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More quantum tennis as Monaco observes the potential balls to hit thereby bringing them into existence.

John Yotko added 2 new photos — with Janet Kuypers at

Waiting through Jack Sock medical treatment #2.

Janet Kuypers at

With empty seats next to us, the 2 white women behind them put their feet on the empty seas. Then an Indian couple asked if the seats were taken, & the women said they were saving the seats for friends. Later a white couple of strangers sat down and the women said nothing.

Fascinating to see such underlying racism like that.

John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at

Janet figured if she couldn’t walk on the clay court she could at least save some clay from the grounds somehow (because the tennis balls from this tournament have to be covered with clay).

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers at

Those who know us will find the humor in Janet having seat 22 and me having seat 23.

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Two years ago today... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202926664781625&set=a.1601561992956. 87650.1053252458&type=3&theater

What a comeback for the Bryan brothers last night! Looking forward to the finals this afternoon!

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Posted my “Love” chapbook one years ago; may use a version of one of these in my 5/7/15 Austin poetry feature.

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Then again, one years ago I posted this “Love” Chicago feature cover photo, which so reflects my wedding anniversary

Austin feature 5/7/16, where John will play guitar...

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Three years ago I posted this Periodic Table poem feature cover photo, and just today I wrote a new Plutonium poem I

intend to read at my 1st Austin feature 5/7/16...

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers at

Cafe 290 20160410

Having breakfast on our way to the finals. Interesting note: Cafe 290 first opened in the post WWII era. The restaurant is an old Army barracks used during the war in Camp Swift. It was moved to where it is now and was converted to a restaurant during the highway construction initiative under President Dwight D Eisenhower.

Janet Kuypers And cut off on my side of the picture is a route 66 sign (not quite the same, but okay). 20160410

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Two years ago today...

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One year ago today I posted Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku drowning as a looping JKPoetryVine video live (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Samsung).

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One year ago today I posted Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku My New Grocery List as a looping JKPoetryVine video live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200, flipped & saturated).

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But of course I had to get it from a different angle... Because one year ago today I posted Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mirror as a looping JKPoetryVine video live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Sony).

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And one year ago today I posted Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku mirror as a looping JKPoetryVine video live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (Canon fs200).

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Wow, John, thank you for taking these photos that I posted 3 years ago today from the Café Gallery 4/10/13. It is great to see these photos again...

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Janet taking some photos of the Isner Sock match.

John Yotko added 2 new photos — with Janet Kuypers at

Before the Monaco / Lopez semifinals

John Yotko

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DGN Factory. 20160409

For lunch before tennis, Janet wanted to stop by a vegetarian Indian restaurant. The food is delicious and fiery.

Janet Kuypers I only saw this place (when their sign said they make crepes, because Americans don’t know what dosas are, and btw, we’re the only non-Indians here) because we passed it on our way to the hotel, which was right to gentleman’s clubs and a place called "Centerfolds". This hotel was 5 miles from the country club sponsoring the only clay court tennis event in the States. 20160409

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I told John that the clay on these courts is made from red brick (like our red brick house). He said he knew that, and that the red bricks are made from red clay. Ah, the circle of life.

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Had a great time yesterday in the quarterfinals for the men’s clay court championship. Looking forward to the semifinals today.

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers at

The British Pub. 20160408

I needed food so I took Janet to Richmond Arms aka The British Pub. I got fish and chips and she got to sit next to a fountain.

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers at

US Men’s Clay Court Championship. 20160408

Janet Kuypers Monaco beating Querry, Lopez beating Smyczek, then the Bryan brothers beating Johnson/Querry... I won’t say the last 2 matches 20160408

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers at

US Men’s Clay Court Championship. 20160408

Janet Kuypers They never lit the lights in the strings that night (sniff). 20160408

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers at

US Men’s Clay Court Championship. 20160408

Catching some tennis in Houston.

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One year ago today, I released Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knife (yea to the power of a working camera on my cell phone!) from WZRD Chicago radio...

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I was advertising my love show with John one year ago today, and I found out this week that my first Austin poetry feature is

on my wedding anniversary (May 7^th), so John will join me on guitar for love poetry too!

Janet Kuypers
20160407, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 new poems brewery, eating slices of white bread and Jumping from the Mausoleum 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

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20160407, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

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It breaks my heart that last year this weekend (4/8/15) I was writing about how I had not updated the web page for performances of mine with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in a while... So last year I updated Chicago to South Africa with new listings - but the thing is, I USED to have access to a server that allowed for storing mp3 files (which was most of the tracks available on the page), so since the move to Texas (because it was before then I lost that mp3 server) I have been too afraid to look at and eliminate most of what WAS mp3 linked on the site. SO, I saw this post from one year ago this weekend, and I thought, oh, I should clean that page up... So I did it today, and because I added so many video performances of Periodic Table of Poetry poems (that were videos and not mp3s), and because many have iTunes tracks, the newly-revised Chicago to South Africa page now has no bad links, and it still surprisingly long with content! I know last fall was the last time I actually SAW the HA!Man of South Africa, but I’m hoping he may make the trip to Austin (I mean, he is one for music, and they DO have quite a music scene here)... But since I’m new here, I don’t know if I’d be able to GET him a show in the city.

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Here is my little child, Artvilla’s top download. I see why. Janet Kuypers I’m Not Sick but I’m Not Well with Andy’s music.

Janet Kuypers I *believe* this may

be the track that appears on the CD Indian Flux, This is seriously the top download? Awesome! 20160407

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20160407, via Vine

Oh, but let me get my vine videos in there too! (I feel so bad that my phone camera has not worked pretty much all of this year, and short of getting my smart phone replace AGAIN this year, there’s no way I can post any more vine videos! This is so frustrating!) Because I see that 1 year ago today I posted a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku kindness as a looping JKPoetryVine video live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (originally filmed from our Canon fs200 video camera). I still have more of those WXRD haiku poems to upload (but yeah, my camera on my smart phone is still dead)... I don’t know if I’m reading any haiku pems on Austin Radio this month (a show I am SO looking forward to), so I’ll HAVE to eventually get these WZRD Radio haiku poems onto vine, I HAVE to!

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20160407, via Twitter

Then again, 1 year ago today I posted my Twitter-length haiku on Twitter, drowning (which I first performed in my love feature with John on guitar, recorded with our Canon Power Shot and Canon fs200 video
video

cameras, that I also released from there as a Vine video, before I later read it live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago and filmed with

the Canon fs200 video camera):
“I love you the way /
a drowning man loves air.” I’m /
lifeless without you /

JK’s haiku “drowning”
quote: The Crown of Embers, Rae Carson

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
if we’re cast in stone/I’d watch your form forever,/frozen by your side (haiku “form”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
Records? I’m vinyl./Your needle’s been in my grooves;/through every ridge, pore. (haiku “groove”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
fallen to my knees,/I can feel my chest cave in/knowing it’s my time (haiku “knowing”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
when putting same clothes/on angels and demons, you/can’t tell them apart (haiku “difference”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
fog envelopes me / it’s a thick, powerful force / that doesn’t let go (haiku “fog”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
with blurred eyes, hollow/upturned tortoise shells look like/battle casualties (haiku “”)

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
just when you feel hope,/then they take it, quickly. it’s/all in the timing (haiku timing)

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
I need to record / these things to remind myself / that I am alive (haiku “need”)

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
I feel nothing but/the intensity you feel./Your thoughts cut my face. (haiku “feel”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
amazing how much / of your life you can fit in / a single suitcase (haiku “fit”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
I have to take showers,/scrub skin, rip out organs, to/rid myself of you (haiku “organs”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account: Take the final swig./It burns it’s way down your throat./It scorches your tongue. (haiku “scorches”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account: But I have to drink/more. The burning doesn’t last/as long as you do. (haiku “last”)

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20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
when they go extinct/do we study the mistakes/or just study bones (haiku “extinct”)

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
Writhing on the floor,/bruised, she cried, begged for an end./I had to kill her (haiku “kill”)

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account: death’s an animal / perched under your bed, waiting for / you to close your eyes (haiku “close”)

Janet Kuypers
20160407, Via Twitter

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/14) I posted up this twitter-length poem on my first Twitter account:
spirits inside you/want to come out and scream their/story to the world (haiku “out”)

Janet Kuypers, 20160407, Via YouTube

2 years ago this weekend (4/8/15) I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing from memory my poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far in her 4/5/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (filmed with a Canon camera).

Janet Kuypers, 20160407, Via YouTube

2 years ago this weekend (4/9/15) I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing from memory my poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far in her 4/5/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (video w/ a posterize filter).

Janet Kuypers, 20160407, Via YouTube

2 years ago this weekend (4/7/15) I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing from memory most of my poem Keeping a Record of Going Too Far in her 4/5/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (filmed from an iPhone).

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Janet and John at Timothy O’Toole’s Pub in Gurnee

This is what John and I did to avoid watching b ball two years ago today, and now that we’ve moved to Texas, they even obsess here about high school sports games (but if they get into it so much, I use that as an excuse to wear my Chief Illiniwek U of I shirts on Saturdays).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me (S) reading my poem Observer’s Love Poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago.

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me (C) reading my poem Observer’s Love Poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago.

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Too Far 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (from the Sony).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Too Far 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (from the Canon).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Just Can᾿t Breathe (that I read from cc&d magazine, v222, the July 2011 issue) 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (from the Canon).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Keeps Pounding Against Walls 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (C).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Keeps Pounding Against Walls 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (S).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Left with a Hole 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (C)

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Left with a Hole 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (S).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Let Me Be 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (S).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Let Me Be 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (C).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of my performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (w/ a Canon camera).

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3 years ago this weekend (4/9/13) I posted YouTube video of my performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone Art Center (w/ a Sony camera).

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Wow, I’m going to have to look back over the years on facebook throughout this weekend, because I don’t think I’ll have the time to think about my past shows in Chicago when John and I will be going to the US Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston this weekend...

Janet Kuypers
20160406, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying part of my poem Everything was Alive and Dying about bad dreams, then listing 2016 Republican candidates for President 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

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20160406, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See video of Janet Kuypers saying part of my poem Everything was Alive and Dying about bad dreams, then listing 2016 Republican candidates for President 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot, w/ a Threshold filter).

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Let’s get back to my performance art roots, because one year ago today I uploaded a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160406

Let’s get back to my performance art roots, because one year ago today I uploaded a Vine video of of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed on a Canon fs200).

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I see this photo from two years ago today and it makes me sad that it seems that we haven’t spent enough real quality time together because of the move to a new city. Maybe we’ll enjoy Houston this weekend (unless we make the commute daily, 3 hours each way, versus getting a hotel).

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Janet Kuypers with Strongbow / Strongbad beer bottle

Apparently three years ago I liked making references to Strong Bad from Homestar Runner...

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It is wonderful to see these recollections of when I ran the open mic every week... I just saw that five years ago today (April 6^th 2011) I posted YouTube video of me reading the Kevin Heaton poem Cycles of the Sun from the April 2011 issue (v219) of cc&d magazine (which was also available as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book Falling Into Place, still for sale on line)...

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It is wonderful to see these recollections of when I ran the open mic every week... I just saw that five years ago today (April 6^th 2011) I posted YouTube video of me reading the Michael Ceraolo poem On Several Adventures in Municipal Government (I) from the April 2011 issue (v219) of cc&d magazine (which was also available as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book Falling Into Place)...

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It is wonderful to see these recollections of when I ran the open mic every week... I just saw that five years ago today (April 6^th 2011) I posted YouTube video of me reading the Kristine Ong Muslim poem Mr. Flip as a Sarcophagus from the April 2011 issue (v219) of cc&d magazine (which was also available as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book Falling Into Place, still for sale on line)...

Janet Kuypers
20160405, via Twitter

Photo’d Dennis Kudla @ the W&S Open 8/16/15; he won last night in Houston on clay, that I’ll see live this weekend! http://t.co/vr44gwQSyi

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20160405, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

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Janet Kuypers
20160405, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers saying part of my poem Everything was Alive and Dying about how Republican candidates for President in 2016 would respond to bad dreams about how humans contribute to the destruction of the planet 4/3/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot, Edge Detection filter).

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That was the cool thing about being in Chicago (like two years ago today, when we took the day to go from one place to the next to try different places), that you COULD do that in Chicago. I haven’t really found that in Austin, unless you go to the 2 streets downtown (that are touristy and overpriced, and no, I don’t consider food trucks, which are businesses that don’t want to pay for restaurant space, I don’t consider a food truck isn’t going places, sorry).

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This is called feeling comfortable at a bar (like I did at Laschet’s Inn two years ago today, and like I always did when I was there).

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Most people who drink weisse beers casually aren’t aware that the flavor is in the sediment at the bottom of the bottle (like I was extracting two years ago today).

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John getting creative with his photography two years ago today at Bar Bar Black Sheep...

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Oh, I forgot, since we paid meter parking for the day at Damen North & Milwaukee, John and I made a point two years ago today to go to many new places...

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Since we were in the neighborhood two years ago today for my audition, we stopped at Native Foods Café because they had the best vegan meatball sandwich I had ever tasted (the sauce was phenomenal). I think most of those restaurants stopped carrying that sub, which was the BEST thing they had (and the only real reason why I’d spend the money for their food).

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It was two years ago today when I went on my first Beast Women audition (thanks John for snapping this photo of me in my wig at the theatre).

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Janet Kuypers is happy about Sam Querry winning his match in the Davis Cup

Apparently three years ago John caught this photo of me getting into the David Cup and my Periodic Table of Poetry... I’ve completed my Periodic Table of Poetry, and right now I’m not watching tennis’ David Cup, but the US Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston (before we get there Friday and this weekend for final matches, in the only U.S. clay court tournament).

But I did a little reading at Café Ballou too (and I picked weird ones to read)... I saw that four years ago today I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Springtime (written with Chad) live at Chicago’s Waiting4the Bus open mic 4/2/12...

But I did a little reading at Café Ballou too (and I picked weird ones to read)... I saw that four years ago today I posted YouTube video of me reading my poem Watching you Eat a Donut (written with Lance) live at Chicago’s Waiting4the Bus open mic 4/2/12...

How awesome to see men reading my poetry... because four years ago today I posted YouTube video of Jeff Helgeson reading my poem Last Before Extinction live at Chicago’s Waiting4the Bus open mic 4/2/12 at Café Ballou...

How awesome to see men reading my poetry... because four years ago today I posted YouTube video of Jeff Helgeson reading my poem Slate and Marrow live at Chicago’s Waiting4the Bus open mic 4/2/12 at Café Ballou (which the DMJ Art Connection even mixed into a track for the eventual CD Other Voices, of other people performing my poetry).

How awesome to see men reading my poetry... because four years ago today I posted YouTube video of Jeff Helgeson reading my poem twin live at Chicago’s Waiting4the Bus open mic 4/2/12 at Café Ballou (which the DMJ Art Connection even mixed into a track for the eventual CD Other Voices, of other people performing my poetry).

How awesome to see men reading my poetry... because four years ago today I posted YouTube video of Charlie Newman reading my poem Can’t Answer That One live at Chicago’s Waiting4the Bus open mic 4/2/12 at Café Ballou (which the DMJ Art Connection even mixed into a track for the eventual CD Other Voices, of other people performing my poetry).

Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20160405

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What a riot, to be on my computer after midnight and see that five years ago today (April 5^th 2011) I my poem On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole (which was
video

a “two tweet” twitter-length poem). Since then I read the poem 04/05/11 at my open mic at the Café in Chicago (and I actually released video of not only just the poem but also video from the intro to the open mic, with this poem.

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While out from the poetry reading yesterday, we saw a GPA beer and I thought of the poetic unsub... John photographed it; then I saw it was a pale ale and knew it wasn’t him.

Janet Kuypers
20160404, via Twitter

And how groovy-cool that my Everything was Alive and Dying poem video is in April ‘16 Poetry Lifetimes! Thx! http://t.co/X3veldqBVs http://t.co/o2VyLSvlLp

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20160404, via Twitter

Won’t see W&S Open, but the US Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston (even if Nadal backed out of it this year). http://t.co/yv7jm2bEUg

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This city girl still can’t understand why a jackalope is a thing. John took this photo two years ago today; I don’t know, being bored and mixing to killed animals together must be a back woods rural thing (which I don’t get).

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I have no idea why John took this photo two years ago today, but I’m glad to see my grey men’s jacket - it was packed up with everything from the house move, so I had no idea where it was for like 6 months (glad to have that jacket back).

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Wow, John took this photo of us two years ago today at one of our last chances to be at the old Mickey Finn’s before they moved - and you can see from that photo that they had a row of albums framed along their wall, which was our impetus to do that with a CD display in our music room area at our old house (we may eventually reinstate that in the music room of our house here; we may still have the wood frames from that CD display).

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“in homage” Janet Kuypers 7 minute reading April 18 2013 for Joe Roarty of Periodic Table poems

Was thrilled three years ago to have a poetry performance featuer spot for “The Return of Joe Roarty” 4/18/13 at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago. I wrote Periodic Table poems for this, I wrote Tin to a drum beat in homage to Joe’s performing style (and after I read Tin there, Charlie Newman said it was the best Periodic Table poem performance he had seen.

