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Watch this YouTube video Live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show, live in Chicago 04/14/09

Or see the complete feature video with Kuypers & 6 readers, w/ 15 poems & prose poems live at the 2009 Poetry Game Show 04/14/09 in Chicago. This video is w/ the Internet Archive

Or view the the 2009 Poetry Game Show mpeg video (from another camera) at the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video read live 09/13/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the introduction to the 09/13/11 weekly poetry open mike she hosts live at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poetry (including this poem) from her ISBN# poetry book Contents Under Pressure

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook “Time to Start the Show” of her poems “the Bathroom at he Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” performed in her 5/6/17 Austin show about hosting poetry open mics.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading<

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Who What Where When Why” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed 8½"x 8½" photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” and “Frozen Together” from the cc&d 11/17 v277 book “Warrior’s Light” at “Poetry Aloud” 7/28/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Who What Where When Why” from her 2018 full-color full-bleed 8½"x 8½" photography (+ select poems) book “Antarctica: Wildlife”, then her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” and “Frozen Together” from the cc&d 11/17 v277 book “Warrior’s Light” at “Poetry Aloud” 7/28/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

the bathroom at the Green Mill you know, I’m so used to walking into bathrooms at bars and seeing “I love Scott” and “I think I love Paul, but I think I love girls” scribbled on the stalls in ink but I went into the bathroom at the Green Mill on the north side of Chicago which hosts the Uptown Poetry Slam while a black woman read poetry about oppression and plantations and slavery (which sounded more like a speech, but I won’t get into that) and I walked into the bathroom, into a stall, I closed the door, and I saw some writing, and I thought, oh, I bet this writing actually has something to say, I bet there’s poetry up on these walls and I sat down, and I started to read and I saw “I love Scott” and “I think I love Paul, but I think I love girls” and I started to think that I’d actually like to meet the people that write these messages and I’d like to ask them, “Hey, are you still with Brian? Because when it said “Jeanie and Brian Forever" on the bathroom stall at the Green Mill I wanted to know if it was really true if I can still believe everything I read and if there was a happy ending for you” and then I put my lipstick on in the bathroom at the Green Mill in Chicago heard the black woman’s voice resonating throughout the bar, thought for a mament about what was on the walls and walked away Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.