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Listen off the 3 CD set Live at the Café, now available in a 3 CD set directly from iTunes.

Watch this YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 12/5/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/5/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Childhood Memories Six”, and then singing A cappella the 1925 song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” 2/5/17 at Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video is from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Childhood Memories Six”, and then singing A cappella the 1925 song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” 2/5/17 at Austin’s Recycled Reads (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera, then given a Threshold filter).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect” (written 12/6, on and for the day of the 1893 birth of English poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, which is also the 1746 birth of Scottish poet and songwriter Lady Grizel Bailli), “Europa and Ganymede Calling” (written 12/6, on and for the 2017 date of plate tectonics discovery on Jupiter’s moon Europa), “Other Side” and “Broke the Reflection” (for the 12/7 date Pearl Harbor was attacked), “Letter 09/16/06” (for 12/7, Letter Writing Day), “Childhood Memories Six” (for 12/8, the 1980 date John Lennon was assassinated), and “Ornaments from my Childhood” (written 12/7, on and for National Christmas Tree Day), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Other Side”, “Broke the Reflection”, “Letter 09/16/06”, “Childhood Memories Six”, and “Ornaments from my Childhood”, from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/8/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Childhood Memories six It was Sunday night, I was put to bed for school the next day at around eight, but by now it was already eleven-thirty, after a weekend of fun I could relax enough to go to sleep. So it was late, and I was in bed, listening to my clock-radio, like I always did. And suddenly there was a news report and John Lennon was shot. A few minutes later and the reports were that he was dead. And the next morning I walked downstairs and my mother was reading the paper. And the news was there, it wasn’t a dream, I knew the news before my parents did. After he died I remember in school one of my teachers wrote in calligraphy on a piece of paper and put it on their bulletin board, “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.”* and my seat, the chair with the little basket under the seat for my books, the chair attached to the desk, my seat was in the front to the side, right in front of that bulletin board. And every day I would look up and see it there, my first brush with death. * “Imagine,”, John Lennon Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.