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Saw this post from three years ago today, and it makes me laugh because it was snapped when I was traveling around th country (this is when I was in Denver), but the original post was talking about chicken and waffle flavored potato chips. (Sorry, this vegetarian just prefers plain potato chips, don’t bother flavoring it with dead bird).

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a Picture’s Worth 1,000 words, a Janet Kuypers COLOR art book

Scars also releaseD a photo journalism books four years ago today titled A Picture’s Worth 1,000 Words (with color interior pages)...

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Scars also released a photo journalism books four years ago today titled A Picture’s Worth 1,000 Words (with b&w interior pages)...

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Not only did Scars Publi cations release collection books no this day, but also a series of individual books, because four years ago today saw the release of the death poetry book Stabity Stabity Stab Stab Stab.

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Cultural Touchstone (cc&d edition) issue collection book

And it was four years ago today that Scars Publi cations released the cc&d magazine January-April 2012 collection book Cultural Touchstone (with a ton of contributors, likeJanet Kuypers, Linda Webb Aceto, Michael Apros, David S. Atkinson, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Betti Bernardi, Kimberly Bingheim, Amanda Blair, Eric Bonholtzer, Jackson Burgess, Audrey Burns, Tom Cantwell, Michael Ceraolo, Henry Walter Matthews, Aria Clark, Kelly K. Darrow, Emil DeAndreis, Kenneth DiMaggio, William Doreski, John Duncklee, Dan Fitzgerald, Virginia Fultz, Robert W. Gallant, Phillip Gardner, Deni Ann Gereighty, Fritz Hamilton, Don Hargraves, Jill E. Harris, Joseph Hart, Roy Haymond, Michael Hoag, Rochelle Lynn Holt, Ice Gayle Johnson, Michael Lee Johnson, Bob Johnston, Billie Louise Jones, Wayne Allen Jones, Judith Kaufman, Riley Kean, Jacob Kreutzer, Ben Leib, Arthur Levine, James Livingston, Brian Looney, Robert D. Lyons, Robert D. Lyons, Brandon A.M., Marcin Majkowski, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Richard E Marion, Bruce Matteson, Erica McBeth, Jim Meirose, DM Morales, Sheryl L. Nelms, Charlie Newman, Jeffrey Park, I.B. Rad (IB Rad), Jenene Ravesloot, Bob Rashkow, T.W. Rock, Kenneth Rutherford, G. A. Saindon, Eric Shelman, Derrick Sherwin, Bob Strother, Jane Stuart, R. N. Taber, David Thompson, Eileen Troemel, Anne Turner Taub, Ronald M. Wade, Mel Waldman, Trish Weil and Mike Berger. Artwork in this collection book (other than artwork from Scars Publications) is from Oz Hardwick, the HA!man of South Africa, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Rose E. Grier, Brian Forrest, Cheryl Townsend, Aaron Wilder, Peter LaBerge, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Nick Brazinsky, Lulu and Xanadu, and Brian Hosey)...

Janet Kuypers
20160404

It Was All Preordained (Down in the Dirt book) issue collection book

And it was four years ago today that Scars Publi cations released the Down in the Dirt magazine January-April 2012 collection book It Was All Preordained (with a ton of contributors, like Janet Kuypers, Matthew Bagdanovich, Tom Ball, Matt Barden, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Nancy Lee Bethe, Matthew T. Birdsall, P. Keith Boran, Mike Brennan, Jack Bristow, Jon Brunette, Eric Burbridge, D.A. Cairns, Lisa Cappiello, Kevin Cole, Justin Creed, Charley Daveler, Frank De Canio, Kenneth DiMaggio, Elizabeth Einspanier, Jon Gale, Travis Green, John Grey, Katrina K Guarascio, Tom Gumbert, Nathan Hahs, Fritz Hamilton, Christopher Hanson, Barton Hill, Christopher Hivner, Brian Huba, Judith Kaufman, Jenna Kelly, Sean Lause, Alyssa Lawless, Jennifer E. Lee, Ben Leib, James Livingston, E. J. Loera, Brian Looney, Brian LoRocco, R. W. Lowrie, Robert D. Lyons, Ben Macnair, Marcin Majkowski, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Alain Marciano, Kyle Scot Martinez, Amanda McNeil, Kimberly M. Miller, Kristopher Miller, M. E. Mitchell, DM Morales, Sheryl L. Nelms, Ryan Priest, Donna Pucciani, John Ragusa, Kenneth Rutherford, Terry Sanville, Joel Schueler, Curt Seubert, Eric Shelman, Jill Simons, Dorothy H. Smith, Paul Reagan Smith, Liam Spencer, Ellie Stewart, Mary Stone, Bob Strother, Stanley B. Trice, Patrick VandenBussche, Clinton Van Inman, Mel Waldman, Kenneth Weene, and Kerry Lown Whalen)...

Janet Kuypers
20160404

I know that issues (and issues as books) are released on the 1^st of the month for Scars Publi cations, but five years ago today is when the Down in the Dirt magazine v93 release as a BOOK Wake Up and Smell the Flowers was disseminated through amazon! (Cool for contributors like F 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, and cover art by John Yotko.)

Janet Kuypers
20160404

I know that issues (and issues as books) are released on the 1^st of the month for Scars Publi cations, but five years ago today is when the cc&d magazine v219 release as the BOOK Falling Into Place was disseminated through amazon! (Cool for contributors like Fritz Hamilton, Je’free, CEE, the HA!man of South Africa, Kristine Ong Muslim, Brian Hosey and Lauren Braden photograph, Judith Ann Levison, Hubble Telescope photograph, GPA (The Poetic Unsub), Joy Davis, Hubble Telescope, Maxwell Baumbach, Lucy Winrow, D Fitz, Kenneth DiMaggio, Michael Hoag, Marcin J. Kuhn , Sid Yiddish, Kevin Heaton, Mark Graham, Michael Ceraolo, David Thompson, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Mel Waldman, Anne Turner Taub, Aaron Wilder, Barbara Villemez, Jay Marvin, Ronald Brunsky, James R. Silvestri, Cheryl Townsend, Erica McBeth, Nick Brazinsky, Thomas Horan, Brian Forrest, Melissa Kosciuszko, Bob Rashkow, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Garret, Wes Heine, Barbara D’Souza, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.)

Janet Kuypers shared Thom Worldpoet’s photo 20160404

https://www. facebook.com/ photo.php?fbid= 10154185568 000362&set= gm.46087036077 4715&type=3&theater

John Yotko added 2 new photos — with Janet Kuypers. 20160403

More good news for Janet... She has a feature set next month.

Janet Kuypers
20160403

John & I just got an offer on our Gurnee house!!! Closing on May 5th, we’ll no longer have have 2 mortgages to pay!

Janet Kuypers
20160403

You know, I posted this photo one year ago today of my and John, but even after the move I still have this glass. (Glad I kept some of mom and dad’s kitschy bar ware.)

Janet Kuypers
20160403

Aw, this is so funny.... That one year ago today John posted this photo of us at Timothy O’Toole’s Pub Gurnee because we invariably (because it’s so nusy) end up sitting right in front of the mirrored tap.

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem Lucille Ann live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon fs200).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem bruised live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku poem bruised live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from the “need to know” 2014 literary date book (including Fritz Hamiton’s “Now that my son Todd is dead”, Michael Ceraolo’s “Are you receiving Me?”, and Michael Cluff’s “Hands in the Cement”) live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed w/ a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

And 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v128, “Black Cat” (Including Donald Gaither’s poem “Untitled (cat)”, my haiku “bruised”, and John Grey’s poem “Hands in the Cement”, AND Bob Rashkow reading Doug Draime’s poem “24 Hour Surrender”) live 4/1/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed on a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

I love looking back and seeing old video clips from my open mic... Because 1 year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the Tom Roby feature and the poetry open mic 4/1/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (from a Canon fs200).

Janet Kuypers
20160403

I apparently had a small part in the Sid Yiddish feature at the Café Gallery (and posted about it one year ago today).

Janet Kuypers
20140403

It is cool to see that 2 years ago today I released YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading

my poem Holding Hands live 3/26/14 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera and from the Sony camera)...

Janet Kuypers
20160403

Janet Kuypers at the Beer Market with a “got wine?” hat

I think the only reason John took these photos three years ago was because I was wearing my “got wine?” hat.

Janet Kuypers
20160403

Wow, I drew this image of Sheri Peterson and I from an old photo of us (memories)...

Janet Kuypers
20160402, via Twitter

Just saw a school bus / drop off thirty some younglings / at a brewery. (“brewery” @janetkuypers haiku witnessed and written 4/2/16)

Janet Kuypers
20160402

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Lucille Ann, which was used to make a Vine video in the middle of my poem reading for old school and high-tech monuments w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160402

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160402

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem extinct on planet earth, w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160402

I think that one year ago today was the last day I uploaded videos from my Sisters on a Journey show Journey. This is the last day I’ll be posting videos about my mother, and thanks for giving me the chance to share.

Janet Kuypers
20160402

I think I must have waited until AFTER April Fool’s Day (so people didn’t think it was a hoax), but I really liked this cover that Scars Publi cations released two years ago today of the (then) new issue of Down in the Dirt magazine... v122 (the March/April 2014 issue), titled am I really extinct as a 108 page 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book with not only it’s ISSN#, but also an ISBN# (and even a QR code on the back cover for ordering copies directly from the printer)! The writers and artists in this book include Peter McMillan, David Hernandez, Eric Burbridge, Marina Manoukian, A.J. Huffman, Michael Cluff, Fritz Hamilton, Susan Rocks, Melissa Davis, Jesse Martin, Frederick Pollack, Janet Doggett, CEE, Wendy C. Williford, K. D. Walls, Tom Sheehan, Daniel J O’Brien, Jon Saunders, Victoria Smith, Judith Kaufman, Peter Hully, Bob Strother, Mark Lane, Pijush Kanti Deb, William Masters, Robert Crowl, Anna Maria Hansen, and Janet Kuypers.

Janet Kuypers
20160402

Since I haven’t been going to as many open mic readings right now (because we’re still unpacking, because there aren’t as many open mics here as there are in Chicago), it’s cool to see my readings from other pen mics in the past. Because 3 years ago I posted YouTube videos of Kuypers reading the poem Aluminum {April Fool’s Edit} (an edited poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series) 4/1/13 at the

Waiting4the Bus open mic in Chicago (from the Canon camera, but also released with a Posterize filter, an Edge Detection filter and a Film Age - Older filter)... I even read my poem Refuse in a Single Church (filmed from my Canon camera and from my Samsung camera), and I read my (confusing) poem Paranoia (filmed with both the Canon camera and the Samsung camera).

Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20160401

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Scars Publi cations just released the print and Internet editions of cc&d magazine (the Mar./Apr. 2016 issue, v261), titled Suggested Torture! Now you can order the book Suggested Torture directly from the amazon printer! (Also, very shortly it will be available for sale through amazon in the U.S, the U.K. and Europe...)
Suggested Torture is a 2016 Scars Publi cations cc&d magazine (v261) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. Included in this book are writers Michael Ceraolo, Janet Kuypers, Charles Hayes, A.J. Huffman, Simon Perchil, Jeanette Brune, Kenneth DiMaggio, CEE, Elizabeth Harper, Ronald Charles Epstein, Liam Spencer, Patrick Fealey, Eric Burbridge, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Phil Temples, Drew Marshall, Allison Whittenberg, Russ Bickerstaff, and Rod Dixon, and artists Aaron Wilder, the HA!Man of South Africa, Cheryl Townsend, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, David J. Thompson, Peter LaBerge, Kyle Hemmings, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, David Michael Jackson, Eric Bonholtzer, and Wes Heine.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Scars Publi cations just released the print and Internet edition of Down in the Dirt magazine (The March / April 2016 issue, v135), titled New Moon! Order your copy the book New Moon today!

Down in the Dirt magazine is released every other month (with bonus issues) 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#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues are now also released with an amazon printer (so it will be available for sale through the Internet with local printers in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe).

Writers and artists included in this Scars Publi cations perfect-bound 6"x9" ISBN# paperback book include Denny E. Marshall (with Haiku (chicken/egg), Haiku (memory), Haiku (rivers/veins), Haiku (space), and Haiku (tossing)), Chris Johnson (with Politics in America), Zane Schneider (with You Are Dad), Janet Kuypers (with How He Failed), B. Mason (with Corpus Christine), Janet Kuypers (with study), Katherine McCormick (with New Moon), Janet Kuypers (with years), Talon Lawrence (with Betrayal), Janet Kuypers (with knife), Dan Maltbie (with Fallen, Many Blessings, and Trustworthy), Eric Doubek (with Say Good-Bye To The Good Old Invisible World), Kenneth DiMaggio (with Poem #4 from The Oxycodone Highway, and Poem #5 from The Oxycodone Highway), Russ Bickerstaff (with The Shepherd of Potential), Poetic (with Please Read the Letter), Kyle Hemmings (with Who’s Girl art), Wes Smith (with Life Over Breakfast), Janet Kuypers (with scorches), Ron Iannone (with Going Home), Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz (with Primary Primal art), Terry C. Ley (with A Stormy Beginning), Janet Kuypers (with forever), Doug Draime (with Sentences (lies), and Editor Gives Advice On How To Get), (with Published In His Magazine), Eric Burbridge (with Coldness in the Heat), Liam Spencer (with High Holidays), Janet Kuypers (with job), Christopher Godwin (with The Time I Took to Bed), John Zedolik (with Life Urges), Allan Onik (with The Forgotten Isle), Janet Kuypers (with defenses), Allan Onik (with The Rose), C. D. Bonner (with Fall), Liz Yohemoore (with here you have arrived, and Stone Singing), David Sapp (with Happy), Drew Marshall (with Inpatient Impressions), Janet Kuypers (with existence), Kristen Welker (with In a Bullet Home), Carmen Tudor (with Gravenhurst), Marlon Jackson (with Just Wonders), Lindsey Loyd (with Sadness in Three Parts), A.J. Huffman (with I’ve Been Trying to Think, Mishandled, and The Clean Up Crew), Debasis Mukhopadhyay (with No country for a Jew), Mike Brennan (with Date of Discharge), Maria-Jose Villamar (with Our Date), Peter Halliday (with pursuing propinquity), and Janet Kuypers (with unless it happens to you). (The only reason you see the name Janet Kuypers in there so much is because I use haiku poems to fill spaces at the end of stories too small for artwork.)

Janet Kuypers
20160401, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (Nikon CooPix S7000).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160401, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

It was cool last year to release magazine issues that had photos from my then recent trip to India on the covers... Because one year ago today is when Scars Publi cations released cc&d magazine, the Mar./Apr. 2015 issue, v254 as a 6"x9" ISSN#/ISBN# 108 page paperback book titled Idea, sold via amazon to the States, the U.K. and Europe. Writers and artists in this book include writing by Janet Kuypers, Richard King Perkins II, CEE, Sheryl L. Nelms, Erren Kelly, I.B. Rad, Jane Stuart, Alan Catlin, R. N. Taber, David J. Thompson, Catherine B. Krause, Simon Perchik, Maura Gage Cavell, MCD, Michael Ceraolo, Brian Looney, Donald Gaither, Kelley Jean White MD, Eric Burbridge, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Joshua Copelan, Oz Hardwick, Betty J. Sayles, Margaret Karmazin, Derald Hamilton, Kevin Munley, Patrick Fealey, Jim Meirose, Brian Forrest, Aaron Wilder, Eric Bonholtzer, Kyle Hemmings, Cheryl Townsend, the HA!Man of South Africa, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI, and David Michael Jackson.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

It was cool last year to release magazine issues that had photos from my then recent trip to India on the covers... Because one year ago today is when Scars Publi cations released Down in the Dirt magazine v128 titled Black Cat (for sale in the U.S. the U.K. & Europe). It includes (in order in the book) Lisa Gray, Doug Draime, A.J. Huffman, Eric Burbridge, Joseph Grant, Donald Gaither, Bill Kirby, William Masters, Don Massenzio, Norm Hudson, David R Miller, Kerry Lown Whalen, Judith Ann Levison, John Grey, Allan Onik, Jenean McBrearty, Liam Spencer, Hal Savage, Michael Lee Johnson, Peter McMillan, Christina Dendy, and Janet Kuypers (with a select few haiku poems).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem the Messenger (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem The Messenger w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

One year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem final rally (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem Final Rally) w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Reduced To Now (an edit of her 2006 poem This Is What It’s Reduced To Now w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It Hurts in the Bones (2015 edit) (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling (the end) (the end of her 2006 poem Story Telling), w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling (part one) (a portion of her 2006 poem Story Telling (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

I really like this photo on this magazine cover... So check it out, two years ago today is when Scars Publi cations released cc&d magazine, the Mar./Apr. 2014 issue, v248 as a 6"x9" ISSN#/ISBN# 108 page paperback book titled Shot out of a Cannon. This was the second issue ever released via amazon to the States, the U.K. and Europe (which is SO cool), with contributors like Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Peter LaBerge (art), MCD, David Hernandez, David Michael Jackson (art), Mike Brennan, CEE, Brian Hosey (art), Matt Quinn, the HA!Man of South Africa (art), George Arthur, David Michael Schmidt, Jane Stuart, Rose E. Grier (photo), Andrew L. Miller, Michael Ceraolo, Uzeyir Lokman Cayci (art), John Grey, Gabriella M. Belfiglio, Dan Fitzgerald, Jackie Smith, Drew Nacht, Andy Roberts, Bill Yarrow, Roger Cowin, Don Hargraves, Janet Kuypers, Eric Burbridge, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz (art), Joseph Bodie, Cheryl Townsend (art), Linda M. Crate, David J. Thompson (art), John Clayton Heinz, Joshua Copeland, Eric Bonholtzer (art), Joseph Kraus, Brian Forrest (painting), Don Maurer, Fritz Hamilton, Erica Haldi, Aaron Wilder (painting), Francois Le Roux, and John Amendall.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Janet performing Walkin Home from School in her show One Acts

I donated the video poem walking home from school in an online event to fight bullying two years ago today.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

I’m sorry, I just like the close-up photo of the cow (and going for a walk by my apartments this past month I saw like 20some cows grazing right by where people were driving to work! Crazy! ... OH, and in Texas they call them “longhorns” and they have longhorn logos everywhere, but (A) I’m a northerner and we called them cows, and (B) when they are grazing a farmland and don’t have horns, why call them longhorns? They’re cows!). But now that my cow rant is done, check out that three years ago today that Scars Publi cations released Down in the Dirt magazine v116 (still on sale on line), including contributors like Janet Kuypers, Fritz Hamilton, Eric Burbridge, Liam Spencer, John Ragusa, Eleanor Leonne Bennett (art), Marlon Jackson, Janet Doggett, Allen M Weber, Travis Green, D.S. Maolalai, Brian Boru, Ray Kemble, Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, Robert Heath, Nathan Zackroff, Mike Brennan, Carol Smallwood, Harry Noussias, Willie Haul, Ben Macnair, Doug Downie, Michael D. Brown, Dennis Humphrey, Danya Goodman, and CEE..

