ValentineValentineShow (@AtlasShrugged):
Phil’s interview with Laura Regan, Dagny Taggart in the new Atlas Shrugged 3.
@LauraRegan @AtlasShrugged
http://t.co/PFZQzvggAQ
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Janet Kuypers
20140904 · Twitter ·
Retweeted Atlas Shrugged (@AtlasShrugged):
The wait is almost over. 8 days left until #AtlasShrugged 3 debuts in theaters. Spread the word...Retweet this post. http://t.co/lbKkk8zYDy
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Janet Kuypers
20140903
What was once a Scars Publications 2014 chapbook was just released as a 6" x 9" perfect-bound ISBN# book! Check out the Ralph Monday book the Girl Next Door and Other Poems directly from the printer (as it will be available globally through amazon shortly)... Check out a copy today! (And to give you the heads-up no the cover: the original Ralph Monday painting was too dark and busy for the front cover with his author name and title the Girl Next Door and Other Poems, so the painting appears not lightened on the back cover.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140903
And how cool is THAT! Scars Publications has jus release the new cc&d January-June 2014 collection book a New Pen, with a cover that looks like a crossword puzzle! It covers not only the issues/ISBN# books for cc&d from the first half of the year, but also a number of chapbook releases!
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Janet Kuypers It was a RIOT talking to the bartender here - he was FROM Champaign, did some schooling at U of I, and REMEMBERED the midnight singing of “American Pie” at the basement at O’Malley’s (though he knew the place as “6 Feet Under”). He was stunned that U of I was the only place that altered the words like we did to American Pie... What a riot. 20140902
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Bob Baron And, SHOCKINGLY, they have malt beverages .... 20140830
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Janet Kuypers Like to use listings like this comparably the way Harry Carey wrote in a “diary” of all of the bars he went to (in one year, because people wanted to take HIM out as well as him going out, he went to over 1,000 bars in one year). We won’t beat him at that, but it’s a good record of different places we’ve visited 20140831
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Janet Kuypers
20140829
Okay, one more early notice for you (before the Labor day weekend and the beginning of September) - Come to the Buddha 309 feature at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery open mic for poets and artists on Wednesday, September 24th from 9-11 PM!
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Janet Kuypers Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels
20140828
Happy Birthday to my darling angel... It is a shame that I have not seen you in so long (at least I have September 27th on WZRD to look forward to...) - I hope you have a WONDERFUL Birthday!!!
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Janet Kuypers Cynthia Johnson
20140827
Happy happy birthday, happy happy birthday, happy happy birthday - to you! Ole! (Sorry, that was how Pepe’s Tacos used to sing Happy birthday to people because they feared they couldn’t sing the Birthday song. I could have gone with the Olive Garden song: “From the salads we make, to the pastas we bake... We’re wishing you a happy birthday!” - I was just trying to come up with a different birthday song for you.) Happy Birthday!!!
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Janet Kuypers It’s a shame I didn’t have a photo of Elsa scanned as Sloane Recline... Wait... Maybe I do. (I’ve never taken pictures of Sloane Stephens playing tennis, so I make do with my only Slone references I can come up with...) 20140827
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Janet Kuypers
20140826 · Twitter ·
So Michael Jordan is AT the U.S. Open watching Federer now, tho they’re releasing a new “Air Jordan RF” shoe today.
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I’ve photographed both Jordan and Federer live, but my Minolta Maxxum 35mm didn’t zoom enough to get a good photo of Jordan (that’s why I had to settle for the painting on the buidling I photographed of Jordan in this collage).
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Janet Kuypers
20140826 · Twitter ·
It’s kind of cool to get notes that William Shakespeare (@ao_Shakespeare) & Sylvia Plath (@aSylviaPlath) now follow me on twitter. Groovy.
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Janet Kuypers
20140826
Attention all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 8/27, from 9-11PM) for the Esteban Colon feature AND the AQ feature, along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday August 27th 2014 from 9-11pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great double feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20140826
An event listing has just been created for the theater show I am in: Beast Women Rising on Sunday September 21st starting at 7:00 PM at the Den Theatre (1333 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago). Am listed on the roster as a “Songstress/Poet”, and will be performing the MFV song What we Need in Life (thanks to John on guitar), interspersed with the poem Fantastic Car Crash. I would LOVE it if everyone could check it out and come by!
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Janet Kuypers
20140823
I have just deduced that the show “Going Deep with David Rees” is probably a GREAT show it you are high. Each episode goes into length on different subjects like “how to tie your shoes” or “how to dig a hole” or “how to light a match” or “how to open a door.” He goes into such weird detail and makes such crazy jokes on it that I believe that if you’re stoned you’d probably think this is the funniest thing to watch.
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Janet Kuypers
20140823
Just saw the the Steelers and the Ravens are playing football on 9/11 (er, I mean Patriot Day) for Thursday Night Football... I know (with terrible towels in the house and Pittsburgh paraphernalia in the party room) that John will be rooting for the Steelers, so the only good thing I can say about the Ravens is that I think it’s awesome-cool that they named their football team for a POEM from an author from their town. A poem. That’s cool.
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Janet Kuypers
20140822 · Twitter ·
Which sucks more Fri night drinking wine alone, seeing Querrey lose @ tennis or seeing my Bears get their ass kicked.
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Sarah DeMenge Querrey losing sucks worse. I’m sure you know how we feel about the Bears up here! 20140823
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Janet Kuypers Of course you say tennis vs. the Bears... I’m sure you’d root for the evil Packers (you know, compared to us Chicago Bears fans...) But it was only an exhibition games, and at least I can be glad that the U.S. Open series starts Monday. 20140823
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Janet Kuypers
20140822
So I’m researching one of my last THREE Periodic Table elements for a poem (Hassium), and I see ANOTHER ad for the Morrissey Autobiography compilation I have - which just reminded me that I heard on it that he did a duet with “Suzy” called “Interlude”, and since I had never heard of this, looked it up - he did a duet with Siouxsie Sioux (of Siouxsie and the Banchees) for her highest most recent hot (#47 on the U.K. charts, I believe). I listened to the song now - and they sound GREAT together!
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Janet Kuypers
Janet Kuypers Okay, so I just posted about the Morrissey and Siouxsie duet, so I had to look up “Morrissey Duets” online to see if any other songs came up. And THEN, lo and behold, there is a WHOLE LP, which is a riot to see...
Morrissey ’The Duets’ LP
Side One
Morrissey & Noel Gallagher - Wild Thing (Orig: Troggs)
Morrissey & Paul Weller - Swing Your Daddy (Orig: Jim Gilstrap)
Morrissey & Debbie Harry - These Boots Are Made For Walking (Orig: Nancy Sinatra)
Morrissey & John Lydon - Ace of Spades (Orig: Motorhead)
Morrissey & Nick Cave - The Laughing Gnome (Orig: David Bowie)
Morrissey & Adele - Je t’aime... moi non plus (Orig: Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg)
Morrissey & Plan B - Jimmy Mack (Orig: Martha Reeves & Vandellas)
Morrissey & Dave Grohl - Unchained Melody (Orig: Righteous Brothers)
Side 2
Morrissey & Jarvis Cocker - Teenage Opera (Orig: Keith West)
Morrissey & Iggy Pop - Ca Plan Pour Moi (Orig: Plastic Bertrand)
Morrissey & Liza Minelli - Price Tag (Orig: Jessie J)
Morrissey & Pete Doherty - Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Orig: The Kinks)
Morrissey & Kevin Rowland - Reet Petite (Jackie Wilson)
Morrissey & Dolly Parton - Tainted Love (Orig: Gloria Jones)
Morrissey & Cliff Richard - Two Little Boys (Orig: Rolf Harris)
Morrissey & Robbie Williams - My House (Orig: LCD Soundsystem).
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Janet Kuypers
20140820
#EndlessApps at TGI Friday? John was saying before that he wanted a mudslide from TGI Fridays, but being a vegetarian means there weren’t many food choices at any American restaurant. But if I could have endless apps for $10, that means I could have mozzarella sticks and Garlic & Basil Bruschetta and Tuscan Spinach Dip (I don’t think I want their Crispy Green Bean Fries, and I’m not sure if they put meat in their Loaded Potato Skins or their Pan-Seared Pot Stickers, but there is still a lot of choices). Don’t know when the deal ends though, and we’re busy until after Labor Day, so we’ll see.
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Janet Kuypers
20140820, via Twitter
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) Robin Williams’ lines on why we read and write poetry in an excerpt from Dead Poets Society at an 8/18/14 open mic at Waiting 4 the Bus in Chicago
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Janet Kuypers
20140820, via Twitter
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) Robin Williams’ lines on why we read and write poetry in an excerpt from Dead Poets Society 8/18/14 at the beginning of Chicago’s open mic Waiting 4 the Bus
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Janet Kuypers I did not know we could see the Brian brothers and Jack Sock with Pospisil on doubles BEFORE the women and men finals - how cool is that? 20140817
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Janet Kuypers
20140815, via Twitter
Igor said any seat @ W&S tennis court is a great seat. Federer plays Murray 2night, so I’ll see ONE of them 2morrow.
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Janet Kuypers I expected the first third for the Wawrinka Benneteau match this morning, but not the rest of it.... 20140815
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Janet Kuypers But I have to tell you, I am getting SUPER stoked knowing that I am going to watch Raonic play either Federer or Murray tomorrow. And I don’t have the ticket handy, so I don’t know if in my session I’ll also get to see Serena Williams play tomorrow. (Serena WILLIAMS! Really!) This’ll be awesome. 20140815
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John Yotko
20140814
John, I know that was a dark bar, but I thought we lightened that photo before posting it... — with John Yotko at Underbar
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John Yotko
20140813
We had to come here and now we find out that the reason for the bar’s name is being torn down. The bumpy bridge over Belmont will be no more. — with Janet Kuypers at Underbar
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Janet Kuypers C Ra McGuirt
20140813
Looking forward to an early Halloween party when I see C Ra McGuirt in October, but I have to send Happy Birthday wishes from afar today!!! Have a GREAT Birthday!
