Scars Publications is with Janet Kuypers. 20231205 
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Sulfur, Suddenly” from the Scars Publications books “2023 in a Flash” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Janet Kuypers
20231204
Thank you so much to Al Ford for the Christmas card, which now has a place in our tree, and reminds us that we should be getting our Christmas cards out this year too!
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Janet Kuypers
20231204
I may be the geek who knows that Star Trek: Picard Season 2 had a 2024 manned mission to Europa, but in real life, NASA has an UNmanned 2024 mission to Europa, and I am pleased to have my name stenciled on a microchip that will be attached to the spacecraft as it travels to Europa...
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Janet Kuypers
20231204
Happy Birthday to David Rubin, the man who started the open mic at Café Aloha, which I was pleased to carry on after Charlie Newman ran it at the Café, where then I moved it to The Gallery Cabaret, before I had to move away from Chicago and pass the baton for the open mic over to Dave Gecic, where after Covid19 Wes Heine kept the poetry going. After I returned to Chicago after traveling the States and after the accident recovery, David Rubin was the man who told me I was “on the scene” and gave me quarterly features, and was able to bloom as a performance artist. Thank you, and happy birthday...
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Janet Kuypers was live.
20231203
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium” from the books “It’s All About Impact” & “Periodic Table Poetry”, then “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” from the books “Casting Off” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”, then “Just on Book” from the books “Casting Off”, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, “Chapter 48 v2”, & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” (+ bonus images 2/4/17 1 & 2, 8/4/17 1, 8/22/17 1 & 2, 8/23/17 1, & 8/3/20 1) to close her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with John F. McMullen and 11 others. 20231203
Today is the big day! Join us (and always on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on its last open mic of 2023 before we start anew in January 2024 — TODAY, 12/3/23 (20231203, or 3 Dec 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1072851673888809/
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Janet Kuypers is at Billy’s On Burnet. 20231202
Because Citizen Eatery is not open until when the Illini basketball game starts, we stopped here for a beer. The game for Texas football was going on, so we sat to the side and we discovered a bicycle that was painted in Illini (or is that Dutch) colors.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231202
Facebook wouldn’t allow me to share memories of The Café open mic poetry readings posted on 12/2/16 and 12/2/10 (7 & 13 years ago today), but at least Facebook allows me to share this... Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town in July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I want to share, like in my 1st year of hosting poetry in Chicago. Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Venture to the Unknown” (from the NASA full-color photo book “Venture to the Unknown”) at The Café live in Chicago on 11/30/10 (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 13 others. 20231202
Tomorrow is the big day! Join us (and always on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1072851673888809/
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Janet Kuypers
20231201
Those who celebrate the end of the year have a perfect way to celebrate with brand-new Scars Publications book releases! The December 2023 v214 issue of Down in the Dirt, now available as the 6x9 paperback ISBN# book “Wintering Over” was just released, and is available online anywhere, and in print, on Amazon sales throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., all of Europe, Australia, and even Japan! (Writers and artists in this Down in the Dirt perfect-bound paperback book include A.R. Williams, Adam Brinckerhoff, Alan Gartenhaus, Alan Swope, Anita G. Gorman, Amy Lowe, Ben Macnair, Bill Tope, Brandon Perez, Christopher Kuhl, David William Jurgenson, Devon Silverfox, Donald Reed Greenwood, Emma Salmons, Gil Hoy, Heather Rutherford, Iftekhar Sayeed, J. David, James Bates, Janet Kuypers, JJ Harrigan, John C. Krieg, John Farquhar Young, Kierra Jefferson, Marissa McCarthy, Mark Belair, Mark Pearce, Matt Stanley, Mitchel Montagna, Robert Rothman, Sara Sanguinetti, Srihith Jarabana, Suzanne O’Connell, Binod Dawadi, Cailey Tin, Charlotte Jung, Daniel de Culla, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Helen Bird, Isabel G. de Diego, J. Ray Paradiso, Karen Hedges, Raha.M, and Sherry Shahan.)
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Janet Kuypers is with Christina Culverhouse and 7 others. 20231201
Those who celebrate the end of the year have a perfect way to celebrate with brand-new Scars Publications book releases! The December 2023 v340 issue of cc&d magazine, now available as not only the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “Blackbirds, Lyrebirds, WeaverBirds” was just released and is available for Amazon sale throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., all of Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but also as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alan Catlin, Alfredo Bravo de Rueda, Ben Umayam, Bill Tope, Christian Ward, Christopher Hivner, Drew Nacht, Eric Burbridge, Eugen Spierer, Gale Acuff, George R. Justice, Gerald George, James Bates, James Correnti, James Croal Jackson, Janet Kuypers, John Grey, Jonathan Odell, Julie Allyn Johnson, Kelley Jean White, Kenneth DiMaggio, Leigh-Anne Burley, Margaret D. Stetz, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Lee Johnson, Nolo Segundo, Steve Doran, Aaron Wilder, Binod Dawadi, Christina Culverhouse, David J. Thompson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Helen Bird, Karen Hedges, Kyle Hemmings, Rose E. Grier, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.)
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Janet Kuypers
20231201
Uno appeared outside our front door this morning, but it wasn’t the Christmas spirit that made me give the cat some food...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231201
I have run cc&d and Down in the Dirt magazines since their inceptions... but this post 10 years ago today highlights the last issue of cc&d as a digest-sized American Lulu printer release (which is why for a cover I used a photo of me visible at 36% in North Chicago at Lake Michigan looking out to the water, as this was the last of the ISSN# issues; since 2013 books have been released through Amazon with an ISBN#). This issue is still available for sale online, & a testament to how Scars Publications has grown with independent magazine releases over the decades...
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 4 others. 20231130
What a perfect poetry book to pick up just after Thanksgiving, with plenty of time before the Christmas rush! Scars Publications JUST released the annual poetry and art collection book “On Stones and Bones”! This 2023 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book contains select material chosen from accepted writings in 2023 issues of cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine, and a listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in Canada, the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S. (and can also be ordered in the U.K., all of Europe, Australia — even Japan). We hope everyone will LOVE a copy of this new 2023 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “On Stones and Bones” today!
And for those who are way too curious to wait, contributors to this collection book include A.J. Huffman, A.R. Williams, Adam Torkelson, Alan Catlin, Alan Swope, Alayna Hinson, Alexander Wijangco, Alison Hicks, Annette Gagliardi, Appadoo Leyanah, ayaz daryl nielsen, Ben Nardolilli, Benjamin Harnett, Bill Garten, Bill Tope, Binod Dawadi, Brenda Mox, Brian C. Miller, Brian Daly, Brian J. Pilling, Brian Lee, Cailey Tarriane, Chaim Jones, Christian Ward, Christina Culverhouse, Christopher Hivner, Christopher Kuhl, CLS Sandoval, D. R. James, Daniel de Culla, Daniel Princewill, Danny D. Ford, David Blake, David J. Thompson, David Jeffery, Deborah H. Doolittle, Dee Artea, Dominik Slusarczyk, Donna Dallas, Donna L. Emerson, Donna M. Davis, Dr. Steven M. Gerson, Duane Anderson, eddy styx, Eric Bonholtzer, Eva-Maria Sher, Fabrice Poussin, Frank De Canio, Gail Nielsen, Gerald George, Gil Hoy, Gillian Tregidgo, Hannah Jane Weber, Helen Bird, I.B. Rad, Isaac Breaux, J.P. Hill, Jacquelyn Shah, Jake Price, James Croal Jackson, James Mulhern, James W. Reynolds, Janet Kuypers, Jeanne Rana, Joanne Holdrige, Joe A. Oppenheimer, John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller, John F. McMullen, John Grey, John Kucera, John Ragusa, John Sheirer, John Zedolik, Jonathan Odell, Julie Allyn Johnson, Karen Lee Stradford, Kathryn Holeton, Kathylynne Somerville, Kelley Jean White, Kenneth DiMaggio, Kristia Vasiloff, Kyle Singh, Leigh-Anne Burley, Leila Farjami, Linda M. Crate, Lucy Sage, Lynn Hoggard, Margaret D. Stetz, Mark Belair, Mary Paulson, Matt Stanley, Maureen McDole, Michael Ceraolo, Michael H. Brownstein, Michael Lee Johnson, Miranda Clarity, MW Murphy, Nancy Jo Allen, NASA, Noelle Shoemate, Nolo Segundo, Oz Hardwick, Peter J. Dellolio, Rayne Affonso, Retta Lewis, Richard K. Williams, RM Yager, Robert Beveridge, Robert H. Guard, Robert Nimmo, Robert Rothman, Roger G. Singer, Ron Riekki, Sa’Mya H., Sam Norman, Samuel Sprague, Sandip Saha, Sean Simpson, Sergio A. Ortiz, Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Sterling Warner, Susan Anmuth, Susie Gharib, Suzanne O’Connell, Thom Woodruff, Thomas Elson, Tom Squitieri, Tony Tinsley, Travis Weis, Vincent P. Desilets, William Doreski, William Ogden Haynes, and Zach Klebaner.
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Janet Kuypers is with Westley Heine and 10 others. 20231130
What a perfect book to pick up before December, with plenty of time before the Christmas rush! Scars Publications JUST released the annual flash fiction and art collection book “2023 in a Flash”! This 2023 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book contains select material chosen from accepted writings in 2023 issues of cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine. A listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., all of Europe, Australia, and even Japan (U.S. links provided here). We hope everyone will LOVE this new 2023 Scars Publications flash fiction and art collection book “2023 in a Flash” & order this one-of-a-kind book today!
And for those who are way too curious to wait, contributors of writing & art to this collection book include Aaron Wilder, Adam Brinckerhoff, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, Andrew Evans, Anita G. Gorman, Arthur Sadrian, Ben Umayam, Bill Tope, Binod Dawadi, Borut Slokan, Bree LeMaire, Brent Joseph Johnson, Carl Chapman, Charles Wiegand, Charlotte Jung, Chelsea Orozco, Christina Culverhouse, Christopher Strople, Clay Coppedge, Craig Wells, Daniel de Culla, Daniel R. Snyder, David Berger, David Bradley, David J. Thompson, David Russell, David Sapp, Dawn DeBraal, Debra J. White, Deirdre Fryer Baird, Denise McCabe, Dennis Piszkiewicz, Derek Kelly, Donald McMann, Donald Reed Greenwood, Donovan Whitley, Doug Hawley, Doug M. Dawson, Douglas Young, Drew Marshall, E.P. Lande, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elena Botts, Emilie Cole, Eric Bonholtzer, Eric Burbridge, Fabrice Poussin, Francesca Di Fabio, Frank Talaber, Fred Cheney, George Beckerman, Gil Hoy, Gillian Tregidgo, Gloria Lauris, Harvey Huddleston, Helen Bird, Isabel G. de Diego, Jacoby Harbison, James Bates, James Marino, Jamie Johnson, Janet Kuypers, Jesse Sisler, Joan Mach, Joe A. Oppenheimer, John F. Fisher, MD, John Farquhar Young, John Ragusa, John RC Potter, John Sheirer, John Yotko, Josephine Rudolf, Karen Hedges, Katie Cobbs, Katie Lane Dei, Kelsey Harrold, Kelsy Elefante, Kevin Hopson, Kevin Statham, Kimberly M. Scott, Kirk Alex, Kumar Mahat, Kyle Hemmings, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Lesley L. Smith, Lily Finch, Linda Griffin, Logan Markko, Marc Colten, Mark Pearce, Mary Clare O’Grady, Maureen McDole, Mike Rader, Mike Schneider, Nancy Machlis Rechtman, Olivier Schopfer, Oz Hardwick, Patricia Ann Bowen, Paweł Markiewicz, Peggy Gerber, Peter Gregg Slater, Raha.M, Richard K. Williams, Robert Feinstein, Rose E. Grier, S. McManigal, Sangeetha G, Sarah Daly, Saul Greenblatt, Sherry Shahan, Smrithi Senthilnathan, Steve Bailey, Steve Doran, T. L. Sullivan, TaLisa Smith, Terry Sanville, Thomas Elson, Tom Ball, Tom Sheehan, Toney Dimos, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, W. Dean Marple, Wendy Taylor, and Westley Heine.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231130, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v213 11/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Distances” poems “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “quote unquote love for your government” (+ image), & “Meningitis, Six Feet Under” to close her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231130
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town on 7/23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 3 years ago today of a lost re-post from 7 years ago today of an original lost post from 14 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began, on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. with YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry at The Café on 11/24/09, weeks before I began hosting this weekly poetry open mic....
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231130
I won’t wear John’s jersey that I shared on Facebook 9 years ago today (from a post from John 10 years ago today), not because it’s Palamalu (the great’s) jersey for the Steelers but because since then I bought a Steelers jersey w/ #22 on it (because my birthday’s June 22nd). Even though I jump around whenever Harris (the current Steeler wearing the #22 jersey) makes a great play during a Steelers game, John was the first to notice that the name on my #22 jersey is Staley, the actual first name for the Chicago football team when it started in 1920, before they were the Bears.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Citizen Eatery (also via Instagram). 20231129 
Another Austin restaurant, Citizen Eatery, has fallen victim to the post covid economy. Janet and I are enjoying one of the last meals we’ll be able to get here with them closing down on Sunday. We have had many anniversary and birthday meals here since they opened.
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Janet Kuypers is with Dave Gecic and 14 others. 20231029
Now a half one week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 12/3/23 (20231203, or 3 Dec 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1072851673888809/
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Janet Kuypers is with Rich X Emerson and John Yotko. 20231129
I heard of Austin’s “Counter Culture” shutting down this year (the home of the best vegan Thanksgiving dinner sub sandwich) and after my favorite Circle Brewing Company closed down this fall, it breaks my heart to see in a letter and an Instagram post from Citizen Eatery (where we’d often even celebrate our wedding anniversaries) is closing down 12/3. We even brought Rich X Emerson here when he was in town — and hey, he’s in town this week, maybe he’d like to go before he returns to Chicago, & let’s see how many times I can visit for Citizen’s Assam Burger...
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231129
I’m glad you “like” & “love” this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in her first encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read 2 of her poems from the CyberWit Janet Kuypers 2023 book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & to “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets Global” page, its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” page, its Instagram page, its LinkedIn page, its “Poets of Merit & Expression” page, its “Poets On Fire Worldwide” page, & its YouTube page too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our poetry book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers
20231128
That neighborhood cat Uno has not come around for a number of days... Monday when I was about to leave to pick up John from work to pre-celebrate Chicago Bears Monday night football, Uno came darting out as I was pulling the car away. I had to stop to make sure the cat wouldn’t get in the way, but I couldn’t stay with Uno. Wednesday evening will celebrate the Bears win on MNF since we didn’t celebrate the win before (I’ll even wear my Urlacher away Jersey since the Bears won an away game Monday).
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Janet Kuypers, 20231128, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Overturning Against All” (+ show images from 3/29/23, 8/9/23, & 8/12/23) from the cc&d 5-8/23 issue collection book “It’s All About Impact” & the CyberWit 2023 book “Testament” as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers
20231128
After sharing these Christmas tree memories, I *had* to share our Christmas tree this morning. (After I added more tuille to the top of the tree last night, it now kind of looks like the angel tree top is resting on a cloud...)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231128
Oh my gosh... I just saw this memory from 2 years ago today, and BOY does that tree look green. We have a different tree this year, and it’s overcast, so maybe I should take a picture of our tree through the window now and see how different it looks.
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Janet Kuypers
This is evidence of how you cannot see our tree through the front window right now...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20231128
Yes, things do change (but how much?)... for the birds on this skinny tree from 9 years ago today are on the tree in our library now, and that tree is in the living room (and I light it this morning while I had breakfast). Any hey — those larger pictures of buildings are currently either in our stairwell in our house here, or they’re in my bedroom ion a dresser.
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Janet Kuypers
20231127
We finished the tree this weekend, and since we bought net lights (we had to use 5 strands I think for lights on such a small area), but since we can’t hang lights higher on brick, I thought to put the Noel light outside. I also placed the giant nutcrackers, which usually go around our fireplace, to the sides of the tree by the front windows. (John added strands of lights around the inside window frame to light the window nutcrackers at night too.)
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 15 others. 20231126
Now just one week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 12/3/23 (20231203, or
Dec 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1072851673888809/
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Janet Kuypers is with Westley Heine and 5 others. 20231124
What a perfect book to pick up in time for Christmas! Scars Publications JUST released “the 2024 flash fiction date book”! This 2024 weekly calendar is a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book with writing for every week of the year, chosen from accepted writings in 2023 issues of cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine. A listing of all the authors and titles of writings is available at Scars online, and this calendar book (with U.S., U.K., and Australia holidays) is now available through Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., all of Europe, Australia, and Japan! This perfect-bound date book even has the last week of 2023 and the first 4 days of 2025 too, so you won’t miss a beat with this calendar book that’s perfect for not only planning your year but also enjoying good writing year-round!
And for those who are way too curious to wait, contributors to this collection book include Amber Soha, Arshya Prinja, Bill Tope, Ben M. Svigals, Cailey Tarriane, Carl Chapman, Carl Peters, Carol Murphy, Christopher Strople, CLS Sandoval, Daksha Joshi, Daniel R. Snyder, Daryel Groom, David Michael Jackson, David Newdorf, David Larsen, Dawn DeBraal, Doug Hawley, Doug M. Dawson, Drew Marshall, Elena Botts, Eric Burbridge, Erik Priedkalns, Gil Hoy, Hannah Garson, Harvey Huddleston, Isabel G. de Diego, Isabelle B.L, James Bates, James Marino, Janet Kuypers, Jennifer Leigh Kiefer, Jenene Ravesloot, Joan Mach, Joe Chiudina, John F. Fisher MD, John Ragusa, John Sheirer, Jon Wesick, Kevin Brown, Kyle Hemmings, Latoya Kidd, Leigh-Anne Burley, Leslie Ferdinand, Liam O’Buachalla, Luis Amorim, Makyla Flowers, Marc McMahon, Marcia Yudkin, Margaret Elizabeth Brook, Mark Pearce, Merron Douglas, Michael Brockley, Mika Yamamoto, Radoslav Rochallyi, Raha.M, Richard Patterson, Samantha Griffis, Susie Gharib, T. A. Young, Thomas Elson, Tom Ball, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Westley Heine, Zach Murphy, and Zee Miller.
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Janet Kuypers is with Westley Heine and 5 others. 20231124
What a perfect book to pick up in time for Christmas! Scars Publications JUST released “the 2024 poetry review date book”! This 2024 weekly calendar is a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book with writing for every week of the year, chosen from accepted writings in 2023 issues of cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine. A listing of all the authors and titles of writings is available at Scars online, and this calendar book (with U.S., U.K., and Australia holidays) is now available through Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., all of Europe, Australia, and Japan! This perfect-bound date book even has the last week of 2023 and the first 4 days of 2025 too, so you won’t miss a beat with this calendar book that’s perfect for not only planning your year but also enjoying good writing year-round!
And for those who are way too curious to wait, contributors to this collection book include Aaron Wilder, Adam Torkelson, A.J. Huffman, Alan Altany, Alan Catlin, Alayna Hinson, Alexander Wijangco, Allen F. McNair, Annette Gagliardi, ayaz daryl nielsen, Ben Macnair, Ben Nardolilli, Bill Tope, Binod Dawadi, Brian C. Miller, Brian Daly, Cailey Tarriane, Chaim Jones, Christian Ward, Christina Culverhouse, Christopher Hivner, Clementine Zei, CLS Sandoval, Danny D. Ford, David Blake, David J. Thompson, David Jeffery, David Michael Jackson, David Sapp, Deborah H. Doolittle, Deby Cedars, Dominik Slusarczyk, Donna M. Davis, Drew Nacht, Duane Anderson, Duane L Herrmann, Ed Tozzi, eddy styx, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Elena Botts, Eric Robert Nolan, Eugen Spierer, Evalyn Lee, Fabrice Poussin, Fay L. Loomis, Frances Gaudiano, Frank De Canio, Gale Acuff, Greta T. Bates, I.B. Rad, j. novalis wolfe, Jacklyn Henry, Jacquelyn Shah, Jake Price, James Croal Jackson, James Mulhern, James W. Reynolds, Jamie Johnson, Janet Kuypers, Jenene Ravesloot, Joanne Holdrige, Joe A. Oppenheimer , John (Jake) Cosmos Aller, John F. McMullen, John Gerard Fagan, John Grey, John Kucera, John Ragusa, John Zedolik, Jonathan Odell, Joseph J. Ridgway, Kathryn Holeton, Karen Lee Stradford, Kenneth DiMaggio, Kyle Hemmings, L. Sydney Abel, Lee Hammerschmidt, Leigh-Anne Burley, Linda M. Crate, Margaret B. Ingraham, Margaret D. Stetz, Marty Krasney, Michael Ceraolo, Michael H. Brownstein, Michael Lee Johnson, Miranda Clarity, Nicholas B. Mayo, Nolo Segundo, P. L. Grimaldi, Pawel Markiewicz, Peter J. Dellolio, Retta Lewis, Richard K. Williams, Richard LeDue, Robert H. Guard, Robert Nimmo, Roger G. Singer, Ronald Charles Epstein, Samuel Sprague, Sandip Saha, Sean MicKael Wilson, Sergio A. Ortiz, Shana Liddell, Sterling Warner, Susan Anmuth, Susan Pollet, Susie Gharib, Tajudeen Muadh, Terry Trowbridge, Thom Woodruff, Todd Mercer, Travis Weis, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Vern Fein, Westley Heine, William Ellis, William Ogden Haynes, Zach Klebaner, and Zirui Feng.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231124
I am pleased to say that this post from 3 years ago today is just about a day or two early for the release of the Scars Publications 2023 flash fiction collection book — that has the same lightning as on this cover — now with a now no-longer-visible view of the Chicago skyline from the 96th floor of the once-and-always John Hancock building. Look for this new book release during the Thanksgiving weekend (and just in time for Christmass)!