Janet Kuypers
20160401

It’s even groovier that three years ago today Scars Publi cations released cc&d magazine v242 (now on sale nationally), including contributors Fritz Hamilton, William Robison, CEE, Ryan Peeters, David Michael Schmidt, Devon Sova, James T. Carr, Scott Spradlin, Michael Ceraolo, Richard King Perkins II, Oz Hardwick, R.F. Jordan, Kenneth DiMaggio, MCD, R. N. Taber, Dan Fitzgerald, Brian Looney, Dana Stamps, II, Mary Mac Neil, Janet Kuypers, Eric Burbridge, Mel Waldman, Eric S., Don Maurer, John Ragusa, Doug Downie, Michael C. Keith, Bob Strother, Carol Smallwood, Bob Johnston, Gregory Liffick, Marilyn June Janson, and Patrick N. Cole, and artwork from Aaron Wilder, the HA!Man of South Africa, Eric Bonholtzer (w/ GREAT cover art image!), Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Peter LaBerge, Rose E. Grier, Cheryl Townsend, Brian Forrest, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, David Michael Jackson, Rex Bromfield, John Yotko and Brian Hosey.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Don’t forget that it was four years ago today that Scars Publi cations released Down in the Dirt magazine v105 (still on sale), including contributors Janet Kuypers, Robert D. Lyons, Marcin Majkowski, Fritz Hamilton, John Ragusa, Sheryl L. Nelms, Ben Macnair, Tom Ball, Elizabeth Einspanier, Eleanor Leonne Bennett (with art), Kristopher Miller, Liam Spencer, Terry Sanville, Nathan Hahs, Kyle Scot Martinez, Travis Green, D.A. Cairns, P. Keith Boran, Frank De Canio, Matthew T. Birdsall, Paul Reagan Smith, Brian Looney, Donna Pucciani, Duncan Whitmire, Kerry Lown Whalen, Kimberly M. Miller, and Sarah Lucille Marchant.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Keep in mind that four years ago today Scars Publi cations released cc&d magazine v231 (now on sale nationally), including contributors Janet Kuypers, Dan Fitzgerald, Bob Johnston, Joseph Hart, Fritz Hamilton, Marcin Majkowski, Kenneth DiMaggio, Wayne Allen Jones, Bruce Matteson, Brian Looney, R. N. Taber, Jackson Burgess, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, I.B. Rad, James Livingston, Jeffrey Park, David Thompson, Sheryl L. Nelms, Michael Ceraolo, Henry Walter Matthews (with art), Audrey Burns, Don Hargraves, G. A. Saindon, Robert D. Lyons, Deni Ann Gereighty, Amanda Blair, Oz Hardwick (with art), Brian Hosey and Lauren Braden (with art), Anne Turner Taub, Derrick Sherwin,Ronald M. Wade, Aaron Wilder (with art), Arthur Levine, Brandon A.M., Bob Strother, Roy Haymond, Jill E. Harris, Kelly K. Darrow, Peter LaBerge (with art), John Duncklee, Lulu and Xanadu (with art).

Janet Kuypers
20160401

But of course, five years ago today is also the day that Scars Publi cations released Down in the Dirt magazine v93 (so this is the anniversary of when this issue was on sale), including contributors 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, and cover art by John Yotko.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Since the 1^st of the month is often the day Scars Publi cations releases magazine issues, I may as well share that five years ago today Scars Publi cations released cc&d magazine v219 (so this is the anniversary of when this issue was on sale), including contributors Fritz Hamilton, Je’free, CEE, the HA!man of South Africa, Kristine Ong Muslim, Brian Hosey and Lauren Braden photograph, Judith Ann Levison, Hubble Telescope photograph, GPA (The Poetic Unsub), Joy Davis, Hubble Telescope, Maxwell Baumbach, Lucy Winrow, D Fitz, Kenneth DiMaggio, Michael Hoag, Marcin J. Kuhn , Sid Yiddish, Kevin Heaton, Mark Graham, Michael Ceraolo, David Thompson, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Mel Waldman, Anne Turner Taub, Aaron Wilder, Barbara Villemez, Jay Marvin, Ronald Brunsky, James R. Silvestri, Cheryl Townsend, Erica McBeth, Nick Brazinsky, Thomas Horan, Brian Forrest, Melissa Kosciuszko, Bob Rashkow, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Garret, Wes Heine, Barbara D’Souza, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.

Janet Kuypers
20160401

Apparently I was still angry there was snow three years ago today, but I didn’t imagine then that now I’d live somewhere where I don’t see snow.

Janet Kuypers
20160331

Then again, Berdych broke back (at least once)... You can guess if breaking back once is enough against Djokovic.

Janet Kuypers
20160331

Well, it seems that Djokovic is now playing Berdych in a tennis match at the Miami Open, but Djokovic seems to be breaking Berdych a lot...

Janet Kuypers
20160331, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Deity Discipline, You Can’t Tell and a poem she wrote there, just before reading, Quieted Soul, and then she closed by reading the Ai poem The Good Shepherd at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160331, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Deity Discipline, You Can’t Tell and a poem she wrote there, just before reading, Quieted Soul, and then she closed by reading the Ai poem The Good Shepherd at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (video filmed from a Nikon CooPix S7000 camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160331, via Twitter

Watching tennis, it’s a shame to see Kerber schooling Madison Keys at the Miami Open...
http://t.co/9KrilCJn0

Janet Kuypers
20160331

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem A Little Angel Inside w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160331

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Knelt and Cried w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160331

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Seven Ten, Seven Twenty w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160331

1 year ago today> I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Your Soul is Shaking w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160331

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Listening to the Cancer Ads w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160331

You thought I may have been crazy for uploading so many videos from my “Journey” show last year, but 1 year ago today I also released a few videos from the other camera - so 1 year ago today I released video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem cry for me (w/ John playing guitar) in my 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20140331

But I would have told John (even two years ago today) that I “forgive” him, and like him anyway.

Janet Kuypers
20140331

This is cute, two years ago today when John was looking for excuses to drink beer.

Janet Kuypers
20160331

It’s probably a coincidence (how spooky) that I was thinking of covering this song this week, and then I see that 2 years ago I released YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing (C) the Leonard Cohen song Coming Back To You (with John on guitar) 3/26/14 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery...

Janet Kuypers
20160331

Wow, I was just thinking that IF we wet to the American Legion this Friday night to do a few songs, that MAYBE because John and I haven’t practiced, that maybe we could play Coming Back To You, and thank I see that 2 years ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers and covering/singing (S) the Leonard Cohen song Coming Back To You (with John on guitar) live 3/26/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery.

Janet Kuypers
20160331

John snapped this photo of Janet Kuypers because I was angry that there was still snow on the ground three years ago today... Wow, snow. what a fascinating concept. I saw no snow this winter.

Janet Kuypers
20160330, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading my poem (that she wrote there, just before the reading) Quieted Soul at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (Canon PS camera, w/ a Posterize filter).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160330, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160330, via Twitter

Cool to take a quick break & see Sloane Stephens playing tennis in Auckland right now - good prep 4 Australian Open. http://t.co/Vyj0wYyx1T

Janet Kuypers
20160330

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem A Little Angel Inside w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

1 year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem final rally (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem Final Rally) w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Your Soul is Shaking w/ John playing guitar in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Story Telling (part one) (a portion of her 2006 poem Story Telling (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

Oh, now that my “Journey” show was completed just over a year ago, get ready of lots of video uploads on their release anniversary... Because 1 year ago today I also released video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem cry for me (w/ John playing guitar) in my 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

And like 4 years ago (when I only video recorded the intro with a poem, but I split the poem reading out for a 2nd video posting), 3 years ago today I also released video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Walking Home from School, live 3/27/13 at the open mic I hosted the Café Gallery in Chicago.

Janet Kuypers
20160330

And 3 years ago today I also released video of Janet Kuypers introducing and hosting my open mic 3/27/13 at The Gallery Cabaret’s Chicago the Café Gallery, which also had me reading my poem Walking Home from School.

Janet Kuypers
20160330

Hey, if I talked about my the Café Gallery videos from 4 years ago, I may as well mention my the Café Gallery videos from 3 years ago... Because 3 years ago today I released video of Janet Kuypers reading G. A. Saindon’s poem The Last Moon of Winter in the After the Apocalypse 2012 date book live 3/27/13 at my Chicago poetry open mic the Café Gallery.

Janet Kuypers
20160330

Janet and Dave Gecic at After the Equinox

Thank you John for

taking all of these great photos two years ago today at After the Equinox...

Janet Kuypers
20160330

I had to release that poem reading video as a regular video (I couldn’t just release it with a filter on it...) So four years ago today I also released YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building at the open mic 3/28/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

Four years ago today I also released YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building at the open mic 3/28/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa) with the Threshold filter...

Janet Kuypers
20160330

I released a few YouTube videos four years ago today, and if I mentioned my intro with my poem “Medication” then I may as well say that I released YouTube video of Just Janet Kuypers reading my poem Medication at the open mic at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa in a track which was mixed into their CD Burn Through Me).

Janet Kuypers
20160330

I don’t have records of facebook activity from four years ago, so it is cool to see that four years ago today I released YouTube videos like this one, of my intro to the open mic 2/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which is a video clip that also includes my poem “Medication” (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

Janet Kuypers
20160329, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ reading my poem (that she wrote there, just before the reading) Quieted Soul at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (Canon PS camera; Threshold filter).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160329, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 3/25/16 of Janet Kuypers’ reading my poem (that she wrote there, just before the reading) Quieted Soul at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (filmed w/ a Nikon CooPix S7000, given an Edge Detection filter).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160329

John came home late from work today with really bad allergies, and seeing this photo he posted two years ago today makes me wistful, and makes me hope he feels better soon.

Janet Kuypers
20160328

Okay, for those of you who didn’t make it to Poetry Plus in Georgetown last Friday, Thom gave blank carts to a few of us at the open mic, and I got the impression that we were supposed to write a poem inside the card. So I looked at the image on the cover and came up with this poem, and read it i the second round of reading that night. This is the actual poem.

Quieted Soul 3/25/16

Drop you in a strange house
                in a strange land.
Have a seat, they say relax, enjoy.
                But you feel so tense,
you don’t know which way to turn
                and the house is hollow
because only your soul will make it
                a home. So the Sun
beats down, and you’re at a loss,
                not knowing what to do.
So you slowly sit down, catch
                patches of grass
in your peripheral vision, wonder
                what steps you can take
so you can build a ladder to the sky
                & turn down that damn
Sun, ‘cause with the sun so strong
                on this foreign soil
it scorches the streets and strips
                the life from our souls.
So sit here stoically as the Sun stares
                at this strange home,
search for ways to quench that
                quieted soul once more.

Janet Kuypers
20160328

It was cool that John posted these photos one year ago today with Janet Kuypers after my Journey show (when we stopped at his Searle hangout The Village Inn), with all of my mother’s jewelry.

Janet Kuypers
20160328

Okay, so I like to do different things in my features... Because it was really cool to post a Vine video of me reading my haiku Lucille Ann IN THE MIDDLE of my Journey show last year in Hyde Park - that was cool to do!

Janet Kuypers
20160328

Oh Oroki, you are the awesomest thing ever... I just

noticed that last year you my guest artist show at the Sisters on a Journey - these are great photos! Thanks again!

Janet Kuypers
20160328

I posted a Vine video one year ago today (back when I had a working camera on a smart phone, I really wish my phone could be fixed so I can take pictures with it again), of my haiku Lucille Ann in practice for my feature 3/28/15. Vine by Janet Kuypers

Janet Kuypers
20160328

When I release chapbooks that coincide with my shows, I usually released them electronically the morning of the show (before I do the show), which was the case when one year ago today Scars Publi cations released the cc&d bonus chapbook of poems I read at Sisters on a Journey! This is the anniversary of the release of the Journey show chapbook, download a free PDF file copy of Journey, for an emotional roller-coaster ride of poems!

Janet Kuypers
20160328

If people were posting photos from 2 years ago, then I could post video from then too... Two years ago today I released YouTube video of my hosting the open mic 3/26/14 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery...

Janet Kuypers
20160328

Janet and Jenene at the Cafß Gallery 20140326

Oh my gosh Jenene, what a riot... I see that two years ago today you put up a slew of images with Janet Kuypers and you from the Café Gallery when was decked out in my floor-

length black skirt, sweater & beret 3/26/14 (I think I wore the skirt to compliment your feature)... These pics are a blast!

Janet Kuypers
20160328

I just saw that 3 years ago today I also released a collection of my poems read as the final reader in 20 years of Beach Poetry at Chicago’s Beach Poets on Loyloa Beach, 8/31/08 (which included my poems Hancock Suicide, Chicago, Dec. 1994, Conversations 2, Conversations 4, Conversations 6, Conversations 7, Conversations 8, Childhood Memories 2, the Burning, Conversations 1, Childhood Memories 6, and Scars 1997).

Janet Kuypers
20160328

Wow, it took me while to get this compilation video of me reading poems (since this was from 8/26/08, at the open mic I took over hosting in 2010), but 3 years ago today I posted a video of me reading my poems Holding My Skin Together, Any Help At All, conversations three (a day of grieving), transcribing dreams one, The Flashback, By Who I Don’t Know, and Did you know I was watching? in Poetry Wheel Mach Two in Chicago 8/26/08.

Janet Kuypers posted John Yotko’s collage 20160327

John Yotko added a collage.

John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers
20160327

Janet Kuypers
20160327, via Twitter

But you KNOW how I have to cram in my Periodic Table poem references whenever I can... Because one year ago today via Twitter I announced that my BONUS Periodic Table Star Trek poem Nitrium got an artvilla page with 4 2015 video links! http://t.co/Lb7xIeekcU http://t.co/8LPrpVqq2d

Janet Kuypers
20160327, via Twitter

In light of my Journey show last year in Hyde Park about my mom, I posted this haiku on Twitter 3/27/15 titled “Lucille Ann”.

her existence makes /
trees take root, flowers bloom, so /
nature’s beautiful.
(@janetkuypers haiku)
http://t.co/tH76C9N21t

Janet Kuypers
20160327

One year ago today I was hyping my readings for my show Journey (with poetry over the years about my mother) at Sisters n a Journey in Hyde Park one year ago tomorrow. The show had older poems & brand new poems, and John on guitar, that went well.

Janet Kuypers
20160327

Two years ago today I was posting on Twitter about the Sony Open from the night before, but the day before TODAY I was catching the Miami Open, and Nadal having to retire from a match (he WAS beating the opponent ranked 90-something, before he felt bad, even though doctors found nothing wrong with him). Yesterday was the first time since the 2010 Australian Open that he actually retired from a match. (Mind... Blown.)

Janet Kuypers
20160326

Janet and Jeene at the Cafß Gallery 20140326

Oh my gosh, I didn’t even realize that two years ago today Jenene Ravesloot tagged me in 4 photos from the Café Gallery! You’re the best!

