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Watch the YouTube video (1:48) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Children, Churches and Daddies” (2:00) live at the Café in Chicago 2/26/08 (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN after her Tag Team feature reading

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading “Scars” and “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after the Tag Team feature reading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in books Life on the Edge, or It All Comes Down, or Hope Chest in the Attic, or Oeuvre, or Janet and Jean Together) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in books Life on the Edge, or It All Comes Down, or Hope Chest in the Attic, or Oeuvre, or Janet and Jean Together) in Chicago 11/24/13 (posterized) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb in Lincoln Square (filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square), Threshold

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Too Far, the Burning and Children, Churches and Daddies 9/16/15 at In One Ear open mic in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers in Chicago (Cfs)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ August 2018 Book Release Reading 8/1/18, where she read interview portions and her prose poem “Scars”, then interview portions and her poem “Children, Churches and Daddies”, then interview portions and her poem “Andrew Hettinger”, leading to her poem “And I’m Wondering” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). See YouTube video of the same performance from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter. See YouTube video video of the same performance from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of this same performance from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Sepia tone filter.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her poems “Cast in Stone”, “Death”, “Children, Churches and Daddies”, and “Russians at a Garage Sale” from her “Book Expo 2013 Chicago” reading 11/24/13, then her haiku poems “enemies”, “faith”, “ants and crosses”, “census”, “easy”, “existence”, “falling”, and “eventually”, from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading 3/17/14 , all appearing in her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). See YouTube video of this same performance from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Children, Churches, and Daddies And the little girl said to me, “I thought only daddies drank beer.” And I found myself trying to make excuses for the can in my hand. I remember being in the church, a guest at a wedding of two people I didn’t know. My date pointed out two little boys walking to their seats in front of us. In little suits and cowboy boots, this is what is central Illinois. And my date said he was sure those boys would grow up to be gay. And the worst part was their father was the coach of the high school football team. I think I laughed, but I hesitated. I remember being in the church, it was Christmas Eve, my date’s family went up for communion, and all I could think was that singing the hymns was hard enough, I don’t know the words, what am I doing here, what am I supposed to do? And I stayed seated, and everyone else slowly walked to the front of the church. Little soldiers in a little line, the little children in their little dresses walking behind their mommies and daddies. And the little girl said, “I thought only daddies drank beer.” And I found myself trying to make excuses. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.