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Janet Kuypers
20231123
After deciding to decorate our Thanksgiving table in gold, with gold tipped glassware and golden eating utensils and layers of golden chargers for under our dinner plates, I finally added golden charger plates that mom gave to me years ago. The bag that they were in even had my mom’s handwriting with my name on it. I thought today was a good day to pull out the chargers my mom saved for me, and I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving day today.
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I then asked John what plates we should use light ones or dark ones and he suggested clear ones. I was first against that since we’d used that for thanksgivings past but then it occurred to me that i’d be able to see the cool gold chargers if we used glass plates instead.
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Janet Kuypers
My forest of asparagus after the permafrost of the snow (I mean, mashed potatoes) couldn’t hold them up.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231122
I’m glad you “like” & “love” this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “All the Stories”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages, to “love” this on its Facebook page, & “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets Global” page, its LinkedIn page, & its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” & Scars Publications Facebook pages too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Celis Brewery (also via Instagram). 20231121
Janet picked me up from work today and surprised me with a thanksgiving sandwich for dinner. She made gravy and mashed potatoes and brought some cranberry-pomegranate sauce we had frozen from last year and a veggie patty.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231115, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v213 11/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Distances” poems “For Far Too Many Years” (+ show images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5), “Argon, like my Exes” (+ show images 1, 2, & 3; this poem also appears in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Argon” (+ show images 1 & 2; this poem also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231120
Thanks for choosing to “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 1st encore poetry reading at Tangible Books in Chicago (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & to “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets Global”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, Instagram page, “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poes On Fire Worldwide” & YouTube page too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our encore poetry book readings alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers
Wait, did I forget some of our more recent photos? (Again, Happy Birthday!!!)
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Janet Kuypers
20231119
John texted me at 6 am while starting the brewing for the “Bananas Foster Ave.” Beer that Uno was visiting, so I brought the cat some wet food and let the cat explore...
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Janet Kuypers
Even after the food, and even after walking around our house, the cat’s still like hanging out in our driveway...
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Janet Kuypers
It is funny that this morning Uno has come to visitors at every stage of the brewing this morning.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231118
I’m glad you “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Endless Possibilities”, “Testament”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its Facebook page, & “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links” page, its Instagram page, its YouTube page, & its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages, & to even support this on its LinkedIn page too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231117
Memories like this from 2 years ago today make me smile that I have THIS year’s “poetry review” and “flash fiction” 2024 date books, which came to me in the mail yesterday. Their price will be reduced for a big sale on Black Friday this year, so get ready for the posts for the release of these books the morning after Thanksgiving! (I’m pleased they are both matching similar covers of a light bulb hanging in front of a textured wall, both photographed at Circle Brewing Company on the last day that brewery was open... I really like those covers — and the books — and I hope you will too!)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231116
Hey, if I’m sharing memories of my no-longer-reproducible Chicago skyline image, maybe I should also share memories of my favorite now-closed brewery in Austin... Because it was good times 4 years ago today at Circle Brewing Company when John drank his beer during his “micro marathon” (we even saved his runner badge and it is framed on a shelf at our keyser right now — which currently has 2 sixtels of Circle’s Doppel Blur in it).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231116
I share this memory from 5 years ago today when I was reading poetry from the Scars Publications performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” with my cover photo that can never be seen again of the Chicago skyline at night, taken from the 96th floor of the (once and always) John Hancock building, before that business closed. I am SO glad I got photos from there that high up at night and could share that view with the world — especially now when no one right now can replicate that image again...
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Janet Kuypers, 20231115, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v339 11/23 cc&d issue/book “Pieces of the Past” poems “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” (+ show images 1, 2 & 3) & “Journal 20150116 8:07AM IST” (w/ these two pieces in her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, + her journal also in the book “Bon Voyage!” on travel to India), & her Animal Tales 2023 poem “Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231113
Thanks for choosing to “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “A Mural of a Forest”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, “Forbidden Library”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to close her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” (from a Samsung S9 camera) on its Facebook page & its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “like” & “love” & “care” for this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, & to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, & “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic live book reading Facebook live video streams alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231113
I updated art from the 2014 art listing of mine at Scars Publications 9 years ago today, and this post shows that the lead image is rotating art effects of a photo of me at Naples Pier — I just feel bad that I am not longer visiting to see the status of the rebuilding of that pier after Hurricane Ian had its way with Naples Pier just over one year ago...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231112
Hey, if I’m sharing memories of my now-closed poetry open mic location, maybe I should also share memories of my favorite now-closed brewery in Austin... Because it was good times 4 years ago today when I wore my favorite Halloween costume at Circle Brewing Company.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with John Yotko. 20231112
I like seeing this FB memory from 6 years ago today of us in Argentina, for I think I even used this image once for a FB cover photo & a profile pic... I love you, John.
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Janet Kuypers
20231112
Facebook didn’t let me share the memory of this post from 7 years ago today (of an original YouTube post 14 years ago today), but I must share the love for the venue of my first poetry open mic... The Café was shut down, and in 2023 the building was literally torn down, so let me share with this YouTube post reading poetry from the year before I took over hosting the Café weekly open mic in Chicago on 11/10/09.
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Janet Kuypers
20231112
Uno was waiting in front of our front door this morning, and because it is raining the cat won’t leave. Uno went through one serving of food already, but since we’re racking John’s Wolf Creek Cabernet Sauvignon wine right now, we can’t let the cat inside.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Celis Brewery (also via Instagram). 20231111
What a surprise... Janet is dressed in black and singing along to “There is a light that never goes out” from The Smiths while celebrating the Fighting Illini victory today.
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Janet Kuypers
20231110
I saw cat ears poking up through my front door’s window, so I had to oblige and feed Uno on this cold morning...
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231110
Thanks for choosing to “like”, “love”, & “care” about this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “The Beach at Night” during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links” page, to “like” & “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” pages, to “love” this on its Facebook page, & to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, & “Poets Dancing In Tears” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic live book reading Facebook live video streams alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20231110
10 years ago today we were out trying to celebrate a Bears win in Chicago; it’s nice I was able to enjoy watching them win live on TNF last night...
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231109
I’m glad you “like” & “love” this 8/12/23 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ interview on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, reading her poetry from the book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Poets of Merit & Expression” page, “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & “like” this on its Facebook page, Instagram page, YouTube page, and its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” page too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our poetry book reading and Chicago radio show interview videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio #janetkuyperschicago
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231109
I’m not one for anime and I don’t think I’m one for cartoons (and sure, Simpsons and Family Guy and South Park are novel — & I *do* have Simpsons and South Park t-shirts as more of a retro kitsch thing, & I only bought Simpsons & South Park pants at a Good Will) but this memory from 10 years ago today is serendipity, because yes, I bought that set, & I dressed as her for Halloween one year, but on one cable package we watch Aeon Flux episodes, & we have been watching them the past few nights... they don’t show all of the episodes, so I’m glad I still have this complete box set.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231108
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “All They Ever Were”, “Testament”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” (from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its Facebook page, & to “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Contemporary Poets Global”, “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”& “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic live book reading video streams alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231108
Since it’s Victor Phan’s birthday today (Happy Birthday, Victor!), these memories remind me to tell everyone that the coloring book “Under the Sea: a little girl’s journey” with drawings by Victor Phan is still available for sale... Maybe in honor of his birthday, I’ll share ALL of the poetry book releases for everyone too! (I hear they make good presents, and the Christmas season is approaching soon...)
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Janet Kuypers
20231107
I brought the half-filled bag of recyclable trash back to my recycle bin after the first few blocks thinking I would’nt find much more recyclable trash, but lo and behold, there was plenty more to follow. (Oh, btw, I also got a piece of styrofoam... Although it states it is recyclable, no recycling companies, including your weekly pick-up recycling companies, will accept plastic bags or styrofoam. I know this & get styrofoam containers for medication mailed to me regularly; we bring them to the City Recycle Depot, the only place that *will* recycle styrofoam. Plastic bags placed in the recycle bin are landfilled, so I only bring those bags to the grocery store bin for recycling plastic bags.)
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Janet Kuypers was live.
20231105
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her v213 11/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Distances” poems “For Far Too Many Years” (+ show images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5), “Argon, like my Exes” (+ show images 1, 2, & 3; this poem also appears in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Argon” (+ show images 1 & 2; this poem also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers was live.
20231105
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her v339 11/23 cc&d issue/book “Pieces of the Past” poems “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” (+ show images 1, 2 & 3) & “Journal 20150116 8:07 AM IST” (w/ these two pieces in her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, + her journal also in the book “Bon Voyage!” on travel to India), & her Animal Tales 2023 poem “Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 6 others. 20231105
Today is the big day! Join us (as always, on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting TODAY, on 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/710890664422642/
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John Yotko w/ Janet Kuypers, Bluebonnet Beer Company (& Instagram). 20231104 · Round Rock ·
Janet felt bad that we didn’t take a photo when we were out yesterday when she was wearing her Choose Life t-shirt - because last night memorabilia like that shirt was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame... so she guilted me into taking this photo after the Illini actually won a football game this afternoon.
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 11 others. 20231104
Tomorrow is the big day! Join us (as always, on the first Sunday of every month), for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/710890664422642/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231104
I share this memory from 5 years ago today because I am reading poetry from the Scars Pub. performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” with my cover photo that can never be seen again of the Chicago skyline at night, taken from the 96th floor of the (once and always) John Hancock building, before that business closed. I am SO glad I got photos from there that high up at night and could share that view with the world — especially now when no one right now can replicate that image...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231104
Back in the day when I did features in Chicago, I *think* I always read from printed pages. But this 10-year-old memory (wearing my John Galt Shirt at the Café Gallery, no less) proves that I *did* use technology to read, which I think is the only way I’ll read in poetry live now — if I can help it...
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 11 others. 20231103
Got any plans this weekend? Then join us (as always, on the first Sunday of every month), for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/710890664422642/
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Janet Kuypers
20231103
When John left for work this morning I heard a meow and Uno came running from across the street.
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Janet Kuypers
20231102
But tonight as it was approaching midnight I saw the motion detector light on at my front door. I looked, and lo and behold, Uno was there. I brought some dried food out that Uno was not very interested in... so I sat in the dark with the cat for a bit before I went to bed.
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Janet Kuypers
20231102
Uno the black cat came around Wednesday morning to find us, so I gave the cat some of our canned wet cat food, and since it was garbage and recycle collection day, whatever the cat didn’t want could then be thrown away or recycled...
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Janet Kuypers
20231102
My phone couldn’t do a Facebook live stream of my “Testament” book post-Roe v. Wade poems at the lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago because there was no reception, but I didn’t realize John took pictures during my readings with my phone — I guess getting this “collage” reminder from my phone is it’s way of gently reminding me that I might want to process photos from my last poetry show... so, okay, I will hopefully share them on Facebook soon.
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 11 others. 20231101
Now only a half week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/710890664422642/
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Janet Kuypers
20201101
Before we get psyched for Thanksgiving, let’s all celebrate with a brand-new Scars Publications book release! The November 2023 339 issue of cc&d magazine is now available not only online but also as the 6x9 ISSN# / ISBN# perfect-bound paperback book “Pieces of the Past”! This new book is available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but also as a free Internet issue web page! (Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alfredo Bravo de Rueda, Ben Umayam, Bill Tope, Carl Chapman, Christian Ward, Christopher Hivner, Daniel R. Snyder, Drew Marshall, Eric Burbridge, Gale Acuff, George R. Justice, Jacklyn Henry, James Correnti, Janet Kuypers, John F. McMullen, Kenneth DiMaggio, Linda Griffin, Linda M. Crate, Michael Ceraolo, Oz Hardwick, p.m. baird, Stephen Faulkner, Terry Trowbridge, W. Dean Marple, Binod Dawadi, David J. Thompson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Christina Culverhouse, Jenene Ravesloot, Karen Hedges, Kyle Hemmings, Lee Hammerschmidt, Rose E. Grier, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, and Wes Heine.)
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Janet Kuypers
20201101
Before we get psyched for Thanksgiving, let’s all celebrate with a brand-new Scars Publications book release! The November 2023 v213 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine is now available, online and in the 6x9 ISSN# / ISBN# perfect-bound paperback book, “Distances”! This new book is available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but also as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Adam Brinckerhoff, Althena Clark, Benjamin Harnett, Bill Tope, Bree LeMaire, Brenda Mox, Clay Coppedge, Deirdre Fryer Baird, Dennis Piszkiewicz, Donald Reed Greenwood, Edward N. McConnell, Emilie Cole, Eva-Maria Sher, J L Higgs, J.P. Hill, James Bates, Janet Kuypers, John Farquhar Young, John Ragusa, Lee Varon, Lorna Roberts, Lucy Sage, Marcia Yudkin, Mary Paulson, Mika Yamamoto, RM Yager, Robert Beveridge, Robert Guard, Sa’Mya Hall, Susie Gharib, Thomas Van Street, Tom Ball, Cailey Tin, Christopher Strople, Daniel de Culla, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elena Botts, Helen Bird, Isabel G. de Diego, J. Ray Paradiso, Kyle Hemmings, Raha.M, Sherry Shahan, and Wes Heine.)
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John Yotko is at Celis Brewery (also via Instagram). 20231031
I was wondering why Janet was doing the zombie hang with her hands then I realized she was showing off her planets on her fingernails.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20231031
I’m glad you “love” this 8/9/23 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Testament” poetry book “Into the Spotlight” feature for the “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” (filmed & once streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “like” this on its Instagram page & its Facebook page (as well as to “like” images 1 & be “wow”ed by images 2, 3 & 4), & to “like” this on its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages & its YouTube page too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our “the Café Gallery” Chicago poetry open mic book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko. 20231031
My phone produced this “collage” of a whopping 2 photos of John and me for Halloween. We have. a select few photos of us together THIS Halloween in New Orleans, but John thought that since we both had costumes together this year (that don’t look like they match, but if I was the Solar System and John was Galileo who discovered so much about the Solar System, I guess they kind of do), we should go out in costume tonight. We’ll see what happens.
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Janet Kuypers is in TexasLouisianaStateLine. 20231029 · Orange, TX ·
While driving back today, once again we saw the Billboard that said, “Lay off the witch’s brew
0 traffic fatalities
a ghoul we can live with”
So who knows, maybe I’ll have some Witches Brew while watching the Bears game tonight.
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Janet Kuypers
20231029
When I was little I was trick or treating in my neighborhood on Halloween no matter the day of the week. As an adult and even in our first house I’d hear that parents would either accompany kids to trick or treat, or else trick or treating would end as early as 5:00 pm, or Halloween would be celebrated the weekend before Halloween. (What’s funny is that now that I’m married I dress up for Halloween more than I did when I was single.) So, whether or not you celebrate Halloween, I hope everyone had a good weekend — and Happy Halloween!
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 13 others. 20231029
Now just one week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/710890664422642/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20231028
The Bears may be playing the Saints next weekend... But I’m looking forward to watching the Bears on Sunday night football tomorrow.
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Janet Kuypers is in Ponchatoula, LA. 20231027
With about an hour left of our drive, I thought I would cut out the planets to apply on my fingers for my costume this weekend.
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Janet Kuypers is at Mississippi River. 20231027 · Port Allen, LA ·
Now I know where all those participation awards for all the little kitties to make them feel like they have value come from — a deep underground mine in Louisiana.
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Janet Kuypers is in Beaumont, TX. 20231027
John just saw a lighted sign over the expressway as we were driving today that said: “Lay off the witch’s brew
0 traffic fatalities
a ghoul we can live with”
We are fine with that because we didn’t bring any Witches Brew along with us for this Halloween weekend anyway...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231027
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town on 7/23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 7 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began, on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. (with Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I actually read poetry at the Café 10/27/09...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231027
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town on 7/23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 7 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began, on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. (with Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I actually read poetry at the Café 10/27/09...
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Janet Kuypers is at Celis Brewery. 20231026
Even though I still have a stack of lit mag submissions to process before getting on the road... This part of my costume has to still dry, so since I had blood drawn twice today, I thought maybe I’d go out for a beer.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231026
Neighbors on my block leave their big loud dogs outside to bark incessantly every morning, and I hear it in my office window daily. I tried playing Mozart to down them out, and even THAT didn’t work, so I started playing KMFDM. It worked beautifully, and it gave me a new energy. SO... I can personally attest to this memory from 10 years ago today that on SO MANY LEVELS, this is SO true.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231025, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in her 2nd encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” and “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers.
20231025
OMG, I can’t believe this... I have been posting about how YouTube has a penchant for pulling almost all of the views from my video posts (but I would never believe they’d pull *all* of them). Because yesterday I uploaded a YouTube video from my most recent Poetic License open mic, I think it had over 30 views and one like yesterday afternoon. This morning it has two likes — AND NO VIEWS. I mean, YouTube, are we supposed to BELIEVE people like a video they’ve never SEEN?
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I don’t know if I’d use his Milky Way photo that is behind his blood moon photo (because when the moon is that bright it blocks out viewing stars around it), but I still think it could work if he makes a Merlot.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231024, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her January-April 2023 cc&d issue collection book “A Mural of a Forest” poems “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ image) & “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” (which are both also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), then her January-April 2023 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Forbidden Library” poems “Potassium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Potassium and Chef Boyardee”, & “Chlorine: the Good and the Bad” (which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to close her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with Brian J Grano. 20231024
When I see this photo, it (A) makes me sad that I no longer live there to enjoy Gudenteit — even if they only make their most popular beer half the year, (B) It’s cool that I happen to be wearing a Ditka t-short in my current profile picture, and (C) I’m officially jealous that Brian’s wife holds a Mickey Finn’s glass — hey, I never saw them for sale when I was in town...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231024
I saw this post from 3 years ago today where I talked about the (at least) 135 views my past Poetic License open mic YouTube video received. Because of YouTube’s penchant for pulling almost all of the views from my video posts, I thought I’d check THIS video’s views, and what do you know Ani, this video now has only 1 view. I guess nothing ever truly changes, and YouTube’s hypocrisy still reigns supreme.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231024
I can still remember Dave Gecic singing “Paperback Jacket” to “Paperback Writer” when I was setting up for my last show in Chicago before I moved to Austin... John wrapped & transported it on my clothing frame, and though once it was in my apartment bedroom, it’s now in my library downstairs. Seeing this post from 8 years ago today makes me glad that I still have a home for my jacket I made out of an extra paperback book.
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Okay, since people like and love this memory I just shared, I thought I’d snap a photo of the paperback jacket in the corner of my library right now (& btw, the remainder of the paperback novel used to make this jacket is at the neck of the metal sewing form, held down by a candleholder of a dress form)...
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Janet Kuypers, 20231023, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in her 2nd encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” and “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231023
I share this YouTube video from 2 years ago today only because this was a time when my phone allowed me to use effects on my live Poetic License open mic videos (like during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21”) — in this case, with the no-longer-existing rotating & floating triangle filter, back when we thought cool video effects made the world go-round... But wait, people TOLD me they appreciated those effects, and if the only way I can use them on my phone now is if they’re shot vertically, who knows, I might try filming with a different filter vertically at the 11/5/23 Poetic License open mic.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko. 20231022
John told me to not change my profile photo for the Steelers game immediately following the Bears game, but I *did* wear my 22 Steelers Jersey for the game (versus the Polamalu Jersey I’m wearing in this photo — and Polamalu was even at the game in LA today), and I *was* ready to change my profile picture for the Steelers for him...
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I wasn’t planning on changing my profile picture for a Bears game, but when we turned it in I saw the listing for WFLD Chicago (man, I miss my home channels).
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 18 others. 20231022
Now just two weeks away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 11/5/23 (20231105, or 5 Nov 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/710890664422642/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231022
I saw this post from 3 years ago today where I talked about the over 200 views my past Poetic License open mic YouTube video received. Because of YouTube’s penchant for pulling almost all of the views from my video posts, I thought I’d check THIS video’s views, and what do you know Ani, this video now has only 1 view. I guess nothing ever truly changes, and YouTube’s hypocrisy still reigns supreme.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20231022
John may have put this post up 8 years ago today (shortly after our arrival here) when temperature highs were 10° cooler than they are now (yay for 90° days in later October... in case you didn’t know, that’s sarcasm) to share how gas prices were low. In my hybrid, I don’t pay attention to gas prices unless I’m traveling across the country and am still getting ~42-45 miles per gallon, but now when we travel with John’s all-electric we currently pay nothing for driving around the country.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231021
I really love memories like this from 2 years ago today of the release of one of the “Under the Sea” coloring books! The Scars web page for this coloring book has 4 giant stills highlighting this coloring book (and the cover is huge on the web page too), so let me share more info about ALL of the book releases for “Under the Sea”!