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Janet Kuypers
20140812, via Twitter
I hope I can get this shirt AT the W&S open tennis tourn (instead of ordering it online).
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Janet Kuypers Just so you know, I *have* been watching the matches, but I don’t want to reveal results for others who missed matches.
20140813
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Janet Kuypers
20140812
Attention all Chicago poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 8/13, from 7-9PM) for the EARLY (at 7PM sharp) Jeff Helgeson feature reading, AND the Bob Rashkow feature along with a great open mic at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday August 13th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the great double feature night!
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Janet Kuypers Westley Heine 20140812
Westley Heine, it has been a while since I have seen Cousin Bones performing, so bring him over to the open mic when you’ve got a free night!!! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140809, via Twitter
John has 2 B @ work now, but I get 2 C the Williams sisters play @ the Rogers Cup! It’s a close match, & cool 2 view!
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Janet Kuypers WOW... I won’t say the winner (for those who don’t want to find out by reading my comments), but even the announcers said this may have been the best match the two Williams sisters ever played against each other. It was awesome.
20140809
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Janet Kuypers Carol Ann Raftery Trisko
20140809
Okay, since the last time I posted a note to you I added a photo of you with me on my wedding, I figured that for YOUR BIRTHDAY, the least I could do was post a photo of me with YOU as the bride on YOUR wedding day... Hope you have a WONDERFUL birthday!
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Janet Kuypers
I’m all over the idea, but I don’t think anyone will come if I try to do another prom party - and I don’t have the bridesmaid dress from your wedding to wear at the party, like I did before... Wait a minute, did Mike come to that party (back in Logan Square) in his TUXEDO? (Man, MY husband doesn’t have his own tuxedo, what’s up with THAT?)
20140811
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Janet Kuypers
20140807
So as I said before, I took the Morrissey Autobiography audio CD set out of the library last week, and since saw it on web pages for sale. Well, just today I am doing research on Rhenium (1 of the last 5 Periodic Table elements I have to write a poem about - only 5 to go!), an lo and behold, audible.com is trying to sell the book to be (that one that I currently have for free out from the library).
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Janet Kuypers
20140807
So as I said before, I took the Morrissey Autobiography audio CD set out of the library last week, and since saw it on web pages for sale. Well, just today I am doing research on Rhenium (1 of the last 5 Periodic Table elements I have to write a poem about - only 5 to go!), an lo and behold, audible.com is trying to sell the book to be (that one that I currently have for free out from the library).
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Janet Kuypers 20140807
After I posted this, I continued going to sites for Rhenium, and STILL got more ads for the Morrissey Autobiography CD.
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Jenene Ravesloot
20140805
A great time at Jak’s Tap. Waiting 4 the Bus featured Bill Yarrow and John Goode. Albert DeGenova was the host. What a great crowd! Cheers, Jenene
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Mike Brennan
20140804
Thanks again Janet Kuypers for my poetic include with “& With That I Pass,” an excerpt from “Postcards from Exile” published this January. Love the cover too :) As an old sailor, I love all that is aquatic and surreal that the sea has to hide from the world above.
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John Yotko
20140802
And she wanted to show off her cherry red hair highlights (Nuphie Alper’s got you beat) — with Janet Kuypers and Nuphie Alper at Rodan.
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Janet Kuypers
20140801
Do not fear... The July/August 2014 issue (v250) of cc&d magazine has just been released as a 6x9 ISBN# paperback book! Both issues from Scars Publications this month have jellyfish on their covers (almost like they’d make a great set!), and there’s a lot of great material in the new issue from Scars Publications. Get a Copy of and Then he Moved today! |
Janet Kuypers
20140731
It’s scary that the day after I rent the Morrissey Autobiography audio CD set from the library, I go one line and there are ads to download THAT mp3 release n my web page. Spooky how not only governments, but also corporations, can watch your every move.
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Janet Kuypers I get it if you go TO amazon and check things out, they’d infer what you’re interested in, but the library? (That’s why, a while ago, I checked out “Mein Kampf” and a book on how to build a bomb, just to potentially ruffle someone’s feathers).
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Janet Kuypers Kevin Latek
20140731
I was only able to write a short message from the events listing (where it reminded me it was your birthday, like I needed a reminder), but I was unable to post a photo. Then I looked and saw only insanely old photos of us (I know there are glasses in this pic, but just be please I didn’t pull up that Olan Mills photo of you and Joel and me with crimped long blonde hair...) But either way, I hope you have a GREAT birthday!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140730
So I walk past the living room and I see Mynx laying on her back with her legs up (at these moments I call her Matrix Mynx), and she was so cute that I walked into another room, got the camera, came back and photographed this (she never moved all that time). If you can’t tell from this picture, her back legs are sticking up in the air.
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Janet Kuypers
20140729
Scars Publications is EXTREMELY PLEASED to have just released the mammoth 608 page poetry novel/journal Shadowing Other Footprints by Rochelle Lynn Holt... With what seems to be 2 volumes of poems plus commentary woven about our times with her friends, this is a real steal, now available directly from the amazon printer!
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Janet Kuypers
20140729
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 7/30, from 9-11PM) for the Lynn West feature and a great open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday July 30th 2014 from 9-11pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT (and late!) night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the Lynn West feature night!
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John Yotko
Omg... Uhmmm. We were drinking a cowpie. 20140722
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Janet Kuypers
Note that all open mics that fall on the LAST Wednesday of each month actually gets to START at 9:00 PM (instead of having shows that usually run from 7-9)!
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Janet Kuypers
20140718, via YouTube
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many Scars Publications 2014 date book Don’t Forget It poems, including Travis Green’s pooem “Drowning”, then Matthew Horstkotters’ poem “Hanging the Innocent”, then Bradley Bates’ poem “I Ran Outside to Hear”, then Michael Ceraolo’s poem “On What Constitutes a Human Rights Violation”, then Tom Roby’s haiku “2011”, then Gregory Liffick’s poem “Flesh”, then Christopher Mulrooney’s poem “return of the birds”, then Roger Cowin’s poem “The Secret Jar”, then finally the George Gott poem “Together”, all set to music by the HA!Man of South Africa (in a track of his titled “Wayward Waltz of the Skewed Wind”) 7/16/14 at the Chicago open mic the Café Gallery (S).
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Janet Kuypers
20140717 · Twitter ·
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many poems from Scars Publicationsᰱ 2014 date book Don’t Forget It, including Travis Green’s poem “Drowning”, then Matthew Horstkotters’ poem “Hanging the Innocent”, then Bradley Bates’ poem “I Ran Outside to Hear”, Michael Ceraolo’s poem “On What Constitutes a Human Rights Violation”, then Tom Roby’s haiku “2011”, then Gregory Liffick’s poem “Flesh”, then Christopher Mulrooney’s poem “return of the birds”, then Roger Cowin’s poem “The Secret Jar”, then finally the George Gott poem “Together”, all set to music by the HA!Man of South Africa (in a track of his titled “Wayward Waltz of the Skewed Wind”) 7/16/14 at the Chicago open mic the Café Gallery (C).
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Janet Kuypers 20140716
That’s why it’s awesome we just got tickets for the Western & Southern Open for the Saturday August 16 7pm semi finals session and the Sunday August 17 finals session. Have no idea who will play, but it will be HUGE.
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Janet Kuypers
20140715
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 7/16, from 7-9PM) for the Jerry Pendergast feature and a great open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday July 15th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the Jerry Pendergast feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20140714
Because I wanted John Yotko to see how cute Mynx was on the bed like she was using my pillow for her head, I had to take a picture. But then she lifted her head more, and it looks less like she’s trying to rest like a person with her head on the pillow. Oh well. I tried.
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Annabelle Echo 20140714
My sister’s cat Melon like to use my head for a pillow.
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Janet Kuypers 20140715
Have no idea her genealogy... Got Mynx from Suzanne Hettinger
(does she know?)... All I *do* know is that we have another cat, Zach, Zach and Mynx have the same markings, and when we got Zach (at 1 month fom a lady in an apartment in Worth), we surmised that Zach’s mom must have gotten busy with a wild Main Coon, because (A) Main Coons are one of very few cats with multiple color furs (usually cats have only 1 or 2 colors, Zach has brown, black and white), (B) their fur and skin layer is VERY pliable (it’s hard to explain that one if you don’t know cats), and (C) they often literally have an “M” marking on their forehead. Mynx comes pretty close to all three, but I cannot say her genealogy for sure.
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Janet Kuypers
20140710
Sheri Peterson, I hope you have a GREAT day, and (like you didn’t know it was coming...) Happy Birthday! (I even found this photo of us where I an wearing the t-shirt you gave me years ago!).
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Janet Kuypers
20140708
Just released a chapbook online to coincide with the free chapbooks of Periodic Table poems that were distributed at my feature with Bob Rashkow last night. Thank you to everyone, and more videos from the performance will be coming out soon!
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Janet Kuypers
20140707
The old Mickey Finn’s restaurant had a vinyl showcase along one wall opposite their bar; in honor of this we just put up a CD rail over John’s acoustic guitar wall in our music hall downstairs (and we can swap out CDs any time).
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Janet Kuypers
20140707
Okay, one more notice... Hope your only plans for tonight (Monday night, 7/7/14) are to come to the Waiting 4 the Bus poetry open mic (sign ups start at 7:30, open mic starts at 8:00, because after the open mic (with guest host Bob Lawrence), stay for the Janet Kuypers / Bob Rashkow double-feature at Waiting 4 the Bus! Come to the festivities at Jaks Tap (901 W. Jackson in Chicago) because it should be extra-cool with our novel back-and-forth reading with me and the Bobster - and get ready for new Periodic Table poems too
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Janet Kuypers
20140706
Would have worn my Chicago USTA shirt I bought last night, but I thought a white polo was better for watching Wimbledon.
