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Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD Hope Chest In The Attic 13 Years of Poetry & Prose ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux

Watch this YouTube video 1:09 live at the Cafe 03/13/07

Watch this YouTube video 1:32 from Constantpoetry.com

Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuypersequalityforwomen

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Neon” from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”), then her poems “Oriental” (+ sharing the Chinese translation of the poem), “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere” (+ showing the Hindi translation of the poem), “Diane Talking About her Trip to Mexico City” (+ showing her Spanish translation of the poem), and “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing her Dutch translation of the poem) from the v200 10/22 Down in the Dirt book “How to Become an Octopus” (that also appears in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”) on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Oriental” (+ showing its Chinese translation), “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere” (+ showing its Hindi translation), “All Men Have Secrets” (+ showing its Dutch translation), “I Wanted Pain” (+ showing its Dutch translation), and “the Martyr and the Saint” (+ showing its Dutch translation) from the books “The Paths Less Traveled” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the 2/1/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

I Wanted Pain You screamed at me to pull over. You wanted me to stop. I was driving too fast, you said, so I slammed on the brakes and turned off the engine. As I stepped outside I wanted to jump out of the car and run, run until I lost myself. And yet I wanted to fall. I wanted to fall to the ground. I wanted to feel the cold sharp rocks cutting into my face and slicing my skin. I wanted pain to feel good again. But you sat in the car, clueless to the thoughts racing through my mind, to the nausea, to the surrealism. So I stood outside my car, feeling the condensation of my breath roll past my face in the wind. It was a constant, nagging reminder that I still had to breathe. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.