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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (wrapped in VHS tape) in her 8/14/15 show “Farewell Chicago” in her final scheduled feature at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (while living in Chicago) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Chicago, Breaking Their Heart, change (2015 edit), Planting Palm Tree Seeds, Shared Air, Other Souls, and ever leave me.

Download poems in the free chapbook Farewell Chicago of this & other poems read 8/14/15 at a live Chicago show

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Planting Palm Tree Seeds”, “You Moved from Island to Island” and “erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix).

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Planting Palm Tree Seeds”, “You Moved from Island to Island” and “erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Sony).

Planting Palm Tree Seeds as a gift to a friend for his wedding we’ve decided to plant trees everywhere you know, to help the environment, to give birth to trees marking the birth of his wedding and I ordered baby trees to plant and I told my mom about this: and I mentioned the palm tree seeds that grow in huge pods near her house and I know a palm tree won’t grow from seed in this climate but she was coming back to this part of the country again for her second round of chemo for her leukemia that won’t go away and she actually got palm tree seeds from the ground and collected them in a plastic bag for me you know, just for effect we know they won’t live but it was the sweetest thing that you got these for me, mom I kind of want to drill a hole through one of the seeds and wear it as a charm something more to keep from you and now I’ve got this bag of palm tree seeds in my office now that I am to plant to signify life and and life, you signify life, mom this is going to become my spiritual struggle to find life, mom my planting these seeds you gave me that we both knew wouldn’t grow but I’ll plant them anyway Copyright © Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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