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Watch this YouTube video (1:31) at a pool 06/16/07 in Denver, Colorado

Watch this YouTube video (1:11) live 04/12/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 4/12/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, including the Janet Kuypers poems “Raking Leaves”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen”, and “Twin”, read from the ISBN# paperback book “The Window” ... Then her reading the poem “the Big Bang” by Joy Davis from the April 2011 issue v219 of cc&d magazine... Then her singing / covering with John the song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime”, a song from 1925 (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading her poem 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading her poem 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Burning”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen” and “Two Not Mute Haikus” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Burning”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen” and “Two Not Mute Haikus” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (P Lumix T56 camera; E.D.).

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Burning”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen” and “Two Not Mute Haikus” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (P Lumix T56 camera; S.T.).

See YouTube video live 6/16/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Burning”, “Poam: a Conversation with Jimbo Breen” and “Two Not Mute Haikus” from her poetry readings collection book “Chapter 38 v3” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (P Lumix T56 camera; Th.).

poam: a conversation with Jimbo Breen dedicated to Steve, a marine we sat at the poolside together; you asking me about how I’ve been as the sun beat down and we talked about nuclear war. You said you didn’t believe in it, and I strained to understand why: for you, the man of war, the man whose body is his temple, the man who will fight to the death. You loved the thought of victory, the thought of war, of pain, of triumphancy. And I sat there in the swimming pool while you sat on the edge. I paused. Then it occurred to me: you would want a method of fighting more direct, slower, more painful, more personal, than a nuclear war. You’d want to fight them one on one, man to man, with your fists. And your eyes lit up. I was beginning to understand, now, only years later. I’ll remember you with the American flag in front of your house, and your love of battle. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.