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Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Berkelium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (C)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Berkelium in her Visionaries Behind the Stars feature, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (S)

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ brand new Periodic Table of Poetry series in Visionaries Behind the Stars, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series in Visionaries Behind the Stars, live in Chicago 9/12/14 at “Poetry ‘Love Letter’” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poem in the free PDF file Visionaries Behind the Stars chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” 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 Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Edge Detection).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Berkelium”, “Radium”, and “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” 1/20/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Threshold filter).

Berkelium Janet Kuypers from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#79, Bk) (started 8͏15͏14, finished 8͏22͏14) The streets of town were paved with stars, it was such a romantic affair and when we kissed and said good night a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square. A nightingale sang in Berkeley square. Berkeley. B, E, R, K, E, L, E, Y. You see, on the other side of the pond the Brits have a different way of saying things, including the name of the Anglo Irish philosopher George Berkley. That’s B, E, R, K, L, E, Y, like you’re barking up the wrong tree, but when a city and University in California was named after this philosopher, well, the pronunciation changed after it crossed the ocean. And because of scientific work done at the University of Berkley, they decided to name element seventy nine after the University (it’s actually only one of two elements in the Periodic Table named after a university). So, I don’t really know how you’re supposed to pronounce it, should I say berk-lee-um like the States, or the British ber-keel-ee-yum, because I’ve been trying to learn a thing or two about Berkelium. And the thing is, it’s never found in it’s pure form, because this transuranic radioactive and artificially produced element is a soft, silvery-white, actinide metal that sometimes has long half lives through it’s isotopes (that range from microseconds to several days, to three hundred thirty days, to nine years to one thousand three hundred eighty years). So maybe I’m only meant to learn about parts of it by these fleeting dances scientists have with Berkelium...

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