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Janet Kuypers, 20231020, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v212 10/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Beach at Night” poems “Killing the Survivor Bug” + image), “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (+ show image 1, and show images 1, 2, & 3), and “Haiku (poet)” (+ 8/13/19 show images 1 & 2, + 8/15/19 show images 1 & 2, + poem image) during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, 20231019, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers during her lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights”, “It Really Is All About Choice”, “Key, you see”, “Jihad Against Free Choice”, “Only Considering Women’s Rights”, “Fear for Their Safety”, and “Expecting Rights after Losing Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers
20231019
Mirrors, artwork, shirts & tops, even potted houseplants — I appreciate how Pinterest can look for salable items in my poetry reading videos. They never mention books (while I’m holding books, in my library, no less), but they *did* mention jewelry. It didn’t point out that I was wearing two wrench bracelets, a wrench ring, and a nail ring @ my open mic... (I’ll also be wearing my nut & bolt earring for watching BattleBots tonight.)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231018
I appreciate that Jennifer Dotson invited me to be a part of “8 poems, 8 days, 8 invites” — I invited people to also join, but I don’t know if my invites fell on deaf ears. I also heard that selected poems would be included in The Russian Almanac, but I heard no follow-up on that either... I know that I appreciated sharing my past poems” — and my past performances — like my post 3 years ago today where I shared my poem “Death Takes Many Forms”, along with a YouTube video of my reading this poem at the end of my last poetry feature while living in Chicago, “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter”.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231018, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v338 10/23 cc&d issue/book “All They Ever Were” poems “Question and Answer time” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Cadmium and cancer” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Cadmium” (+ show images 1 and 2, + image, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231018
I share this Facebook live video stream from 2 years ago today not only because I was touting a Scars Publications book release, but because this was a time when my phone allowed me to use effects on my live videos (like this vertical video, with the no-longer-existing star filter, and for Halloween I’m wearing a pointed hat I also used for the 2022 Ale Wife costume last year). If I can use them on my phone now only if they’re shot vertically, I may film with a different filter vertically at the 11/5/23 Poetic License open mic.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20231018
This year I’m not buying anything I don’t already own for my Halloween costume. As the Solar System, I have a pair of astronomy-print pants, my recently-purchased Newton-ball-styled planets illustration knocking Pluto off the desk toy, and a mini-model of the solar system I bought at a garage sale years ago I plan to attach to an old hat I bought for $1 years ago. John’s buying more to be Galileo (discoverer of Jupiter and more of the Solar System) with a collared shirt, a jacket, and a beard. But I don’t think I put as much work into a costume as I did 7 years ago today for my favorite costume I’ve ever worn in New Orleans (the death-threat dark-haired Barbie hanging from a noose wearing a BIG FUN t-shirt in one scene in the 1988 movie “Heathers”).
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Janet Kuypers
20231017
Of all the times Pinterest has listed my poetry book reading video posts, it has never marketed books — even when I am literally surrounded by books.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231017, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers during her lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights”, “It Really Is All About Choice”, “Key, you see”, “Jihad Against Free Choice”, “Only Considering Women’s Rights”, “Fear for Their Safety”, and “Expecting Rights after Losing Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231017
I share this YouTube video from 2 years ago today only because this was a time when my phone allowed me to use effects on my live Poetic License open mic videos (like during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/3/21”) — in this case, with the no-longer-existing rotating & floating triangle filter, back when we thought cool video effects made the world go-round... But wait, people TOLD me they appreciated those effects, and if the only way I can use them on my phone now is if they’re shot vertically, who knows, I might try filming with a different filter vertically at the 11/5/23 Poetic License open mic.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231017
I saw this post from 3 years ago today where I talked about the 150 views my Nafas TV YouTube video received. Just yesterday I posted about how in one case the views doubled over time (versus YouTube’s penchant for pulling almost all of the views from my video posts). So, I thought I’d check THIS video’s views, and what do you know Ani, this video for my poem “Us, Actually Touching” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Partial Nudity” now has only 3 views. I guess nothing ever truly changes, and the hypocrisy still amazes me from YouTube.
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Janet Kuypers
20231016
Pinterest, there are no sweatshirts in this poetry reading, and the only hoodie I own is my “Vegetarian Planet” which in poetry readings I’ve worn when I am going as the Vegetarian Unabomber.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231016, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v211 9/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “All the Stories” poem “Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me” to close her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20231016
I told John he actually had to wear his Bears jersey last weekend since the Bears finally won a game on TNF (and there seems to be an inverse relation between my love for the Bears and my distance from Chicago)... I’m just sad that, like this post from 1 year ago today, I can no longer go to my favorite brewing company in Austin during soccer games to confuse them by wearing Steelers gear.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231016
I saw this post from 3 years ago today where I talked about the views my Nafas TV YouTube video received, but I know that YouTube consistenly pulls all of the views from my video posts. On a whim, I thought I’d check the views of this video today (to see if they knocked it down to, like, 3, like it is apt to do), but this video for my poem “Fantastic Car Crash” from the Janet Kuypers interviews / journals / poetry book “In Depth” actually had nearly twice the views it has 3 years ago. I keep checking Austin Public Access Television listings daily for re-broadcasts of my poetry television show, but it’s nice that (at least in this one case) YouTube isn’t stealing views from my television show broadcasts...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231016
I know I just shared posts from my 2023 “Into the Spotlight” feature at The Gallery Cabaret, but these images from my 2018 “Life and Death and Everything Between” poetry feature there include my holding a copy of the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” — of a view of Chicago downtown streets at night from the view of the 96th floor of the John Hancock building (a view no one will be able to photograph again because of the recent closing of the Signature Room).
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Janet Kuypers is in New Braunfels. 20231014
People can say I am crazy for going to Good Will as much as I do, but I’ve never owned an away Bears Jersey — and it’s crazy how much Chicago sports memorabilia I find in Texas. When I saw this one from a distance I had a swipe it up as quickly as I could.
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Janet Kuypers updated her profile picture. 20231014
As it was exiting its total annular eclipse, all of the shadows appeared as crescents, which you can see on my shirt.
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Janet Kuypers is at Stonehenge II. 20231014 · Ingram ·
My battery died on my camera to take photos of the eclipse and putting a lens in front of my phone camera does, as you can see, absolutely nothing. John will take photos with his camera, and at least I’ve got my solar glasses so I can watch the experience for myself.
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Janet Kuypers
20231013
Pinterest, the marketing wizard that it is, just pointed out to me the one thing missing from my Chicago women’s issues post-Roe v. Wade “Testament” poetry book reading — handbags.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231013, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in her first encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights” and “On a Sunday After a Sermon” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231013
Last year’s FB cover photo of a “Da Bears” painting on the side of a building I passed on a Chicago L train, but it’s funny that 1 year ago today I updated my FB profile picture to what is currently my FB cover photo. Maybe after this weekend, I’ll update it to an annular eclipse photo, or maybe to Stonehenge II, we’ll see...
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Janet Kuypers
20231012
When I learned of the story that because of the drought in Texas more exposed dinosaur tracks were discovered at Dinosaur Valley State Park, we decided we had to go, but the appointment we made happened to fall right after the autumn rain storms in Texas — and although some may have been covered in a light layer of rain, there were still AMAZING dinosaur tracks we photographed (which I plan to use for the 11/23 cover of cc&d magazine). Don’t let the kid-friendly entrance images of giant dinosaurs fool you, because these dinosaur tracks in these Scars art pages are really fascinating to see.
http://scars.tv/art/Dinosaur_Valley_State_Park202306916/
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Janet Kuypers, 20231012, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v211 9/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “All the Stories” poems “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend”, “Titanium to Spy” (+ images 1, 2, 3, & 4, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Titanium” (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko. 20231011
Walking Seed Brewing made a blackberry cider I named “Cauldron” (and I photographed my cast-iron cauldron & designed the label with dry ice all around it). This year John made a straight-up cider (and yes, we saved half of it with anti-oxidant berry for another batch of Cauldron), but he wanted a name and label for his straight-up (apple) cider. Since I named the 1st one Cauldron, “Witch’s Brew” seemed fitting, so I used mixed media for the vertical label. I drew the witch, added edited photography of the bib and collar, used clip art for multicolored smoke in the background, and had her hold the actual cauldron from the other label.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231011
When I shared this post 1 year ago today I was thrilled that one of the beer labels I produced (St. Lucifer’s Pentupel) got an honorable mention... Most of my label designs incorporate photography, and they were looking for labels with drawings. I have only made one label since then, and I tried to incorporate drawings into it. I was too late to submit this label in time for their contest, but I might do it next year... (Label to come.)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231011
I have shared YouTube videos on my Facebook page for years (and only since the past very few years has Facebook remembered the posts in memories), and although many people on Facebook groups have liked my YouTube videos — and my YouTube video pages have sometimes had 100-200 views in the first week, YouTube has ceremoniously removed 99% of the views of my videos. In this post I shared 3 years ago today (of my reading poetry from the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” in front of an excellent aquatic video) I actually thanked YouTube for not deleting ALL of the views (they only deleted 75% of the views, not the usual 99%). So, I thought I’d go to YouTube today to see how many views this YouTube video had — true to YouTube’s M.O., this video with 3 likes only has 2 views (so it’s back to the 99% deletion, I see). So, yes, thanks YouTube, for continuing your years-long policy of removing views from my videos.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231010, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypersin her first encore reading after her lead feature at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights” and “On a Sunday After a Sermon” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers
20231010
I know how Pinterest likes to market products with my poetry video posts. In this one, it markets shirts & tops (I guess it’s fitting, um, I’m wearing a shirt), but it’s marketing sweatshirts & hoodies (which are nowhere in the picture or video) and it’s not marketing books?
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231010
This photo of us about to leave our Illinois home taken 8 years ago today (that also became my Facebook cover photo in 2015) happened to catch the morning beams of light shining down on us and our home before we left (how fitting).
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Janet Kuypers
20231010
I know I have slacked off on taking photos of that black cat Uno, but on my walk today I saw a cat sitting on an electrical power box... I made a gesture to pet the cat, and the cat didn’t want me to leave. (As you can see, this cat even started following me as I finally managed to get away.)
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Janet Kuypers, 20231009, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v337 9/23 cc&d issue/book “Endless Possibilities” poems “X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes” (+ images 1 & 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Rhodium” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231009
There are a select few photos I keep on my phone because I don’t want to forget them, like this memory from 2 years ago today when I was at my favorite (now closed) brewery in Austin, Circle. I heard men speaking in another language, and knowing they were from India I actually went up to them and asked them if they were speaking Hindi or one of the many other dialects — and I learned they were from the one town I visited while John’s company was building a plant there, so I had to take a photo with them before they left. It was fascinating to have the opportunity to visit India over 8 years ago, and it was amazing that I introduced myself to people FROM THE SAME TOWN I VISITED (I mean, India is absolutely huge, so to run into people FROM where I visited blew my mind).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231009
There are a select few photos I keep on my phone, even if they are years old (because I don’t want to forget the memories we’ve shared), like this photo from 8 years ago today (sniff — that long?)... I don’t know if the new house owners appreciated the wine drying rack we left for them over the sink, but I think that’s one of the coolest things about that kitchen, which we have in our house here too. Okay, I guess I liked the frosted glass cabinet doors too...
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Janet Kuypers
20231007
When John and I got this pergola he wanted grape vines to grow. He never bought grape seeds, but a few years ago birds nested in one corner of our pergola... and after we saw their broken eggs I think they left, but they may have deposited some grape seats in this corner. This year with the growing of these grape vines, I have been sculpting them like mad to grow along our pergola. I even made John come out for drinks outside here one night, even though the bugs got to him. Either way, I think he likes how it turned out — and so do I.
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Janet Kuypers
20231007
I love to see how Pinterest markets my poetry feature videos with selling links to... dresses (like I’m wearing), jewelry (focusing on my Tag Heuer watches), shirts & tops (which aren’t even in the image), and, of course, standing selves — but no to books (which are everywhere).
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Janet Kuypers, 20231006, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers during her lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights”, “It Really Is All About Choice”, “Key, you see”, “Jihad Against Free Choice”, “Only Considering Women’s Rights”, “Fear for Their Safety”, and “Expecting Rights after Losing Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231006
I saw this post from 1 year ago today (back when I was honoring the partially-destroyed Naples Pier from Hurricane Ian with my Facebook profile picture), and I smiled, because (A) I was reading Twitter-length Periodic Table Poetry from a smartphone before we went downstairs to be 12 feet away from the stage during a KMFDM concert (which was awesome), and (B) I like wearing my black lipstick (which I even wore when we went out 2 night ago). Then I wonder if I should get another black lipstick tube because it’s Halloween season, but I still have an unopened black lipstick tube (which is a real indication to me that I should really wear my black lipstick more often).
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Janet Kuypers
20231006
I share this live video stream from 2 years ago today because this was when my phone allowed me to use effects on my live video streams if I film horizontally — in this case, with the no-longer-existing star filter (back in the day when we thought cool video effects made the world go-round). If I ever go back to using these filters I’ll have to release vertical live streams (which I *suppose* I can do), and they still have the Paper Tear filter (with tears in green and blue), but I could also try The Real Glitch filter or the Binary Notation filter...
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Janet Kuypers
20231006
I have to admit that when I post poetry show videos, it’s a riot to see how Pinterest chooses to market things... like dresses, or, of course, standing shelves.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231005, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers during her lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago, where she read her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights”, “It Really Is All About Choice”, “Key, you see”, “Jihad Against Free Choice”, “Only Considering Women’s Rights”, “Fear for Their Safety”, and “Expecting Rights after Losing Rights” from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko. 20231004
I think this photo from 2017 is the last time we went to the 96 Signature Lounge at the John Hancock building (forgive me, I live across the country now, it’s a little far now). It’s closed, but at least we wore the shirt I might wear in a few weeks for the annular eclipse this year.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231004, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
See YouTube” video on 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her “Testament” book poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights”, “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights”, portions of the poem “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights”, and as a bonus, the first poem she performed in her “Into the Spotlight” Chicago feature, “Evil of What They’ve Done” (this video was filmed live in studio from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio #janetkuyperschicago
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Janet Kuypers is with Doug Ward.
20231004
When I heard there was a fire at the Illini football stadium this week, it was comforting to hear that the game should still be on — I hope Doug will watch the Illini Nebraska charity event for funding for Maui relief, and I hope I can get it on a channel and watch it too!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231004
It still breaks my heart that the signature room (top floor of Chicago’s John Hancock Building) unexpectedly closed down (I hear waitstaff who have worked there for years are considering suing for a little compensatory pay because of no notification of this immediate closure). I see this updated Facebook cover photo from 5 years ago today where I took pictures on top of the John Hancock Building, and it makes me wonder if I should somehow honor this closing by updating my cover photo...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231003
I share this live video stream from 2 years ago today only because this was a time when my phone allowed me to use effects on my live Poetic License open mic video streams — in this case, with the no-longer-existing rotating & floating triangle filter (back in the day when we thought cool video effects made the world go-round).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231003
I share this live video stream from 2 years ago today not because I am reading a poem with my name used in astronomical terms in it, but because this was a time when my phone allowed me to use effects on my live Poetic License open mic video streams — in this case, with the no-longer-existing lava lamp filter (back in the day when we thought cool video effects made the world go-round).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231003
I recently saw a new article about the signature room (the 95th/96th floor of the John Hancock Building) unexpectedly shutting down for business. This broke my heart because it has the best view of the city. I took John there when we were dating for his birthday, and the last time I saw Francois Le Roux when he was visiting Chicago from South Africa I took them there — but the last time John and I were there I went to the women’s washroom, and there was floor-to-ceiling windows of Chicago (which actually made it the best view), so we women understood that this was the one time it was okay to take pictures in a bathroom. One of these photos even became the cover of the Scars Publications Janet Kuypers poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, and this memory from 5 years ago today makes me wistful for this perfect view of a perfect city.
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Heath Brougher
20231002
https://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers
I would like to thank Janet Kuypers, editor of Down in the Dirt Magazine as well as one of the hardest working editors I have ever seen, for accepting two of my poems for the January 2024 Issue. Click below to read one of them. If you want to read the other one you’ll just have to buy a copy when the January issue comes out. Support these great presses! Janet pours her heart and soul into this endeavor.
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Janet Kuypers, 20231002, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
See YouTube” video on 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her “Testament” book poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights”, “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights”, portions of the poem “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights”, and as a bonus, the first poem she performed in her “Into the Spotlight” Chicago feature, “Evil of What They’ve Done” (this video was filmed live in studio from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio #janetkuyperschicago
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Janet Kuypers was live.
20231001
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers v212 10/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Beach at Night” poems “Killing the Survivor Bug” (+ image), “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (+ show image 1, and show images 1, 2, & 3), and “Haiku (poet)” (+ 8/13/19 show images 1 & 2, + 8/15/19 show images 1 & 2, + poem image) during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers was live.
20231001
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her v338 10/23 cc&d issue/book “All They Ever Were” poems “Question and Answer time” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Cadmium and Cancer” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Cadmium” (+ show images 1 and 2, + image, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with Westley Heine and Tom Ball. 20230901
People may think October is a spooky month, but not when you get a new issue of Down in the Dirt! Scars Publications just released the October 2023 v212 issue of Down in the Dirt mag is now available online and as the 6" x 9" ISSN# / ISBN# perfect-bound paperback book “The Beach at Night”! This new book is available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but is also available as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this book include Adam Brinckerhoff, Alison Hicks, Arshya Prinja, Bill Garten, Bill Tope, Dinamarie Isola, Donald McMann, E.P. Lande, Edward N. McConnell, Evalyn Lee, Gail Nielsen, George Beckerman, James Bates, Janet Kuypers, Jeanne Rana, John F. Fisher MD, John Ragusa, Kathylynne Somerville, Kenneth DiMaggio, Leila Farjami, Lynn Hoggard, Makyla Flowers, Margaret B. Ingraham, Mary Clare O’Grady, Maureen McDole, Noelle Shoemate, Rob Tannahill, Robert Nimmo, Roly Andrews, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Susie Gharib, Tom Ball, Binod Dawadi, Cailey Tin, Daniel de Culla, Elena Botts, Jerome Berglund, Kumar Mahat, Sherry Shahan, and Westley Heine.)
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 3 others. 20231001
People may think October is a spooky month, but not when you get a new issue of cc&d! Scars Publications just released the October 2023 v338 issue of cc&d magazine — now available not only online, but also as the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “All They Ever Were”! This new book is available for Amazon sale in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but also as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback include Al Causey, Alfredo Bravo de Rueda, Bill Tope, Christopher Hivner, Dan Yonah Johnson, Denise McCabe, Eric Burbridge, Gale Acuff, George R. Justice, James Bates, James Correnti, Janet Kuypers, Linda M. Crate, Matt McGee, MW Murphy, Retta Lewis, Richard LeDue, Robert Collings, Wendy Taylor, Aaron Wilder, Christina Culverhouse, David J. Thompson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, John Yotko, Karen Hedges, Kyle Hemmings,, Rose E. Grier, and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci.
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 8 others. 20231001
Today is the big day! Join us (as always, on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting TODAY — on Sunday, 10/1/23 (20231001, or 1 Oct 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST! See you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/279906594935778/
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Janet Kuypers, 20230930, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
This poetry book reading video was first uploaded to YouTube, was liked on Twitter, & shared on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest (and even the now-dead consumer’s (personal) Google+) in September 2017 (6 years ago, but none of the links were saved, & YouTube stripped all but 1 view from the video too), so let me save and share this poetry book reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading on 9/6/17 of her reading Down in the Dirt’s book “Carpool” haiku poems “soul”, “earth”, “lost”, and “jumped”, and then her poems “Exempt from the Draft”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)” and “Only an Observer” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 6 others. 20230930
Tomorrow is the big day! Join us (as always, on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 10/1/23 (20231001, or 1 Oct 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/279906594935778/
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 10 others. 20230929
Got any plans this weekend? Then join us on the first Sunday of the month for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 10/1/23 (20231001, or 1 Oct 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/279906594935778/
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Janet Kuypers, 20230928, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video on 8/9/23 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Evil of What They’ve Done”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, “On a Sunday after a Sermon”, “Question and Answer time”, “Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Right”, and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” in her poetry feature “Into the Spotlight” of women’s rights poems from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament”, performed just after the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers
20230928
Hey, what do you know, somebody left some containers of soda in case it was thirsty in my morning walk... and hey, an added bonus — they left me some warm beer too... I don’t think I have the energy or the desire to open them up and dispose of them properly, but at least people leave their refuse out in sealed containers.
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 11 others. 20230927
Now only a half week away (always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 10/1/23 (20231001, or 1 Oct 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/279906594935778/
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230927
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this 8/9/23 YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from the books “From a Devil to an Angel” & “Testament” to start the “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera) on its Facebook page as well as on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links” page, & to “like” this on its YouTube page & its LinkedIn page & its “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets Dancing In Tears”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”& “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our “the Café Gallery” Chicago poetry open mic book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230927
I know I was late in watching the Laver Cup this year, and I know I wasn’t there (like I was for the updated cover photo 5 years ago today, but it’s excellent-cool that once the big three giants of tennis (Federer, Nadal & Djokovic) were not there representing for Europe, there was a chance the World (and the U.S.) to have a chance for their 2nd victory in a row.
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Janet Kuypers
20230927
Only got 2 bags on my shortened walk (the sun got too hot). Question: why do people drink 1’3 to 2’3s of a plastic bottle of water, then decide to close it up and throw it away instead of watering the plants right next to them? Maybe I’m weird, but I just don’t get it.
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Janet Kuypers
20230927
Since it is only approaching 80° this morning I thought I would go for a walk — so I brought out a bag to collect recyclable trash. Within 2 to 3 blocks I’d filled up an entire bag with plastic and glass bottles for the recycle bin that were meant in trash. (Brought it back to the house and I’m starting the walk again.)
