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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems (on Witnessing the Icy Graveyard, Pleiades and Questioning Religion, Father and Son) 1/20/14 at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
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Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the new poem Pleiades 1/20/14 at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap, Chicago (Posterized video) |
See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). |
See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). . |
PleiadesJanet Kuypersinspired by the call for poetry about constellations in the “Heavenly Bodies” 2014 poetry project started 1/15/14, finished part 1 1/20/14
My eyes have always been drawn to the stars in the night sky.
My mother, rest her soul, saw me looking at the night sky once.
about the size of your thumb nail?” I asked. “Yes, I see it.” #
In the Pakistan Urdu language, Pleiades is ‘Parvin’, a symbol
because when their father Atlas was forced to carry the heavens
In esoteric astrology, the seven solar systems revolve
In the Southern Hemisphere, the Pleiades cluster rose at harvest,
was connected to mourning, and even funerals, because around
But I don’t want those seven sisters to mourn for my mother,
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