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John Yotko Now she’s cleaning out the vegan
paté from the food processor we just made 20140706
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Janet Kuypers 20140706 I had strawberries and cream for Wimbledon last year, but since you made the mushroom paté this morning (and added your Bitburger beer to it, no less), I had to have the leftovers instead of the non-sweet home-made cream...)
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Janet Kuypers
20140705
Netherlands win!!! (I can’t believe I’m paying attention to soccer, but it’s cool that my Dutch folk won again!).
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Janet Kuypers
20140705
Keep your Monday night open and come to the Janet Kuypers / Bob Rashkow double-feature (not at OUR open mic) at Waiting 4 the Bus! Sign in at 7:30 for an open mic that starts at 8:00 at Jaks Tap (901 W. Jackson in Chicago) because it should be extra-cool with guest host Bob Lawrence! It should be a blast with a novel back-and-forth reading with me and the Bobster - and get ready for new Periodic Table poems too!
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Janet Kuypers 20140706 John explained to me that it is in a soccer match where an average player runs more that any other sport. (90+ minutes, no breaks). The second place sport for a workout (and distances run) is tennis. (I am going to go back to watching the Wimbledon finals now.)
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Janet Kuypers
20140705
After watching the women’s finals this morning for Wimbledon, I am looking forward to watching the men’s USTA professional tennis tournament live this evening (before the men’s Wimbledon finals tomorrow).
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Janet Kuypers 20140705 Our last stop to an outdoor bar yesterday... And John’s post saying “Somebody...” is because he just explained that on his bike ride a random play of music produced the slow Depeche Mode song “Somebody” 5 times (not a fast song to inspire a workout). He is updating his song listings on his phone before his next bike ride.
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Janet Kuypers reviewed Partial Nudity on Goodreads. 20140704
All of the short poems also have YouTube video links after the poems, and since we did a book release feature in Chicago the day the book was released (with 40+ poems - mostly haiku poems - read by assorted people to music), I am adding video links to the book so people can see more video links associated with the many poems in this collection.
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Janet Kuypers
20140703
Lanthanum (#57, LA), Erbium (#68, Er), Hafnium (#72, Hf), Thorium (#90, Th) and Protactinium (#91, PA) are newly completed Periodic Table poems of mine that I will introduce at our feature this Monday (July 7th 2014, 7/7/14) at Waiting 4 the Bus for the “Janet and Bobster” features! Bob Rashkow calls it “Science vs. Insanity” (which is very well may be), but I say this poetry is MONEY (even though we’re still broke if we claim to be professional poets). Still have one more Periodic Table poem to work on (Rutherfordium, #104, Rf) to make it fit into our back-and-forth readings as this first of it’s kind feature with the two hosts of the Café Gallery, doing a show together at Waiting 4 the Bus!
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Janet Kuypers
20140701
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 7/2, from 7-9PM) for the Daniel Cleary feature and a great open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday June 4th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret bar in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry & music open mic and the Daniel Cleary feature night!
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Daniel Cleary
20140630
Come to the Gallery Cabaret this Wednesday to hear me intone my latest verses — with Janet Kuypers
Janet Kuypers Thanks for getting the word out again - I plan to put a post about it on Facebook tomorrow. Looking forward to your feature!
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Janet Kuypers
Bob Rashkow, I think you should have one like this on YOUR Facebook profile picture to super-hype the feature!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140626
This bird is STILL sitting at the tree right outside the back door, chirping like mad. I am really wondering if it is mad that we moved the bird tree house from the branch just below where that bird has been sitting and squawking for hours. (John, maybe we should strengthen the bird house and put it back in the tree...).
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Janet Kuypers
20140626
Just learned from an #AtlasShrugged tweet (along with a quote pic from Ayn Rand) that Part III of Atlas Shrugged (“Who is John Galt?”) will be released the day after 9/11 this year...
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Janet Kuypers
20140626
Ferrer was the insane tennis match yesterday; but today Raphael Nadal plays Rosol, the man who beat Rafa Nadal at Wimbledon in 2012... But right now? Sam Querry is still battling Jo Wilfried Tsonga - it’s a shame Winbledon only lasts two weeks.
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Janet Kuypers Sabrina McGregor
20140626
Happy Birthday, my darling! See you to celebrate this Sunday! (And I like the old Ren & Stimpy hat from your last birthday, by the way...).
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Janet Kuypers And Isner just now almost broke the record from 1973 for the longest tiebreak - in his FIRST set today at Wimbledon.
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Janet Kuypers
20140626
There is a bird chirping SO LOUDLY right outside my window, it’s insane...
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Janet Kuypers It’s a good thing my cats Zach or Mynx didn’t go out there to chase and kill the birds...
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Janet Kuypers Because I would hate it if Zach brought me another dead animal (I know, he’s a hunter, but I don’t want to clean it up...)
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Janet Kuypers
20140625
Hey Dave Johnson, I wanted to send you this postcard coaster but then I wanted to give it to you at my birthday. I forgot it and it was in my purse when I was at a bar with coasters that stuck to my beer - so I used the coaster meant for you instead...
Photo: Hey Dave Johnson, I wanted to send you this postcard coaster but then I wanted to give it to you at my birthday. I forgot it and it was in my purse when I was at a bar with coasters that stuck to my beer - so I used the coaster meant for you instead...
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John Yotko is with
Janet Kuypers at Mickey
Finn’s Brewery. 20140625
There is joy in Janet’s heart. Gudenteit is back on tap... and her birthday gift finally arrived.
Janet Kuypers I didn’t
realize how much I’d like that bracelet. Thank you so much for it. (You totally caught me off guard with it.) Thank you, my love.
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20140622
there were 60+ birthday wishes for Janet Kuypers posted on her facebook page.
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Jenene Ravesloot
20140619
At the Gallery Cabaret for a release party for Partial Nudity with Janet Kuypers, Tom Roby, Jenene Ravesloot, Robert Lawrence, Bob
Weinberg, Bob Rashkow, Esteban Colon, Robin Fine, Je’free, Lynn Fitzgerald,
Donald Hargraves, Michael Hoag and many more. Janet also released four more
books that night. We had a great time. Fun!!!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140619
And I want to give a real genuine thank you to John Kuypers for coming by last night! I did not see you after the feature (because we wen right back into the open mic readings), so I hope you didn’t think it was too terrible (or too weird) a performance last night. But really, thank you so much for coming, it really means the world to me...
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Janet Kuypers
20140619
Had a GREAT time last night at the open mic and feature, and I hope everyone there enjoyed it as well... Thank you to Jenene Ravesloot, Tom Roby, John Yotko, Joffre Stewart (who did a great job before his haiku reading explaining what the Ahnenerbe was to everyone!), Robin Fine, Avrom Litin, Esteban Colon, Bob Lawrence (great intro reading too!), Jerry Pendergsat, Michael Hoag, Kottyn Campbell, and (OF COURSE) Bob Rashkow - THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for being a part of a really fun later-night poetry feature event!
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
So the original reason this new Janet Kuypers poetry collection book was going to be called Partial Nudity was because the cover design had an edited x-ray of my past mammogram, but then it occurred to me that these writings are revealing about me too. That’s why (after 17 years since my last large new poetry book) this became a 2 volume set. And THIS book, Partial Nudity contains a ton of shorter poems written over the years (and for an added touch we put my edited jump image from my janetkuypers.com domain to make me look naked, jumping on top of my mammogram)...
Janet Kuypers 20140618 Just found a single error on the Table of Contents; it’s under review (again) & will be ready for sale very shortly.
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
It has been since 1997 that I have released a new large poetry collection book, and today marks the release a 2 volume Janet Kuypers poetry book. The second book (with longer poems) is Revealed (because this writing may tell you a thing or two about me, with a cover of an edited x-ray of a past Janet Kuypers mammogram)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
Facebook has seen a lot of haiku posts from Janet Kuypers this spring... Well, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including 100 Haikus" (that has bamboo on the cover from the el Yunque tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico, over a colored edited x-ray of Janet’s mammogram)... Which has always been the most popular one of this whole mini-poetry book series.
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including Rape, Sexism, Life & Death" (of poetry about those topics, with translations of some of the poems from this Chicago poet, with cover a bullet-ridden aluminum stripe over an edited x-ray of Janet’s past mammogram)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including Twitterati (you guessed it, of twitter-length poems, with the twitter bird all over the front cover, from from Janet’s past mammogram)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including when you Dream tonight (of poems about dreams - that as an added bonus even has classic dreams poems and poems from her past Chicago Dreams feature, with a photo of the moon she photographed on the cover image from Janet’s past mammogram)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including Give me the News (of poems ABOUT the news as well as newsworthy poetry, with a cover image from Janet’s past mammogram, that for stripes on the covers even has many sheets of newspaper)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including Part of my Pain (with a cover image from Janet’s past mammogram)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of Janet Kuypers poetry, including Let me See you Stripped (with a cover background image from Janet’s past mammogram, with wood strips from a burnt New Orleans building after hurricane Katrina and a superimposed faint image from a Janet Kuypers/HA!Man of South Africa show in Chicago)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140618
If people don’t want to spend the money on a large volume of new poetry, today marks the release of 108-page volumes of poetry, including “Say Nothing” (of poetry and prose, including some performance art writings)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140617
I am glad I have confirmed haiku readers tomorrow night during my feature with Jenene Ravesloot, Tom Roby, John Yotko, Joffre Stewart (I still have no idea if that’s the right way to spell his name), Robin Fine, Avrom Litin, Len Lundh, Esteban Colon, Bob Lawrence,Jerry Pendergsat, Michal Hoag, G.P.A., Kottyn Campbell, and (OF COURSE) Bob Rashkow. I have yet to hear from Patrick Hurley, Dave Gecic or Jeff Helgeson, but I am bring haiku sheet for them all incase they make it (which would be a wonderful surprise!)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140617
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 6/18, AFTER 9:00 PM) for the Janet Kuypers feature and a great open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT - Wednesday July 2ndh 2014 AFTER 9:00 PM at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a FASCINATING night (during the 1 poem/person open mic night, maybe open mic poets will read their cc&d magazine 21-year anniversary issue releases) with music and film during the feature (in the MIDDLE of the open mic), that will even have INTERACTIVE haiku reading from many people IN THE AUDIENCE! We’re even giving away Hershey’s kisses to all readers (hope we have enough chocolate!) too... I’d love to see you at the poetry open mic and Janet Kuypers feature night after 9:00 PM!
