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See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon PS)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems, Vent and extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems, Vent and extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon Power Show camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Journey” poems “Final Rally (2015 edit)”, “Reduced to Now”, and “Extinct on Planet Earth”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Journey” poems “Final Rally (2015 edit)”, “Reduced to Now”, and “Extinct on Planet Earth”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

extinct on planet earth Janet Kuypers 3/22/15 saw a slew of books for sale recently of species now extinct on planet earth some books were massive volumes, like large catalogs categorizing the now dead and I heard a statistic a while ago saying a species goes extinct every 90 seconds I mean, these books can’t be up to date when so much in our world is dying so quickly ninety nine percent of all species that have ever lived on earth        are now gone when I think of the death that precedes us, when I think of the death we see around us I wonder,                      when a loved one dies do they become a name that will be forgotten maybe listed in a catalog like all these long gone extinct species I think of a man who told me he loved me I think of my mother and I wonder, will all that is left of that life, will it all be reduced to a line of type in small print, cataloged by genome maybe there’s a word or two, beyond a name but just a few words                is this all that is left

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