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Janet Kuypers, 20230926, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poem “Overturning Against All” from the v333 5/23 cc&d issue/book “Not Set in Stone” & the CyberWit 2023 book “Testament” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230926
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its Facebook page & its LinkedIn page, & to “like” this on its Instagram page & its YouTube page & its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Austin Artmosphere Artists”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our Poetic License open mic book reading videos online. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230926
This memory from 5 years ago today is excellent-cool because it is in Chicago, but thanks to the generosity of Giordano’s, after COVID-19 they shared their recipes for their truly unique (and truly Chicago) crust and sauce. I may still have their styrofoam and cardboard boxes on display in our house, but it’s nice to know I don’t necessarily have to travel to Chicago to get that great flavor.
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Janet Kuypers
20230926
Facebook shared this memory of this event at Brave New Books from 7 years ago today (of lost files because Thom’s FB account was hacked and all past images are gone), but I *do* have video from the impromptu readings (in the super-cool match for performing in the Black Lodge)... I won’t share the imageless memory, but I *can* share some video stills from the reading.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230926
I love it when I happen upon my initials like this (as I did 11 years ago today after I saw a building next to the art gallery space I was performing in had my initials with my town on a sign like this), so I thought it was only appropriate to use this for the CD single cover for my poem/ song “Made Any Difference”, now released as the CD single “Made Any Difference”. John’s one instrumental he wanted lyrics for from me for years became the instrumental for “Made Any Difference”, making it a real song. And the thing is, I don’t even know if John’s song even *appears* on this single...
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Janet Kuypers, 20230925, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion” and “Once and Future Rights” from the v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230925
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, “a Mural of a Forest” & “Testament” at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & “The Austin Poets Association” pages (and don’t think I didn’t get the deliciously ironic comment from someone on the other side of the planet who said that I was “Hot & sexy..!!!” when I was wearing a baggy long-sleeved t-shirt and reading poetry about the objectification of women... believe me, *all* women get it), to “love” this on its “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)” page, & to “like” this on its Instagram page as well as on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets Global”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages, & to “like” & to comment so nicely about this on its YouTube page too — getting all of your positive feedback (I guess that also includes the objectification comments, which is more fuel for the fire) inspires us to keep our women’s rights poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with John Yotko. 20230925
Holy cow, this memory of mine posted 1 year ago today (which is from when we watched the Laver Cup live 5 years ago today) reminds me... We were not watching the Laver Cup this last weekend because of our farewells to Circle Brewing Company this past week, but after part of day 1 passed and I saw that team World was in the lead I made a point to record the entire series so we could watch it. I have no idea who won, but I am psyched to start watching it...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with Sandra Kuypers. 20230925
Wait a minute — I should have shared this memory with so many more memories in my birthday wishes. Happy Birthday!!!
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Circle Brewing Company (also via Instagram). 20230924 · Elgin ·
We’ve never been so cheesy is to take a photo in front of a beer selection list but Janet was pleased that at least her doppel blur was on the menu. We will come here later today while she still wears all of her circle clothing and jewelry, but she wanted a photo here now while her lips were still green to match her shirt.
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Janet Kuypers is with Dave Gecic and 17 others. 20230924
Now only one week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 10/1/23 (20231001, or 1 Oct 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/279906594935778/
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Over the past few days, I have seen FB memories when I read at APS Zoom meeting open mics and I read poetry in front of our large TV that (back when we afforded Comcast) there were excellent-cool background videos of kelp forests, or barracuda, of Palau jellyfish. I had to share this one with the fish and coral film as I read vegetarian-themed poetry 3 years ago today. And hey, I’m wearing the Taco John’s Total Solar Eclipse t-shirt — I might wear that when we drive to see the annular eclipse in a few weeks.
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John Yotko (also via Instagram). 20230923
For my first batch of Witch’s Brew, I added one container of concentrated apple juice when kegging to make it a little sweeter and boost the apple flavor. For Janet ’s Cauldron, she added raspberry and blackberry extract along with simple syrup. The witch says, “Would you like to try some apple cider my pretties?”
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Janet Kuypers is at Circle Brewing Company. 20230923
We had to photograph our keezer to show Jud at Circle Brewing Company that we have not only their beer but also ours on tap — before we offer some KUITpers Origin Ale to him as a gift today. (Oh, and included on the bottom shelf is his materials from running the .5K at Circle too...)
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When Janet saw Jose they tried to not be sad about the closing of Circle Brewing Company — but if we don’t meet again this weekend we’ll be seeing each other at Round Rock Homebrewers Guild.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230922, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers starting her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poem “X is for Pope Innocent X, not Women” from the 30-year anniversary issue of cc&d “From a Devil to an Angel” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video of live broadcast was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230922
Glad you all “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her “All the Stories” poem “Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me” to close her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page & “like” this on its Instagram page as well as on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets On Fire Worldwide”, & “The Writers’ Wave” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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This memory from 6 years ago today of photos from the “Janet Kuypers “Seasons Change” poetry show, Thirsty Thursday 9/21” of the Janet Kuypers “Seasons Change” feature at the Dripping Springs City Hall shows not only a photo with host Nancy Fierstien viewing the color chapbook from the show, but also me w/ a newspaper about the 2017 total solar eclipse & me displaying my total solar eclipse photos from my smartphone. Some of those total solar eclipse photos also appeared on my laptop screen — back in the day I used a projector for my photography on a large screen in show (since moving to Texas, I can only share my accompanying images on smaller screens for poetry features).
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This week mister adorable came by only today, and he was way too cute and comfortable with us...
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Wait a minute... You’re not giving me any Temptations treats right now? What?!?
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This black cat Uno (that neighbors all know when walking by) now only comes to visit us maybe 1 day a week now. Last week he came by to our front door in the morning, and I saw him hanging out outside my back door in the afternoon — so I gave him water that he really appreciated in this Texas heat.
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Janet Kuypers is at Circle Brewing Company. 20230921
I forgot to take a picture there tonight while we were there, but at least I got a photo of the billboard before we arrived...
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Janet Kuypers, 20230921, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video on 8/9/23 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Evil of What They’ve Done”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, “On a Sunday after a Sermon”, “Question and Answer time”, “Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Right”, and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” in her poetry feature “Into the Spotlight” of women’s rights poems from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament”, performed just after the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230921
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, “a Mural of a Forest” & “Testament” at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page & to “like” this on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Poetic of Heart”, “Poets Dancing In Tears”, & “Poets Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)”pages too — your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our women’s rights poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230803
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 2 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230921
I just saw this memory from 4 years ago today and it is sad that vegan days were so rare at Circle Brewing Company (even though they always had a HUGE turnout those days), as we skip the meat truck there and bring vegan dinners as we enjoy the best Austin beer in their last week in operation.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers (also via Instagram). 20230920
Janet decided to wear circles at Circle Brewing Company, including a bracelet and necklace her sister gave her and earrings her grandmother gave her. I decided to photograph our reflections instead. Janet is drinking from the Das Bier stein celebrating the release of their Oktoberfest.
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So I saw the recently uploaded YouTube video from 8/9/23 in round 3 (& hairpiece #3) in Chicago on Pinterest, and when I moved my mouse past the image, selling links on my poetry reading appeared. If anyone is dying to get their clothing & style inspiration from me (because I’m such an influencer), Pinterest provides links to “Shirts & tops”, or “Handbags” (which for no reason linked to the amp behind me). If you’re in love with The Gallery Cabaret’s chairs, follow the link for “Accent chairs and Armchairs”. All from this from my reading my women’s issues poem post-Roe v. Wade at a Chicago bar.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230920, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poem “Overturning Against All” from the v333 5/23 cc&d issue/book “Not Set in Stone” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230920
This video was originally uploaded to YouTube, was liked on Twitter, & shared on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest 9/20/19 (4 years ago today, but none of the links were saved except for Facebook, & YouTube stripped most of the views from the video too), so let me save and share this poem reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19” feature, where she read a number of her poems from the books “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” & “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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It is cute to see this post from John from 10 years ago today, not because we once had huge trees in our yard, but because that stand now holds a spider plant in the front window of our house, and those candles light our dining room when we have dinner together here (which we both agree we love to be able to have because that formal sit-down time after a day of work at our modern glass dining room table together for dinner is nice to wind down).
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230920
This video was originally uploaded to YouTube, was liked on Twitter, & shared on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest 9/19/19 (4 years ago today, but none of the links were saved except for Facebook, & YouTube stripped most of the views from the video too), so let me save and share this poem reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19” feature, where she read a number of her poems from the books “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” & “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 4 others. 20230919
It was great sharing and listening to poets (as it always is) at last month’s “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic”. Thank you all for coming and sharing your creativity with everyone, and I look forward to seeing everyone (and more!) at next months’s Poetic License open mic, Globally via Zoom on Sunday, October 1st, 2023 CST!
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Janet Kuypers, 202309019, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion” and “Once and Future Rights” from the v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230919
Thanks for choosing to “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “All the Stories”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” (from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page & to “like” this on its Instagram page as well as on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetic of Heart”, & “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our Poetic License open mic book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, 202309018, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers starting her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poem “X is for Pope Innocent X, not Women” from the 30-year anniversary issue of cc&d “From a Devil to an Angel” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Waco Ale Company (also via Instagram). 20230916 · Waco ·
On our way back from looking for dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy river we stopped by Waco Ale Co to rehydrate and eat. I had to get the Dino Rocket because of its name (really good Baltic Porter) and Janet thought the Quadzilla Barrel Aged Strong Dark Ale was num-o-licious.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Red Caboose Winery. 20230916 · Clifton ·
What a treat in the middle of our journeys, to share stories about different wine labels and sample 5 to 10 different wires. (Trust me, with the tiniest of samples and an hour plus there, we didn’t have enough alcohol to get drunk.)
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Janet Kuypers is in Meridian. 20230916
As we’re driving miles and miles down an unnamed road to the Dinosaur Valley State Park, we pass a windmill I’m sure I’ve seen before. We couldn’t stop to take a photo, but... any reference to Chicago lifts my spirits. (As I typed the “s” in the last sentence my phone suggested the word "soul", which made me smile.)
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Janet Kuypers, 202309015, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video on 8/9/23 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Evil of What They’ve Done”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, “On a Sunday after a Sermon”, “Question and Answer time”, “Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Right”, and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” in her poetry feature “Into the Spotlight” of women’s rights poems from the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament”, performed just after the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers is with John F. McMullen and 3 others. 20230915
This brand-new book is the perfect thing to pick up to cap off summer! Scars Publications just released the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2023 issue collection book “Casting Off”! This 418-page volume is a great way to stock up on issues if you didn’t buy all of the issues - which makes this a GREAT deal! A listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S. and Canada. They can also be ordered in the U.K., all of Europe, and even Japan and Australia!
The contributors to this book (of writing and art) include Alan Altany, Annette Gagliardi, ayaz daryl nielsen, Beata Stasak, Bill Tope, Binod Dawadi, Brenda Mox, Cailey Tin, Chaim Jones, Charlotte Jung, Chelsea Orozco, Christopher Strople, Clay Coppedge, Clementine Zei, CLS Sandoval, Craig Wells, Daniel de Culla, Daniel Princewill, Daniel R. Snyder, David Berger, David Jeffery, David Newdorf, David Sapp, Dee Artea, Denise McCabe, Dennis Piszkiewicz, Donald Reed Greenwood, Donna Dallas, Donovan Whitley, Douglas Young, Dr. Steven M. Gerson, Drew Marshall, Duane Anderson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Edward N. McConnell, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elena Botts, Eric Robert Nolan, Fabrice Poussin, Frances Gaudiano, Frank De Canio, Fred Cheney, George Beckerman, Gil Hoy, Gillian Tregidgo, Gloria Lauris, Greta T. Bates, Isaac Breaux, Isabel G. de Diego, Isabel G. de Diego J. Ray Paradiso, J. M. Garcia, J. Ray Paradiso, Jacoby Harbison, James Bates, Jamie Johnson, Janet Kuypers, Jeff Stone, Jerome Berglund, Jesse Sisler, Joan Mach, Joe A. Oppenheimer, Joe Chiudina, John F. McMullen, John Farquhar Young, John Gerard Fagan, John Kucera, John Ragusa, Karen Court, Karen Hedges, Karen Lee Stradford, Ken Goldman, Kenneth Parsons, Kirk Alex, Kumar Mahat, Kyle Hemmings, Kyle Singh, Latoya Kidd, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Lawrence Zielinski, Lesley L. Smith, Leslie C. Ferdinand, Liam O’Buachalla, Luke Dylan Ramsey, Marc Colten, Marc McMahon, Michael Brockley, Michael Lee Johnson, Mike Rader, Miranda Clarity, Nancy Machlis Rechtman, Nolo Segundo, Peggy Gerber, Peter Gregg Slater, Raha.M, Rayne Affonso, Relvin Gonzalez Rodriguez, Richard K. Williams, Richard Patterson, Robert Feinstein, Rod Raglin, Roger G. Singer, Sam Norman, Samantha Griffis, Sandip Saha, Saul Greenblatt, Sergio A. Ortiz, Sherry Shahan, Smrithi Senthilnathan, Stephen Tillman, Sterling Warner, Steve Bailey, Susan Anmuth, Susie Gharib, T. L. Sullivan, TaLisa Smith, Terry Sanville, Teru, Thomas Elson, Todd K. Denick, Tom Ball, Tom Squitieri, Toney Dimos, Vincent P. Desilets, Wendy Taylor, William Doreski, William Ogden Haynes, Y. Len, Zee Miller, and Zirui Feng.
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Janet Kuypers is with David Soh. 20230915
The one thing I keep stressing about the Zoom format for my monthly “Poetic License ” open mic is that instead of people in one town getting together at a bookstore (which is all well and good), I get to meet and hear from people literally from around the world— like David Soh, in Singapore. That’s pretty close to the opposite side of the planet from me (and I hear I can get there in only 21½ hours with a ~$1,200.00 plane ticket). The closest I’ve ever been is opposite the Bay of Bengal when I visited Vishakapatnam (Vizag), India, where I never heard or read poetry, so I am still thrilled when I see him and others from around the world at “Poetic License ” — thanks for making the world a more creative place!
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230915
I’m glad you “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “Endless Possibilities”, “Testament”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” (Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its “Poetic of Heart” page, & to “like” this on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetry Super Highway” & “The Austin Poets Association” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 9 others. 20230914
This brand-new book is the perfect thing to pick up to cap off summer! Scars Publications just released a huge cc&d magazine collection book of the May-August 2023 issues of cc&d, titled “It’s All About Impact”! This 426-page volume is a great way to stock up on issues if you didn’t buy all of the issues, which makes this a GREAT deal! A listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S., and can also be ordered in the U.K., all of Europe, and even Japan and Australia!
The contributors to this book (of writing and art) include Aaron Wilder, Alayna Hinson, Amber Soha, Andrew Evans, ayaz daryl nielsen, Ben M. Svigals, Bill Tope, Binod Dawadi, Carl Chapman, Christina Culverhouse, Clay Coppedge, D. R. James, Daryel Groom, David J. Thompson, David Larsen, David Michael Jackson, Debra J. White, Derek Kelly, Doug M. Dawson, Drew Marshall, Duane Anderson, Duane L Herrmann, E.P. Lande, Earl Smith, Ed Tozzi, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Eric Burbridge, Francesca Di Fabio, Frank De Canio, Frank Talaber, H.R. Kemp, Harvey Huddleston, I.B. Rad, James Bates, Jamie Johnson, Janet Kuypers, Jenene Ravesloot, Jennifer Leigh Kiefer, John F. McMullen, John Grey, John Yotko, Jon Wesick, Joseph J. Ridgway, Karen Hedges, Katie Lane Dei, Kenneth DiMaggio, Kyle Hemmings, Leigh-Anne Burley, Lily Finch, Linda M. Crate, Mark Reasoner, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Gigandet, Mike Schneider, Pam Munter, Paul Spencer, Peter J. Dellolio, Peter McMillan, Ronald Charles Epstein, Rose E. Grier, Sean MicKael Wilson, Shana Liddell, Sterling Warner, Steve Doran, Susan Anmuth, Susan Pollet, Sushant Yadav, T. A. Young, Tajudeen Muadh, Thom Woodruff, Todd K. Denick, Tom Sheehan, Toney Dimos, Tony Cassidy, Travis Weis, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, Westley Heine, and Zach Klebane.
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Janet Kuypers, 202309014, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poem “Overturning Against All” from the v333 5/23 cc&d issue/book “Not Set in Stone” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230914
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Stolen Stars”, “Testament”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its “Poetic of Heart” page, to “like” images 1, 2, 3, & 4 from its Facebook page, & to “like” this on its YouTube page, its LinkedIn AuthoorYou page, & its “Poetry Super Highway” page too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230914
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 2 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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So I saw the recently uploaded YouTube video from 8/9/23 in round 2 (& wig #2) in Chicago on Pinterest, and when I moved my mouse past the image an array of (what I can only guess is) selling links from my poetry reading, but they seemed a little off... Shirts & tops. Sweatshirts & hoodies (which are nowhere in the image). Handbags (which for no reason linked to the amp behind me). Pants. Barstools. So, I mean, I understand the concept of looking for a product, but from my reading of women’s issues poetry post-Roe v. Wade at a Chicago bar?
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Janet Kuypers, 202309013, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion” and “Once and Future Rights” from the v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230913
Thanks for choosing to “love” this Facebook live video stream on 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio interview & poetry readings from the book “Testament” (video streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its Facebook page, to “like” images 1, 2, 3, & 4from its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” as well as on its Instagram page, to “like” & comment on this on its LinkedIn page, & to “like” this on its “ Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Austin Artmosphere Artists”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback inspires us to keep our Chicago radio shows more global, and to keep our poetry readings & show interview videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio
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Janet Kuypers, 20230912, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video from 8/9/22 of Janet Kuypers starting her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poem “X is for Pope Innocent X, not Women” from the 30-year anniversary issue of cc&d “From a Devil to an Angel” & the CyberWit 2023 Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers, 202309011, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Coslow’s”, “Escaping Rapeugees”, and “Like Nothing Ever Happened” from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230910
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers’ poetry from the books “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, “a Mural of a Forest”, & “Testament” live @ WNP in Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (from Samsung S7 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, and to “like” this on its Facebook page as well as on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetic of Heart”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our poetry reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Janet Kuypers, 20230908, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from In the Air” (from her book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and “Use Any Angle” (from the books “a Mural of a Forest” and “Testament”) live at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230908
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “At the Zoo” during her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Poets of Merit & Expression” page, to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, and to “like” this on its Facebook page as well as on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetic of Heart”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets On Fire WorldWide” page too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230907
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in round 2 on 8/9/23 of her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago (from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & to “like” this on its Facebook page & its Instagram page as well as on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetic of Heart”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets of Merit & Expression”, “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep the spirit of our “the Café Gallery” Chicago venue through these poetry videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230907
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 2 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers
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I haven’t been photographing Uno daily because who needs to see a cat waiting outside my house every morning. But today I couldn’t stop myself.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory— with Sandra Kuypers and 4 others. 20230906
These family photos from 2 years ago today make me wistful not only for the family that is no longer with us (which breaks my heart) but also that I cannot be in town to share with all my family together...
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Scars Publications is with Janet Kuypers. 20230906
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers v211 9/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “All the Stories” poems “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend”, “Titanium to Spy” (+ images 1, 2, 3, & 4, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Titanium” (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230905
At this week’s “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” I thought of wearing my Ditka t-shirt since the first Bears game is next weekend, but I figured that since football hadn’t technically started and we’re still in the middle of tennis’ US Open, I’d wear John‘s new W&S Open tennis shirt. But this memory from a Facebook live video stream 2 years ago today made me wistful that I can no longer add effects to live video streams (like the star effects in this video).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with John Yotko. 20230905
Our most recent car road trip was in John’s electric car because he got a ton of electric charge time for free within one year. Since we’ve only gone through 10% of the charge energy, we’re looking for many road trips to take in his car in the upcoming months — and all of them seem to now be photography expeditions. Seeing this memory from 7 years ago today reminds me that we’ll photograph the annular eclipse in October. But because of severe drought conditions at at Dinosaur Valley State Park, dinosaur tracks dating back 110 million years & dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago were uncovered due to low water levels, which we’ll also drive to photograph later this month too.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230905
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in round 1 on 8/9/23 of her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago (from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & to “like” this on its Facebook page as well as on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetic of Heart”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, “Poets On Fire Worldwide”, amp; “The Austin Poets Association” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep “The Café Gallery” Chicago poetry videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Scars Publications is with Janet Kuypers. 20230904
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her v337 9/23 cc&d issue/book “Endless Possibilities” poems “X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes” (+ images 1 & 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Rhodium” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230904
Thanks for choosing to “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Stolen Stars”, “Testament”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its Facebook page& “Fallen Angel Poetry” pages, & to “like” this on its Linkedin page & its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetic of Heart”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — because getting all of your positive feedback inspires us to keep our Poetic License open mic video readings alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers was live.
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers v211 9/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “All the Stories” poems “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend”, “Titanium to Spy” (+ images 1, 2, 3, & 4, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Titanium” (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers was live.
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her v337 9/23 cc&d issue/book “Endless Possibilities” poems “X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes” (+ images 1 & 2, 3, 4, & 5, & the poem is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (+ images 1 & 2, & the poem is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Rhodium” (+ images 1, 2, & 3, & the poem is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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I am looking forward to listening to and sharing poetry today at the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” —and I plan to video record my readings for both Facebook live video streams and YouTube videos — I just feel bad that my camera no longer allows me to add cool effects to live streams (like I was able to do 2 years ago today). I hope the current poetry readings are good enough to listen to without watching weird video effects...