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Janet Kuypers
20140615
I really hope Suzanne Hettinger can make it over for my feature Wednesday at Gallery Cabaret; as bizarre added incentive I am adding this video of Mynx, who has learned when I rub her belly to flip her head over (to entice me to scratch her head)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140614
Carol Ann Raftery Trisko, I just received your early birthday card, and THAT IS SO SWEET! You didn’t have to send a card, really, we haven’t seen each other in so long (and to prove it I’m showing our most recent photo together, from FOURTEEN YEARS AGO)... Let me know if you’re free this summer and maybe we can get together!
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Janet Kuypers
20140613
He’s consoling me because I just learned that “Spears” (across the street) is not a male strip club, but a burger joint. BTW “Twin Peaks” (women’s objectification central) - the Hooters ripoff - is next door. — at The RAM - Wheeling
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Janet Kuypers is with Morrissey Official. 20140613
This “unruly girl” (who will not settle down) will be “taken in hand” to see Morrissey tonight (Friday the 13th, no less) at the Lyric Opera Building... I’ll be picking up my shirt for the concert on the way today.
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Janet Kuypers
20140612
I thought that if I could find a Smiths or Morrissey shirt I liked, I’d create my own. (And any Smiths fan knows what the words on this shirt are from, front and back...) But cafepress won’t get it to me until after Father’s Day so I’m shooting for onehourtees, since they’re in Chicago
Janet Kuypers Actually, I’m really pleased that that wouldn’t ship fast enough and I wouldn’t have to pay a ton for next day shipping, because onehourtees.com is located IN Chicago
(on my way to my Morrissey concert, as long as we get there before 5pm), and I was able to design it with layering (and very original) fonts, plus get a couple CD covers on the back. Score! I’ll have to call them soon to confirm the order and mare my payment, but it will cost less and be cooler than the other option I had for getting a shirt for this concert. (That, and I think I’m going to wear it for my feature 6/18 at tthe Café Gallery at the Gallery Cabaret, since it says unruly girl on the front of the shirt... Seems fitting.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140612
Then again, I really enjoyed this one too. (You see, I was looking for a vegetarian t-shirt with next-day shipping so I could have a cool shirt for the Mossissey concert tomorrow; I had no luck finding a “fish aren’t vegetables” t-shirt, but I found these instead.).
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Janet Kuypers Inga Johnson
20140612
Inga, my darling, Happy Birthday!!! (And I wish we got a reminder for the Searle get-together last month at the Village, because we lost it and SO would have gone!
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Janet Kuypers
20140611
Okay. okay, I know Andy Derryberry asked for an autographed copy after I posted the covers for Partial Nudity, but it IS a part of a 2 book set (too many poems for one book). So now I have to put up the other cover for Revealed (though it doesn’t have the shock value of the other book cover). And there are mini books as PARTS of these book too (if people don’t want to order the big volumes)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140610
Just got proof copies of all of my new book releases (and it is cool to use my own Scars Pub. ISBN#s for Partial Nudity and Revealed).
Janet Kuypers 20140611 That photo of me on the front cover is actually my jump image (and I’m clothed) on the main page at janetkuypers.com edited to reflect the idea of the title. (That and the background image is from a past mammogram of mine.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140609
And have a great time tonight for your birthday - I look forward to seeing you soon, Esteban Colon!
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Janet Kuypers
20140609
Hope you have a great birthday, Este Stevie Cologne!
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Janet Kuypers
20140607
Just finished music editing from the DMJ Art Connection (and Andy Derryberry track, actually of a single guitar plink that was used behind poetry on the Scars Publications String Theory CD) to run in the background during the “Guerrilla Haiku Reading” section of my feature 6/18 for the book set release (“Partial Nudity” and “Revealed”). That part of the feature will have John playing (I hope) base guitar music between each haiku...
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Janet Kuypers
20140604
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TONIGHT (Wednesday night 6/4, from 7-9PM) for the Eric Esden feature and a great open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us TONIGHT - Wednesday June 4th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and because cc&d magazine released it’s 21-year anniversary issue (“Invisible Ink”, titled after a poem in the issue by Bill Yarrow) AND four bonus anniversary issue book releases, we’re giving away Hershey’s kisses to all readers (and maybe more kisses, or Mint M&Ms to every open mic reader who reads ANYTHING - from any past or current - issue of cc&d)! I’d love to see you at the poetry open mic and Eric Esden feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20140603
Thanks to John for the snapshot with Jackie Wolk before she had to leave Waiting 4 the Bus (and thanks to everyone who read a haiku on video for my 6/18 feature!)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140603
Good to see everyone out at Charlie Newman’s feature at Waiting 4 the Bus last night.
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Janet Kuypers
20140602
Alright, along with the 21-year anniversary issue release of cc&d (in Invisible Ink), Scars Publications is also releasing four anniversary issue/books to honor the many years of cc&d! The fourth collection book is Sea Drift, or poems & prose & art from the 2012 expanded anniversary issue (plus bonus 2013 anniversary issue writings, PLUS bonus 2014 writings ABOUT “children, churches and daddies”). Check out this one-of-a-kind issue/book today
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Janet Kuypers
20140602
Okay, boys and girls... Along with the 21-year anniversary issue release of cc&d (in Invisible Ink), Scars Publications is also releasing four anniversary issue/books to honor the many years of cc&d! The second collection book is Idols, or poems & prose & art from 2003-2009 anniversary issues (plus bonus 2014 writings ABOUT “children, churches and daddies”). Check out this one-of-a-kind issue/book today
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Janet Kuypers
20140601
Okay, boys and girls... Along with the 21-year anniversary issue release of cc&d (in Invisible Ink), Scars Publications is also releasing four anniversary issue/books to honor the many years of cc&d! The first collection book is a new era, or poems & prose & art from 1994-1997 anniversary issues (plus bonus 2014 writings ABOUT “children, churches and daddies”). Check out this one-of-a-kind issue/book today
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Janet Kuypers
20140529
I don’t think having a 10 gallon aquarium is comparable to loving watching the fish go swim (though the tank DOES look cool); maybe swimming with white-tipped sharks in the Galapagos is comparable. Either way, this Victor Phan drawing looks SO much better than any photos of my underwater, trust me...
See what I mean... (Though it’s probably better to not see the front of me while I’m swimming...).
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Janet Kuypers
20140527
As a contributor to the filming of Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt?, I saw a private film of part of the State Science Institute. And it’s a riot to see that Greg Germann (the man who was on Ally McBeal and who did a spot once on CSI) is playing the role of James Taggart in this movie...
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Janet Kuypers
20140527
I know Victor Phan posted this one page addition, but when I put it in a mms, I thought it was funny/cool to see the drawing version (before the ink version) right next to the color page. Watching the transformation like this is awesome. Thanks again!
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Janet Kuypers
20140525, Via Twitter
Oh I have to post this because (A) I saw it on RecycleBank and (B) we are going to see Morrissey at the Lyric Opera Building June 13th (and I guess because (C) this new album will be out in July), but you can pre-order his new CD World Peace is None of Your Business through iTunes.
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Janet Kuypers
20140525, Via Twitter
I listen 2 the deafening bumble bee buzz of the Indy 500 at tennis’ French Open commercials. video at YouTube
Janet Kuypers Seriously, that buzz that sounds like bumble bees swarming when you watch the Indy 500 on TV is DEAFENING when you watch it live. (I could have gone this year, but going in 2010 and getting to high five Jack Nicholson afterwards was enough.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140524
So, Sandra Kuypers just invited me to “like” her Three Angels Cards page, because she has just started a homemade cards business with two other people. It anyone is interested, check it out...
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Janet Kuypers
20140522
Other than it being Ted Kaczynski’s birthday (I only know that because it was mentioned on an episode of Dark Angel, not because I once posted the Unibomber Manifesto in an issue of cc&d), it is also MORRISSEY’S birthday today... So before it strikes midnight I had to post a photo of my emulating the “Everyday is like Sunday” single cover. (I am wearing a crab ring because I took it for a vegetarian article appearing in the upcoming June/cancer 21-year anniversary issue of cc&d, v249...).
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Roberta Miles
Ooh-la-la!!!
Kiley Brown
WIONDERFUL!
John Yotko
20140522
Janet and I are having our first beers at the new Mickey Finn’s. While we were deciding a Hacker Pschorr appeared in front of Janet. It’s not Gudenteit here but it will do in a pinch. — with Janet Kuypers at Mickey Finn’s Brewery.
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Janet Kuypers
20140522 · Twitter ·
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon).
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Janet Kuypers
20140522 · Twitter ·
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon).
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Janet Kuypers
20140522 · Twitter ·
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (from the Canon).
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Janet Kuypers
20140522 · Twitter ·
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (Posterized, filmed with Canon camera)
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Janet Kuypers
20140522 · Twitter ·
See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 3 poems (including this one) at the open mike Waiting 4 the Bus 5/19/14 in Chicago (C)
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Chris Stolle I think we’re all lost in your hypnotic gaze and not paying attention to the words. Or we’re focused on “nudity.” 