Janet Kuypers
20160326

Because it was such a full weekend of Star Trek features of mine last year, I also reminded everyone one year ago today that the videos from my performances at ’Fi 2015 were also online via YouTube... If at any time you want to see the full video (or individual poem videos) from my feature reading Imzadi, you can always check out a web page of all of the videos and links to the original poems you can read too.

Janet Kuypers
20160326

One year ago today I reminded everyone that the videos from my performances at ’Fi 2015 just appeared online via YouTube... If at any time you want to see the full video (or individual poem videos) from my feature reading Resistance is Futile you can always check out a web page of all of the videos and links to the original poems you can read any time as well.

Janet Kuypers
20160326

“hmmm” Janet Kuypers photo for interview

Posted Michael Lee Johnson’s interview of me two years ago today because I was hoping he would make it to the oen mic I hosted in Chicago.

Janet Kuypers
20160326

Janet Kuypers and John Yotko at Timothy O’Tooles

It is a shame this photo of us turned out so dark when we took it three years ago today, John...

Janet Kuypers
20160326

Thom caught a photo of me actuallt reading the poem based on the card he gave me at the beginning of the night last night at Poetry Plus! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php? fbid=10154152513120362& set=pcb.998060743606300 &type=3&theater

Janet Kuypers
20160326

Thanks for the photos Thom!

John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers
20160325

Thom gave Janet this card at the open mic today so she wrote a poem about the picture on it.

John Yotko added a new photo —

drinking caffé mocha with Janet Kuypers at Cianfrani’s Coffee. 20160325

Janet Kuypers retweeted @AtlasShrugged. 20160325, via Twitter

Poets get mad seeing my “Capitalist Inside” on my car (looking like an “Intel Inside” logo), but they don’t get what capitalism is. http://t.co/SjSaaLGsGB

Janet Kuypers
20160325

Wow, last year I was so hyped for my ~half hour Sisters On A Journey show at the Historic Quaker House in Hyde Park, with poems about mom. John accompanied me with guitar, and my show Journey went really well. It was a great sharing experience.

Janet Kuypers
20160325

Just saw this post from two years ago saying that these drawings were coming together... And Victor Phan, I thank you for the work you have done, but we seem to be at a stopping point with this project, and I was wondering if/when you had the time to finish this up (it looks so cool, and I think we would both like to see it done!)...

Janet Kuypers
20160325

Wow, it’s also cool that three years today I released video of a compilation of ALL of the pieces performed in my 6/21/07 Jesse Oaks 45+ minute-long show “UNcorrect” in Gages Lake IL in Lake County, north of Chicago. I didn’t have that many shows up in Lake County, and I know a lot of my Chicago poets couldn’t make it up there, so enjoy shows like this on video...

Janet Kuypers
20160325

It looks like three years today when I released video of a compilation of ALL of the pieces performed in the 6/11/02 show 6/11 at Café Aloha in Chicago. (That was the first show I had in Chicago, thanks to David Rubin, after I recovered from my near fatal accident, and that was the first show I ever did with a projector displaying artwork while I read poetry. In this show I incorporated my love of astronomy with NASA Project and the second poem I had ever written, Moonlight, then I read my poem (that I read parts of in my wedding) Looking for a Worthy Adversary I- I don’t go into everything I red, but there was a ton of material in this show, where I started my multimedia performances...

Janet Kuypers updated her profile picture. 20160324

John Yotko at

Maggiano’s Little Italy Austin. 20160324 in Austin, Texas.

Got my chocolate chocolate chocolate cake for my birthday one day late.

John Yotko at

Maggiano’s Little Italy Austin.. 20160324 in Austin, Texas.

Thanks to everybody who offered me birthday wishes yesterday. We forgot to take pictures when Janet took me out for barbecue. That truly is a gift because she is a vegetarian so she had Mac and Cheese while I had brisket. Thank you Janet. You really are special.

Janet Kuypers
20160324

Janet and John at Chateau de Pique Winery and Brewery

Oh my gosh, John took Janet Kuypers to Chateau de Pique Winery and Brewery one year ago today - another winery - that day. (I think we took photos at all of the places so we could facebook a record of all of the places we stopped, I think there was a reason to posting this madness...)

Janet Kuypers
20160324

Janet and John at Wight-Meyer Vineyard & Winery

I think John even bought Janet Kuypers a glass one year ago today at Wight-Meyer Vineyard & Winery.

Janet Kuypers
20160324

Apparently John decided last year (since I don’t drink bourbon and did this two day trip for his birthday), that he would stop at wineries on the drive home, like Forrest Edge Winery.

Janet Kuypers
20160324

Oh my gosh, I forgot that John dragged Janet Kuypers to Jim Beam Distillery for a tour and a few grip ‘n grins one year ago today before leaving town. (I can’t remember doing this mush stuff for my birthday...)

Well well well, it seems that ever after John’s birthday one year go today he had to drag Janet Kuypers to see Four Roses Bourbon before driving home.

Janet Kuypers
20160324

Wow, two years ago today I just found out about the Poem-A-Thon to fight bullying (thanks for spreading the word Esteban), and for it I posted my poem “Walking home from School”, which I think I will do again right here...

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

The Illini might not have won that game 3 years ago, but John enjoyed singing hymns telling St. Bernardus to pray for us whenever we went to the Beer Garden.

This was hysterical, when John wanted to photograph that voodoo works three years ago when beer magically appeared in my glass at the Beer Garden...

I tried to work my voodoo spell for the Illini three years ago today, but Miami was in the lead over us.

Wow, I remember when John made that Chief Illiniwek pendant so I could put it matching gold and blue beads to wear. I got to wear it when we went out to watch a gme three years ago today, and I still have that necklace hanging with my jewelry right now. (I should remember to wear it when we go out on Saturdays and a game is on, because people in Texas seem to love college sport so much...)

Janet Kuypers
20160323

Okay fine, John thought the tiny glass was cute to take a picture one year ago today, but I had to include this because we went to the Bluegrass Tavern, which is pretty much the only kind of music we hear when we go to open mics in Austin. That, and this reminds me that I wore the USMC shirt I designed for his birthday, and I wore his Marines cap (with this discharge pin on it)... I know John wanted barbecue tonight for his birthday, but I wonder if I should wear my Marines clothes for him today...

Janet Kuypers
20160323

Janet and John at the Old Talbott Tavern

I have no idea why we took this photo one year ago today for his birthday (was HE being artsy?, or did he want to snap a photo at The Old Talbott Tavern, which is the oldest bourbon bar in the states?).

Janet Kuypers
20160323

I know John is holding bottles of Maker’s Mark with his name on it, but I think the only reason he said “I made this” with this photo one year ago today was to make commentary on the ending credits of every X Files episode. (and by the way, holy cow how red does my hair look when back-lit by the sun...)

And yeah, John was saying I had to go and be artsy with the set of posts one year ago today at Maker’s Mark. but one of the shots he posted was a picture of us we took to add to our 2015 Christmas Card...

And yeah, one year ago today John got to dip his whiskey bottles with his name on them in the wax at Maker’s Mark. How cool was THAT?

Oh, John thought I wouldn’t remind him of the HUGE celebration he had last year for is birthday...Sorry, but if there was a whiskey cask with your name on it, there will HAVE to be a bunch of posts are coming for this - and by the way, for this fist set of pictures, I mean, I don’t even like coffee... Oh, the things I do for you.)

Janet Kuypers
20160323

Janet and John at Kaiser’s Pizza & Pub (Kenosha)

I just want to point out to the world (and remind John) that I am not the only one who likes extra cheese pan pizza (since John specifically asked for it for his birthday at Kaiser’s Pizza & Pub in Kenosha WI two years ago).

Janet Kuypers
20160323

Oh John, it’s so funny how two years ago when we went shooting together for your birthday, you had to take a picture of my losing my FOIDginity at the On Target Range. I mean, it’s not like I need a FOID card in Texas (but at least you got to see me use it, and it has my Illinois driver’s license photo on it)...

Broadstone 8 One Hundred Apartment Homes. 20160319 in Austin, Texas.

Back when I had to pick you up at the airport (instead of you driving me across the country for a new HOME for your job), John and I would celebrate in

Chicago a little more, wouldn’t we... (Saw you posted a bunch of photos of us celebrating your

birthday three years ago, hope you enjoy your birthday in a new town this evening.)

Janet Kuypers
20160323

Happy Birthday John Yotko, to the only man I could ever imagine my life with.

(I searched high and low for a photo the world may not have seen of us, and then I remembered how we flew back from China, changed into in formal wear before going home - like this one dress of my mom’s that I only wore this one time - and we drove straight from O’Hare airport to downtown Chicago to see a string quartet perform Mozart’s the Dissonant. Because you knew how I loved this Mozart piece you searched for a live performance of it, THANK YOU; I think I shed a tear during that performance - we were so jet-lagged, but it was so perfect. I am glad we took that photo then so we could have this memory of this phenomenal time... You DO that, find these perfect moments for us, and I am the luckiest woman in the world that I found you. I love you.)

Janet Kuypers
20160322

John, I told you I got you a little something for your birthday tomorrow, but I’m not getting you any cake (like you got one year ago today). By the way, what DO you want to do for your birthday tomorrow?

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Of sniff, it was one year ago today when I got to see my Lucy for the first time ever. (Man Sabrina, she’s too cute for words!)

Janet Kuypers
20160322

I know a part of John wants to go to a range and shoot guns for his birthday tomorrow (like we did two years ago today), but I have no idea where one is (I’m sure they’re everywhere in Texas, even in Austin, and I imagine John has probably scoped out some ranges already). Even though we don’t have plans yet for tomorrow yet, I get the feeling he’ll be too tired from moving to think about shooting guns for practice. (At least not tomorrow for him.)

Janet Kuypers
20160322

John posted this photo of us two years ago today, but because we’re still unpacking, I haven’t found those dog tags yet. (I haven’t found half of my stuff yet, and everything’s not being unpacked because we’re waiting for the movers o fix the things they broke in our move, like the base of our pool table...)

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Janet and John at Piece Pizzeria & Brewery

That is what I liked about Chicago... We could go down the street and find new places - and like them (like we did when John posted this photo two years ago today at Piece Pizzeria & Brewery). It’s not as easy to do that here.

Janet Kuypers

Tom Roby
20160322

Happy Birthday Tom Roby!!!

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Janet “two pints” Kuypers at Ram brewery

Aw, John was trying to catch me three years ago today (and quoting Patsy Stone of Absolutely Fabulous by saying, “cheers, thanks a lot”).

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Because I was once a south sider in Chicago, it was cool that over the years I got to have shows with Vito (Vittorio Carli) in Pilsen, including my show Games We Play (my feature with videos and music 3/17/12). Because four years ago today I released YouTube video of me performing the entire show Games We Play (with video accompaniment, and background music from the HA!Man of South Africa).

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Because I was once a south sider in Chicago, it was cool that over the years I got to have shows with Vito (Vittorio Carli) in Pilsen, including my show Games We Play (my feature with videos and music 3/17/12). Because four years ago today I released YouTube video of me reading my poem Games We Play (the final poem of the show, and the poem the show is named after).

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Because I was once a south sider in Chicago, it was cool that over the years I got to have shows with Vito (Vittorio Carli) in Pilsen, including my show Games We Play (my feature with videos and music 3/17/12). Because four years ago today I released video of me reading my poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein.

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Because I was once a south sider in Chicago, it was cool that over the years I got to have shows with Vito (Vittorio Carli) in Pilsen, including my show Games We Play (my feature with videos and music 3/17/12). Because four years ago today I released video of me reading my poem Love Affair with the Moon 2012.

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Because I was once a south sider in Chicago, it was cool that over the years I got to have shows with Vito (Vittorio Carli) in Pilsen, including my show Games We Play (my feature with videos and music 3/17/12). Because four years ago today I released video of me reading my poem grandmother charged with murder.

Janet Kuypers
20160322

cc&d v170.5 (Distinguished Writings) ... the Kuypers Edition

It’s cool to see that five years ago today I made sure that Scars Publi cations released my ISBN# book (derived from material from an annual collection book) Distinguished Writings (Kuypers edition), which is cc&d v170.5, has now been available on line for sales 24/7... (cc&d has many more “issues” than the number indicates, because many released were based on decimals too, and many cc&d chapbook released didṉt appear with an issue number...)

Janet Kuypers
20160322

Writing to Honour & Cherish - the Kuypers Edition

It’s cool to see that five years ago today I made sure that Scars Publi cations released my ISBN# book (derived from material from an annual collection book) Writing to Honour & Cherish (Kuypers edition), which is now available on line for sales 24/7...

Janet Kuypers
20160322

It’s cool to see that five years ago today I made sure that Scars Publi cations released my ISBN# book (derived from material from an annual collection book) Living in Chaos, which is now available on line for sales 24/7...

Janet Kuypers
20160321

Seeing this photo from one year ago today makes me want to thank Robin Fine again for two great changes to hear other great performers, I really enjoyed performing Imzadi 3/21/15 (and having a second show here too!)......

Janet Kuypers
20160321, via YouTube

It is also cool that I was able to release some videos from the night before for one show, when I was doing another show that night one year ago... Because last year I posted a few YouTube videos of Janet Kuypers reading poetry in Chicago in my 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi, including video of my poem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt in her in Chicago (Canon fs200 and the Canon Power Shot), and my bonus poem Diburnium (Canon fs200 and the Canon Power Shot), my poem Eugene’s Limit (Canon fs200 and the Canon Power Shot), my poem Outer Space and the Sound of Silence (Canon fs200 and the Canon Power Shot), and my poem Red Matter (Canon fs200 and the Canon Power Shot). There is even video of the entire show (filmed with both a Canon fs200 and a Canon Power Shot camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160321

It is cool that the day after I did my Resistance is Futile show at ’Fi, Scars Publi cations released the cc&d bonus chapbook out of poems I read in the show one year ago today! The chapbook is celebrating it’s 1 year anniversary today, so download a free PDF file copy of Imzadi, for science in poems & Star Trek, with a bonus poem I wrote the day before the chapbook was released!

Janet Kuypers
20160321

I still get a kick out of seeing videos I posted when I had green hair for St. Patrick’s Day... Because two years ago today I posted a number of YouTube videos of Janet Kuypers reading poetry in Chicago 3/17/14 at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus, including YouTube video of my poem your little china doll, or YouTube video of my poem i’ve played this game (wow, these are old poems of

mine), and then YouTube video of my poem holding hands, and YouTube video of my Periodic Table poem Tin, and finally YouTube video of my poem Too Far (the only poem I’s ever made a video release for, in my Belden apartment in Chicago).

Janet Kuypers
20160321

Three years ago today I also found out that I was given another Periodic Table poems feature at Vittorio Carli’s Mega Reading event that was on April 13th 2013. And that was only when I had some of my Periodic Table poems written...

Janet Kuypers
20160321

Just noticed that three years ago today I posted a photo mourning Urlacher is no longer with the Chicago Bears. (but what was humorous about the post was the photo of me and John in Bears jerseys, and I am a blonde.)

Janet Kuypers
20160321

Wow, it is cool that four years ago today I got to read not only the two poems I keep in my wallet, Carolyn Forsché’s prose poem the Colonel and Ai’ poem the Good Shepherd at my live 3/14/12 Chicago
video

open mic the Café Gallery, I also posted my reading Nathan Hahs’ Untitled poem from the 3/12 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine v104 (“Nothing is Permanent”). All that plus I posted YouTube videos of me reading my poems Guilt (Based on a 1994 short story, from the Canon fs200 video camera), and Lambs To Heaven’s Gate (from the Canon fs200 video camera), and Who You Tell Your Dreams To (from the Canon fs200 video
video

camera), and New To Chicago (of course, because the Chicago mural was up, and Chicago had recently celebrated it’s birthday, from the Canon fs200 video camera).

John Yotko at

Kick Butt Coffee Music & Booze. 20160320 in Austin, Texas.

Janet thought since the open was cancelled to take a daytime photo of the moon.

Janet Kuypers
20160320

And I had a wonderful time reading poems one year ago today at ’Fi (I still thank Robin Fine, and thank you for the opportunity)!
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Janet Kuypers
20160320

And because I had my Resistance is Futile exactly one year ago today, Scars Publi cations released the cc&d bonus chapbook out of poems I read that night at ’Fi! Available nor for one year, you can still download a free PDF file copy of Resistance is Futile, for scientific poems with a Star Trek edge...
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Janet Kuypers
20160320, via YouTube

Ah, but last year on March 20th I uploaded a bunch of YouTube videos of my reading poetry from 3/18/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, including my poem Part of my Pain (filmed on a Canon fs200 and from the Canon Power Shot), and my Star Trek poem uncuffed (from the Canon fs200 and from the Canon Power Shot camera), and my other Star Trek poem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt (from the Canon fs200 and from the Canon Power Shot camera). That is also the day I released video of my hosting the Tom Roby feature and the open mic...