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Janet Kuypers is with Generalissimo Bryan Franco and 12 others. 202309003
Today is the big day! Join us today (the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! The added bonus is that when this was at the bookstore, Recycled Reads was closed the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, so this Zoom meeting format means that we not only get people from everywhere together, but we can be running in September too! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting TODAY, 9/3/23 (or 20230903, or 3 Sep 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/648041743952338/
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230902
I was filling my fermentor airlock with vodka and caught the overflow in a small bowl. I told Janet there’s enough vodka there for a microtini. She pulled out her smallest martini glass and had to use a micropipette to make sure shel got it right.
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Janet Kuypers
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Tomorrow is the big day! Join us Sunday (and always on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! The added bonus is that when this was at the bookstore, Recycled Reads was closed the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, so this Zoom meeting format means that we not only get people from everywhere together, but we can be running in September too! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 9/3/23 (or 20230903, or 3 Sep 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/648041743952338/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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John shared this memory of us outdoors at Circle Brewing Company 7 years ago today and this is all I think now: there has been such record-breaking heat this summer (it has been over 100° daily for months, and our lawn grass seems dead) that we cannot think fondly of hanging out outside there for my favorite Austin doppel hefe beer right now...
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230902
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this feature-length Archive video of Janet Kuypers’ full “Disenfranchised Doggerel” show read to a large projection of her images (from camera #1) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” page, & to “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetic of Heart”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our poetry show feature videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers is with Generalissimo Bryan Franco and 8 others. 20230901
Got any plans this weekend? then join us Sunday (and always on the first Sunday of every month) for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! The added bonus is that when this was at the bookstore, Recycled Reads was closed the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, so this Zoom meeting format means that we not only get people from everywhere together, but we can be running in September too! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 9/3/23 (or 20230903, or 3 Sep 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/648041743952338/
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Janet Kuypers is with Kyle Hemmings and 2 others. 20230901
While some may look forward to Autumn, more may look forward to the next issue of Down in the Dirt! Scars Publications just released the September 2023 v211 issue of Down in the Dirt mag is now available online and as the 6" x 9" ISSN# / ISBN# perfect-bound paperback book “All the Stories”! This new book is available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but is also available as a free Internet issue web page! (Writers and artists in this book include Bill Tope, Brian Lee, Carl Peters, Conjeevaram J Nandakumar, David Bradley, Dawn DeBraal, Dennis Piszkiewicz, Donna L. Emerson, Doug Hawley, Hannah Garson, Hannah Jane Weber, James Bates, Janet Kuypers, John F. Fisher MD, John Farquhar Young, John Grey, John RC Potter, Kelley Jean White, Kelsy Elefante , Mariah H. N. Hawkins, Marty Krasney, Nicholas B. Mayo, Roger G. Singer, Ron Riekki, S. McManigal, Samuel Sprague, Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay, Tom Ball, Tony Tinsley, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Zach Murphy, Cailey Tin, Charlotte Jung, Christopher Strople, Daniel de Culla, David Russell, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Elena Botts, Helen Bird, Isabel G. de Diego, Jerome Berglund, Karen Hedges, Kyle Hemmings, Radoslav Rochallyi, and Raha.M.)
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Janet Kuypers, 20230901, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from In the Air” (from her book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and “Use Any Angle” (from the books “a Mural of a Forest” and “Testament”) live at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 8 others. 20230901
While some may look forward to Autumn, more may look forward to the next issue of cc&d! Scars Publications just released the September 2023 v337 issue of cc&d magazine — now available not only online, but also as the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “Endless Possibilities”! This new book is available for Amazon sale in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but also as a free Internet issue web page! (Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback include Alfredo Bravo de Rueda, ayaz daryl nielsen, Bill Tope, Brent Joseph Johnson, Christopher Hivner, Dan Yonah Johnson, Denise McCabe, Dominik Slusarczyk, Doug M. Dawson, Gale Acuff, Harvey Huddleston, James Bates, James Correnti, Janet Kuypers, Karen Court, Leigh-Anne Burley, Lesley L. Smith, Matt McGee, Merron Douglas, MW Murphy, Retta Lewis, Richard LeDue, Robert Collings, Sterling Warner, Allen F. McNair, Christina Culverhouse, David J. Thompson, David Michael Jackson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, John Yotko, Kyle Hemmings, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, and Westley Heine.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230901
Visiting different parts of the world has allowed me to share images for other issue covers as well... Like this cc&d v286 book “Faces” released 5 years ago today, with a cover of an art exhibit at night in Buenos Aires.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230831, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v210 8/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “At the Zoo” poems “one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive”, “Eugene’s limit”, and “Full Stop” during her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230831
I know that for past Tennis majors (like the French Open on clay, Wimbledon on grass, and Australia Open’s hard courts) I would modify my tennis cover photos to accommodate each tournament (all with my holding a tennis ball with the event name and year etched on the ball), but I couldn’t remember if I did that for the US Open. It’s good to see this memory from 2 years ago today where I did that... But THIS year I am glad to add elements of the poster of Billie Jean King with my 2023 cover photo, since this year marks the 50-year commemoration of the US Open choosing to pay women equally for their work. What a novel idea (as it took the other majors years to catch on), and if only the rest of the world would figure out that equal pay for men and women shouldn’t seem so impossible after all.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230831
On this today, embrace good memories — congratulations to Ed & Sylvia!!!
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Janet Kuypers, 20230830, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from In the Air” (from her book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) and “Use Any Angle” (from the books “a Mural of a Forest” and “Testament”) live at ‘Wednesday Night Poetry’ In Hot Springs, AR on 8/2/23 (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
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Janet Kuypers is with Generalissimo Bryan Franco and 10 others. 20230830
Now just a half week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! The added bonus is that when this was at the bookstore, Recycled Reads was closed the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, so this Zoom meeting format means that we not only get people from everywhere together, but we can be running in September too! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 9/3/23 (or 20230903, or 3 Sep 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/648041743952338/
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230829
The neighborhood cat, Uno, decided to stop by for an evening visit and a late night snack.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230829, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v336 8/23 cc&d issue/book “Stolen Stars” poems “Evidence as Testament” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Germanium: We Would Never Survive” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Germanium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230829
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Poets of Merit & Expression” page (as I wear a t-shirt & baseball cap reading poetry about rape & how inappropriate it is to be objectified, I *still* get a “sexy” comment from someone on the other side of the planet, but I’ve always known objectification is global...), to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & to “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets On Fire Worldwide”, & “The Austin Poets Association” pages too — because getting all of your feedback here really does inspire us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers
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Uno, this black cat that seems to know all of my neighbors, usually only comes around in the mornings. After dinner a couple nights ago I look at my front door and I see the cat waiting for more attention.
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Janet Kuypers
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When tennis’ US Open is starting today, stumble on the web page for janetkuypers.com and see the main random photo main image happens to display an image with a giant tennis racket...
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Heath Brougher
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Much thanks to the ever-diligent Janet Kuypers, editor of Down in the Dirt, for recently publishing one of my poems online as well as in the upcoming January print issue of Down in the Dirt. This has always been one of my fave mags—and Janet does an amazing job as editor. I’ll repost when the print version is out. The print versions are super duper cool—if you haven’t checked one out, you should.
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230827
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers while at Laschet’s in Chicago reading her poetry from the books “Lonely Visitor”, “Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its Facebook page, to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & “Poetic of Heart” pages, and to “like” this on its AuthorYOU LinkedIn page as well as on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here inspires us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with Generalissimo Bryan Franco and 14 others. 20230731
Now only one week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 9/3/23 (or 20230903, or 3 Sep 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/648041743952338/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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So we went to a Goodwill this morning, looked at men’s t-shirts for John, and he saw a really cool-looking Cubs shirt. I told him I already have two (like this post from John from 6 years ago today notes, and I don’t even like baseball), so maybe he’d want it for himself. John thought for a moment and said he couldn’t do it, he still likes the Pirates more.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230826
Janet thought she should wear a wig each time she was up on stage. Then she decided a different pair of glasses with each outfit was a good idea as well.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230826
Janet usually takes photos of Uno, but this morning when we were leaving for breakfast, Uno was waiting for us outside our front door.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory 20230825
Over the years I have updated my tennis cover photos to reflect the tennis majors (often including calendar dates for matches). One year ago today I only updated my image to include the US Open logo. This year, because of the 50-year anniversary of equal pay for the sexes (with a poster design including an image of Billie Jean King), I am somehow going to incorporate that into my cover photo for tennis’ US Open in a few days.
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This cat Uno came out yesterday (I know, I know I’m not supposed to be feeding other people’s cats, but I happen to have these Temptations treats and every cat loves Temptations treats)... This cat loved them yesterday and this morning too. In fact John even grabbed some so that the cat would be eating treats out of the palm of his hand too.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with John Yotko. 20230825
I think there’s a part of John that gets aggravated with me when I want to take pictures with him everywhere, but I have to admit that I really like this photo of us from 6 years ago today. (I love you, John.)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230825
I may have first posted this on 8/24/15 (8 years ago today) and again on 8/24/16 (7 years ago today — because I had just moved away from Chicago and wanted to reflect on all of my cool past Chicago features), but I wanted to share this again — not merely because I was sharing poetry in my 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” (my last show at the now closed <Poetry’s “Love Letter”>, but also because in this show I chose to wrap myself in old “Twin Peaks” VHS tape... |
Scars Publications is with Janet Kuypers. 20230824
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream on 8/9/23 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, in her poetry feature “Into the Spotlight”, where she read her poems “Evil of What They’ve Done”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, “On a Sunday after a Sermon”, “Question and Answer time”, “Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Right”, and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?”, all post-Roe v. Wade women’s rights poems from her 2023 book “Testament” (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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John checks on his phone what the weather is like in his past homes versus Austin, and last night he pointed out to me that today’s weather forecast for Chicago was the EXACT SAME THING as Austin (low 78°, high 103°). I told him to send me screenshots of these two forecasts because even though Chicago was in a heat advisory, it gets better in a day (versus us here with repeated record-breaking 100+° days, where the water levels are so low in the manmade Lake Travis that they’ll only allow us to water our lawns one day a week, as you may have seen evidence of our straw lawn in cat photos outdoors this past week).
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Released after the feature performance (better late than never) — Scars Publications is proud to announce the *online only* cc&d supplement release of the poems that were read in the feature 6/28/23 titled “Fighting for Justice” in Hot Springs, AR! This PDF file chapbook is available for free for anyone to view or download, so enjoy these post-Roe v. Wade poems from Janet Kuypers performed in a state that needs to hear women’s voices on this issue more than ever! Since chapbook releases from Scars Publications have been on hiatus for years now, check out this rare Hot Springs, Arkansas chapbook “Fighting for Justice” online right away!
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We went to our neighbors that moved in this past year and we had never met before, asking them if they knew if this black cat had an owner. They did, they knew the owners and they knew that this cat, who was a boy named Uno or Johnny for Johnny Cash, was insanely comfortable around other people. We got to talking and it surprised me when Deirdre recognized my Midwestern accent and I found out she was from Indiana. (But the ultimate bottom line is that we know that the cat is in safe hands...)
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The cat didn’t stay when I started the chainsaw to trim the hedges at the front door. (In the future, I’m not giving her food, just company, which the cat seems to like.)
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I am really beginning to think that this cat that comes by our house at the same time every morning is possibly someone else’s cat because this cat is looking healthier and healthier every time I see her and I don’t think it’s because I’m bringing her food in the morning. This cat never touches the water and tastes both wet and dry food, but it seems this cat may just come around to visit in the mornings... It makes me wonder if it’s a neighbor’s cat that we’re just feeding with extra cat food in the mornings...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230821
We made just as many pickles this year (sorry we didn’t share it online photographically as we did 2 years ago today with another batch)... we left one opened jar in the fridge while we traveled this year and it went bad (so we’ll have to commercially compost them this week), but after all this time I still have one jar left of pickles to eat (yum-o).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230821
I caught this insane combo of TMBG (what John called punk in the 80s and 90s), the Smiths (what John called proto-goth) and a peanuts cartoon that I shared 10 years ago today, which is still wild...
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230820
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, reading her poetry from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Poetry Super Highway” page, to “love” this om its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & its “GEORGETOWN POETS” page, & to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, LinkedIn, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages too — your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our poetry book reading videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature
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Okay, we were going out to breakfast this morning (at about the usual time we wouldd leave for work), so I guessed this stray would be around (and what do you know, Ani), so I left her some food to eat while we had breakfast.
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Janet Kuypers is at Wednesday Night poetry, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230819
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her edited “Testament” book poetry live 6/28/23 from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its Facebook page as well as on its “Fallen Angel Poetry”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, “Poets On Fire Worldwide”, & “The Austin Poets Association” pages, to “love” this on its “Poetic of Heart” and “Poets Dancing In Tears” pages, and to “like” this on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” & “Poetry Super Highway” pages too — you don’t know how stoked I was to dress as justice for this feature and wear a shawl of wire hangars to read women’s rights post-Roe v. Wade poetry 2 days after the 1-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overruling, and getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our poetry book reading show feature videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230819
Seeing this memory from 5 years ago today makes me wistful that I do not have memories popping up of our black cat Katie (but she was around mostly before our Facebook days for us. I knew we were going out to breakfast this morning, so I placed food outside for the stray black cat, and she came around to enjoy some more food from us...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230819
I wore a Bears t-shirt out this morning and a man working at Sam’s wearing a Cubs hat gave me a thumbs up. I saw this memory from 8 years ago today and think that maybe people arrange their schedules to watch a football or baseball game, but today I am making sure my afternoon is free for the W&S Open tennis matches most would envy, with Alcaraz against Hurkacz (which I know my polish John is all over watching) at 2:00 PM CST, and Sverev against Djokovic at 5:00 PM CST (and I saw Sverev live earlier this week).
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Since our cat Mynx died unexpectedly months ago, we have extra cat food— both wet and dry— in our pantry. This black cat didn’t eat much, but I think she appreciated the wet food. (This cat didn’t really touch the water either, so even though it’s really hot out, I think that like me she doesn’t like Texas tap water.)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230817
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230818
5 years ago today I was apparently reading my poem “The State of the Nation” from the then-recent book release “In Depth” at Recycled Reads when John took a picture of me reading. Apparently, on his iPhone he used a feature to add glasses and a hat to the person in the photo — so the “smart” phone not only put a hat and glasses on me but also on my book cover image.
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I think this black cat is becoming acutely aware of when we may be out of the house to leave for work because this cat came by again this morning. I was making breakfast, so I had to eventually go inside, but this cat is starting to become too accustomed to us.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230817
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Beach Poets, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230817
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Archive video of Janet Kuypers’ “Death ‘n’ Rebirth 7/11/10 show” at Beach Poets of poetry, prose & music (the only video available for this show) on its Facebook page & its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & “Poets of Merit & Expression”; page, to “love” this on its “GEORGETOWN POETS” pages, and to “like” this on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our poetry feature videos alive. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230817
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Lone live poetry!!!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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Saw this John post from 9 years ago today (what? We’ve been attending the W&S Open Tennis tournament THAT many years?) it makes we want to say that we saw that giant racket Sunday at the W&S Open, but it was in the store with a guy trying to *sell* rackets, and a little boy was with it, so we couldn’t practice our swings with a giant racket this year (sniff)...
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So I haven’t seen this cat for weeks, then we go out of town for two weeks, and the first morning I’m back driving John to work this cat comes meowing and running after me. So We get her some food, and I felt terrible that I had to leave her by driving away for work. (I just can’t believe she came running to me the first day I’m back in town...)
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Janet Kuypers is at Laschet’s, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230816
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)” pages, to “love” this on its “Poets Dancing In Tears” page, and to “like” this on its Facebook video stream page as well as on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “The Austin Poets Association” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our Poetic License open mic poetry book readings videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier and 2 others. 20230816
Now that I’m back in Austin after sharing “Testament” poetry at the “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” on 8/9/23, my interview on WZRD 88.3 FM Chicago radio on 8/12/23, and my feature at Tangible Books on 8/12/23 (all to more progressive audiences), I see this memory from 1 year ago today of my reading some of these “Testament” poetry before the book was released to a crowd verging on the deep south, and all can say is that I truly thank everyone (from Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier to Westley Heine to Carl J Vinci), from the hosts to all who attended and listened. It’s not like we can forget what they’ve done to womankind, even if the one-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade has already passed. The battle has only begun, and it may take years to get our rights back, but let’s not forget and keep working to turn history forward again from these repressive dark ages...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230816
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230816
I saw this memory from 4 years ago today and I just wanted to share that I still have this Impossible Whopper crown, on top of my fridge with other vegetarian (or Chicago, or retro) paraphernalia.
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Okay, okay, John even made fun of me when I updated it with more vegetarian food product boxes to display (P.S.: Nuts on Clark is there for John’s love of Chicago popcorn, and the Pizza Hut box is their Beyond veggie pizza)...
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Janet Kuypers is in Waco. 20230815
It really hit me, when walking to a public bathroom and having to pass sale items like a cowboy boot desk lamp or yarn art or multi- colored patterned cowboy hats that I’ve left home — to go to where I live. But the one novel thing about a different state and the annual Poetry Bomb is that (since I read poetry at different places every year) in recent years I read at the cemetery where Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed, or the now closed Graffiti Wall, or the Alamo, or, like this year, for the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege at the Branch Davidian compound.
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Janet Kuypers is in Dallas. 20230815
We just got off of I30 (which is a very different road from Lincoln Highway). On today of all days, I am back in this one far away state, when I wish I was with my family instead.
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Carl J Vinci, I would like to thank EVERYONE who attended or was a part of the Tangible Books 7/12/23 poetry features night, where I got the chance to read post-Roe v. Wade poetry from the CyberWit Janet Kuypers 2023 book “Testament”, which is vital in EVERY state — when half of these United States have stripped basic and vital health care rights from so many women. Thank you all so much!!!
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Janet Kuypers is with Jenny Bisick. 20230815
It is a shame we didn’t see each other at this year’s Yotko get-together but I hope you and Scott like the glasses we brought for you, we hope all is well, and we hope to you soon!
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It was wonderful to see Hope Yotko and the Yotko clan at the recent Pennsylvania get together.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230822
This post from 2 years ago today was when I was appearing on WZRD radio during Covid times and I couldn’t go to the studio. This year I thought it might have been a health hazard if I put that wizard hat on my head, because who knows how many people have worn that hat before... but most importantly, thank you again to Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier for the chance to share poetry on August 12th on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio!
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Janet Kuypers is with Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier. 20230822
Seeing this post from 1 year ago today of “Testament” poems gives me impetus to thank EVERYONE who attended or was a part of the WZRD 88.3 FM Chicago radio show (Cathleen, thank you so much!), where I got the chance to read post-Roe v. Wade poetry from the CyberWit Janet Kuypers 2023 book “Testament”, which is vital in EVERY state — when half of these United States have stripped basic and vital health care rights from so many women. Thank you all so much!!!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230815
Seeing this post makes me happy that I was able to have the Gudenteit Beer twice this past week at Mickey Finn’s... But it also makes me feel bad that John couldn’t enjoy the beer there and could only have a cider. It’s a shame I didn’t see Brian Grano, but I’m glad I got to enjoy the beer while I was in town. (And seeing this photo from 6 years ago today makes me so disgusted for the once-color of our cabinets. I’m glad we painted them, and even though the new solid white birch cabinet doors aren’t up yet, the new cabinet color looks 10 times better than what my cabinets once looked like — and our kitchen cabinets looks like a Crate & Barrel store display.)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230815
No, we didn’t take a picture when we had Graeter’s ice cream this year (like we did 8 years ago today), but this time we had it with fudge on top. And it was expensive enough to be our dinner for the evening at the Western & Southern open, but trust me, it was worth it.
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Janet Kuypers is at Little Rock Arkanasas. 20230815 · Little Rock, AR ·
We get in before 9pm last night and I dressed up for going out. Since it was a Monday night, most everything was closed and John wanted to eat, so we went to a Chinese restaurant where they were stunned we didn’t want meat with our food (which kind of baffled me, but maybe tastes are different in Arkansas). We for it for carryout, so oh well for being out (& John even explained, we’ve been in this hotel before, it’s not like this is anything new). So my only reflection by the end of the day has nothing to do with Little Rock Arkansas but the one surprisingly tight Corvette Museum bracelet on the dresser.
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Janet Kuypers is in Memphis, TN. 20230814
I keep saying things like “it’s a shame I can’t stay in this town,” but I *have* been here before... but all the photos I have (like one where somebody penned on the sidewalk “Elvis hated Memphis”) are all on 35 mm film, so sorry younglings, I can’t share them with you while I’m traveling and can only post from my phone.
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Janet Kuypers is at Cuba Landing. 20230814 · Waverly, TN ·
I know when John was a soldier in the Army he was a part of who helped when Cubans appeared in the United States... I just didn’t realize exactly where we were going on this road trip.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230814
I shared this post across social media 2 years ago today of my first poetry performance art show in Chicago, which was in 1997. I used sound effects, but my stereo didn’t connect so everyone had to hear it through my hard drive. I was mortified by the technical difficulties but everyone loved it here show, and my oldest sister Lorelei even said after watching the show that she was proud to be my sister (which made me feel like I was doing something right, so thank you so much).
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It is fascinating while reading submissions on iPad and traveling across the country that on the screen it reminds me of photos from past shows like these images from the 2023 Animal Tales event in Salado, Texas.
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Janet Kuypers updated her cover photo. 20230813
Just left Illinois, so it’s time to share my solidarity with the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, which we are on our way to now.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230813
I just took photos there recently holding up the Millennium Bean in amongst the crowds, so maybe one day that’ll become a profile photo...