Janet Kuypers Well, the background image on the cover is a collage from the x-ray of my mammogram. (That’s where the name came from.)
Chris Stolle I like that concept. I hope the book is a grand success!
Janet Kuypers I haven’t released a new poetry book since 2004 (that was a small book, etc. but 1997 was the last large new book release). It has been so long and I have written so much that it’s coming out in 2 volumes (300 and 400 pages), “Partial Nudity” and “Revealed”.
Chris Stolle Impressive. You have your own sort of “Leaves of Grass” going on.
Janet Kuypers Wow, a Walt Whitman reference, freaky... After I was almost killed in a car accident years ago, I wrote copy down called Changing Garments, and later found these lines in reference to a Walt Whitman long poem (though I was in a hospital, so I don’t know how I could have known that when I wrote it down). It appears with a Slovak translation in the books too.
Janet Kuypers At one point I thought that if people didn’t want to buy a large volume, maybe I should break them down thematically into many smaller books, so at the same time I will also release many mini-books on the same theme: “Twitterati” (twitter-length poems), “100 Haikus”, “When you Dream Tonight” (dreams poetry), “Give me the News” (news stories poetry and news-worthy poetry), “Rape Sexism Life and Death” (poetry about those things, plus Slovak translation of some of the poems), and other collections like “Let me See you Stripped”, “Part of my Pain”, and “Say Nothing”.
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Janet Kuypers
20140520
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 5/21) for the DOUBLE FEATURE, with Roberta Miles and Virginia Hunt for a great open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us WEDNESDAY NIGHT, May 21st 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry open mic and Roberta Miles and Virginia Hunt double feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20140519
The color is stunning. I am always blown away when I see the design work from Victor Phan - thank you!
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John Yotko
20140518
Since Nadal and Djokovic aren’t in a majors final Janet opted for her artwork champagne glass instead of the tennis glass. — with Janet Kuypers
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Janet Kuypers
20140516
Hey there, cc&d lovers, in a effort to make the web site more iPhone / android / mobile friendly, I have been starting to redesign the frameless web site to be more thumb-friendly, i.e. we added large buttons for main features for the magazine (issues, current issue, guidelines, how to submit to the magazine link, and the free email subscription notice). The background on the main page even ROTATES between different past issues of the mag! So I hope you like the changes, as they are being made...
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Janet Kuypers
20140515
Since Dave Johnson was talking about bamboo on the phone with us, I thought I’d photograph the window sill right next to my chair in the den. I have bamboo plants from the 1990s thee, mixed with more recent (and wider) bamboo - and I made a point to pull the photos I had in the den of bamboo to add to this piece (photos of the Summer Palace in China of a bamboo field and a “don’t walk on the bamboo” sign), the photo of the 3 of us in the Oahu bamboo forest, bamboo from el Yunque Tropical Rain Forest, and a photo of that Oahu forest of bamboo.
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Janet Kuypers
20140510
Though we have wedding anniversary plans today downtown, we’ll try to stop by the #BringBackOurGirls rally at noon today at the Daley Plaza (500 W. Washington) - and I’ll even bring red to wear with everyone...
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Janet Kuypers
20140506
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 5/7) for the DOUBLE FEATURE, with Robin Fine and U.K. poet Oz Hardwick with a great spring open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us WEDNESDAY NIGHT, May 7th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry open mic and Robin Fine and U.K. poet Oz Hardwick double feature night!
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Janet Kuypers
20140504
I saw Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher From Star Trek: The Next Generation) do a special on Orphan Black right before season 2 started on BBC America, and I thought, I thought that show was a cool idea, but I never watched it. So in 1 week I watched the entire 1st season, and am hooked. So like zombies, John and I watch Orphan Black now (where every episode is like a movie). With the main character played the role of every clone, I wonder if I am more like Sarah (the brunette) or Helena (the blonde).
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Janet Kuypers
20140502
Retweeted Sara Russell (@pinkyandrexa):
Poetry Lifetimes is out! Via: @ PoetrySociety @HumpDayPoetry @PoemTrees @PoemsAPlenty @PoetryLifeTimeshttp://t.co/GqI1XEGTUA
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Janet Kuypers
20140502
Retweeted Sara Russell (@pinkyandrexa):
Poetry Lifetimes is out! Via: @PoetryLifetimes @RobinOuzman @saltpublishing @PoemTrees @PoetryLifeTimes @5wahttp://t.co/wDbFyF1RMs
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Janet Kuypers
20140430
John called this one “lazy Chris Angel Yogi” (though I don’t think being lazy in the lotus position at a bar makes me a Yogi). — at Laschet’s Inn
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Janet Kuypers
20140428
I passed out all of my available copies of slated poems for reading at the 2014 Chicago Poetry Bomb, but for those not able to attend, Scars Publications has released (thanks to cc&d magazine) a free Internet downloadable chapbook of Attacking with Poetry (of all poems I considered reading at the event, plus two vegetarian-leaning bonus poems that were collected for a potential reading the day before at a Chicago Vegan Bake event)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140427
Looking forward to going to the 2014 Poetry Bomb today and meeting up with Jenene Ravesloot and Tom Roby IV and Robin Fine (I think) in Lincoln Square by the fountain (and across the street from the Book Cellar).
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Janet Kuypers
20140423
Am kind of pleased, twitter.com has a redesign (and I like change when it means I can generate a new artwork header, still giving credence to the classic twitter cloud design)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140421
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out WEDNESDAY NIGHT (Wednesday night 4/23) for the Oroki Rice feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us WEDNESDAY NIGHT, April 23rd 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry open mic and Oroki Rice feature!
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John Yotko
20140420
it is goth to have long nails if you paint them black, Janet thinks.??)
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Janet Kuypers
20140420
After passing the emptying parking lot at the church down the street, we thought it would be nice to play a little tennis in the morning... (video attached).
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Janet Kuypers
20140419
Private Video on Vimeo (Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt? Teaser Trailer) vimeo.com
Vimeo is the home for high-quality videos and the people who love them.
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Janet Kuypers
20140418
Am pleased that after almost 2 months, a chapbook of the read and requested Periodic Table poems read to chemists and poets at Kenosha’s The Brat Stop was released from Scars Publications (as a supplement to cc&d) in Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat... (It’s a free PDF file chapbook anyone can download for free at any time!).
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Janet Kuypers reviews Under the Sea (photo book), on GoodReads
20140416
 Under the Sea (photo book) is a fun book of images of many animals around the globe. The poem in the book is about all sorts of aquatic animals, and it’s an entertaining read... For the price (for a full color picture book, it’s a great price!) it’s a great little book to get anyone as a display book - it’s even good for kids as they start to grow!
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Janet Kuypers
20140416
Wow, Victor Phan out-did himself with a new dolphins image! I love it!
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Janet Kuypers
20140414
John Yotko keeps talking about how cold it is where HE is, but this just froze my feet.
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Janet Kuypers
20140414
Thought Sandra Kuypers would like to see a photo our John Yotko’s niece Laura Kretchman’s son (he turns 1 year old June 19th) Rylan, with the first toys he grabbed that dad made. (Thought you’d appreciate this...).
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Janet Kuypers
20140413
Announcement to my Astronomy lovers out there: there is supposed to be a lunar eclipse ~1am from Monday night to Tuesday morning. Set your alarms (if you’re not up) and look for the red edges from the sunlight (which is why they call it a “Blood Moon”)...
Janet Kuypers
20140416
So I woke up after 2am (the peak time) and I walked outside to check the weather before I brought my SLR and tripod out... And I saw it was completely cloudy. The closest thing I saw for this “Blood Moon” lunar eclipse in Chicago was from Telemundo...
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Janet Kuypers
20140412, Via Twitter
My haiku poems are also in Poems & Ponderings (in ‘education’) TODAY (Sat. 4/12/14) on line!
Janet Kuypers
20140412
And those haiku poems include: out, of his thirst, close, floor, extinct, last, scorches, organs, choke, explosions, fit, feel, pant, civil, need, kill, John’s Mind, run, mirror, keep, timing, two Not Mute haikus, free, groove, console, knowing, oil, cage, evil, difference, blood, fog, and upturn...
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Janet Kuypers
20140411, Via Twitter
@PoetryLifeTimes & artvilla released Haiku Poems Janet Kuypers w/ video links on line too! My haiku poems in this release include: out, of his thirst, close, floor, extinct, last, scorches, organs, choke, explosions, fit, feel, pant, civil, need, kill, John’s Mind, run, mirror, keep, timing, two Not Mute haikus, free, groove, console, knowing, oil, cage, evil, difference, blood, fog, and upturn...
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Janet Kuypers
20140410
Thank you to everyone who came to the open mic last night! (Tag the henchmen or others at the open mic for me...).
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Janet Kuypers
20140409
What? ANOTHER paperback book release from Scars Publications? Most Definitely! So Hup, Two... fall into line and check out Stay in Formation by CEE, which was just released TODAY as a 6" x 9" perfect-bound ISBN# paperback book!
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Janet Kuypers
20140409 · Twitter ·
this pain in my chest, / pounding, heaving, throbbing, like / it’s trapped, in a cage (@janetkuypers haiku “cage”) @PoetryLifeTimes
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Janet Kuypers
20140408
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TOMORROW NIGHT (Wednesday night 4/9) for the Sid Yiddish feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come join us TOMORROW NIGHT, April 9th 2014 from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery, held at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I’d love to see you at the poetry open mic and Sid Yiddish feature!
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Janet Kuypers
20140402
This is the coolest cover lately for Down in the Dirt - v122 (the March/April 2014 issue) has just been released, and is titled am I really extinct! It’s 108-pages, 6"x9", and is a perfect-bound paperback book with not only the Down in the Dirt ISSN#, but also an ISBN# (and even a QR code on the back cover for ordering copies directly from the printer)! I saved this book/issue release so it wasn’t out on April Fools Day, because there’s no fooling around with this new release from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt!