Janet Kuypers
20160320

Then again, two years ago today I uploaded a bunch of YouTube videos of my reading poetry in Chicago for St. Patrick’s Day (with green hair, wearing green and with green beads) 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus, including my haiku enemies (from the Canon), and faith (from the Canon), and Ants and Crosses (from the Canon), and census (from the Canon), and existence (from the Canon), and falling (from the Canon), and eventually (from the Canon), and also easy (from the Canon). Yeah, since I wrote many haiku poems or my book 100 Haikus (that was also9 inserted into my 21014 collection book Partial Nudity), I was on my haiku kick then - and since they are short, I was able to read many haiku poems that night.

Janet Kuypers
20160320

It is nice to see that while I was am moving and unpacking this weekend, three years ago today I uploaded a bunch of YouTube videos of my reading poetry live at Frankenstone art center 3/18/13 in Chicago (read to make people think), including my poem Us, Actually Touching (from a Canon), and No Compunction (from a Canon, and Upstage Everyone Else (from a Canon, and On a High Horse Like This (from a Canon, and Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash - I know how Robin Fine loves that Periodic Table of Poetry poem of mine (from a Canon. That day I even released video of my reading all 5 poems in an 18 minute set to “Make people Think” readings (from a Canon).

John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers in

This means Janet is tired of moving.

Janet Kuypers
20160319

It is so awesome that people are still posting comments TODAY about Jenene Ravesloot’s 6 photos she posted of us at the Café Gallery open mic 3/18/15 before Tom Roby’s feature...

Janet Kuypers
20160319

Oh, how cool that two years ago today we were celebrating 57 countries where my performance art mp3s have sold...

Janet Kuypers
20160319, via YouTube

It was also cool that one year ago today I released YouTube videos from my 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago, including poems like on the back of a touring bike (from the Canon Power Shot as well as the Canon fs200) w/ background guitar from John, and unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere (from a Canon Power Shot as well as from the Canon fs200) w/ music from the HA!Man of South Africa, and Building Houses out of Pallets (from the Canon Power Shot as well as from the Canon fs200) w/ sitar music from the HA!Man of South Africa.

Janet Kuypers
20160319

I should thank Kiley Brown again for posting the photos two years ago today at

Waiting4the Bus! (I look for any chance to show off my painted green hair, since I had no chance to dye my hair this year to celebrate...)

Janet Kuypers
20160319

Two years ago toda I also released YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 13 of my 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 (back when it was at the bar Jaks Tap and not a book store).

Janet Kuypers
20160319

It is cool to see (while I am moving today) that (at least) 3 years ago today I released YouTube videos from Chicago 3/13/13 at my the Café Gallery open mic, including many versions of my poem Looking for a Worthy Adversary (extreme sestina variation) (Sony video, and Posterized Sony and Film Age - older from the Sony and the Canon video, plus the Threshold Canon and last but not least the Watercolor Canon), as well as me reading Under the Sea (from the Canon camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160318, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 3/13/16 (Nikon) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “QLG 647” (where she used be “QLG 6479” because Texas license plates are often 2 letters followed by 4 numbers) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160318, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 3/13/16 (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “QLG 647” (where she used be “QLG 6479” because Texas license plates are often 2 letters followed by 4 numbers) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers shared John Yotko’s photo. 20160318

Okay, the most recent photo of us is from one of my last nights in Chicago before I moved to Austin... But Happy Birthday Francois Le Roux!

Janet Kuypers
20160318

Speaking OF Francois, last year I uploaded 2 sets of my YouTube videos of my reading poems from my 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago w/ HA!Man of South Africa “hotel music” playing in the background, which included my 2 haiku poem JY asks (from the Canon fs200 video camera as well as from the Canon Power Shot video camera) and Us Creative Types (from the Canon Power Shot video camera and from the Canon fs200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160318

Just because it’s later in the day for me compared to where you are in the world Francois Le Roux, that doesṉt mean I’m not going to inundate your account with pictures, so (again) Happy Birthday!

Janet Kuypers
20160318

Hey, I can remain on a Periodic Table of Poetry kick, because I see that two years ago today I even posted on Twitter that my Periodic Table poem Praseodymium got an artvilla web page with videos!

Janet Kuypers
20160318

It is funny that three years ago today I released a bunch of YouTube videos of my reading short poems by other people in the After the Apocalypse 2013 date book live 3/13/13 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery, including the Jeffrey Park poem He Lies in the Tub, he Mark Breckenridge poem Skull and Bone Salad, the Sheryl L. Nelms poem a West Texas Thunderstorm (what, and now I live in Texas), and the Riley Kean poem Pushed. That was cool, running an open mic & publishing books, ‘cause I got to show off other writing from accepted writers not only in books and on line, but also read live at a Chicago open mic and in a YouTube video online. I miss that.

Janet Kuypers
20160318

Happy Birthday Francois Le Roux!
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Janet Kuypers
20160318

Oh Buddha309, calling our 5/10/13 Poetry’s “Love Letter” show (that you posted a “coming soon” art file for three years ago today) a grudge match... (That was a fun show though, 5/10/13 Poetry’s “Love Letter” Science vs. Mysticism, where I read Periodic Table poems Gold #79, Nitrogen in my Veins #7, Vanadium - funny tha it is #22 in the Periodic Table and it is used to make a synthetic form of my gemstone Alexandrite and my birthday is June 22nd, DNA and Carbon in Asteroids - Oh my #6, and Boron from the Big Bang - which talks about how element #4 and other lighter elements are the only elements made in the first minutes after the Big Bang, and you matched my poems with “Mysticism” counter-poems...)

Janet Kuypers
20160317, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Nikon) reading my 2 poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at Austin’ Kick Butt Poetry open mic.

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160317, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Cps) reading my 2 poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at Austin’ Kick Butt Poetry open mic.

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160317

Wow, I didn’t even realize that three years ago today I posted 2 YouTube videos from my Chicago open mic 3/13/13 at the Café Gallery (at The Gallery Cabaret), including full video of my hosting the open mic, plus video of my reading the Jenene Ravesloot poem

Spring and Not one Singing Bird Sestina Variation from the 10/11 issue (v225) of cc&d (& in the ISBN# 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback book Up In Smoke).

Janet Kuypers
20160317

One year ago today I snapped this Instagram photo before the Laurie Anderson show at the Harris Theater last year... I only mention this because I saw her last night on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as she performed one of my songs for dogs (from her most recent album and film Heart of a Dog, and yes, 6 dogs were on carpets to hear her music).

Janet Kuypers
20160317

Wow, I never saw this photo from one year ago today at The Wormwood Collective down at The Elbo Room w/ the Irish poster behind my reading in 2015. Thanks for the photo, Guillermo Cuayahui Sanchez!

Janet Kuypers
20160317

Avrom, thanks for posting all of the photos from last year at the Poetry Show at the Art Colony...

Janet Kuypers
20160317

I had the green hair Two years ago today from 3/17/14 at Waiting 4 the Bus at Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar in Chicago (not coloring my hair this year).

Janet Kuypers
20160317

Two years ago today I posted this photo of my (old) den wall of photos; I know where the plants & candles & paintings are in our Austin home (oh, and the lamb’s leg was broken in the move; I’m glad I used that in a photo for my cover for my “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” last live Chicago show at The Gallery Cabaret), but there are still tons of boxes from storage to unpack, and I think a few of them are of only “pictures”. Where will all of these photos go in our new home?
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Janet Kuypers
20160316, via Twitter

My Visionaries Behind the Stars Periodic Table poetry show has artvilla and artvilla/scars pages! http://t.co/r9EK9fYHtn http://t.co/OgfiO7WzaQ http://t.co/TZpWUkLeJr

Janet Kuypers
20160316, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems “Visions were Justified”, “Excuses for Skipping Work”, and “Earth was Crying” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Plus” open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (from a Nikon CooPix S7000).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160316, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160316, via Twitter

So Victoria Azarenka and Sam Stosur played last night in the BNP Paribas (and they are replaying it right now), and when it was on last night John said it was funny how I walked into Stosur last year during the 2015 Western& amp; Southern Open. I was just walking with my head down, we bumped into each other, I said excuse me, then John said, “You just bumped into Sam Stosur...” (But really, I never expected players to be walking in the crowd without bodyguards or something.)

Janet Kuypers
20160316

You see, I fondly reflect when I see photos like this with people like Oroki Rice that I posted one year ago today advertising my show Journey at Sisters on a Journey, that presents What’s Your Story? in Hyde Park. I was a great show 3/28/15, and thanks for hosting a groovy space (and letting me be a part of it)!

Janet Kuypers
20160316

Janet and John with green hair outside the Brat Stop

Well, I’m not dying my hair for any holidays (like I did 2 years ago today), just unpacking boxes all week...

Janet Kuypers
20160316

But after more tennis three years ago today,

we made a point to enjoy the evening...

Janet Kuypers
20160316

I think this came up three years ago today for John’s recumbent bike (and there was apparently a beer drinking challenge associated with it)...

Janet Kuypers
20160316

I don’t know how John likes IPAs, I really don’t (and wait, he drinks them &nd gets migraines, why does he drink them?) ... I told him (even three years ago) that I don’t like them...

Janet Kuypers
20160316

Apparently (three years ago today John and I went out to watch tennis (at the Beer Market, I think) - that may have been before we got the Tennis channel and had to go out to catch tennis somewhere on TV.

Janet Kuypers
20160315, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ three poems, “Have You Ever Had”, “Understanding what’s Crazy” and “I Blow Bubbles” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Plus” open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/11/16 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160315, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160315

Thom Worldpoet is usually the one to take a

group photo at the end of Georgetown’ Poetry

Plus, but since John was taking pictures of the group, I thought he could take some with his camera too...

Janet Kuypers
20160315

If you want to order this anthology directly frm the printer, chief editor Michael Lee Johnson just released the paperback book “Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze: (Contemporary Poetry By New and Experienced Poets)”, which I am a part of! (Lucky me, my poems “eyes”, ,“Death takes many forms” ,“Entering the Lake of Fire” and “unique noise” are included in this 188 page 8½ x 11" anthology!)

Janet Kuypers
20160315

Wait - did I mention the “Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze” poetry collection book (with Michael Lee Johnson as Chief Editor) is also out on Kindle? Get it now! (And hey, if you like my poetry, and maybe another 50 or so other poets, you can also get this for your smart phone!)

Janet Kuypers
20160315

Chief editor Michael Lee Johnson just released the paperback book "Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze: (Contemporary Poetry By New and Experienced Poets)", which I am a part of! And now you can order this book directly through amazon!

Janet Kuypers
20160315

Two years ago today John even show that we were then also celebrating St. Patrick’s Day early (this time at Jesse Oaks). Because of moving things this week, I think we’re only unpacking in bits and pieces through this weekend.

Janet Kuypers
20160315

Apparently (three years ago today John posted a few photos from RAM (when I say RAM, I still want to quote the movie w/ “the quarterback, buggering the linebacker...”)

Janet Kuypers
20160315

Four years ago today I released the found haiku (about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevic).

I later read that twitter-length poem 1/29/14 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery (with video from a Sony and a Canon fs200 video camera).

https://www.facebook.com/ janetkuypers/posts/3276078054811
http://youtu.be/TToX_EYKaJA
http://youtu.be/VMsS2qd-Yqo

Janet Kuypers
20160315

In this communal performance 2016.03.13 at Spoken & Heard (at the beginning of the open mic at Kick Butt Coffee), Thom Worldpoet asked friends to join him on stage (with MJ on guitar). Thanks to Jack McCabe for this video, because at ~4:00 to 4:30 I joined in for performing parts of my poems Communication.

Janet Kuypers
20160314

Other than a few new poems, I also read a poem from the Average Guy’s Guide (to Feminism) at Kick Butt Poetry last night...
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Janet Kuypers
20160314

But It is a bigger wow that last year marked the first time I ever went to the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago. Because on 3/10/15 I was there and I read my poems one oh three destruction instructions: run faster (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera, but also released with a Posterize filter), unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera, but also released with a Posterize filter), and Being God (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera, but also released with a Posterize filter).

Janet Kuypers
20160314

Excellent; two years ago today I released a number of YouTube videos from 3/12/14 at my Chicago poetry ope mic the Café Gallery, including YouTube video of not only my hosting the open mic, but also videos of me reading my poems “This you Don’s Hate” (from the Canon and from the Sony cameras), “Hard Enough Anymore” (from the Canon camera, and a Sony camera), and my haiku poems “upturn” (from the Canon camera, and also released with a Posterize filter), “judge” (from the Canon and from the Sony cameras), and “sort” from the Canon and from the Sony cameras.

Janet Kuypers
20160314

Apparently Thom Worldpoet had more group photos “Poetry Plus” in Georgetown

3/11/16 that I forgot to post. I think John took some too, I will have to find them and post them too.

Janet Kuypers
20160313

Apparently (three years ago today John snapped this photo because it was so cold at RAM that I had to use a straw. (With the amount of work we still have on the house today, something refreshing does sound nice...)
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Janet Kuypers
20160313

And WAIT - Thom Worldpoet posted group

photos after “Poetry Plus” in Georgetown 3/11/16 (I appreciate it)...

Janet Kuypers
20160312

Janet Janet at the Cafß Gallery 20140312

Oh Jenene, you caught me getting someone on video (from two years ago today, but what else was new when I rand open mic podcasts)...
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20160312

Thanks again Kottyn for taking great photos of Janet Kuypers and other at the Tom Roby feature night at the Café Gallery open mic two years ago today.
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Janet Kuypers
20160312

JK drinking from a Berry Weisse beer pitcher wit a straw at the Brat Stop in Kenosha WI

Ah, the good old days (three years ago today)...
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20160312

told John that he looked better in a photo than me, and he didn’t believe me (until he saw this photo). Thanks again for the 3/11/16 photos Thom Worldpoet... 0https://www.facebook.com/photo.php? fbid=10154105209975362&set= pcb.450680718460346 &type=3&theater

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20160312

Figuring out what I’m reading 3/11/16 while watching other poets read at Georgetown’s "Poetry Plus"... Thanks for the photos, Thom Worldpoet... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php? fbid=10154105212395362& set=pcb.450680718460346 &type=3&theater

Janet Kuypers
20160312

The theme was “People Are Crazy” (ergo my clothes choices?) at “Poetry Plus” in Georgetown 3/11/16. https://www.facebook.com/pho to.php?fbid=10154105212845 362&set=pcb.450680718460346&type=3&theater

Janet Kuypers
20160311

The Tennis Channel is airing the Davis Cup now, but seeing this photo I posted two years ago reminded me that at last year’s Ohio W&S Open I was trying so hard to get photos of pro players with the tennis ball on their racket. Since we moved we won’t go there again, but I am looking forward to seeing live clay court matches April 4th - 10th in Houston (because I would have never made the trip for this match if I lived in Chicago).

Janet Kuypers
20160311, via YouTube

And I have no idea why one year ago today I decided to read portions of my India Journals (that later were in my journal/photo book about being in India, titled Bon Voyage!), from 20150122 11:25PM IST, live 3/4/15 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery (Cps), but this YouTube video talks about Janet Kuypers loving reading the India Times newspaper there - there were these unbelievably humorous crime blotter stories reported there... It really was entertaining in the mornings to sit there at their breakfast buffet on the other side of the planet for an hour or two and drink their version of American coffee and read these unreal stories from their newspaper. What a riot.

Janet Kuypers
20160311, via YouTube

I know over the years I read the poem New to Chicago a lot, but I guess it was appropriate that one year ago today I posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading New to Chicago from memory in front of that awesome Chicago mural live 3/4/15 for my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery (from the Canon fs200)... When John & I first met, he read this poem and didn’t understand this being a poem or how it could be performed - until he saw me read it. Then he understood.

Janet Kuypers
20160311

Thanks Will C. Superior for posting Wormwood Collective Spoken Word 03.10.15 photos one year ago today. I know I barely got the chance to see the open mic while living in Chicago, but it was cool to finally make it there.
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Janet Kuypers
20160310

It’s actually a cool video; lower volume 4 cameraman’s voice. A plane flies in the moon’s shadow; pretty excellent. John might want to watch this when he has the time.)

Janet Kuypers, via YouTube. 20160310

But one year ago today I also posted YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading C Ra McGuirt’s poem If you read this poem, then you will die from the 2015 “need to know” literary date book, and last year I also released YouTube video of my reading Rex Sexton’s poem this is not a poem (from the same datebook). That was cool reading things live (like from 3/4/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago), and that date book was great for it, because every week I have short poems to choose from to read to a live audience... Though Scars still makes the date books, I do not have an open mic to read other people’s writings in regularly...

Janet Kuypers, via YouTube. 20160310

It was fun to read accepted writings from my lit mag when they were published(to get their writing out in more ways that just a perfect-bound ISBN# book sold around the world), I figured if I had time at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery, I could read stuff live, and get it on YouTube... Like this YouTube video posted one year ago today of Janet Kuypers reading Robert Bates’ prose Knockout from Down in the Dirt mag (the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue, v127) titled “Treading Water” during the 3/4/15 open mic. (I liked showing off cool covers too, like this one under the pier at Naples Beach...)

