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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem White Phosphorus in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “on a gallop”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem White Phosphorus in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “on a gallop”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (S)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Sony; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Download this poem in the free PDF file Opening Act chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (w/ a Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading 3 Periodic Table poems (that somehow all incorporate the concept somehow of sin), Hydrogen Cyanide, White Phosphorus & Helium Addiction at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic (this video filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “White Phosphorus”, and “Praseodymium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “White Phosphorus”, and “Praseodymium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphorus”, and “White Phosphorus” from the Scars Publications 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, “Phosphorus”, and “White Phosphorus” from the Scars Publications 1/22 Down in the Dirt v191 book “Impeccable Warriors” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publications Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publications 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

White Phosphorus Janet Kuypers Bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, #15, P 9/30/13) Seeing bombs from Viet Nam and the white smoke rising — with each bomb exploding, I knew that smoke... It was Willie Pete, white Phosphorus — you couldn’t put it out once it started burning. This stuff would destroy the forests foreign to our U.S. troops. I know you can’t understand. But I wanted you to know that I haven’t felt close to anyone or anything in years. It sounds sick, but seeing that footage, seeing that white smoke from that file footage, it brought it all back to me. It brought the emotions flooding back to me like it was yesterday. Everything that seems so volatile about that war, in a way has become a part of me, right down to my DNA. You look at your tv screen and think it makes no sense, but... It’s a part of me. I know I’m old now, I know it’s only a small part of me, but I know I need it. I can’t explain why, but I do. When you see the destruction of Willie Pete... Yeah, we knew what it was, white Phosphorus, but all of us called it that, it was just easier to say it then, but... When you see the destruction of that white Phosphorus, you think of it on some existential level, like “oh, violence is bad,” but when I see those bombs going off, and when I think of what it was like to live in that war, that Willie Pete — that white Phosphorus — to us, that was our key to getting through that hell. You can’t understand, but that was the closest we had to getting out alive.

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