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read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09
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read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09
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from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears
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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago
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of Questions in a World Withough Answers live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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(:31) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03
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read live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On the California Streets in the third round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On the California Streets in the third round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (Canon Power Shot camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, welcomed on stage by Thom, where she performed her poems “Didn’t Know What it Was”, “On the California Streets” and “Loggers” as a story 1/10/16 with music at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “That Dress” from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”, then she read her poems “Sorry Flowers”, “on The California Streets”, and “Ways to Spend Your Money”, and then she sang her song “In Love I Abide” - all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then she read her poem “Only Voice He Could Hear” from the proof copy of the cc&d v284 23-year anniversary issue/book “Shining” to a live audience for National poetry Month (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “That Dress” from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”, then she read her poems “Sorry Flowers”, “on The California Streets”, and “Ways to Spend Your Money”, and then she sang her song “In Love I Abide” - all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then she read her poem “Only Voice He Could Hear” from the proof copy of the cc&d v284 23-year anniversary issue/book “Shining” to a live audience for National poetry Month (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 1-4/24 book “The Limits of Language” poems “Never Did the Same” (+ 9/10/02 show image), “A Match” (+ 6/17/03 show image), & “On the California Streets” (+ 6/17/03 show image) during her videoPoetic License 5/5/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

on the california streets

we were walking along Santa Monica Boulevard
we passed a young homeless man, and he asked
could you spare a hundred thousand dollars?

and I thought, of course he won’t get it
but of all the places in the world, this is the only
place where he could get away with asking for it


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