Janet Kuypers
20160310

But last year today I also started hyping my Friday 3/20/15 show at the Palmer House for Chi-Fi, where I read Star Trek poems, in a show I called “Resistance is Futile”. (That was actually my 1st of 2 shows at that convention, and it was cool to write about weird Star Trek stuff for two features in one weekend...)

Janet Kuypers
20160310

Last year I was hyping my how at the art colony on the (at the time) upcoming Saturday. I think that was my “India Stories” show, where I also read a bunch of haiku poems from then...

Janet Kuypers
20160310

So Mynx doesn’t hang out in the office with me here in my apartment (like she did one year ago today for this pic, because there’s no room for the waiting room chair next to my desk), but now she sits and curls up with me on the couch if I watch tv. But in the mornings she still contorts like this to get our attention (which is still so adorable)...
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Janet Kuypers
20160310

Janet walking outside, 50 degrees with snow

It is funny to see this walking photo posted two years ago today and see all that snow piled up in the yard. Snow. Fascinating.
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John Yotko
20160309 · Austin

Janet likes the pizza drawer in the new fridge.

Janet Kuypers
20160309

When I first saw this skewed stuffed animal bunny at IKEA last night, I thought “I wouldn’t eat a bunny rabbit, ‘cause it’s cute.” (Lovely quote this vegetarian heard from an ex Fancy Food magazine editor) But I should look at the basket of bunnies and say, “I don’t patronize bunny rabbits...” — at

IKEA Round Rock.

Janet Kuypers
20160309

Oh great, even the stuffed animal pigs at IKEA are skewered. — at

IKEA Round Rock.

Janet Kuypers
20160309

And John, thank you for taking these photos from the Café Gallery during the 3/4/15 open mic that were uploaded one year ago today - you are the best!

Janet Kuypers
20160309

It was so cool to have this group photo taken one year ago today (with people like Luis Martinez, Bob Rashkow, Paul Ryan, Daniel S. Weinberg, Geofery Stewart, Lynn West, Jenene Ravesloot, Tom Roby, Jerry Pendergast and more!), when we had the chance to to take this the Café Gallery group photo 3/4/15 with that excellent mural behind us.

Janet Kuypers
20160309, via Vine

But I got my Vine groove on the 9th in 2015 when I released Vine video from one year ago today of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku

instead live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (recorded from both a Canon fs200 video camera - but one year ago today it was also released from a Sony camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160309, via YouTube

It᾿s cool that one year ago today I had YouTube video out of Janet Kuypers reading Catherine B. Krause’s poem The Herd 2/18/15 from the Jan./Feb. 2015 v253 issue of cc&d magazine’s “the Curve of Arctic Air” at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery. (I miss being able to read my lit mag poems from others regularly.)
And there were so many good contributors to that issue, like Richard King Perkins II, David S. Pointer, Edee Lemonier, David James, Louie Clay, Tom Schaffer, Marianne Szlyk, CEE, R. N. Taber, Kenneth DiMaggio, Sheryl L. Nelms, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Erren Kelly, Ronald Charles Epstein, T. Allen Culpepper, Ralph Monday, I.B. Rad, Simon Perchik, Aditya Shankar, Oz Hardwick, Alan Catlin, Jane Stuart, David J. Thompson, Catherine B. Krause, Janet Kuypers, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Daniel S. Weinberg, Eric Burbridge, Ean Bevel, Matt LeShay, Mark Herden, Marilyn June Janson, Daniel Stockwell, Robert Finch, John Amendall, Harry Noussias, Joshua Copeland, Bob Strother, and Betty J. Sayles, along with art from the HA!Man of South Africa, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, David J. Thompson, David Michael Jackson, Peter LaBerge, Rex Bromfield, Cheryl Townsend, Aaron Wilder, Brian Forrest, Brian & Lauren Hosey, and Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz.

Janet Kuypers
20160309

But I didn’t notice until now that three years ago today John and I decided to both make kiss faces and try to be cute (don’t know if it worked)...

Janet Kuypers
20160309

Three years ago today John posted this photo, talking about St. Bernardus, & we found our St. Bernardus glass from storage last night when we started unpacking from the movers.

John Yotko
20160308 · Austin

Janet, the stuff is rolling in

Janet Kuypers
20160308

And Oroki Rice, I just saw some of your photos from two years ago at my 2/12/14 open mic at the Café Gallery, and it reminded me that Oroki, you’re the BEST!

Janet Kuypers And in that photo I am holding a copy of cc&d mag a Link in the Chain with cover art by Oz Hardwick, and contributors Janet Kuypers, Andrew H. Oerke, George Gott, Mel Waldman, Joshua Copeland, Rachel Park, Linda M. Crate, Dave Jackson, Kelley Jean White MD, Linda Webb Aceto, Andrew L. Miller, Fritz Hamilton, Julie Kovacs, Devon Sova, Rex Sexton, Roger Cowin, Jerry Pendergast, Erren Geraud Kelly, Michael Lee Johnson, Anna Majeski, Eric Burbridge, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, C Ra McGuirt, Daniel Stockwell, Brian Forrest (art), Joseph Bodie, Benjamin Sabin, and Don Maurer... That was the first new format issue, so it is cool to see it again like that. 20160308

Janet Kuypers
20160308

So two years ago today John posted this photo of him and Janet Kuypers at Laschet’s Inn because he just got over the flu. Right now (spooky) he is getting over something (because he got sick just in time for us moving into our new home).

Janet Kuypers
20160308, via YouTube

One year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Brian Looney’s Eat a Dog, Pet a Hog from the cc&d collection book One Solitary Word live 2/18/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

Janet Kuypers
20160308, via YouTube

One year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading William F. Meyer Jr.’s poem Cave Woman / Cave Man Soliloquy I from the Down in the Dirt collection book What Must be Done live 2/18/15 at my open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ a Canon fs200 video cam)

Janet Kuypers
20160307, via Twitter

A drug Maria Sharapova took since ‘06 is now banned, so she failed the Australia Open drug test. She is out for a few upcoming matches for it too (news JUST came out). http://t.co/t8pCbxCZhQ

Janet Kuypers
20160307

I just realized this is the 5 year anniversary of Scars Publi cations releasing YouTube videos from the 3/5/11 show letting it all out (an hour long show with videos and music at Swing State, north of Chicago). Poems released included I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well (from the TV camera and from the main camera), True Happiness in the New Millennium (from the TV camera and from the main camera), and Everything was Alive and Dying (from the TV camera & from the main camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160306

Wow, one year ago today I posted these pictures with John w/ my proof copy of the v128 Mar./Apr. 2015 issue of Down in the Dirtmagazine, Black Cat. (taken at The Brat Stop). I think that is one of the cooler images I took in India,

for an issue with contributors (in order in the book) Lisa Gray, Doug Draime, A.J. Huffman, Eric Burbridge, Joseph Grant, Donald Gaither, Bill Kirby, William Masters, Don Massenzio, Norm Hudson, David R Miller, Kerry Lown Whalen, Judith Ann Levison, John Grey, Allan Onik, Jenean McBrearty, Liam Spencer, Hal Savage, Michael Lee Johnson, Peter McMillan, Christina Dendy, and Janet Kuypers (w/ haikus).

Janet Kuypers
20160306, via YouTube

One year ago today I released a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting my Chicago open mic 3/4/15 at The Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery (w/ a Canon fs200 camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160306

Two years ago today I released a few YouTube videos from 2/26/14 at the open mic I hosted the Café Gallery in Chicago, including Janet Kuypers reading mt poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale from the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled I Pull the Strings

(filmed with a Sony camera), and two years ago today I released me reading my poem Dilithium, a bonus poems from my Periodic Table of Poetry series (which was also filmed with the Sony camera).

Janet Kuypers is at Broadstone 8 One Hundred Apartment Homes. 20160305

So, because my phone was dropped (not by me) between Christmas and New Year’s 2+ months ago, I waited for 6 weeks to get replacement glass for the shattered screen I’ve been working with. But then they busted a part inside of it and told me they’ll replace it, so in the meantime I have my old phone that cannot use the camera (or Instagram or Vine), because they busted it more. So I had to use another phone for this picture, because we have a house that john wanted to paint this weekend (while we’ll still have this apartment through March before we break our contract), but he has a cold now and has been staying in bed all weekend while I have (again) been packing boxes for yet another one of these moves. I am sick of boxes, I am sick of packing up my belongings and having them sit in my living space until we can move them again, and it seems that any time some event comes up for either me (like a feature) or us (like a move) John has a migraine, or gets a fever. It exasperates me that (again) I have to do this work on the weekend by myself for the both of us.

Janet Kuypers
20160305

I told you it was all about March 5th, because 3 years ago today I released YouTube videos from Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar in Chicago 3/4/13 of me reading my poem Momento Mori (from the Canon camera, and also with an Film Age - Older filter and a Posteriza, a Threshold filter and an Edge Detection filter). I also released video that day of my reading my poem All I Can Capture (filmed from the Canon camera, but also released with an Edge Detection filter, a Postrize filter, and a Watercolor filter). There was even video that day of me reading both All I Can Capture and Momento Mori together.

Janet Kuypers
20160305

But it seems that March 5th seemed t be the date a few years back when I uploaded lots of YouTube videos... Because 3/5/14 I uploaded vides from 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku “clogged” (from a Sony camera) as well as my haiku “end” (from a Sony camera), along with my haiku “labor” (from a Sony camera), my haiku “mister” (from a Sony camera), and my haiku “bear” from a Sony camera.

Janet Kuypers
20160305

Wow, one year ago today John took this pic w/ with Janet Kuypers w/ my proof copy of the v254 Mar./Apr. 2015 issue of cc&d magazine, Idea (with Writers and artists in this book include writing by Janet Kuypers, Richard King Perkins II, CEE, Sheryl L. Nelms, Erren Kelly, I.B. Rad, Jane Stuart, Alan Catlin, R. N. Taber, David J. Thompson, Catherine B. Krause, Simon Perchik, Maura Gage Cavell, MCD, Michael Ceraolo, Brian Looney, Donald Gaither, Kelley Jean White MD, Eric Burbridge, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Joshua Copelan, Oz Hardwick, Betty J. Sayles, Margaret Karmazin, Derald Hamilton, Kevin Munley, Patrick Fealey, Jim Meirose, Brian Forrest, Aaron Wilder, Eric Bonholtzer, Kyle Hemmings, Cheryl Townsend, the HA!Man of South Africa, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI, and David Michael Jackson).

Janet Kuypers
20160305

Thank you Jenene Ravesloot for posting these photos last year at the Café Gallery at The Gallery Cabaret 3/4/2015.

Janet Kuypers
20160305

Instagram group pic of the Cafe Gallery get-together

I will never forget the Café Gallery came from the town of the blues (posted one year ago today, taken from the open mic 3/4/15, via instagram).

Janet Kuypers
20160304

Why is Brad Woodard trying to take Janet’s hat? And who as taking those photos? (I don’t try to understand it, but Happy Birthday, Brad....)

Janet Kuypers
0160304

I think last year today must have been the day when I released half of my YouTube videos from my 2/27/15 in my Chicago Destruction Instructions show, including

my poem one twenty fifteen destruction instructions: use drones to kill (from the Canon Power Shot camera as well as with the Canon fs200 video camera), and my

poem one twenty fifteen destruction instructions: on destroying a relationship (from a Canon Power Shot camera and a Canon fs200 video camera). It was cool that John joined me with his electric base for this show too...

Janet Kuypers
20160304, via Twitter

Wow, last year through Twitter I posted that my Periodic Table poem Thallium now has an artvilla web page w/ 2 video links - long live the Periodic Table of Poetry! http://t.co/m6sWC6flBN
http://t.co/UgyZ95acAX

Janet Kuypers
20160304

Brad Woodard, don’t think I was done with the from past photos I have posted for your birthday... And speaking of, Happy Birthday!

Janet Kuypers
20160304

You know Brad Woodard, since I have so many photos from past birthdays, I’m reflecting on them this year... Happy Birthday!

Janet Kuypers
20160303, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems “Arsenic and Syphilis” and “Juxtaposition, or Irony?” from memory; then she read her 2 Periodic Table poems “Potassium Chloride” and “Thallium” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Plus” open mic at Cianfrani’s 2/26/16 (w/ a Canon Power Shot).

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Janet Kuypers
20160303, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

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Janet Kuypers
20160303, via Twitter

Since I’ve only bought Saturn cars all my life, I am seriously thinking that the electric Tesla will be my next car.

Janet Kuypers
20160303

The day I signed up for the 2015 Poetry Bomb (which was one year ago today), I got this (flammable explosives) package delivery — and wait a minute! I have no idea if anyone in Austin has heard of the (Chicago) Poetry Bomb!? I guess I better be notified of when it is in April this year, so I can make a trip somewhere to read poetry somewhere unexpected in Austin...

Janet Kuypers
20160303

I know I’ve been singing more songs with John on guitar, but it’s cool to look back and see that two years ago I released YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing the Smoking Popes song Need You Around (with John on guitar) live 2/26/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (recorded from the Sony camera), but it’s also cool to see (you know, because I’m a

poet) that two years ago my YouTube account also released video of my poem How to Scramble an Egg at that same open mic (also filmed from that Sony camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160303

Three years ago today I got these 4 clocks wired together to post in the office for the 4 U.S. time zones, and now that we’e starting to get the rooms ready in our new house (we’re painting the office a stately grey, and using two book cabinets around the window for Scars books (including hardbound one time single collections of old saddle-stitch issues of cc&d and Down in the Dirt mag), but I was totally thinking that these 4 time-zone clocks can go overt he window there in the office (I really liked the 4 time zones there, and the clock tickings were never in sync, but I loved hearing the discordance of the ticking quietly in the background while I worked)...

Janet Kuypers
20160303

It’s cool to see that five years ago today I made sure that Scars Publi cations released info about the 3/5/11 show letting it all out for my cool hour long show with videos and music at Swing State!

Janet Kuypers
20160302, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video w/ John on guitar singing Peter Gabriel’s song “Washing of the Water”, then her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “my love for you will stay the same”, then Ani DeFranco’s song “I am Not a Pretty Girl” at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s open mic 2/28/16 (filmed w/ a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera).

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Janet Kuypers
20160302, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160302

On first glance, it seems that there are not as many vegetarian restaurants in Austin as in Chicago (at least in my 5 months here), so I should really thank John for snapping this photo one year ago today of us at the ChicagoVeg restaurant just a few blocks from my open mic. (And P.S.: no, we do not consider Indian restaurant in the States as true vegetarian restaurants - although in India vegetarianism is more common, in the U.S. they may have vegetarian options, but they include meat to so much of their food that they never truly constitute vegetarian restaurants...)

Janet Kuypers
20160302, via YouTube

But it is also groovy-cool that 3/2/15 Scars Publi cationsalso released a bunch of YouTube videos from my 2/27/15 in the Janet Kuypers Chicago Destruction Instructions show (with John on guitar)... Because there was a one year ago today YouTube video of my reading my poem one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive (from the Canon fs200 camera - but one year ago today

it was also released from the Canon Power Shot camera). one year ago today there was a YouTube video of my reading my poem one oh one destruction instructions: a man calls a woman (from the Canon fs200 camera, and One year ago today this same poem was also released on line from the Canon Power Shot camera... There were lots of videos released of poems with John on guitar, including video from One year ago today, with YouTube video of me reading my poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster (filmed from the Canon fs200 camera), and one year ago today this poem was also released from the Canon Power Shot camera.

Janet Kuypers
20160302

One Solitary Word (cc&d issue collection book)

And never forget that the the cc&d July-December 2014 collection book (with cover art of a Patrick Fealey painting) One Solitary Word was ALSO released one year ago today! This behemoth is 402 pages long with not only the issues from half the year, but also a number of chapbook releases! If you missed this book last year, pick up a copy of this Scars Publi cations collection book today! ...And if you think I was kidding, check out all of the contributors to this huge collection book (listed alphabetically be first name): Aaron Wilder, Ash Medhurst, Beaumont Sebos, Becky Grush, Bill Kroger, Bill Tarlin, Bill Yarrow, Bob Strother, Brian Duggan, Brian Forrest, Brian Hosey, Cara Losier Chanoine, CEE, Cheryl Townsend, Cynthia Lewis, Daniel S. Weinberg, Darcy Wilmoth, David Hernandez, Don Hargraves, Doug Draime, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Eric Burbridge, Erren Kelly, Fritz Hamilton, George Arthur, George Gott, I.B. Rad, Iftekhar Sayeed, Janet Kuypers, Jean Wiggins, Jim Meirose, John Grey, Joshua Copeland, Julie L. Brown, Kenneth DiMaggio, Lennart Lundh, Madison Gardler, Matt Marinovich, MCD, Michael Hoag, Michael Lee Johnson, Mike Brennan, Patrick Fealey, Patrick Hurley, Peter LaBerge, R. N. Taber, Ralph Monday, Rex Bromfield, Rex Sexton, Ronald Brunsky, S.L. Dixon, Samantha Memi, Simon Perchik, Stephen V. Ramey, Tendai R. Mwanaka, the HA!Man of South Africa, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Vittorio Carli, Xanadu, and Zoe Broome.