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We were unable to Facebook live video stream the 8/12 Janet Kuypers feature and bonus reading because we were in the basement of a bookstore in Chicago, but we will be able to share video with you in the next few weeks. Thank you to everyone who went to the performances at Tangible Books, and thank you to Carl J Vinci for making this bonus feature week happen.
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Janet Kuypers is with Donald Hargraves and 3 others. 20230812
It was great to see poets together on my last Chicago feature event at Tangible Books, and thanks for this opportunity again!
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Janet Kuypers is at WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM. 20230812 · Chicago, IL ·
I never look at the Facebook feed but I have to when I’m about to do a live video stream, and I have to admit that it was cool to see my appearance on Chicago’s WZRD radio as one of the potentials for my “story”.
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Janet Kuypers was live.
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream on 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio, where during her interview on the air she read her poems “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights”, “Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights”, portions of the poem “Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights”, and as a bonus, the first poem in her 8/12/23 “Into the Spotlight” Chicago feature, “Evil of What They’ve Done” (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinterview #janetkuypersradio
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory ̬ with Dave Gecic and 3 others. 20230812
Sharing post-Roe v. Wade poetry from the CyberWit Janet Kuypers 2023 book “Testament” is vital in EVERY state when half of these United States have stripped basic and vital health care rights from countless women. Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier, I am thrilled for the interview and opportunity to share this poetry on WZRD 88.3 FM Chicago Radio at 11:30 today, and I am thrilled that I get to dress up and share these poems from the Janet Kuypers 2023 CyberWit book “Testament” (just after the 1-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson ruling and trigger laws stripping away women’s rights in half the country) when I feature with Dave Gecic and Jerry Pendergast on Saturday, August 12th, at Tangible Books in Bridgeport (Chicago) from 7-9 pm (3324 S. Halsted). Carl J Vinci, thank you for this opportunity, and I hope to see everyone there!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory ̬ with Dave Gecic and 2 others. 20230812
Tomorrow is the big day! I may have read Post-Roe v. Wade poetry before the book “Testament” was released in Zoom meeting open mics in Austin, but I am thrilled that I get to dress up and share these poems from the Janet Kuypers 2023 CyberWit book “Testament” (just after the 1-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson ruling and trigger laws stripping away women’s rights in half the country) when I feature with Dave Gecic and Jerry Pendergast on Saturday, August 12th, at Tangible Books in Bridgeport (Chicago) from 7-9 pm (3324 S. Halsted). Carl J Vinci, thank you for this opportunity, and I hope to see everyone there!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory ̬ with Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier. 20230812
Today is the big day! I am looking forward to an interview and talking the poetry talk today — Saturday, August 12th on WZRD Chicago 88.3 FM radio, and hopefully also sharing poetry from the CyberWit 2023 book “Testament” live!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230812
I hope I still pass the litmus test as you put it, and even though we’re in the same town today I’m not sure if I’ll be able to wish you all the appropriate well wishes today in person. Maybe if you attend my feature at Tangible Books today I will get the honor... But at least I can wish you the happiest of days here today on Facebook.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230812
I think this is the photo that appears on my 2019 Western and Southern open laniard — that I actually brought along to wear to the tennis tournament this year too...
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at ERIS Brewery and Cider House. 20230811 · Chicago, IL ·
So as we walk into this place John asked me if I recognize what the stairway railing was, and I thought, I lived in Chicago apartments, of course I know what it is. (btw, radiator edges are much cooler for stair rails then those god-awful foot-wide floor-to-ceiling vents that spat heat out at you... which is also classic Chicago.)
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Janet Kuypers is at Lincoln Avenue. 20230811 · Chicago, IL ·
I had to drive by once to see how few Lincoln painted expired meters still exist on Lincoln Avenue...
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Janet Kuypers is at Native Foods. 20230811 · Chicago, IL ·
I’m smiling because I have to in photos. I’m actually peeved that they don’t have the meatball sub here at Native Foods... So I’ll settle for their cauliflower poboy.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230811
Tomorrow is the big day! I may have read Post-Roe v. Wade poetry before the book “Testament” was released in Zoom meeting open mics in Austin, but I am thrilled that I get to dress up and share these poems from the Janet Kuypers 2023 CyberWit 2023 book “Testament” (just after the 1-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson ruling and trigger laws stripping away women’s rights in half the country) when I feature with Dave Gecic and Jerry Pendergast on Saturday, August 12th, at Tangible Books in Bridgeport (Chicago) from 7-9 pm (3324 S. Halsted). Carl J Vinci, thank you for this opportunity, and I hope to see everyone there!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230811
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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It’s good timing, this post from 4 years ago today, because this Sunday John and I will be on our way to Mason, Ohio for the first day of the W&S Open tennis tournament...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230811
Because the Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers on August 9th, 2023 have a lot of people singing in it as well as reading poetry, I ended the open mic by singing acapella the Sinead O’Conner song “Black Boys on mopeds”. How fitting that I see a memory from 12 years ago today where I was hosting The Café open mic 12 years ago the day before my open mic moved to The Gallery Cabaret, where we also performed the acoustic song “Black Boys on mopeds”. Serendipity indeed.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers at Kaiser’s Pizza & Pub Kenosha. 20230810 · Kenosha, WI
While in Chicago, Janet said we had to go to Kaiser’s in Kenosha for her favorite deep dish pizza. She had Hinterland hefe when traveling to PA and even bought their glass, so although it’s a different brewery she enjoyed the Hinterland blueberry wheat on tap.
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Avrom share this photo from the beginning of The Gallery Cabaret with me last night, and I wanted to thank him and everyone for attending the open mic last night...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230810
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230810
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers was live.
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Enjoy this Facebook live video stream on 8/9/23 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Evil of What They’ve Done”, “After All We’ve Accomplished”, “On a Sunday after a Sermon”, “Question and Answer time”, “Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Right”, and “Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother?” in her poetry feature “Into the Spotlight” (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersthecafegallery
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230809
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Westley Heine is with Janet Kuypers. 20230808
Tomorrow night (Wednesday) join us for an open mic hosted by Janet Kuypers. See old friends. Read new poems. I may have my magic guitar with me.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230808
I just realized that I *did* bring this shirt, so who knows — maybe I will read poetry while wearing this shirt at The Gallery Cabaret this Wednesday!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230808
I suppose photos like this say more about who we are than being poetry vent news so Happy Birthday Dave!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with Dave Gecic. 20230808
Happy Birthday!!! I like seeing these photos of us when we performed at open mics and features, and I hope I will see you Wednesday at The Gallery Cabaret!
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Janet Kuypers is at Damen Silos. 20230807 · Chicago, IL ·
McKinley Park silos built in 1906 in Chicago are along the South Branch of the Chicago River and are one of the last remaining monuments to Chicago’s historic dominance in the national grain industry. Closed in 1977 and used in the recent Transformers movie these silos may be torn down to build up office buildings. (Not if the Illinois historical society has anything to say about that...) https://blockclubchicago.org/.../three-chicago-buildings.../
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230806
It is good to share this post from 1 year ago today where I am reading women’s rights post-Roe v. Wade poetry from the CyberWit Janet Kuypers book “Testament” (in Texas, state that needed to hear it the most) before the book was released, but once the book was released it’s appropriate that my first feature for “Testament” (“Fighting for Justice”) was at the 1-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling was in Arkansas (a state that just passed a ton of anti-LGBTQ laws, and is planning a statue for all of the unborn fetuses that died before Roe v. Wade was overturned). I am really glad I am returning to my hometown to share poetry and open mics and features at The Gallery Cabaret on Wednesday, August 9th, and sharing this poetry in a feature at Tangible Books on Saturday, August 12th.
https://www.facebook.com/events/590726676576377
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230806
We have only one more day of driving before we get to Illinois, but I’m really looking forward to meeting with Cathleen.... Yay for WZRD radio in Chicago on Saturday, August 12th!
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Janet Kuypers is with Generalissimo Bryan Franco and 13 others in in Schellsburg, PA. 20230806
Today is the big day! Join us Sunday (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 8/6/23 (or 20230806, or 6 Aug 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/304911992013575/
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Janet Kuypers is in Schellsburg, PA. 20230805
Because Bedford has a few long cabins that are hundreds of years old, along historic I30 here they remain preserved. I30, AKA Lincoln Avenue, runs all the way along just South of I 80 South of Chicago, where we’ll be heading to tomorrow.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230805
I just saw this post from 2 years ago today, so I am going to have to find out if they still have my favorite sub there when I visit next week.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230805
Seeing this profile update makes me sad that I was unable To go to the millennium bean last month but hopefully I’ll make it next week.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 10 others. 20230805
Tomorrow is the big day! Join us Sunday (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 8/6/23 (or 20230806, or 6 Aug 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/304911992013575/
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Janet Kuypers is with John F. McMullen and 9 others. 20230804
Got any plans this weekend? then join us Sunday (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 8/6/23 (or 20230806, or 6 Aug 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/304911992013575/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230804
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers is in Louisville, KY. 20230804
When I woke up this morning I looked out the hotel’s fourth floor window and I saw this. As the sun rose, it looked a little bit like Egypt. Oh well, a girl can dream.
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Janet Kuypers is at Taco John’s. 20230803 · Clarksville, TN ·
I asked the man behind the counter why only 3 of the tacos were colored on their wall. He said he had no idea, but his theory is that they were positioned that way to look like a check mark.
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John Yotko is in Cedar Grove, TN (also via Instagram). 20230803
After my eco-freak collected plastic bottles at a charging station, my goth girl found the perfect bouquet of flowers. Janet is a woman of the many faces.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230803
Facebook wouldn’t allow me to share memories of The Café open mic poetry readings posted on 7/28/16 and 7/28/10 (7 & 13 years ago today), but at least Facebook allows me to share this... Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers is at Forest City Arkansas. 20230803
Because an Arkansas commuter didn’t like the construction on the expressway going down to 1 lane where we had to cut in, the driver got around us, opened their car window and started throwing nuts and bolts at our car. Just a scratch but filed a report for insurance; was told another state police car found him and gave him a real tongue lashing for his premeditated actions. John thanked the state police officers for their work and I collected plastic bottles to recycle.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230803
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230803
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 2 years ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (I love sharing streams like this now too because my phone no longer allows me to add cool video effects to my live video streams).
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230802
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230802
I am so glad I got these family photos from 2 years ago today, and I’m so glad there is a group photo from the Kuypers 100-year reunion, And speaking of, thank you Sabrina, and thank you Sylvia for recording when John And I perform songs at the reunion. It is sad that not all of us could go to the reunion this year but it was great seeing everyone who did show up, and I look forward to seeing you all again very soon...
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Janet Kuypers
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Now just a half week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 8/6/23 (or 20230806, or 6 Aug 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/304911992013575/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230802
I am not bringing this wig along for performing at The Gallery Cabaret next week...
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Janet Kuypers
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This video was first uploaded to YouTube on 7/31/09, then shared on Facebook on 7/31/16 (7 years ago yesterday, with only the unsharable Facebook memory as all that’s left), so let me share this poetry feature reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this 7/31/09 feature-length Archive video of Janet Kuypers performing her full “Disenfranchised Doggerel” show, which includes her poems“Knotted Hate”, “Escape”, “Untitled”, “He’s Gone”, “Rape Education Two”, “I Don’t Care”, “The Moon”, “From the Dead”, “Rendering Me”, “Find Myself”, “My Blood”, “Naivety”, “Memorial Day”, “A Crying Baby”, her poems “My” and “I Cannot Love”, “The Tears”, “Knife”, & “My Attempted Death” read to a large projection of her images (this video was filmed from camera #2; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers is with Jenene Ravesloot and 9 others. 20230801
The weatherman says that July was the hottest month in history, but Scars Publications is making it HOTTER by releasing August books! The August 2023 v336 issue of cc&d magazine is now available not only online, but also as the 6x9 ISBN# paperback book “Stolen Stars”! This new book is available for Amazon sale in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but also as a free Internet issue web page!
(Writers and artists in this perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include Alayna Hinson, ayaz daryl nielsen, Bill Tope, Daryel Groom, Derek Kelly, Doug M. Dawson, Duane Anderson, Eric Burbridge, H.R. Kemp, James Bates, Jamie Johnson, Janet Kuypers, Jennifer Leigh Kiefer, Leigh-Anne Burley, Linda M. Crate, Mark Reasoner, Michael Ceraolo, Mike Schneider, Paul Spencer, Sterling Warner, Sushant Yadav, Thom Woodruff, Tom Sheehan, Toney Dimos1, Aaron Wilder, Binod Dawadi, David J. Thompson, David Michael Jackson, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Jenene Ravesloot, Karen Hedges, Kyle Hemmings, Rose E. Grier, Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, and Westley Heine.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230801
This cc&d cover post from 10 years ago today (which is still on display in my office) makes me wistful that I couldn’t stay in town for Chicago fireworks — but I saw Kuypers reunion fireworks on 7/1 this year, and to hear half my extended family speaking Dutch while the fireworks were going off was so worth it...
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Janet Kuypers is with Tom Ball. 20230801
The weatherman says that July was the hottest month in history, but Scars Publications is making it HOTTER by releasing August books! The August 2023 v210 issue of Down in the Dirt mag is now available, online and as the 6" x 9" ISSN# / ISBN# perfect-bound paperback book “At the Zoo”! This new book is available for sale at Amazon in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, and even Japan, but is also available as a free Internet issue web page! (Writers and artists in this book include Bill Tope, Chaim Jones, Clay Coppedge, Daniel R. Snyder, David Jeffery, Dee Artea, Donald Reed Greenwood, Edward N. McConnell, Eric Robert Nolan, Gil Hoy, Gloria Lauris, Janet Kuypers, John F. McMullen, John Farquhar Young, John Kucera, John Ragusa, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Lawrence Zielinski, Leslie C. Ferdinand, Luke Dylan Ramsey, Marc Colten, Michael Lee Johnson, Nancy Machlis Rechtman, Nolo Segundo, Richard K. Williams, Robert Feinstein, Sam Norman, Sergio A. Ortiz, Sterling Warner, Terry Sanville, Tom Ball, , Tom Squitieri, Vincent P. Desilets, Wendy Taylor, Binod Dawadi, Cailey Tin, Charlotte Jung, Christopher Strople, Daniel de Culla, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elena Botts, Isabel G. de Diego J. Ray Paradiso, Kumar Mahat, and Raha.M.)
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Janet Kuypers, 20230801, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life”, “Just Checking my Religions”, “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution”, “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom”, “Use Any Angle”, and “Eliminate All Rapists” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament” in her poetry feature “Bringing women’s Battles to the Beach” during the “Beach Poets and Janet Kuypers feature on 7/2/23” in Chicago (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers
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This video was first uploaded to YouTube on 7/31/09, then shared on Facebook on 7/31/16 (7 years ago today, with only the unsharable Facebook memory as all that’s left), so let me share this poetry feature reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this 7/31/09 feature-length Archive video of Janet Kuypers performing her full “Disenfranchised Doggerel” show, which includes her poems “Knotted Hate”, “Escape”, “Untitled”, “He’s Gone”, “Rape Education Two”, “I Don’t Care”, “The Moon”, “From the Dead”, “Rendering Me”, “Find Myself”, “My Blood”, “Naivety”, “Memorial Day”, “A Crying Baby”, her poems “My” and “I Cannot Love”, “The Tears”, “Knife”, & “My Attempted Death” read to a large projection of her images (this video was filmed from camera #1; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230731
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Lonely Visitor”, “Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “like” & “care” for this on its Facebook video stream page, and to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages, and on its Scars Publications Facebook page too — all of your positive feedback inspires us to keep our open mic videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 23 others. 20230731
Now just under a week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 8/6/23 (or 20230806, or 6 Aug 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/304911992013575/
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Janet Kuypers, 20230730, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life”, “Just Checking my Religions”, “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution”, “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom”, “Use Any Angle”, and “Eliminate All Rapists” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament” in her poetry feature “Bringing women’s Battles to the Beach” during the “Beach Poets and Janet Kuypers feature on 7/2/23” in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230730
I just saw the photos from this memory from 5 years ago today at Poetry Aloud, and it made me laugh because for whatever reason they wrote a map of midwestern states on the marker board behind the poetry reading, I had to go and mark Logan Square inside Chicago. (I won’t be bringing my t-shirts along from Revolution Brewing or Chicago Diner in Logan Square when we visit in August, but it’s always double-plus good to pay homage to Logan Square when I get the chance.)
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Janet Kuypers, 20230729, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life”, “Just Checking my Religions”, “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution”, “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom”, “Use Any Angle”, “Eliminate All Rapists”, “Old Enough to Choose”, “X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes”, and “Information Carries Weight” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament” in her poetry feature “Bringing women’s Battles to the Beach” during the “Beach Poets and Janet Kuypers feature on 7/2/23” in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230729
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Personal Archaeology”, “Testament”, “Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Poets On Fire Worldwide” page, to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this and comment so nicely about it on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links” page, and to “like” this on its linkedin page as well as on its “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)” “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages too — this inspires us to keep our open mic book reading videos online. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers, 20230728, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “A Woman Talking About Her Rapist Friend”, “Emphatic One”, and “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst” from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers is with John F. McMullen and s others. 20230728
It was great to get together — wherever we are — and it was great to see everyone at the “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” this month! I will be making a Facebook event page for the August 6th edition in just a few days, and I’m looking forward to everyone getting together to share poetry at this monthly creative venture again!
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230728
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this 6/28/23 Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers’ edited post-Roe v. Wade “Testament” book poems in her show “Fighting for Justice” live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)” page, and to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetry Super Highway”, & “Poets On Fire Worldwide” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep our poetry show book reading feature videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
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Janet Kuypers
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I may have pushed some deep-south boundaries when I read these post-Roe v. Wade poems at an APS Open Mic Zoom meeting (forgive me and thank you for listening), but these poems are now in Part One of the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”, and were poems I recently read in features in Hot Springs and Chicago. Plus, this live video from 1 year ago today is the only footage in my office w/ the monitor behind me showing flowing astronomy videos...
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Janet Kuypers
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I may have pushed some deep-south boundaries when I read these post-Roe v. Wade poems at the APS Open Mic Zoom meeting, but these poems are now in Part One of the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament” — and this live video from 1 year ago today is the only time where I’m sitting at my desk, and my 2nd monitor shows flowing astronomy video images while I read...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230728
Facebook wouldn’t allow me to share memories of The Café open mic poetry readings posted on 7/28/16 and 7/28/10 (7 & 13 years ago today), but at least Facebook allows me to share this... Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July 2023 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230727, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unless it’s about suppressing life”, “Just Checking my Religions”, “Vote Changing: the System’s Solution”, “Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom”, “Use Any Angle”, “Eliminate All Rapists”, “Old Enough to Choose”, “X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes”, and “Information Carries Weight” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament” in her poetry feature “Bringing women’s Battles to the Beach” during the “Beach Poets and Janet Kuypers feature on 7/2/23” in Chicago (from a Samsung S7 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230727
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230727
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July ‘23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading my Scars book poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230726, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v209 7/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Lonely Visitor” poems “Einsteinium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds” (+ its image, which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Fermium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers
20230726
Read an article that talked about Twin Peaks, usually emulating its 50s lifestyle but also showing the dark underbelly of that life, as exemplified in S3 E8 which shows the nuclear explosions from the Trinity test (worthwhile to bring up with the recent Oppenheimer movie release). But around the same time I saw this Funny or Die Lab or a REALLY hysterical David Lynch-esque sketch, that is worth sharing.
https://youtu.be/c7uw0_URmbohg
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230726
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers
20230725
This video was first uploaded to YouTube on 7/25/11 & shared on Facebook both 7/25/16 and 7/25/11 (7 years ago today and 12 years ago today, with only two unsharable Facebook memories as all that’s left), so let me share this poetry feature reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her full Triple Threat show at Trunk Fest, live outdoors in Evanston IL 7/24/11, which includes her poem/song “Made Any Difference”, her poems “No Consequences”, “Letter 4/14/95 2”, “Sadness”, “Resurrecting the Dead”, “Still No Answers”, & her prose poems “Top of the Mountain” & “Brushes with Greatness” (this video post appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers, 20230724, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v335 7/23 cc&d issue/book “Personal Archaeology” poems “Fear for Their Safety” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Bromine” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Bromine’s Assault” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Bradford Middleton
20230724
Always good to return to the ever so good CC&D site with big thanks to Janet Kuypers for her continued support of all things good. Here’s my latest effort, hope you enjoy it!
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Janet Kuypers
Thanks for your kind words. You’ve been a part of cc&d for the last 3 years (and we just released our 30-year anniversary issue), but we welcome many literary voices...
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Janet Kuypers
When Bradford said in his post to look at his latest effort in cc&d, his most recent acceptance won’t appear until the 1/24 issue — but all of his writings can be seen in the “writings” section of Scars Publications, where all past and upcoming accepted writing are listed alphabetically by name. Click on his name and voilà! His most recent writing is here too.
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Janet Kuypers
20230722
I’ve been so aggravated that people in the past have abandoned their cars directly in front of my house. I’m comforted that now they abandon them as far away as car lengths away from my driveway.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230721, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video live 6/28/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
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Janet Kuypers
May I also share this video (released on FB only) with a Hue Cycling filter...