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Janet Kuypers
20140401
You have one week to watch George Michael’s unique live solo performance at the historic Palais Garnier Opera House in Paris, recorded in 2012 for his live album Symphonica. (He’ the 1st contemporary artist ever to perform there.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140401
Now, what’s cooler than cool is that the BRAND NEW issue of cc&d magazine just came out! The Mar./Apr. 2014 issue, v248 (with cover art be Eric Bonholtzer, no less) was just released as the 6"x9" ISSN#/ISBN# 108-page paperback book titled <Shot out of a Cannon! With poetry, prose, artwork like mad, a “Chicago Pulse” section (highlighting Chicago-area writers), letters about the passing of Nelson Mandela, and even a “lunchtime poll topic” section (with 2 responses to the “letters from the editor” about how U.S. citizens don’t trust their own government), this is one of the longest issues released by Scars Publications — available not only directly from the printer but also, very shortly, from amazon in the United States, the U.K. and continental Europe!
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Janet Kuypers
20140401
In an online event to fight bullying, I donate the poem walking home from school.
once when I was little
I was walking home from school
filled with fear, like I always was
the other kids made fun of me
they called me names
sometimes they threw rocks at me
once they pushed me to the ground
went home, bleeding knees and tears
but once, I’ll never forget, Patti
from 121st street was
walking behind me and threw
her gym shoes at me
they landed right next to me
as I was walking down
that first big hill
I don’t know if I stopped
but I remember for a brief moment
looking up at the tall tree branches
next to the road
all the entangled dead branches
and I thought
that all I had to do
was pick up her shoes
and throw them
as hard as I could
and she would never
get her shoes back
I looked at the trees
for only a moment
and I continued walking
as fast as I could
as I always did
and suddenly the shoes
were long behind me
and the others were laughing
I look back now
and wonder why I didn’t
do it
was I scared of them
was I scared of myself
I still keep asking myself that
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Lennart Lundh
20140328
Belated thanks to YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and a bevy of fine poets for another great evening of readings at Gallery Cabaret this past Tuesday evening. It’s always an inspiring experience to be with all y’all.
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Janet Kuypers
20140326
Just saw that there is only 6 days left to listen to part 2 of the BBC Radio George Michael Interview (part 1 is already gone)
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Janet Kuypers
20140325
It’s starting to come together... Thank you, Victor Phan!
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Janet Kuypers
20140324
Attention all Chicagoland poetry & performance art lovers... DON’T FORGET THIS, because I would love to see EVERYONE out WEDNESDAY NIGHT (3/26) for the Jenene Ravesloot feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come bear the last winter storm with us (now that it’s the beginning of spring) before March goes “out like a lamb” on March 26th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I would love to see everyone out for the poetry open mic and Jenene Ravesloot feature! We might even get some music in the evening (thanks to John on guitar), and we’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20140323 · Twitter ·
Cool - just read a bunch of haikus at Waiting 4 the Bus, and just saw that Poetry Life & Times just released a Saturday, Mar. 22, 2014 edition of Poetry LifeTimes (through paper.li), and it includes 5 of my haiku poems in the “videos” section, including easy, eventually, existence, falling, and census! They release tons of stuff daily on facebook, so check out Poetry Life & Times!
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Kiley Brown
20140319
Here you go Janet Kuypers “Tin”
Janet Kuypers
20140320
It’s a riot to see the segment of us performing “Tin”, and thank you for it! (Hopefully our video for it will link by tomorrow...)
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John Yotko
20140319
Out celebrating 57 countries where Janet’s performance art mp3s have sold. — with Janet Kuypers at the Brat Stop
Janet Kuypers
20140320
USA; Belgium; Argentina; Norway; Poland; Finland; Philippines; Denmark; Ireland; Hong Kong; Brazil; Ukraine; Singapore; Japan; Australia; Russia; Peru; Sweden; Czech Republic; Mexico; Egypt; Greece; Chile; Canada; Italy; Colombia; United Kingdom; France; Spain; Puerto Rico; Oman; United Arab Emirates; Kenya; Kuwait; Saudi Arabia; Taiwan, Province Of China; Indonesia; Germany; India; South Africa; New Zealand; Israel; Malaysia; Netherlands; Slovakia; Hungary; Austria; Guam; Ghana; Nigeria; Uganda; Senegal; Bahrain; Qatar; Gibraltar; Switzerland; Russia (I said I’d list the countries last night - the 17 towards the end only had 5 hits or fewer per country, too...).
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Janet Kuypers
20140319
Sheri Peterson, I wanted to let you know that I will always love you and be there for you. And if you need ANYTHING at all, PLEASE do not hesitate to ask. I am here for you at the drop of a hat.
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Janet Kuypers
20140319
For an in-depth look at Symphonica with George Michael, check out this BBC Radio hour long clip...
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Janet Kuypers
20140319
Oh my gosh, my hair looks so green in this photo... well, thanks again to Kiley Brown for the photos!
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Janet Kuypers
20140319
I should also thank Kiley Brown the crazy effects on cool photos at Waiting4the Bus!
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Janet Kuypers
20140319
Thank you to Kiley Brown for taking photos on St. Patrick’s Day!
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Janet Kuypers
20140319
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 13 of her poems live (haiku poems, very old never-before-read poems, a brand new “extreme sestina variation” poem, and a Periodic Table poem, most read with background music) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus
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Janet Kuypers
20140318
Francois Le Roux, happy birthday! I thought there were too many photos of you with other women on your facebook page, so I had to sneak in some concert photos (and me with many different hair styles/colors, I’m afraid). Have a great birthday! — Janet Kuypers with Francois Le Roux
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Janet Kuypers
20140317
Thanks to John for the select photos at the end of the evening on St. Patrick’s Day at Waiting 4 the Bus...
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Janet Kuypers
20140317
Saw an ad (I think for esurance, or geiko, or something, I usually turn out BS ads on TV) where an old lady is standing in her living room with a bunch of photos tacked to her living room wall, saying that this is so much easier than mailing photos to everyone. So I thought I would take a photo of my wall, so people could see all of the photos I “posted” there. (And no, I am not going to explain what every single photo is, but if anyone asks me to explain what any particular frames image along my den wall is, I would be happy to oblige.) And yes, the TV’s on with video footage from the open mic recently, and I have to rotating digital pictures there too.
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John Yotko
20140316
Out celebrating the installation of our new microwave oven. Janet says it looks like a nuclear reactor in our kitchen... might that explain our hair? — with Janet Kuypers at the Brat Stop
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Janet Kuypers
20140312
Attention all Chicagoland poetry lovers...This is your FINAL WARNING — I would love to see EVERYONE out TONIGHT (Wednesday night 3/14) for the Tom Roby feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come bear the last winter storm with us TONIGHT, March 12th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night; wear green with me and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day early — I would love to see everyone out for the poetry open mic and Tom Roby feature! I am sure Jenene Ravesloot’s hyped for this show, and we’d love to see you there!
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Janet Kuypers
20140312 · Twitter ·
I hope @PoetryLifeTimes liked the many haiku poems I posted last night. I can’t re-tweet my own posts (w/ future book covers for 100 haikus)
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Janet Kuypers
20140311
What a day for tennis yesterday, with a few unexpected turns: A qualifier beat Sharapova AND THEN Dolgopolov beat Nadal at Tennis’ Indian Wells (I couldn’t believe it!) But at the end of the night it was cool that Sloane Stevens beat Ana Ivanovic!
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Janet Kuypers
20140311
The drawings Victor Phan sends me are just great; I’m amazed every time I see a new image.
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Janet Kuypers
20140310
I’ve always said that if it’s 50 degrees I’ll go out for a walk, and this is the only day it looks like it’ll happen this week. Murray is playing in Tennis; Indian Wells right now, so I can get out and move a bit before seeing Roger Federer or Maria Sharapova.
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Janet Kuypers
20140310
Okay, I’m giving you a HEADS UP, because I would love to see EVERYONE out Wednesday night for the Tom Roby feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come out WEDNESDAY NIGHT, March 12th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night, and I would love to see everyone out for the poetry open mic and Tom Roby feature!
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Janet Kuypers
20140309 · Twitter ·
It’s sad; I watch American Davis play tennis at @ Indian Wells tonight, & she has 2 play another American, Lepchenko. http://t.co/A9VhXaXdHO
And they are showing Davis beating Lepchenko mercilessly at the same time that Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” is on. (Great way to end a weekend, battling it our between tennis or astronomy)
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Janet Kuypers
20140309
And it was cool to see President Obama make a little speech on TV about astronomy before the show “Cosmos” started too.
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Janet Kuypers
20140307
After Morrissey’s recent bouts with illness, it’s a shame to hear that is upcoming shows - in New York and L.A., no Chicago (sniff sniff), will feature special guests Cliff Richard in New York and TOM JONES in L.A.
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Janet Kuypers
20140304
Happy Birthday to Brad Woodard - and so you know, I still keep the playbills from all of your performances in the living room here - when are you acting somewhere again?
Brad Woodard
Janet Kuypers, i still have that black hat. 
Janet Kuypers
Oh my God, you still HAVE that hat? I have a bunch of b&w photos we took before going out in college once
and we’re trading hats... I have a ton of hats, but I haven’t kept any of the hats I had i college (I think every time the guys would come over, they’d wear my hats too, scary).
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Janet Kuypers
20140304
Got my Mardi Gras beads (from the Krewe of Endymion, actually), and am ready to enjoy the evening tonight!