Janet Kuypers
20160302

What Must be Done (Down in the Dirt issue collection book)

Wow, one year ago today is when Scars Publi cations released (with a snow-filled front cover, wow, snow, perfect for those in northern climates) the Down in the Dirt July-December 2014 collection book What Must be Done - this behemoth is 434 pages long with not only the magazine issues form half the year, but also a number of chapbook releases! If you missed this collection book before, pick up a copy of this Scars Publi cations book today! And if you think I was kidding, check out all of the contributors to this huge collection book (listed alphabetically be first name): A. Lenkeit, A.J. Huffman, Aidan King, Alex Patterson, Allan Onik, Allen M Weber, Anna Maria Hansen, Austin Harrington, Ben Macnair, Bob Strother, Brett Milam, Chris Milam, David Hernandez, David Hutt, David J. Tabak, Denice Penrose, Don Massenzio, Donald Gaither, Drew Nacht, Ed “Tough Gut” Wilson, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Eleanor Leonne Bennett art, Eric Burbridge, Fritz Hamilton, George Semko, Gregory Liffick, H. D. Loughrey, Iftekhar Sayeed, Janet Doggett, Janet Kuypers, Janna Willard, Jeff Burt, Jennifer Ihasz, John Paul Younes, Judith Kaufman, Justin W. Price, K.D. Alter, Kennita Ballard, Kerry Lown Whalen, Kyle Hemmings, Liam C. Calhoun, Liam Spencer, Lisa Gray, Liz Betz, M.C. Rydel, Mark Herden, Mark Scott, Matt LeShay, Matthew Hlady, Matthew L. Hall, Michael Andreoni, Michael J. Grodesky, Mike Brennan, Paul Bavister, Ralph Monday, Robert Bates, Ronald Charles Epstein, S. R. Mearns, Stanley M Noah, Susan Rocks, William A. Greenfield, and William F. Meyer, Jr.

Janet Kuypers
20160301, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/26/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems “Life got in the Way” & “newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species”, plus her Periodic Table poem “Tin” at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (this video was filmed a Canon Power Shot camera).

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Janet Kuypers
20160301, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160301

I talked about things I read at a show a yer ago, but I forgot to mention that three years ago today I released a bunch of YouTube videos from 2/27/13 of my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery (all filmed from the Canon fs200 video camera) of not only my hosting the open mic (which also became a podcast video), as well as my poem Burn It In from the Canon camera and the Sony camera. I also read the Bob Johnston poem the Seven Deadly Colors: Gray and the Joseph Hart poem the Oak and the Michael Lee Johnson poem Moon Sleep (all from from the After the Apocalypse 2013 date book). That night I also read the Esteban Colon poem Firearm Philosophy from the 2/13 issue (v241) of cc&d magazine, and I also read the Kenneth DiMaggio poem American Gothic (#3) from the 2/13 issue (v115) of Down in the Dirt magazine... I really enjoyed being able to read other accepted writings from people in my literary magazines at the open mic there, too.

Janet Kuypers
20160301, via YouTube

You know I’m enjoying reflecting on past Chicago performances, but one year ago today I released YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Chicago show Destruction Instructions of 5 poems with John on electric base (filmed from a Canon Power Shot), and one year ago today I also released YouTube video of my reading Paul Jos. Ryan’s poem Bat Man from 2/27/15 at the Uptown Arts Center.

Janet Kuypers
20160301

What’s also cool is that four years ago today (since it’s the beginning of the month Scars Publi cations released the v230 issue of cc&d magazine online and in print... With cover art from Oz Hardwick, and contributors Janet Kuypers, Bob Johnston, Dan Fitzgerald, Joseph Hart, Fritz Hamilton, Virginia Fultz, Marcin Majkowski, Ice Gayle Johnson, Michael Lee Johnson, Brian Hosey photography, Jane Stuart, Cheryl Townsend (with art), Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci (with art), Bob Rashkow, Kenneth DiMaggio, Jenene Ravesloot, Rose E. Grier (with art), Bruce Matteson, Charlie Newman, Sheryl L. Nelms, Oz Hardwick (with art), Linda Webb Aceto, the HA!man of South Africa (with art), R. N. Taber, John Duncklee, Nick Brazinsky (with art), Rochelle Lynn Holt, Jackson Burgess, Anne Turner Taub, Brian Forrest painting, Derrick Sherwin, Jim Meirose, Erica McBeth, Brian Looney, Eric Bonholtzer, Aaron Wilder (with art), Trish Weil, Robert W. Gallant, and Phillip Gardner.

Janet Kuypers
20160301

Then again, four years ago today (since it’s the beginning of the month Scars Publi cations released the v104 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine online and in print...
In this issue: Janet Kuypers, Robert D. Lyons, Mel Waldman, Fritz Hamilton, Marcin Majkowski, Nancy Lee Bethea, P. Keith Boran, Brian Looney, Christopher Hivner, Lisa Cappiello, Sheryl L. Nelms, Liam Spencer, Eric Burbridge, John Ragusa, Ben Macnair, Kenneth DiMaggio, Justin Creed, Nathan Hahs, Ryan Priest, M. E. Mitchell, Matt Barden, Kevin Cole, Jillian Simons, Mike Brennan, Alain Marciano, Tom Ball, Eleanor Leonne Bennett (with art), Clinton Van Inman, and Kristopher Miller.

Janet Kuypers
20160301

Okay cc&d magazine lovers... I have to share with you that five years ago today I noticed that Scars Publi cations released the v218 issue of cc&d magazine online and in print, but five years ago today we also released the issue as a 6"x9" ISBN# paperback book Fear the Forsaken! Writers& amp; artists in this book are: Oz Hardwick, David Thompson, Fritz Hamilton, Janet Kuypers, John Thompson, Mark Graham, CEE, Je’free, Jon Mathewson, Kristine Ong Muslim, Michael Larrain, Robert Lawrence, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, GPA (The Poetic Unsub), Judith Ann Levison, Nick Brazinsky, Joy Davis, Maxwell Baumbach, Cheryl Townsend, Lucy Winrow, Dennis Kerr, D Fitz, Kenneth DiMaggio, Jenna Mary, C.S. Fuqua, Michael Ceraolo, Aaron Wilder, Linda Webb Aceto, Jay Marvin, Michael Battram, Michael Lee Johnson, John Yotko, Christy Hicks, Barbara Villemez, the HA!man of South Africa, Anne Turner Taub, Sara Basrai, Eric Bonholtzer, Rufus Ryan, Sonia Segura, AE Baer, Stefan V.S. Gibson, Brian Forrest, Paul Sohar, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, and Philip Kuan.

Janet Kuypers
20160301

Okay Down in the Dirt magazine lovers... I have to share with you that five years ago today I noticed that Scars Publi cations released the v092 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine online and in print, but five years ago today we also released the issue as a 6"x9" ISBN# paperback book Down In It!
Writers and artists included in this issue are 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, Edward Wells II, T.G. Schoenberg, Tanuj Solanki, Emma Eden Ramos, K.R. Helms, Paul Galarraga, Chris Dietzel, and Charlie Wirth.

Janet Kuypers updated her profile picture. 20160301

Happy March... Because it’s John’s birthday this month, I thought I’d update my profile picture for him until spring begins.

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers in

Austin, Texas. 20160229

Janet is getting tired of painting.

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers in

Austin, Texas. 20160229

But before the furniture is delivered, we are prepping for painting.

John Yotko with Janet Kuypers 20160229

Janet is scattering some Valentine’s Day rose petals on our new front yard before I carried her through our front door.

Janet Kuypers
20160229

(Posted from last Sunday of me and John)

Thanks Thom!

Janet Kuypers
20160229

(Posted January 31st)

Thanks Thom!

Janet Kuypers
20160229

(Posted January 10th)

Thanks Thom!

Janet Kuypers
20160229

(Posted January 8th)

Thanks Thom!

Janet Kuypers
20160229

For the past few months (because I have been away from Chicago) I have been posting reflections from past years on facebook, but really, I have no recollections from 4 years ago on FEBRUARY 29TH... But Yesterday I FINALLY just became fb friends with Thom Worldpoet, and just saw a ton of photos that we have taken of the past few months here in Austin. So, thanks for the friendship Thom, and (as I promised yesterday) I would post a few snapshots from the past few months this morning before we close on our house today...

Janet Kuypers
20160228

Thom Worldpoet, I didn’t even SEE this poem from Poetry Plus last Friday! Thank you! (You know, I completely forgot I even had those glasses on top of my head when I went up to read!)...

Janet Kuypers
20160228

Not only did I release that chapbook online last year, but one year ago today I also released YouTube video from 2/27/15 of the entire Janet Kuypers Chicago show Destruction Instructions of 5 poems with John on electric base (filmed on a Canon fs200).

Janet Kuypers
20160228

Then again, one year ago this weekend witnessed Scars Publi cations releasing the Janet Kuypers chapbook Destruction Instructions of poems written that were performed last year at the Uptown Arts Center for Paul Jos. Ryan’s book release, “Destruction Instructions” (the digital cover is cooler than the print cover, by the way). )

Janet Kuypers
20160228

Two years ago this weekend released a bunch of YouTube videos from YouTube video of from2/26/14 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery, including me covering/ singing the Smoking Popes song Need You Around (with John on guitar, C), plus my poems poem Dilithium (from the Canon camera), How to Scramble an Egg (from the Canon camera), my twitter-length haiku mister (from the Canon camera), twitter-length haiku labor (from the Canon camera), twitter-length haiku end (from the Canon camera), twitter-length haiku clogged (from the Canon camera), and my twitter-length haiku bear (from the Canon camera). There is also a long video of me hosting the open mic, and me reading my poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale from the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled I Pull the Strings (from the Canon camera)

John Yotko

drinking café mocha with Janet Kuypers at Cianfrani’s Coffee. 20160228

Janet said I should post photos of her with her eyes open.

Janet Kuypers
20160227

On 2/27/14 I uploaded YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing the Smoking Popes song “Need You Around” with John on guitar live 2/26/14 at the open mic“ the Café Gallery” in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160227

On 2/27/14 I uploaded YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “How to Scramble an Egg” live 2/26/14 at the open mic“ the Café Gallery” in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160227

On 2/27/14 I uploaded YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Ta ble of Poetry bonus poem “Dilithium” live 2/26/14 at the open mic“ the Café Gallery” in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera).

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

20160227

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku scorches from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/27/16 (this video filmed in Austin, TX from a Droid Maxx)
This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

Janet Kuypers
20160226

Thom World poet, thanks for the group photos last night at Poetry Plus in Georgetown - it is nice to have group shots like this after poetry readings...

John Yotko

drinking café mocha with Janet Kuypers at Cianfrani’s Coffee. 20160226

Janet sharing one of her Periodic Table of Poetry pieces.

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

. 20160226

See a !--B>Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter-length poem How He Failed from Scars Publications’ Jan./Feb. 2016 issue (v134) of Down in the Dirt magazine titled the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/26/16 (filmed in Austin, TX from a Droid Maxx)
This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

Janet Kuypers
20160226

Oh, but after I uploaded those videos one year ago today, I was the (at least) able to hang out with John...

Janet Kuypers
20160226, via YouTube

And check it out... One year ago today a read a few pieces from 2/18/15 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery from my India journal 2015011 12:59AM EST on New York (filmed with the Canon fs200 video camera, but also released with a Posterize filter)... But I also read my poem one oh one destruction instructions: a man calls a woman (recorded with a Canon FS200 video camera, but also released with a Posterize filter) that was later performed at my 2/27/15 feature for Paul Ryan’ Destruction Instructions

event... But while I was hosting the Café Gallery, I also read Kelley Jean White MD’s poem Lent from the 2015 “need to know” literary date book — and that was another cool thing about that open mic, I was albe to read poems from other accepted authors from Scars Publi cations’ collection books and literary magazines. I miss being able to share their accepted writings in video too.

Janet Kuypers
20160226

Oh John, I do miss going to Laschet’s for Optimator, and B.B. Rover’s didn’t have Optimator... So what’s a girl to do? (Maybe, I think, go to their music open mic Sunday and hope, because I believe there’s no poetry open mic the 4th Sunday of the month... You better get your guitar out!)

Janet Kuypers
20160226

So it seems that four years ago today I was enjoying beignets at at Café Du Monde in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, and I’m wondering... Back when I lived in Chicago I seemed to make the trip to go to New Orleans a lot, and now that I’m living 6 hours away I have yet to go. What’s up with that?

Janet Kuypers
20160225, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Escaping rapeugees and Kinds of Torture 2/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera).

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Janet Kuypers
20160225, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems “Escaping rapeugees” and “Kinds of Torture” 2/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160225

I saw this post from one year ago today, and... Sandra Kuypers wondered if I had the

shirt dad was wearing in my junior prom photo- well, I guess here’s the proof.

Janet Kuypers
20160225, via YouTube

And one year ago today I uploaded YouTube video of me reading A. J. Huffman’s poem I Am Ocean,and I released a video of a bunch of poems by other poets from “Treading Water” (all recorded from a Canon FS200 video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160225, via YouTube

Wow, one year ago today I uploaded a few YouTube videos of my reading poem from other accepted writers in Down in the Dirt mag (the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue, v127) titled “Treading Water” live 2/18/15 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery, including Shubhangi Joshi’s poem Break Down and Ralph Monday’s poem Rosie the Riveter.

Janet Kuypers
20160225

So, I know that I uploaded most my of YouTube videos from my Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop from 2/23/14, but two years ago today I uploaded one final YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Tin w/ a Canon camera.

John Yotko
20160224

Janet’s having a little pizza under her garlic. —

eating pizza with Janet Kuypers at Bellini’s Texas Grill..

Janet Kuypers
20160224, via Twitter

Just got a note that a facebook user liked the Down in the Dirt bumper sticker. Well, rock on! And spread the word!

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

20160224

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku titled study from Scars Publi cations’ Down in the Dirt Jan./Feb. 2016 issue book the Breaking (filmed 2/24/16 from a Motorola in Austin, Texas)

This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

20160224

This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

Janet Kuypers
20160224

But last year was the day for YouTube video uploads from 2/18/15 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery... Because I read a bunch of poems from other authors accepted in (the at the time current issue of) cc&d magazine (the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue, v128) titled “the Curve of Arctic Air”. Because one year ago today I have video not only of my reading Edee Lemoniers’s poem Salvation, and I.B. Rad’s poem Our nine black robed priests, and Jane Stuart’s poem Jazzy Morning, and Kenneth DiMaggio’s poem Reflection #1 from A (perhaps) Heretical Lectio Divina Meditation, and Marianne Szlyk’s poem of Music and Metaphor in Somerville, MA, and Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem Miley Cyrus is Coming, and also Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem the ultimate uncool. I mean, I even released a video of my reading all of these poems from “the Curve of Arctic Air”, and that was the added feature of

hosting this open mic that was great - it was a chance to mix it with people who had their writing accepted in Scars Publi cations magazine issues - I liked being able to get other poet’s writings out there in as many ways as I could, and for years, it was an honor to do so at this open mic.

Janet Kuypers
20160224

It was four years ago today when I shared with everyone that artvilla created a page for scars video posts - which has (and still) highlights many performance show listings in Chicago over the years...

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

20160223

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku knife in Scars Publi cations’ 2016 Down in the Dirt book the Breaking as a looping JKPoetryVine video 2/23/16 (filmed w/ a Samsung smartphone).

This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

Janet Kuypers
20160223

But last year is when I uploaded most of my photos from India... Because one year ago today I released a photo set of my touring Visakhapatnam, and one year ago today we also had a great time

visiting Kailasagiri. That wasb’t the only place we visited, because one year ago today we saw Simhachalamone year ago today I posted photos from Mumbai (with one of the nicest airports in the

world). And yeah, one year ago today a posted a collection of images of found art, and (of course) one year ago today I posted images from the Bay of Bengal (on the eastern coast of the country)

Janet Kuypers
20160223

Over the years I’ve posted a lot of videos, but I’m mot only a professional performance artist but also a professional publisher...And I might as well release books of my shows.

Because five years ago today I posted about Scars Publi cations’ releasing the CD (for release on line) Letting it All Out (based on a past show)... And five years ago today I see that Scars also releasing the 6"x9" ISBN# perfect-bound

color cover paperback book the Stories of Women (also once a show). But you see, I did a bunch of shows at Lake Villa’s Swing State and released those shows as books all at once, because five years ago today I see that Scars also releasing the 6"x9" ISBN# perfect-bound color cover paperback book Sexism and Other Stories (also from a performance art show there, with videos and music).

But because I couldn’t my the Café Gallery show be left out (even though it was still at the Café), I made sure that five years ago today I see that Scars also releasing the 6"x9" ISBN# perfect-bound color cover paperback book “40” (yes, also released first as a show).