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Janet Kuypers
20230721
This video was first uploaded to YouTube on 7/21/11 & shared on Facebook both 7/21/16 and 7/21/11 (7 years ago today and 12 years ago today, with only two unsharable Facebook memories as all that’s left), so let me share this poetry mini-feature reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this feature-length YouTube video with projected video and music 7/19/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her mini-feature “Astronomy 101” (including her poems “Orion”, “Envision It in the Night Sky”, “Travel Through Space”, “Moonlight / the Moon”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, “Universe... Now In Color” and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight” (published in the Scars Publications chapbook “Astronomy 101”) at her Chicago “the Café” open mic (this video post appears on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230721
I really love memories like this from 9 years ago today with the foundation for one of the coloring book covers! The Scars web page for this coloring book has 4 giant stills highlighting this coloring book (including this 1), so let me share more info about ALL of the book releases for the poem “Under the Sea”!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
20230721
So, literally 10 years ago today John posted this photo of me wearing my zipper earrings and was trying to (and I quote) “unzip her head to what’s going on in her mind.”. And LAST NIGHT we were talking about the poem I read part of at our wedding, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary”, where I literally *say* during my wedding, “When you talk you reach your hand into my brain and pull out my thoughts and shove them into your mouth and spit them back at me”... Romantic, I know, but it was eerily fitting.
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Janet Kuypers, 20230720, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video live 6/28/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
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Janet Kuypers
May I also share this video (released on FB only) with a Hue Cycling filter...
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko. 20230720
I forgot up upload these last night... John finally added his new plates to his car — he chose “CHI POET” for my car, so I was pleased to see the silent power of his electric car on his new license plate.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230720
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230720
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July ‘23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230720
John shared this 9 years ago today, and I shared this 1 year ago today because I loved using the films of “drawing” poems while I read them. These videos of drawings were 1st in my hour-long multi-video “Letting It All Out” Lake Villa show — which was never shared across social media. Come the anniversary of when that video was released, I may have to rectify that...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230719
Because The Café was shut down, and now the building is literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I shared a YouTube video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series. Long live poetry!
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Janet Kuypers, 20230718, liked on YouTube; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video live 6/28/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flags at Half-Mast”, “Only Pose What I Know”, “Your Government’s Keeping Tabs”, “Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion”, “Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind”, “Overturning Against All”, “Oppression: the Ultimate Killer”, “X-ing out lives”, and “Evidence as Testament” (that were edited for this live performance) from her show “Fighting for Justice” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen
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Janet Kuypers
May I also share this video (released on FB only) with a Hue Cycling filter...
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 6 others, 20230717, on YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life” with John Yotko playing acoustic guitar at the Kuypers 100-year family reunion (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic
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Janet Kuypers
20230717
Because Facebook neglects to share past memories of mine on FB when I share YouTube, I guess I have to do the legwork... because 5 years ago today I uploaded YouTube video from 7/14/18 of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, singing the harmony to the R.E.M. song “You Are The Everything” with John on mandolin (with a recording of their lead vocals & acoustic guitar) to a live audience (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) — I share this now because on July 1st I was asked on stage for the Kuypers 100-year family reunion and, using John Kuypers’ mandolin, my husband John and I sang both parts of this song to 100+ Kuypers from the U.S. & the Netherlands. The one video copy of the performance hopefully turned out for us to share soon. https://youtu.be/61Ecf4jjObg
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Janet Kuypers
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This video was first uploaded to YouTube, was liked on Twitter, & shared on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest (and even the now-dead consumer’s (personal) Google+) on 7/16/18 (5 years ago today, but none of the links were saved, & YouTube stripped most of the views from the video too), so let me save and share this poem reading throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2018 Book Release Reading 7/4/18, reading her poems “Moonlight”, “There I Sit”, and “Writing Your Name” from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230716
As strange as she looks, Janet decided to eat something plant-based to support this number 23 (that s my birthday, by the way) Grand Slam tennis winner during Wimbledon.
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Janet Kuypers
20230716
Facebook never recalls my memories of my sharing YouTube videos, so I cannot call this a shared FB memory, but I *did* post this 7 years ago today (or originally from 2010), where, while I hosted the Chicago the Café Gallery open mic at The Gallery Cabaret I read my poem (1:20) “Decision” 7/12/11 from what I called “the lip camera” (that I had taped to the brim of my hat to film only part of my face) this YouTube video... I’ve lost that mini cam since then, but as a performance artist, these videos were very unique to me. https://youtu.be/ZOqs7zacaBk
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John Yotko is  dinner with beloved family  with Janet Kuypers at Ike’s Sandwiches.ori (also via Instagram)). 20230715
Since Native Foods Café stopped carrying a vegan meatball sub I thought I would take Janet to Ike’s Love & Sandwiches to try their meatball sub. Janet had to get it on their Dutch bread and said it was delicious.
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Janet Kuypers
20230715
I am watching the women’s finals for Wimbledon live right now, and I totally didn’t expect the unseeded player to make such a stand and play so strongly, because I expected Ons Jabeur to easily sweep a victory... This is a more challenging match than I believed.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsrGnZQCAAA7l2g.jpg
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Janet Kuypers
20230714
All of the individual writing videos were uploaded to YouTube on 7/14/16 (7 years ago yesterday) for a 2010 7/11 show, but the Archive video of the full show was never shared... so let me save and share this poetry show performance throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this Internet Archive video of Janet Kuypers’ “Death ‘n’ Rebirth 7/11/10 show” at Beach Poets of poetry, prose & music, starting with her singing her song What We Need In Life with John on guitar, then reading her poems “Fantastic Car Crash”, the poem “Changing Garments”, & her poem “Everyone Else Does It”, then reading her prose “King of the Universe” (plus comments), then reading her poems “Are They Invincible”, portions of her poem “How Do I Explain It” (with commentary), her poems “Motions on the Planet” & “Ten and Two, Plus Eight”, & finishing with her song “My Love for You Will Stay the Same” with John on guitar (the only video recording of this show is posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230714
Thanks for choosing to “like” and “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “I wrote this in the dark”, “Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Testament” during her “Poetic License 5/7/23 global open mic” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, and to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets House (Library and Literary Center, New York, NY)”, & “The Writers’ Wave” pages too — your feedback inspires us to keep our poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230714
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July ‘23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230713
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July ‘23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers
20230713
All of the individual writing videos were uploaded to YouTube on 7/12/18 (8 years ago yesterday), but the Archive video of the full show was never shared... so let me save and share this poetry show performance throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this Internet Archive video of Janet Kuypers’ 7/6/09 poetry feature “One Acts” at Jak’s Tap in Chicago via Waiting4the Bus (with projected images), which included her prose poems “Waiting for a Sign” & “Leaving for Work”, her poem “Fire Alarms”, her prose poem “In the Projects”, her poems “Walking Home From School” and “Down the Drain”, her prose poem “Park Bench”, her poems “Leather Jacket” and “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, & her prose poems “Jeremy, or Stallion?”, “Warring Nations”, and
“Hurry Up And Wait” (this video was filmed from camera #1; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230713
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July ‘23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I posted my poetry reading in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230713
After just releasing the 30-year anniversary issue of cc&d as the book “From a Devil to an Angel” (with a stripe of anniversary issue covers on it, including “the 23 enigma”), it’s nice to see that 6 years ago today I shared the accolades this book (containing Wernher von Braun and SS soldiers during WWII on the cover) received around the globe, with an “A” evaluation and offers for its appearance in book fairs around the globe (in the U.S., Beijing, and Frankfurt).
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Janet Kuypers
20230712
All of the individual writing videos were uploaded to YouTube on 7/12/18 (8 years ago today), but the Archive video of the full show was never shared... so let me save and share this poetry show performance throughout social media once and for all: Enjoy this Internet Archive video of Janet Kuypers’ 7/6/09 poetry feature “One Acts” via Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago (with projected images), which included her prose poems “Waiting for a Sign” & “Leaving for Work”, her poem “Fire Alarms”, her prose poem “In the Projects”, her poems “Walking Home From School” and “Down the Drain”, her prose poem “Park Bench”, her poems “Leather Jacket” and “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, & her prose poems “Jeremy, or Stallion?”, “Warring Nations”, & “Hurry Up And Wait” (this video was filmed from camera #2; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230712
Since I have been catching up from being out of town from the end of June to the beginning of July, I have not had the chance yet to respond to all magazine writing submissions or edit any videos from poetry features or music performances. So seeing this post from 1 year ago today points out that LAST year I did poetry features for my 1st CyberWit women’s issue poetry book, “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, and yay, *this* summer I’ll have poetry feature readings from my 2nd CyberWit women’s issue poetry book, “Testament”...
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230712
Thanks for choosing to “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Forbidden Library”, “Periodic Table Poetry”, & “Testament” on 5/3/23 (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, and to “like” this on its Facebook page as well as on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, Poetry Super Highway”, Poets on Fire Worldwide”, & The Writers’ Wave” pages too — all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230712
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town July /23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory — with Warren Peterson. 20230712
Happy Birthday, Warren - you are always in our hearts... (btw, we even plated “What We Need In Life” to upwards of 150 people at the Kuypers 100-year family reunion recently, so I guess we’re still remembering your musical spirit too!)
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230711
Thanks for choosing to “like” and “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 6/5/19 June 2019 Book Release Reading with her poetry & haiku from the books “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” & “The Deep Woods” during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, to “love” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links” & Poets Dancing In Tears” pages, and to “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, “Poetic of Heart”, & Poetry Super Highway” pages too — your positive feedback here inspires us to keep our poetry book readings alive this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230711
Good thing I just saw this post from 2 years ago today, because I just watched the AMAZING end of the women’s match on centre court at Wimbledon, which means Djokovic will be about to enter centre court to play...
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Janet Kuypers
Cathleen, I saw this on my pages but was unable to share it (and I wanted to), so THANKS for sharing this! I I did this feature of poems (and songs with John) about good things *and* bad titled “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” because this feature date is the calendar day I was almost killed while stopped in a car accident. Thank you for sharing this, because after all the bad things, you have to remember the good - so thank you again!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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Just saw Vito’s group Beach Poets post from 1 year ago today, and I know we couldn’t make my feature this year on the beach (thank you rain), but maybe I’ll share this year’s Beach Poets group photo again...
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Janet Kuypers is with Michael Kelly and 3 others. 20230709
THIS memory caught me off guard when I saw it this morning... when we first lived in Austin I guest-hosted “Poetry Plus 7/8/16” at my house, and 7 years ago today I posted this group photo with, among Thom and other poets, was Brian Lamont (in a kilt, no less). I am glad I had this poetry open mic at my house, and I’m glad to see this memory with Brian.
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Janet Kuypers
20230708
Facebook didn’t remind me of any past 2018 memories (and it *never* remembers my YouTube posts), but my memory is sharp & I like this video Facebook made 5 tears ago today highlighting my June 2018, spending time with John (yay) as well as reading poetry at actual open mics (now that most of them are now only virtual, thank you Covid19). Thius month my big highlight is my Hot Springs, AR show “Fighting for Justice” where I got to be in costume to perform poetry (which is also not a Facebook profile photo), but I doubt Facebook will commemorate anything with a video... https://www.facebook.com/ janetkuypers/posts/10215493061333685
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230707
These are just a few photos from 7/2 of Janet being old school with her clock necklace, Reader t-shirt, and book earrings for her “Testament” poetry book feature during Beach Poets, which, of course was under an awning in front of (closed) Archie’s Cafe in the rain.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230707
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town on 7/23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began (on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. & Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I thanked everyone for liking and loving my video reading poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230707
Just went to Mickey Finn’s Brewery, and because the old Mickey Finn’s restaurant had a vinyl showcase along one wall opposite their bar we put up a CD rail over John’s acoustic guitar wall in our old house. Seeing this post from 9 & 7 years ago today, well, that music display makes me wistful for it again — though right now we have guitars hanging on multiple walls in our pool table room upstairs, I don’t think we have enough CDs that we’d want to display along the ceiling for the entire room, and I should be content (and happy) with the chair rail beam around the entire room made of beer coasters from our travels around the world instead. (P.S.: I commend anyone who can name the song I reference when I quote the lines “I should be content and happy”...)
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Janet Kuypers, via Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. 20230706
Thanks for choosing to “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “Not Set in Stone”, “Testament”, and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” for the honorary 5/3/23 ‘Community Poetry’ book reading (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” and on its Facebook page, and to “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets, Their Works, Current Poetry Projects, News, Links” page too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our poetry book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230706
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town on 7/23 that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began, on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave. (with Lincoln painted on the old parking meter, no less), where I actually read poetry in front of the Café for The Café Gallery Book Reading series.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230706
Because The Café was shut down, and because I saw when in town this month that the building was literally torn down, I am sharing these memories (like this one from 1 year ago today) in homage to “the Café Gallery” open mic where my poetry open mic hosting began, on Chicago’s Lincoln Ave.
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Janet Kuypers
20230706
Seeing this post (one of many) of live video from the Austin immersive Van Gogh exhibit from 2 years ago today made me smile... because I think this video was my impetus for creating a collage of Van Gogh images on the walls for the cc&d 5-8/21 issue collection book “What If”...
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Janet Kuypers
20230706
I needed to share this unsaved Facebook post from 8 years ago today in 2015 that was originally a Twitter post of mine because I really do *still* appreciate this KMFDM message on a t-shirt that is no longer available for sale: “TERRORISM is the poor man’s WAR is the rich man’s TERRORISM”... http://t.co/T4INHBXIrx
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Janet Kuypers is in Waco. 20230704
We are now passing Mount Caramel. I have to admit that it was fascinating to be at the Branch Davidian memorial site right at the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege, and I am honored I got to read poetry from the book "“Testament” in part 3 of poetry from the oldest book in the Old Testament, Genesis, and from part 4 of 3 poems from the newest book in the New Testament, Revelations, and that I was able to share this all for the 2023 Poetry Bomb.
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I don’t know how everyone I know feels about the 4th of July. Some may celebrate it, some may protest it... So the only thing I can think to do today is share this video that John filmed Saturday at the Kuypers 100 year family reunion of fireworks. Whatever you believe stay safe, and have any reason you may choose to celebrate.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230704
Koozies for her family, a John A. Kuypers concrete company promotional cup for the KUITpers beer I made that everyone loved... everyone celebrated the matriarch with photos lights and Dutch flags, plus fireworks as a finalé to a perfect day.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230704
When I told Janet to join the dancing line she still had her book in her hand, so she had a hard time putting her hand on the shoulder of the person in front of her and waving to everyone at the same time during the Dutch family members dancing line.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers in Arkadelphia, AR. 20230704
Because so many people were together for the Kuypers 100-year family reunion this past weekend Janet Kuypers eventually started asking anyone to write something in her Kuypers history hardcover like it was a yearbook.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230704
Happy 4th of July everyone! We are traveling right now and cannot catch any fireworks (so my only consolation is that I saw fireworks at my Kuypers 100-year family reunion this weekend)... stay safe!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230704
Claire, I am still on the road and I am sorry that this didn’t come sooner (or on time), but I hope you two had a great wedding anniversary - and hope you two have many more!!!
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230703
While attending the Kuypers reunion Janet freaked when I read a name tag behind her and said her mother’s maiden name Bakutis (even though there are two Kuypers/Bakutis families in this tree). Many people at the reunion were thrilled to see Mike there too.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230703
Janet enjoyed hanging out with Lucille and Rory during the Kuypers 100-year family reunion this weekend, and we’re glad Joel and Sabrina brought the family to this great event.
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John Yotko is with Janet Kuypers. 20230703
When so many Kuypers family members sat on the dance floor as boats to “Rolling down the River,” I told Janet she had to join in.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko at Pheasant Hollow Winery. 20230703 · Whittington, IL
I thought that as we approached the local prison where I get my Taco John’s on this trip, this would be a good stop for my driving. (P.S.: in these pictures you can’t see that I’m wearing our new Kuypers Brothers cap.)
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230703
I went by The Café this weekend to see if the banner with “Aloha” graffiti on it was still up and saw that the entire building was torn down... That made me so sad. Seeing this post from 2 years ago today as a share from a 2011 open mic at The Café meant that I need to honor the place where my Chicago poetry open mic first started.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230703
I read this fireworks poem from the Scars Publications book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” as a teaser for a past Poetic License open mic. It is cool to see it since (A) I will be missing fireworks this year because we are traveling for 2 days, and (B) we saw fireworks on July 1st — not for the 4th of July but for the Kuypers 100-year family reunion... which was a great reason to celebrate with fireworks.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230703
I’m sorry tennis fans, but — like 7 years ago today — I usually change my profile picture to reflect the tennis Majors going on. Right now, however, I have to use my profile photo from my most recent Hot Springs Arkansas “Fighting for Justice” poetry feature.
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John Yotko is with Westley Heine and 3 others at Archie’s Cafe. 20230702 · Chicago, IL
Beach Poets was rained out today so we moved to in front of Archie’s under their awning but they were closed. No chance for some good food but at least there was some good poetry and a chance to briefly see some friends.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 10 others. 20230702
Because of rain there is a change of location for today’s Beach Poets open mic and feature. Come to Archie’s at 1228 West Loyola Avenue in Chicago at the outdoor awning for the Beach Poets post feature today! July 2, 2023, Chicago poet Janet Kuypers will be visiting Chicago (from her current residence home in Austin) as the first feature at Beach Poets! Come early to hear her women’s rights post-Roe v. Wade overturning poetry from the new CyberWit book “Testament” — pick up a copy of this book from Kuypers, & don’t miss out on the only poetry feature and book reading of its kind on the Chicago beach!
https://www.facebook.com/events/652085009726463/
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For people who know Chicago traffic you would think this is just another day on the street, but this is apparently what NASCAR is going through right now downtown. I hope there won’t be a problem for reading at Beach Poets in my future today...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230702
This post from 1 year ago today reminded me to tell you that I will be reading from the brand new issue of cc&d magazine in round 1 of today’s Poetic License open mic, and I hope to see everyone there!
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 12 others. 20230702
Today is the big day! Join us Sunday (always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (host of the Zoom meeting) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT in Singapore. Everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 7/2/23 (or 20230702, or 2 Jul 2023), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/events/665846568918105/
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230702
Yesterday was the 100 year Kuypers family reunion, and seeing this post from 10 years ago today is a beautiful reminder that yesterday had a break of the band that they had playing when they called my name up to come and play music. Cousin John Kuypers brought a mandolin and a guitar for John Yotko and I to play, and we had practiced songs on both instruments... I know I have at least a recording of John and I covering REM’s “You Are the Everything” on mandolin, but I don’t know if I have video recordings of any of our guitar songs. I’ll try to share what recording I have with you guys when I get the chance...
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory.
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How cute to see John’s post from 11 years ago today where he says watching tennis live is better than Wimbledon, knowing that Wimbledon is starting tomorrow...
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 7 others. 20230702
Today is the big day! Join “Beach Poets” and host Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier at Leone Beach at Loyola Park (Greenleaf and the lake, just east of Sheridan Road and 4 blocks north of the Loyola L stop) for a double-feature week in Chicago, because on July 2, 2023, Chicago poet Janet Kuypers will be visiting Chicago (from her current residence home in Austin) as the first feature at Beach Poets! Come early to hear her women’s rights post-Roe v. Wade overturning poetry from the new CyberWit book “Testament” — pick up a copy of this book from Kuypers, & don’t miss out on the only poetry feature and book reading of its kind on the Chicago beach!
https://www.facebook.com/events/652085009726463/
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Janet Kuypers is in Peotone, IL. 20230701
What an exhilarating, exhausting, and family enriching day, 100 years in the making.
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230701
I just put up a post about my feature for Beach Poets tomorrow, and then I see this post for cc&d magazine release posted 2 years ago today that talks about driving on the streets of Chicago. I loved it when I was able to photograph streets in Chicago at night where people put the word “ideas” up in lights on a building... but it makes me worry about Nascar street racing this weekend in Grant Park getting in the way for people commuting for my poetry feature. I think we’ll be safe since nobody’s going immediately downtown anyway, and I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at Beach Poets!
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Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20230701
While I am away it is cool to see this post from 1 year ago today when my website had a picture of me with a tennis racket... And Wimbledon is right around the corner.
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Janet Kuypers is with John Yotko and 5 others. 20230701
Tomorrow is the big day! Join “Beach Poets” and host Cathleen Ann Schandelmeier at Leone Beach at Loyola Park (Greenleaf and the lake, just east of Sheridan Road and 4 blocks north of the Loyola L stop) for a double-feature week in Chicago, because on July 2, 2023, Chicago poet Janet Kuypers will be visiting Chicago (from her current residence home in Austin) as the first feature at Beach Poets! Come early to hear her women’s rights post-Roe v. Wade overturning poetry from the new CyberWit book “Testament” — pick up a copy of this book from Kuypers, & don’t miss out on the only poetry feature and book reading of its kind on the Chicago beach!
https://www.facebook.com/events/652085009726463/
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See the top of this listing for expanded facebook listings.
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I wanted to dress up for New Year’s Eve, but I didn’t know what to do with my hair.
Now only one week away (and always on the first Sunday of every month), come and join us for the Zoom meeting at the “Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” — the Austin, Texas ‘Recycled Reads’ G to PG-13-rated pre-pandemic open mic that is now GLOBAL through the Zoom meeting! If you don’t have the address, you can find it on the Facebook event page. John F. McMullen (Zoom meeting host) usually starts the Zoom meeting as early as 3:00 PM CST, and I (host Janet Kuypers) will be there 10-15 minutes before the open mic starts). And SINCE this is global, let me list local times for the regulars... 3:30 PM CST Sunday is 9:30 PM Sunday in London, which is 11:30 PM in Greece, which is 5:30 AM SGT Monday in Singapore. So everyone, come get your Poetic License & be a part of the “Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” Zoom meeting on Sunday, 1/7/24 (20240107, or 7 Jan 2024), from 3:30-5:30 PM CST!