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Janet Kuypers
20140302
I posted a number of additional haikus last night to Twitter while watching tennis finals last night (and they didn’t post to facebook). Here they are:
“evil”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
like cream in coffee,
evil explodes into a
mushroom cloud and spreads
———
“oil”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
flowers on the water
broke the oil seeping up from
the submarine grave
———
“John’s Mind”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
human beings are
the only creatures with thought
that’s why we have gods
———
“eventually”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
man-made parallel
lines eventually cross:
nothing’s truly straight
———
“cage”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
this pain in my chest
pounding, heaving, throbbing, it’s
my heart, in a cage
———
“knowing”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
fallen to my knees,
I can feel my chest cave in
knowing it’s my time
———
“census”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
I want to work for
the U. S. Census Bureau,
and count the bodies
———
“gone”
(Janet Kuypers haiku 3/1/14)
when the love is gone
I’ve searched for it, and wondered:
where does the love go?
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Janet Kuypers
20140227
I want to tent my fingers and say “excellent...”, because I just got a Twitter email letting me know that Poetry LifeTimes just released “Haiku Today” in their Wed., Feb. 26, 2014 issue of paper.li that includes my Periodic Table poem Neodymium - with a link to an artvilla web page of the poem (with a video link)! The issue has already been updated since yesterday (and today’s listing doesn’t have my poem listed any longer), so hurry up and check out Poetry LifeTimes on facebook, since it’s always changing!
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Janet Kuypers
20140226
This is you FINAL WARNING, because I would love to see EVERYONE out TONIGHT (Wednesday night!) for the Elizabeth Marino feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come out TONIGHT, February 26th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... Elizabeth Marino will be a GREAT feature (and get there early, because you may get a song from us), so come join me and Bob Rashkow at the Café Gallery open mic!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140221
Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat... It’s a long haul for Chicagoans, but because chemist friends in Kenosha are up for a poetry get-together in Wisconsin, Janet Kuypers set up a meeting for the Periodic Table and Poetry at The Brat Stop (at 12304 75th Street in Kenosha). If you’re up for cheaper gas prices, cheaper beer and Brats at The Brat Stop, come by Sunday 2/23 at noon - we should be seated not at the bar, but on the first floor closer to the stage. (If they have something going on that is too noisy, we can go to a private room just off the bar.) Who knows - if everyone is up for it, others can read poetry there too (don’t know how long the chemists are staying, but it’s a totally open get-together). There are a very select few new Periodic Table
poems that could be read (like the brand-new Thallium, or the bonus Periodic Table poems Dilithium and Tritium), but requests will take over this reading - it’s a totally open-ended format for a Periodic Table poetry reading, and we would LOVE to see you there!
Janet Kuypers
20140221
Just heard the chemists think it’s a 1pm start time versus noon, so through we may be there early, the start-up time for this get-together has technically changed to 1pm. (I think 1pm was the original start time anyway.) Bug me if you want to meet up early...
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Janet Kuypers
20140217
I cannot believe how the highways through Illinois right now are like the storms 1/5 (going 20 mph driving over ice).
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John Yotko
20140217
Passed the throwed rolls in Sikeston to go to the Illinois town with the Marion prison for Janet’s addiction to Taco John’s. — with Janet Kuypers at Taco John’s
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John Yotko
20140215
And we got a table before the post-parade rush. — with Janet Kuypers at Angeli
Janet Kuypers
20140215
So we’re eating on Decatur and the parade came to our street. Saw the float from theick & a “BIG FUN” poster (TEENAGE SUICIDE DON’T DO IT)
Janet Kuypers
20140215
ut then I saw a float w/ the planets orbiting a water bong. And don’t forget the guy w/ the “God ...hates shrimp” poster.
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John Yotko
20140214
I told Janet Kuypers they have her favorite coffee here (currently unavailable coffee), so she took the pic.
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Janet Kuypers
20140212
This is you FINAL WARNING, because I would love to see EVERYONE out TONIGHT (Wednesday night!) for the Marianne Schaefer feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come out TONIGHT, February 12th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... Marianne Schaefer will be a GREAT feature, and it will be a great night to start your Valentine’s Day celebrations (or even celebrate Lincoln’s birthday), with me and Bob Rashkow at the Café Gallery open mic!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140207
After watching Comedy Central shows recently, I want to make mock-ups of childhood memories, like the Pope birth control Pez dispenser (thank to The Colbert Report) or the Morrissey ‘N Say, thanks to a winning tweet from @midnight (if only I get get Morrisey’s voice over animals like the cow or the chicken, making a moral statement for vegetarianism. What a riot.)
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Janet Kuypers
20140206
I am so excited that I am going to see John tomorrow, you have no idea.
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Artvilla.com
20140204
Congrats to Janet Kuypers... Maybe someone in Russia, or India is listening right now. Sometimes it seems the things we have done at Artvilla since 1998 don’t matter, but the efforts Andy Derryberry and others made with you and me to put music to your recordings are honest. We tried long before anyone else to put music to poetry. The free and unselfish giving by others to Artvilla shows. I thank you.
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Janet Kuypers
20140202 · Twitter ·
Retweeted U2 (@U2):
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Janet Kuypers
20140202
I have to admit, at 22 - 0 for Seattle, it was stunning to see Stephen Colbert in a few ads for pistachios... The effects were awesome too!)
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Janet Kuypers
20140202
So on the first play Manning changes his mind last minute and the ball is snapped way into their own end zone and Seattle gets a safety. What a riot. (Oh yeah, I made a point to wear my Bears pants, since I’m not from Denver or Seattle.)
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Janet Kuypers
20140201
I am pleased that John Y.’s photography graces the cover of the FIRST issue of Down in the Dirt magazine that will be available for sale (via amazon.com) in the U.S., the U.K. and continental Europe! Check out I Pull the Strings, the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue (v121) of Down in the Dirt, published by Scars Publications. See the ISSN# issue / ISBN# paperback book online, or order a copy directly from the printer any time!
Janet Kuypers
20140202
Janet Kuypers I am glad you like it. I like the fact that I not only included on the back cover the bar codes of the Down in the Dirt ISSN# and the I Pull the Strings ISBN#, but also the QR codes for Down in the Dirt’s web page at the top and the book sale page at the bottom...
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Janet Kuypers
20140130
20130929 Streaming live from the set of Atlas Shrugged 3 now.
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Janet Kuypers
20140129
Although he is asleep right now, he DID say it first to me... I need to wish John Yotko a happy anniversary from our first date. I remember looking through the crowds at the train station waiting to see you, and today I can’t wait to see you again. I love you.
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Janet Kuypers
20140129 · Twitter ·
(via Twitter, “tweets”)
b: Is the Universe filled with nothingness or dark matter, pulling on us, tugging on us, affecting us... What is the value of nothingness?
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Janet Kuypers
20140129 · Twitter ·
(via Twitter, “tweets”)
a: Unemployed lie around & do nothing, but those who work vacation so they can lie around & do nothing. What is the value of nothingness?
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Janet Kuypers
20140127
This is a message from the Emergency Broadcasting System... I would love to see EVERYONE out Wednesday (1/29/13) for the Wayne Allen Jones feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Join us from 7-9pm at the Café Gallery at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... Wayne Allen Jones is ALWAYS a GREAT feature, and it will be a great night to to cap January, with the Café Gallery open mic!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140126
Just got notice that Poetry lifetimes on Facebook released a new issue - it links to a bunch of cool poetry, audio and video! It includes links to all of their past issues, including many issues with my Periodic Table Periodic Table poems from artvilla included in them!
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Janet Kuypers
20140126
They are replaying the finals for the Australian Open on ESPN right now; even though I saw it, and even though I haven’t had enough sleep, I’ll watch it again.
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Janet Kuypers
20140126
I would usually drink champagne for a tennis finals match. Not in the middle of the night though... (Wonder if I will be able to fall back asleep after this match!)
Janet Kuypers Wawrinks just broke the Nadal serve in set 4! Will it hold? 20140126
Janet Kuypers No, Nadal breaks back. (Let us not kid ourselves, this would not be easy.) 20140126
Janet Kuypers Holey cow. I am not going to tell people how this match goes (in case they want to avoid the news and watch a replay of this most bizarre match). This was worth waking up after 3.5 hours of sleep for - what a match! 20140126
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Janet Kuypers
20140126
After the back stop from Nadal, Stan (albeit angry) is back with a vengeance. Nadal is in pain from back injury... What will happen?
Janet Kuypers This was the weirdest thing. Nadal serves and is playing like he is in a huge load of pain, and when he failed at a shot, NO ONE applauded for Wawrinka. (Granted, Wawrinka is 1 game from winning set 2.) 20140126
Janet Kuypers Now Stan’s 1 set from winning. 20140126
Janet Kuypers As the 3rd set started with a Nadal serve, it looked like Wawrinka was playing “nice”, like he was feeling bad for Nadal’s pain. (I know this sounds like it sucks to say, but no competitor should EVER do that.) Because of this, set 3 starts with Nadal Breaking Wawrinka. (I think the pain medication and back run for Nadal helped him, but the crowd is still rooting for the health of Rafa Nadal.) 20140126
Janet Kuypers Wawrinka has 13 unforced errors in 3rd set, and Nadal is playing well(ish) again. And Nadal is starting to do the things he normally does in his (psychotic) routine (having gel to eat at certain times, blah blah blah), so I wonder if Wawrinka can catch up. This is really turning out to be a nail-biting match. 20140126
Janet Kuypers Nadal wins set 3.
You know when Wawrinka won every time before, you would see Stan point at his temple, which makes me think it is his mind that helps him win. I just wish that right now Stan would get his MIND back, so that he can get back to pushing Nadal so he can pull of the 3rd set.
Let’s see how the 4th set goes... 20140126
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Janet Kuypers
20140126
It’s approaching 8PM in Melbourne (3AM in Chicago); Wawrinka won the toss and served first and is playing well. (As is Rafa Nadal, duh...) We’ll see as it approaches the end of the 1st set.
Janet Kuypers
20140126
Wawrinka has lost only one point on every service game. I was expecting this to be more one-sided, but this is turning out well.