Janet Kuypers
20160222, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers sings Where I Belong to an instrumental of Depeche Mode’s Home live 2/19/16 at Austin’s the Water Tank (recorded with a Canon Power Shot camera)

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Janet Kuypers
20160222, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers sings her (expanded) poem Where I Belong to an instrumental of Depeche Mode’s Home live 2/19/16 at Austin’s the Water Tank (recorded with a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera)

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160222

But three years ago today I released the Sony video releases of my YouTube readings from 2/13/13 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery, including me reading my poem Fantastic Car Crash from the Sony camera, Death is a Dog from the Sony camera, New to Chicago from the Sony camera, Medication from the Sony camera, Childhood Memories One from the Sony camera, Only Searching from the Sony camera, video of my entire “Last Minute” mini-feature from the Sony camera, and videos of my reading the I.B. Rad poem The Free Market (La Serrata) the Michael Ceraolo poem Modern Olympian Ode #2 (2012): The Apparently Once and Future Obscenity, and my reading the Simon Perchik poem Untitled (hands) from the 2/13 issue (v241) of cc&d magazine (still available for sale, with cover artwork from John Yotko from the Dominican Republic).

Janet Kuypers
20160222

I love the fact that three years ago today I learned @AynRandMyths was following me on Twitter; I liked it because their stamp logo is a stamp that I have framed, and I used this stamp 4 all my wedding invites...

Janet Kuypers
20160221, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing the George Michael song a Different Corner live 2/19/16 at Austin’s the Water Tank (from a Canon Power Shot camera)

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160221, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing the George Michael song a Different Corner live 2/19/16 at Austin’s the Water Tank (from a Nikon CoolPix S7000 camera with a glow filter)

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160221

Oh, but who am I kidding... Two years ago I released a ton of YouTube of when I get some poets and some chemists together at the Brat Stop in Kenosha WI for Periodic Table poem readings (by request) in Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat, including Janet Kuypers reading Tin (Canon camera, and with a Threshold filter), and Ununseptium (with a Canon camera, and also released with an Edge Detection filter), my haiku life (with a Canon camera, and also with a threshold filter)... And I also had to do bonus Periodic Table poems Dilithium (with a Canon camera, but also released with a posterize filter), Tritium (with a Canon camera, but also released with a Sepia Tone filter), and my Periodic Table poems Thallium (from the Canon camera, but also released with an Edge Detection filter), Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash (per Robin Fine’s request, from the Canon camera, but also released with a Posterize filter), Plutonium (from the Canon camera, but also released with a Hue Cycle filter), and the next two requested by Nathan; Carbon (from the Canon camera, plus also released with an Edge Detection filter), Silicon (from the Canon camera, and also released with a Sepia tone filter), Fermium (from the Canon filter, and also released with a Threshold filter), Avrom’s request of Indium (from a Canon camera, and also released with an Edge Detection filter), the one I loves reading, because I describe theories about the creation of the Universe after the Big Bang in Boron from the Big Bang (from the Canon camera, and also released with a Poserize filter), and Flerovium (from a Canon camera, and also released with a Hue Cycle filter)... And what’s also cool is that some of these Periodic Table poems, Ununseptium was a poem that was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2014.

Janet Kuypers
20160221

Wow, three years ago today is when I got to thank Michael Lee Johnson for posting the interview with me - I still appreciate it...

Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels
20160220

Janet Kuypers - I was in a pinch this evening and replayed our last interview - what a treat to hear your sweet voice! Big hugs of love, happy memories and Appreciation!

Janet Kuypers Wow, if I wasn’t in Texas I would have joined you in that pinch so you could have a live show - but it’s awesome to hear that one of my radio interviews was re-played on WZRD Radio!!! Thank you!!! 20160220

Janet Kuypers
20160220, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

What, you want more artsy video? Then fine... See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing the George Michael song Praying for Time live 2/19/16 at Austin’s the Water Tank (filmed from a Nikon CollPix S7000 camera, w/ dream and posterize effects).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160220, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

I TOLD you I’d have to put up videos today (it was like a personal challenge)... So see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers covering/singing the George Michael song Praying for Time live 2/19/16 at Austin’s the Water Tank (from a Canon Power Shot camera)

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160220

It’s nice to see from last year that John would put up a post like “I love Janet”. (Smooch! I love you too!)

Janet Kuypers
20160220

Sarah DeMenge, I hope only sunny skies come your way for your birthday today (and the whole year through!)... Happy Birthday!!!

Janet Kuypers
2016 0220

I’m telling you, 2/20 and uploading videos seems to be my thing, because one year ago today I released the Jackie Wolk feature video from 2/12/14 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery, and right before I introduced her feature I read the first

poem (one of one destruction instructions: a man calls a woman) that I later read at my destruction instructions reading on 2/27/14 for Paul Jos. Ryan’s book release party... (At this rate, I’m going to have to work on videos so I can release a video for THIS year too!)

Janet Kuypers
20160220

You think I was kidding when I said February 20th is a day I upload lots of videos... But two years ago today I was uploading YouTube videos from 2/12/14 at my Chicago open mic the Café Gallery, including my reading my poems Human Construct of Time from v121 of Down in the Dirt magazine titled “I Pull the Strings” (filmed with a Canon camera, but also released online with a Threshold filter), my twitter-length haiku forever (from the Canon and Sony cameras), my twitter-length haiku over (from the Canon and Sony cameras), my twitter-length haiku rescue (from the and Sony cameras), and my twitter-length haiku timing (from the Canon and Sony cameras).

Janet Kuypers
20160220

February 20^th over the years was really the day for me to upload videos... Because three years ago day I uploaded a bunch of YouTube videos from 2/13/13 at Chicago’s the Café Gallery, including video of my poems Fantastic Car Crash (from the Canon camera), Death is a Dog (from the Canon camera), New to Chicago (from the Canon camera), Medication (from the Canon camera),

Childhood Memories One (from the Canon camera), Only Searching (from the Canon camera), and video from the entire “Last Minute” mini feature (from the Canon camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160219, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video of me singing (John on guitar) Leonard Cohen’s Coming Back to You, my poem Made Any Difference, the Eurythmics’ I Need You, my poem Under the Sea (set to Beatles music), & George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise) 2/16/16 at The Uptown Social open mic in Georgetown TX (from a Nikon camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers, via

20160219

Instagram of Janet making a funny face with Paul Ryan at the Cafe Gallery open mic 20150218

But the thing is, one year ago today I posted photos from after the 2/12/15 open mic and Jackie Wolk feature at the Café Gallery I took pictures with a ton of people from the open mic as we all made

Instagram of Janet making a funny face with guests at the Cafe Gallery open mic 20150218

faces at the camera. And it was fun snapping photos with Paul Ryan, James (mister poetry himself), Jerry Pendergast (with the pin to elect someone OTHER than Rom Emmanuel for mayor), Joffre Stewart (I love this photo of us), and feature Jackie Wolk.

Janet Kuypers
20160219, via Twitter

Okay, so last year I posted this additional Periodic Table poem at artvilla, and because people are still talking to me about these Periodic Table poems, I have to re-post this for everyone... Because I was posted last year on twitter that my Periodic Table poem Rutherfordium has an artvilla web page with 5 video links!
http://t.co/mfA8Vp5zte
http://t.co/Blr9PZR6p5

Janet Kuypers
20160219

Okay fine, I’ll post all of these past posts from two years ago today as one long post... Because in 2014 I posted a lot from 2/12/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago, including YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Depth of Field from the Canon fs200 video camera as well as from the Sony camera, as well

as me reading my twitter-length poem even if the Pope claims it from v247 of cc&d magazine titled “a ink in the Chain” (from the Canon fs200 camera and from the Sony camera), and my reading my prose a Life Goes By from the book Don’t Listen. Read. (from the Canon fs200 camera and from the Sony camera), and (this is the cool part) john with me on guitar as we cover the Peter

Gabriel song Washing of the Water (from the Canon fs200 camera and from the Sony camera)... I SO want to cover that some again now that we’re here in Austin, but John is so meticulous on perfecting playing songs again that it might take a while to do it again.

Janet Kuypers
20160218

Aw, 3 years ago today while returning from celebrating our holiday weekend, we broke out the chocolate wine we saved for this occasion.

Janet Kuypers
20160218, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

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Janet Kuypers, via

20160218

Oh my gosh, I was SO chanting “Go Coco! Go Coco!!!” (to no avail...)

On facebook and Twitter.

Janet Kuypers
20160218

Happy wedding anniversary, mom and dad. I hope you are happy together again.

(Okay, it’s an old photo from so long ago, but I don’t have many photos of me with my mom and dad...)

Janet Kuypers
20160218

But if I wasn’t releasing YouTube videos daily last year, then I was probably releasing 6 second long Vine videos. Because one year ago today I made two facebook posts through Vine, because I

released a Vine video of my reading my haiku humans live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (filmed with a Canon camera AND with that video flipped (since the camera was at an angle to the reading).

Janet Kuypers
20160218

This must be the anniversary of my releasing artwork, because four years ago today I also released my

Las Bachas beach - Baltra (from the Galapagos Islands) photos online at YourArt.com (and some of these photos were also released in my full color photo book Galapagos).

Janet Kuypers
20160218

It’s funny too see one of my first facebook profile pictures is listed as the link four years ago today for my YourArt.com, which even shows a
a Picture’s Worth 1,000 words, a Janet Kuypers COLOR art book

movie and art listings of a lot of the artwork that appears in my photo book a Picture’s Worth 1,000 Words (which was released as both a full color photo book and a b&w photo book).

Janet Kuypers
20160217, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems The Fourteenth & Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation), and then her 2 poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name as one, at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers, via Goodreads
20160217

One year ago today I “made progress” with my collection book Partial Nudity through Goodreads

(I think I added additional YouTube video links to poems I read in that book). But after that I stopped adding YouTube video links to the end of the poems, since this is a book of what was read at shows by publication date.

Janet Kuypers
20160217

So the last time I was at a Taco John’s (to get my hot sauce fix), John asked them there if we could have any extra hot sauce packets for later use, and they gave us like almost a stuffed bag of hot sauce packets. And at this point I’m starting to run low on using them on weekends when we go to a diner for biscuits here in Austin, so it’s funny that two years ago today we passed Marion prison so I could get my Taco John’s fix.

Janet Kuypers, via

20160216

Fine, I know the camera flipped the picture, but I was too stunned at Ram and the #2 seeded Tomic at Del Ray beach for an insane tennis match!

This Instagram is on facebook and Twitter.

Janet Kuypers
20160216, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her a mix of my poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name from memory at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160216, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading my poem Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation) at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160216, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading my poem The Fourteenth at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160216

But you should know me by now to know that I’ll probably be uploading videos, even if they are only 6 second long videos. Because one year ago today I released a Vine video of my reading my haiku hold live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (filmed with a Canon FS200

camera), as well as a video from one year ago today when I also released a Vine video of me reading that same haiku hold live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14 (filmed with a Sony video camera).

Janet Kuypers
20160216

But it’s nice to see that John and I could still be disgustingly cutesy, like one year ago today (at The Brat Stop)...

Janet Kuypers
20160216

Janet geting a kissy face from the fuck you guy

And I swear, this was the most hysterical photo to take two years ago today - that is one of the cool things about hanging out in the French Quarter...

Janet Kuypers
20160216

But how cool was it that John thought of Neil DeGrasse Tyson and astronomy two years ago today when we took photos and describing disco balls as thought bubbles on stars.

Janet Kuypers
20160216

John took this photo from two years ago today (wait a minute, I live only 6 hours away and we have yet to go to New Orleans, what’s up with that?)...

Janet Kuypers
20160215, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then my poem Vanishing Scars at the Round Rock Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (filmed from a w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160215, via Twitter

I liked a YouTube video from @janetkuypers

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then my poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

On Tumblr, Pinterest, and Google+.

Janet Kuypers
20160215

But looking back, it’s kind of cool that three years ago today I released YouTube videos of 4 mini-features (I was the last mini-feature) and the open mic live 2/13/13 at The Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago.

Janet Kuypers
20160215

But it was also kind of cool that one year ago I was upload JKPoetryVine haiku videos through Vine, like gone and hold (live on WZRD Chicago radio 9/27/14, from a Sony video camera), and I didn’t even own a smart phone then...

Janet Kuypers
20160215

But it’s cool that we got to hang out at my favorite restaurant two years ago once there.

Janet Kuypers
20160215

But apparently we got to the French Quarter two years ago today in time to see a parade...

Janet Kuypers
20160215

Apparently John posted us stopping at a Sikeston Taco John’s two years ago today, because we were on our way to New Orleans.

John Yotko added two new photos — with Janet Kuypers. 20160214

Valentine’s Day lunch... Heart shaped deep dish pizza

John Yotko added two new photos — with Janet Kuypers. 20160214

Happy Valentines Day my love.

Janet Kuypers
20160214, via Twitter

My 9/27/14 WZRD 88.3FM radio show’s on artvilla & Scars Video pgs! http://t.co/1jgAjhboUl http://t.co/CXEI0nL9pV http://t.co/kREQZqtrhR

Janet Kuypers
20160214, via Twitter

This is why I rationally decided that I love John, my @walkingseed - happy Valentine’s Day.

Janet Kuypers shared Vittorio Carli’s photo. 20160214

Wow, four years ago today Vittorio Carli posted this photo of us at the Café Gallery - and I remember those props in your hand from your show!

John Yotko
20160214

And hey John, I just saw this Instagram photo of us from last year - remember when we were married for only 15 years and you used to kiss me like that all the time? (This is your challenge for this year, young man...)

John Yotko
20160214

John kissing Janet at Market House on the Square

Thanks for posting this photo from last year, John (when we went out for dinner for Valentine’s Day). We’ll go out this afternoon & save dinner for home alone...

Janet Kuypers
20160214

You know, this collage I put up one year ago today includes a photo of my Reardon Metal bracelet... And because of the ANTI objectivist clasp it has, it broke 6 weeks ago, and I haven’t had the time (or money) to fix it right now... And wait a minute, by the way - Happy Valentine’s Day!

Janet Kuypers
20160214

Then again, two years ago today I was also posting this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Marianne Schaefer feature 2/12/14 at The Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago...

Janet Kuypers
20160214

Janet Kuypers at Taco John’s Bradley-Bourbonnais

And what a riot to see this memory from John from two years ago today (w/ me for Taco John’s hot sauce) - I actually used a Taco John’s hot sauce packet yesterday when going out for breakfast!

Janet Kuypers
20160214

Wow, four years ago today Vito posted this photo from his past for of us at the Café Gallery - and I remember those props in your hand from you show!

Janet Kuypers with John Yotko at

Circle Brewing Company. 20160213, Austin

We had to scope the place out so we could have our romantic get-together here tomorrow afternoon for Valentine’s Day.

Janet Kuypers, via Goodreads 20160213

Last year today I added my photo book Galapagos to my library collection at Goodreads (where it also got a

rating on Goodreads too)...

Janet Kuypers
20160213

At the beginning of our Valentine’s Day weekend last year we went to a Wisconsin bar that supported the Bears. Last night we started playing music and reading love poetry at Poetry Plus at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown, then found another place that has a music open mic Tuesday nights (which we may go to in a few days). We’ll see how we spend the day today (before Valentine’s Day tomorrow)...

Janet Kuypers
20160213

I like thinking about vegetarianism (because right now I’m thinking about my trip to India last year), because one year ago today I was still uploading my reading a portion of my India Journals, from about

how terrorism affects a writer, from 20150116 8:07AM IST, live 2/4/15 in Chicago at the Café Gallery (filmed with the Canon Power Shot & Canon FS200 cameras).

Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20160213

Since the next pieces I am reading are from the current issues of the Scars magazines, I thought I would post a pic of my reading from cc&d’s Nighttime City, with cover art by John Yotko.

Janet Kuypers

Since I told in one of the responses to this poem about my sister taking photos of me and making a crack about my legs, I realized she *gave* me that collage, so here I thought I'd share it, years later...

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

20160212

See a Vine video as Janet Kuypers blows out a candle after reading her haiku know, in Scars Publi cations’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 2/12/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX (Samsung)

This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

I know I was just making Valentine’s Day references for my open mic at the Café Gallery, but one year ago today I was still uploading my reading a portion of my

India Journals, from 2015017 7:40 IST on the caste system, live 2/4/15 in Chicago (filmed with the Canon Power Shot camera and a Canon FS200 video camera).

JKPoetryVine posted a video on

20160212

See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku know from light to dark, from Scars Publi cations’ the Café Gallery book the Chosen Few 2/12/16 as a looping JKPoetryVine video in Austin, TX

This video is posted
on vine, facebook,
Tumblr and Twitter.

And John, don’t think I’ll forget that 3 years ago today it was Fat Tuesday (and the only think I could do was wear my krew beads that were given to us).

Janet at the Café Gallery poetry open mic

Since it was our open mic for Valentine’s Day, I of course I wore my red turtleneck... But thanks again to John for taking a few photos at the end of the open mic after the Marianne Schaefer feature at the Café Gallery open mic at The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago two years ago today.