Janet decided she would have a Chicago style deep dish Triscuit while watching the Bears game. If you are curious, that’s a thick slice of fresh mozzarella on a Triscuit.
Louise Gail Richardson is with Janet Kuypers. 20221231 
Many Memories
To Louise, the woman I must thank for getting poets together for so many years in Austin — and allowing me to do the same... 7 years is not long enough to thank you for being a part of the Austin poetry scene...
Happy Birthday!!!
John was sick over Christmas, so tonight we’re finally having our Christmas dinner...
We had some sunshine today so we decided to try out a new brewery nearby. I am liking their Finish Line Schwarzbier. Janet’s Niederwald Doppelbock is best on nitro. It smooths over the hoppiness of the regular Niederwald which is to her liking.
John posted this photo 10 years ago today (thank you for this photo, btw, now that we don’t visit Blue Skys anymore I miss this annually on Sand Dr.)... I wouldn’t have posted this, but I just realized that the Corian angels (like mine) that my mom decorated were *also* a part of this nativity scene...
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in encore 2 after her lead feature at Chicago’s Tangible Books w/ her poetry from the CyberWit book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & “like” this on its Facebook page as well as on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Absolutely Yours, Poetry and Lyrics”, “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poetry Super Highway”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, & “Scars Publications Facebook” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback here really does inspire us to keep all of our women’s issues poetry book reading feature night videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperschicago #janetkuyperswomensrights
John may have noticed in his post from 11 years ago today the hat, but I noticed my first chapbook, pre-Scars Publications, “Chapter 18”. The hand-drawn typography for this cover was the precursor to a good number of Scars performance art collection books, which I may share...
“Chapter 48 (v2)” contains Janet Kuypers’ performance art poetry from 2011-2018...
“Chapter 38 (v1)”, “Chapter 38 (v2)”, & “Chapter 38 (v3)” contain Janet Kuypers’ poetry in shows from 1997-2009...
Thanks for choosing “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “A Mural of a Forest”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, “Forbidden Library”, & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” to close her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, “love” this on its “Absolutely Poetry” page, & “like” this on its LinkedIn, “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, & “Poets Dancing In Tears”, & Scars Publications Facebook pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our “Poetic License” book reading videos alive this way. You’re the best! #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium” from the books “It’s All About Impact” & “Periodic Table Poetry”, then “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” from the books “Casting Off” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”, then “Just on Book” from the books “Casting Off”, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, “Chapter 48 v2”, & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” (+ bonus images 2/4/17 1 & 2, 8/4/17 1, 8/22/17 1 & 2, 8/23/17 1, & 8/3/20 1) to close her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium” from the books “It’s All About Impact” & “Periodic Table Poetry”, then “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” from the books “Casting Off” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”, then “Just on Book” from the books “Casting Off”, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, “Chapter 48 v2”, & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” (+ bonus images 2/4/17 1 & 2, 8/4/17 1, 8/22/17 1 & 2, 8/23/17 1, & 8/3/20 1) to close her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
I took out our trash, recycle, and compost bins tonight, the Day After Christmas, and I noticed our lights through my very pathetic front yard tree and thought I’d share.
Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231226 
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Even when it’s late and we turn on our lights, Merry Christmas to all and all a good night...
Janet felt bad she didn’t have a pen to mark the grain elevator but at least she could come by to somehow honor Circle Brewing Company... they may be closed, but everything is closed on Christmas day (so she could come with her Doppel can in peace).
Merry Christmas! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday — and a fantastic new year!
David J. Thompson, a man who has had poetry & art published in cc&d (& books published through Scars Publications) over the years, has sent me postcards - which I love, and are so entertaining that I’ve kept the now 3"-tall stack of his postcards over the years. I checked my mail today, Christmas eve (that I didn’t check yesterday), and lo and behold, there was a “happy holidays” postcard from him there, which so made my day. Thanks!
Janet Kuypers shared a memory. 20231224 
Everyone in our neighborhood has huge trees in front of their houses, and 4 years ago today we put 1 strand of lights on our (then) 3-foot-tall “mighty oak”. It’s taller this year, well over our heads, but still scrawny and pathetic, so we again put 1 strand of lights on our tree outside to truly emulate the Charlie Brown Christmas theme. (Who knows, maybe I’ll photograph it tonight so you can see our grandiose outdoor tree *this* year...)
You can’t tell that the tree is taller but trust me, it is...
John and I watched the Bears game at an Austin, TX, bar 7 years ago today... The Bears play today, and I hope that John isn’t so sick today that he won’t be able to hook up the TV so I can watch the Bears game remotely by myself today or not...
Thanks for choosing “like” & “love” this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers in encore 2 after her lead feature at Chicago’s Tangible Books w/ her poetry from the CyberWit book “Testament” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Sepia Tone filter) on its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” page, “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & “like” this on its LinkedIn” page and its Scars Publications Facebook page too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our women’s issues poetry videos online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights
To honor the holidays, and honor my favorite (now closed) Circle Brewing Company, let me share this post from 7 years ago today and wish everyone an early Merry Christmas!
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From my oldest poetry open mic (8 years ago today, from posts 13 years ago) — Merry Christmas! https://www.facebook
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Like mother like a daughter... It was great to see another Grinch card, this time from Laura Kretchman — with a Rylan photo! Thank you!
I saw this memory from 3 years ago today of a YouTube (and unsaved Facebook) post from 5 years ago today, and had to share it only because I photographed the front cover of the book “Chapter 48 (v1)” on the 96th floor of Chicago’s (now and always) John Hancock building from one of the windows (it’s a shame that the restaurant is closed and no one can see that Chicago skyline view at night again).
Enjoy this YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers’ introduction to her *final* get-together at “The Café” on 12/18/11, reading her poems “the State of the Nation”, “and What I Want to Know”, “Christmas Eve”, “Coquinas”, her prose “Christmas at the Old House”, her sung poem “Made Any Difference”, and her poems “Under the Sea”, “I Dreamt About You Last Night”, and “the Martyr and the Saint” (the first poems she read at the Aloha Café and the Café, to commemorate this last night at the open mic’s location), performed to background music by HA!man of South Africa, Suzanne Hettinger, and blues guitarist John Yotko.
We shared 1 photo with our Christmas cards this year, and when we printed them we had an extra, so I placed it on our tree this year. We forgot this on the 2017 total solar eclipse, so when we saw the annular eclipse in Stonehenge II this October, John remembered that after the sun started coming out after the eclipse, all sunlight produced repeated crescents in the light (like a pinhole camera effect, especially when it passes through tree leaves), so, under a tree & wearing our solar eclipse glasses, we captured a photo of us with these crescents to mark the occasion.
After last year’s California wildfires threatened the iconic redwood trees, I was glad I got the chance to use one of my national redwood photos for a cover of cc&d to share with everyone 1 year ago today...
We store candy canes to decorate the Christmas tree every year. We got these “crooked” candy canes from (the now closed) Circle Brewing Company 4 years ago today, and since they’re wrapped, we *still* have these to decorate our tree.
Here is proof that those crooked candy canes are on the tree (taken this morning).
Have a wonderful Christmas season, everyone!
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “And What I Want to Know” from her book “It All Comes Down” (which is also in the books “Rising to the Surface”, “Chapter 38 (v2)”, “Life on the Edge” and “Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite (v2)”) live at The Café in Chicago on 12/15/09 — only 2 weeks before she took over as host, but also when poet C Ra McGuirt was visiting Chicago and joined the open mic (video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
Happy Holidays!
On 12/20/09 I uploaded a YouTube video (that I shared on Facebook on 12/20/16, 7 years later, which is 7 years ago today) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “and What I Want to Know” from her book “It All Comes Down” live at Chicago’s the Café on 12/15/09 while C Ra McGuirt (may he rest his soul) visited me in Chicago, 2 weeks before I took over hosting the open mic...
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium, who knew” (+ showing the online image) from the Scars Publications books “the 2024 flash fiction date book” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Happy Birthday!!! (I don’t know who is more embarrassed by this photo, but I’m still crazy enough to keep posting it...)
Happy Birthday!!!
Facebook wouldn’t let me share this memory from 9 years ago today or 7 years ago today, so I’m glad Facebook shows me my re-post from 3 years ago today to be able to highlight today — not because of the Café (the 1st location for my Chicago open mic), but because after Charlie Newman’s use of the Crown Royal bag for collecting money for features, I kept that tradition going, and I kept a few Crown Royal bags as I left Chicago, that are now mementos under my Christmas tree right now.
I had to show you evidence of the Crown Royal bags at our Christmas tree this year. The darker one is from years of use at The Café and the Gallery Cabaret with “the Café Gallery” open mic; the newer-looking two were given to me from Mickey Finn’s Brewery, the oldest Illinois microbrewery.
Thanks for choosing “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from the end of the book “The Beach at Night” during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” & its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” (+ nice comments too) pages, to care about and comment so nicely about this on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In” page (thank you!), & “like” this on its “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music” & “Poes of Merit & Expression” pages too — your positive feedback inspires us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Happy Birthday!!! (We hope to see you at the “Poetic License” open mic next year too!)
I see this memory of a post from my last show at the Bahá’í Faith Center in Austin that I shared 3 years ago today (of an unsaved post from 6 years ago today), and after we’ve had another record-breaking heat this summer, seeing these show images from Antarctica *does* make me a bit wistful for colder weather — and more travel. Well, at least our Christmas card photo this year shows us during an annular solar eclipse, which is something we could only see living this far south...
Happy Birthday!!!
I thought Sunday would be the perfect day to thank Hope Yotko for this Christmas card, which looks perfect on our tree by her gold ornament. Thank you!
Oh, this cat is breaking my heart... I turned off the Christmas lights outside and for the first time, Uno is waiting outside my door. I held the cat for a while to warm Uno up because it might be a bit chilly in the middle of the night, but I don’t know what else to do because I know full well this is not a cat that I can claim.
I don’t have my Grinch slippers anymore, so I’m glad I got this Christmas card from Dave Johnson and Cynthia Johnson. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Thanks for choosing “love” this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers’ lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera) on its “Austin Artmosphere Artists” & its “Fallen Angel Poetry” pages, & “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets Global”, “GAS: Poetry, Art & Music”, Instagram page“My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, & YouTube page too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our poetry book reading features alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
Facebook doesn’t let me share memories of the first year of The Café open mic which I posted to Facebook on 12/15/16 and 12/15/10 (7 & 13 years ago today), so let me share this one post... Since The Café was shut down, and because I saw recently that the building was literally torn down, I want to fondly reflect & share. Enjoy this YouTube video during the intro to The Café open mic in Chicago, and host Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Packing”, “Just Can’t Breathe” and “Tribal Scream” on 12/14/10. https://youtu.be/TxaNryR9gBc https://www.facebook.com/janetkuypers/posts/10210569612290536 https://www.facebook.com/janetkuypers/posts/170923626281328 (On Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.) #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v214 12/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Wintering Over” poems “Jails Almost Broke Me” & “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse”, then her poems “Calcium: voltage to the brain” (and its image) & “Calcium can be good for the o-zone too” (and its image) which also appear in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
I’ve worked so much this past month + that even Christmas decorating seemed ancillary. But finding a perfect place for this Christmas card from my sis (thanks, Sandra Kuypers!) was the impetus for our OWN Christmas cards to mail out to family...
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Sulfur, Suddenly” (+ showing the online image) from the Scars Publications books “2023 in a Flash” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Happy Birthday!!!
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v340 12/23 cc&d issue/book “Blackbirds, Lyrebirds, WeaverBirds” poems “Reduced To Now” (+ show image 1), “It Hurts in the Bones, 2015 edit” (+ show image ), & “old school and high-tech monuments” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Back in the day, I designed chapbooks for a poet who in a verbal contract said they’d give me their nutcrackers — including a Lincoln one and a Moses one. I did the work and they gave me nothing. (Thank you, poets. I’m a poet but I wouldn’t screw people over the way they’ve screwed me over the years, which may contribute to why Scars Publications no longer designs chapbooks for poets, and after the ringer Scars was put through for the annual poetry book this year, we may never do an annual poetry book when we are threatened after we’ve worked for so long for poets). This is why I bought my own Lincoln Nutcracker and showed it off 2 years ago today. Because Moses nutcrackers are so expensive I’ve only considered constructing my own from the base of another nutcracker, but in looking around I discovered one thing: all of the nutcrackers wear a hat & show no hair on top of their head. Except for Moses.
Facebook doesn’t let me share memories of the 12/7/10 The Café open mic which I posted to Facebook on 12/12/16 and to YouTube on 12/12/10 (7 & 13 years ago today), so let me share this past post... Since The Café was shut down, and because I saw recently that the building was literally torn down, I want to fondly reflect & share with this YouTube video during the intro to The Café open mic in Chicago of host Janet Kuypers reading the Louie Crew poem “The Only Four Poems” (thru cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book “Entering the Ice Age”) on 12/7/10. https://youtu.be/xyLWnqRktts
Marc McMahon is with Janet Kuypers. 20231211 
Look What I Have Done Now!
A lot of people don’t check out the writings section, but it’s a great way to see not only what authors have been published at Scars Publications, but also WHERE they have been published... Each one of those book links lists not only the Scars Publications book webpage but also the Amazon link to order the physical books.
I didn’t help enough in making our Giordano’s style deep dish pizzas we enjoyed while the Bears doubled their score over the Lions (something I thought would never happen), but it was funny that I could hold a pizza like it were my waitress tray. After they won I told John we had to go to Bluebonnet Beer Company to celebrate in the beers/bears shirt the brewer gave me, but they were closed for a private event, so we went to the Celis Brewery for a beer, and John called me elfin for sitting in the mini-niche.
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the books “All They Ever Were”, “Testament”, “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), & “Periodic Table Poetry” to start her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its Facebook page, to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & “like” this on its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poets of Merit & Expression”, “Poets On Fire Worldwide”, & “SINKING PEN” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
So as soon as I finish cooking some “noodles, milk and butter” - Janet ’s version of mac and cheese she comes into the kitchen and says, “I’m sorry, I know it’s a non drinking day but we have to go to Celis Brewery. Because now that Circle has closed, the Vegan market is at Celis.” So I’m sipping their just released Belgian Saison.
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video from 8/12/23 of Janet Kuypers’ lead feature “Closing the Book on Women’s Rights” at Tangible Books in Chicago (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Sepia Tone filter) on its “SINKING PEN” page, to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & “like” this on its “Contemporary Poets Global” page, its Instagram page, its “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.” page, & its “Poets of Merit & Expression” pages too — getting all of your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our poetry book reading features alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeminism #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights
Facebook doesn’t let me share memories of the 12/7/10 the Café open mic which I posted on 12/9/16 and 12/9/10 (7 & 13 years ago today), so let me share this past post... Since The Café was shut down, and because I saw recently that the building was literally torn down, I want to fondly reflect & share, like this YouTube video of hosting the intro to the Café open mic in Chicago, + Janet Kuypers poetry readings from multiple authors.
Happy Birthday!!!
I saw this memory from 4 years ago yesterday and I just wanted to see that even though the Texas Nafas TV show interview with Janet Kuypers has played on TV 5 times over the years, I still check the Austin Film Society Public Access website daily to see if it is airing again. But anyone can still see the original airing — or my re-broadcasts of it — on the Scars audio/video page.
This brand-new book is the perfect thing to pick up at the end of the year! Scars Publications just released the Down in the Dirt magazine September-December 2023 issue collection book “Instant Karma”! This 422-page volume is a great way to stock up on issues if you didn’t buy all of the issues - which makes this a GREAT deal! A listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S. and Canada. They can also be ordered in the U.K., all of Europe, and even Japan and Australia! The contributors to this book (of writing and art) include A.R. Williams, Adam Brinckerhoff, Alan Gartenhaus, Alan Swope, Alison Hicks, Althena Clark, Amy Lowe, Anita G. Gorman, Arshya Prinja, Ben Macnair, Benjamin Harnett, Bill Garten, Bill Tope, Binod Dawadi, Brandon Perez, Bree LeMaire, Brenda Mox, Brian Lee, Cailey Tin, Carl Peters, Charlotte Jung, Christopher Kuhl, Christopher Strople, Clay Coppedge, Conjeevaram J Nandakumar, Daniel de Culla, David Bradley, David Russell, David William Jurgenson, Dawn DeBraal, Deirdre Fryer Baird, Dennis Piszkiewicz, Devon Silverfox, Dinamarie Isola, Donald McMann, Donald Reed Greenwood, Donna L. Emerson, Doug Hawley, E.P. Lande, Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz, Edward N. McConnell, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Elena Botts, Emilie Cole, Emma Salmons, Eva-Maria Sher, Evalyn Lee, Gail Nielsen, George Beckerman, Gil Hoy, Hannah Garson, Hannah Jane Weber, Heather Rutherford, Helen Bird, Iftekhar Sayeed, Isabel G. de Diego, J L Higgs, J. David, J. Ray Paradiso, J.P. Hill, James Bates, Janet Kuypers, Jeanne Rana, Jerome Berglund, JJ Harrigan, John C. Krieg, John F. Fisher MD, John Farquhar Young, John Grey, John Ragusa, John RC Potter, Karen Hedges, Kathylynne Somerville, Kelley Jean White, Kelsy Elefante , Kenneth DiMaggio, Kierra Jefferson, Kumar Mahat, Kyle Hemmings, Lee Varon, Leila Farjami, Lorna Roberts, Lucy Sage, Lynn Hoggard, Makyla Flowers, Marcia Yudkin, Margaret B. Ingraham, Mariah H. N. Hawkins, Marissa McCarthy, Mark Belair, Mark Pearce, Marty Krasney, Mary Clare O’Grady, Mary Paulson, Matt Stanley, Maureen McDole, Mika Yamamoto, Mitchel Montagna, Nicholas B. Mayo, Noelle Shoemate, Radoslav Rochallyi, Raha.M, RM Yager, Rob Tannahill, Robert Beveridge, Robert Guard, Robert Nimmo, Robert Rothman, Roger G. Singer, Roly Andrews, Ron Riekki, S. McManigal, Sa’Mya Hall, Samuel Sprague, Sara Sanguinetti, Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Sherry Shahan, Srihith Jarabana, Susie Gharib, Suzanne O’Connell, Thomas Van Street, Tom Ball, Tony Tinsley, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Westley Heine, and Zach Murphy.
This brand-new book is the perfect thing for the end of the year! Scars Publications just released a huge cc&d magazine collection book of the September-December 2023 issues of cc&d, titled “Over the River and Through the Woods”! This 424-page volume is a great way to stock up on issues if you didn’t buy all of the issues, which makes this a GREAT deal! A listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S., and can also be ordered in the U.K., all of Europe, and even Japan and Australia!
My (now-missing from my email inbox) high school updates web page notified me of Ellen’s birthday last week, so the only way I could send birthday wishes to my high school friend was through this post on Facebook, so... Happy Birthday to Ellen today...
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium, who knew” (+ showing the online image) from the Scars Publications books “the 2024 flash fiction date book” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed live during the open mic from a Samsung S9 camera and given a BINARY NOTATION filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Thanks for choosing to “like” & “love” this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem from the end of the book “All the Stories” to close her “Poetic License 9/3/23 global open mic” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera) on its Facebook page, to “love” this on its “Fallen Angel Poetry” page, & to “like” this on its “Audio Video Poetry/Songs Online Out Loud...Listen In”, “Poetic of Heart”, “My Voice, Your Words—Poetry In Action.”, “Poes of Merit & Expression”, its Scars Publications Facebook page, & YouTube page too — your positive feedback really does inspire us to keep our “Poetic License” open mic book reading videos alive online this way. You’re the best! #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her v214 12/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Wintering Over” poems “Jails Almost Broke Me” & “Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse”, then her poems “Calcium: voltage to the brain” (and its image) & “Calcium can be good for the o-zone too” (and its image) which also appear in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
1 year ago today we were out celebrating the Illini beating the Longhorns. This year’s Jimmy V Classic tournament at Madison Square Garden started with the Illini beating Florida Atlantic. We might go out to celebrate today, but I’ll hold off on the Illini jersey and just wear an Illinois t-shirt with (as is my style) a men’s suit jacket.
And I talk about date books... Back in the day I only did one, but as more and more people sent me flash fiction for Down in the Dirt (and now for cc&d too), I started releasing two — one of poetry and one of flash fiction. It’s fun to have similar covers (like this memory from 1 year ago today, where the Chicago brick was in different colors for the two books). This year’s books have different light bulbs hanging from Circle Brewing Company in Elgin on the closing day.
Happy Birthday!!!
After working so hard and so long to get the 2023 collection books released early, a string of poets complained about their writing in a collection book (which their original acceptance letter informed them about), which has stopped me from considering several poets in the future, and is my impetus for not making another poetry collection book. But seeing this memory of a literary datebook from 5 years ago today (which it was primarily poetry), it reminded me that someone emailed me last night grateful for “the 2024 poetry review date book”... Since compliments are my only payment for this full-time job at Scars, I needed that, and thank you.
The front cover may not be too prominent in these top photos, but these photos on the front cover of the book in this reading 5 years ago today, could still be seen by people on the 96th floor of Chicago’s (now and always) John Hancock building from one of the windows (it’s a shame that restaurant is closed and no one can see that Chicago skyline view again).
I don’t know if Scars Publications was getting jealous that Janet Kuypers signed up to have her name stenciled on a microchip that will be attached to the spacecraft NASA is taking off for Europa in 2024, but those Scars should be getting better now — because Scars Publications now also has their name in that “message in a bottle” chip to orbit Jupiter’s moon next year.
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