Janet Kuypers
20140126
After watching Nadal’s pre-serving routine (pick his butt, shoulder, shoulder, left ear, nose, right ear, nose, then serve) Wawrinka manage to break Rafa Nadal and win the first set (with the first time he ever won a set over Raphael Nadal). Now it’s time for set two...
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Janet Kuypers updated her profile picture. 20140123
Changed my profile picture for the next few days to a tennis theme, because the Australian Open has been going on - and the finals are this weekend. I know Federer and Nadal are set to play today, but it will probably be at 3A.M. (but I’m positive they’ll play it over ad over again on TV Friday so I can see it). I’m sure it will be a GREAT match!
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John Yotko
20140119
Had to get the Brat Stop’s Blue Dog painting in our photo after the Broncos/Patriots game (and before the 49ers/Seahawks game). — with Janet Kuypers at The Brat Stop
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Janet Kuypers
20140119
Had a great time not only talking to Jeffery Wayne Helgeson (who WROTE “In the Moment”l), but also talking to the actors and the director of the play performance at Prop Theater Friday night. (It was really cool talking to the actors and director after the show, and talking to Jef about what was changed from his original writing for the stage performance...) — with John Yotko at The Village Inn Pizzeria Sports Bar and Grill (Skokie IL).
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Janet Kuypers
20140116
Talking about the Australian Open
When hosting the open mic the Café Gallery last night, I mentioned the word “sports”, got a shout-out, then I talked about American tennis players in the Australian Open.
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Janet Kuypers
20140116
I let HA!Man know that on twitter @thehaman posted a private YouTube video about feet that the public couldn’t access.
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Janet Kuypers
20140115
This is you FINAL WARNING, because I would love to see EVERYONE out TONIGHT (Wednesday night!) for the Patrick Hurley feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come out TONIGHT, January 15th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night to start off the poetry open mic in 2014!!!
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Janet Kuypers
20140113
We like the dark replicas of many postcards that appear on the covers of the Mike Brennan chapbook Postcards from Exile (because we displayed them in black so it is harder to read the postcard writing)... But still, we could ALSO release it with the cover in it’s original off white... So Scars Publications hopes everyone likes BOTH covers in the new 2014 Mike Brennan chapbook Postcards from Exile (which are free to download any time on line)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140110 · Twitter ·
slowly coasting on the icy road at 18-20 MPH, car after car, semi after semi was dead on the snowy median - we stared at the auto graveyard.
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Janet Kuypers
20140110
Here’s a call-out to all poetry lovers - I would love to see EVERYONE out NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT for the Patrick Hurley feature and open mic night at the Café Gallery! Come out January 15th 2014 from 7-9pm to the Café Gallery at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (2020 N. Oakley Ave, right by Armitage and Western and at the Blue line “L” stop, with tons of free parking)... It will be a GREAT night to start off the poetry open mic in 2014!!!
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John Yotko
20140109
I said, “you can’t split an M&M” and Janet said, “apparently you haven’t heard of a Plank Length” leaving me a bit perplexed: DAMN Science Channel! — with Janet Kuypers at Light the Lamp Brewery.
Janet Kuypers
20140109
Okay, okay, someone was saying on TV while we were on break that you can’t split an M&M, but I do it all the time - I usually don’t eat M&Ms, but those dark chocolate mint one, I just love them, and I bite it in half and eat it one half at a time (to savor it longer)... And John, it’s “Planck length” not walking the Plank length (and by the way, a Planck length is 1.61619926 x 10-35 meters, but there I go, being all science-y again)...
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Janet Kuypers
20140108
It was novel in Arcola this morning watching CBS WCIA news - it reminded me that the network did a news story once about the ‘healing works’ art show, and interviewed me and my friend Joe.
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Janet Kuypers
20140108
So John couldn’t photograph me with his camera when I was using his camera’s photo of us to put a photo of my eyes over me, so he used my crappy small camera phone and emailed it to me. This was me last night... . — at It’ll Do.
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Janet Kuypers
20140107
We’re a mile from our exit, john sees on an attractions sign a dairy queen and he laughs and says he wants a blizzard.
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Janet Kuypers
20140107
The road is still perilous and the speed has slowed, but the trees still look awesome after the first real snow storm of the season.
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Janet Kuypers
20140106
This is the view out of hotel room #4 (since the hotel moved us 3 times for our 2nd night here after the severe blizzard).
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Janet Kuypers
20140106
Hey, they said they changed their alerts from RED (emergency driving only) to ORANGE (essential driving only). Well, I would say it’s essential that I get out of this town, but I don’t think that’s physically possible... But I DO think it’s essential I get out of this hotel room for a bit.
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Janet Kuypers
20140105
Made it as far as Indianapolis because of the horrific weather. This is out our hotel window.
A state of emergency has been declared in our town right now... We were watching TV for all of the churches and schools that were closed; the breakfast room in our hotel had a bunch of truck drivers who’s trucks wouldn’t even start this morning. John checked, and our car DOES start (time to remove ice) - they recommend no driving, but, well, we have places to go...
Roads are closed throughout Indiana and Illinois right now; we physically cannot drive west or north. (Truckers are stuck here and locals who have lost power are here, all other hotels are booked.) John is getting out room here for another day. It looks like there’s no human way for us to even leave here until tomorrow. (Welcome to two weeks into winter.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140105
Math guru John Yotko’s new word: “Diangular.” (He explained this word to me two days ago.) He told me it is three connected lines, but one line is infinitely long. (I told him that if the infinitely long line is connected, then it has an ending point; if it is infinitely long and is connected to two other lines, then the other two lines are also infinitely long. I don’t think he liked my saying that.)
Addendum: This morning he explained to me that he never told me that the infinitely long line had to be straight. (I guess that explanation makes him the math guru.).
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Janet Kuypers
20140104
Just saw a beautiful night sky - had to ask John to pull over so we could see the Milky Way from our corner of the galaxy.
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Janet Kuypers
20140104
The locals may say they’re ‘mighty proud’ of their pea-cahns, but the capitalist in me says they’re more expensive here than most other places along this road, so we’ll get our high-antioxidant pecan nuts somewhere else... — at Magnolia Plantation Inc.
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Janet Kuypers
20140104
I think I may have found a potential cover for Down in the Dirt for 2014...
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Janet Kuypers
20140103
It is a shame I didn’t have the good SLR with us on the beach, but it was nice to try
to snap photos of the water at the beach from under the pier - and I had to try to get a photo with the moon, but it was getting dark by then... It was funny though to see on the beach how many bird tracks you could see at some points too.
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John Yotko
20140101
2014... now on sale for less than $10! (That’s what Janet’s dad’s clock reads) — photo by Janet Kuypers
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This is what happens when the Dj starts singing Billy Joel. Bottle of red... now she’s chugging the white. — 
celebrating New Year’s Eve with Janet Kuypers at Bodega.
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Have to O D on trees while we can...
I wore my Lucille ring with thoughts of my little Lucy tonight!!! (Smooches to Joel and Sabrina McGregor!).
I am crossing my fingers for Lucy’s arrival, just so Sabrina McGregor knows... (And we took the photo from Lucy’s perspective).
After they didn’t light candles (after asking twice), they said they couldn’t find a lighter, so we got candle apps on our phones (there’s an APP for that!).
Before we left, I had to wear my flower pin (because it makes me think of Last Christmas, ~1985)... @bodega
Thrilled I randomized the lead image for janetkuypers.com in time for 2015 - keep refreshing to 2 see all pics! http://t.co/0UU2kp8RWd
It’s the end of the year blowout sale! We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Come Fly With Me (from cc&d magazine, issue 211, August 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
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See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem behind (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem behind (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize).
It’s an end of the year clearance! We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Clearing the Debris (what an appropriate title for a book going on sale on the last day of the year, of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 85, August 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers in this collection include Matthew Glasgow, John Ragusa, Raud Kennedy, John Rachel, Mary Campbell, Matthew Lett, Christa Ward, Anthony R Pezzula, Roger Cowin, Michael Grigsby, Scott Brownlee, David Danforth, Linda Andrisan, Michael de Mare, G. Tod Slone, Matt Rosen, A. C. Lippert, Jon Brunette and Andrew Jefchak.).
Every part of me (or, me and all my alter egos) wish everyone a Happy New Year... http://t.co/kDlBgyQNTh
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem enemies (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem enemies (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize).
We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Six Six Six (from cc&d magazine, issue 212, September 2010) by OVER 20% - now order the 6"x9" perfect bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! 
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Ants and Crosses (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Ants and Crosses (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, post.).
We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Skeletal Remains (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 86, September 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her haiku difference (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her haiku difference (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize).
We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Out of the Web (from cc&d magazine, issue 213, October 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99!
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem bear (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem bear (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize).
We have just reduced the price of the 2010 book Sectioned & Sequestered (of Down in the Dirt magazine, issue 87, October 2010) by OVER 20% - now you can order the 6"x9" perfect-bound ISBN# book (available for sale anywhere in the U.S.) for only $9.99! (Writers and artists included in this issue are John Ragusa, Fritz Hamilton, Renee S. DeCamillis, Shane Collins, Timothy Fenster, Ms. Nia A’Yara, Roger Cowin, Sarah Mallery, Ernest Williamson, Mike Barry, Allan Onik, Dietrich Kalteis, Christopher Woods , L. Burnette Clark, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Dis-Ease, Angel Propps, Ira Joel Haber, Benjamin Brindise, Jon Brunette, Bethany Young, Ines Lopes, Patrick Longe, Mel Waldman, Michael de Mare, and Ira Joel Haber.).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon).
See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem defenses (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize).
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Retweeted Poetry Life & Times (@PoetryLifeTimes):
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Janet found her Strong Bad er uhm Strongbow. — with 
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Last night’s feature and open-mic hosted by the poetess-extraordinaire 
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