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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook Exploring Spring of her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” performed in her 3/4/17 show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3/11/17 reading her poems “Spring” and “Entering the War Room” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3/11/17 reading her poems “Spring” and “Entering the War Room” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Entering the War Room”, and “Job that Only Paid the Bills” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)..

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Every Soul Celebrates”, “Entering the War Room”, and “Job that Only Paid the Bills” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (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 “Quell the Vibrancy” (+ sharing show images 1 & 2), “Entering the War Room” (+ sharing image), & “Job that Only Paid the Bills” (+ sharing images 1 & 2) from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Entering the War Room Janet Kuypers 2/12/17 One spring, while still in college I was taking a political science class (and really, I used to be an engineer, I could wrap my brain around this easily) but it was cool that the classroom only had one giant oval table that all the students sat at together. I was in this class with a few of my friends and each class was like we were entering a war room, all at one giant table. Well, one day, and really I don’t know who started passing the note first, but while the T.A. was talking the three of us passed notes while paying attention to class. And when the bell rang for this elective, the T.A. asked the three of us to stay. And once the last student left the room and the door closed, this T.A. sounded like he became a General, put on his most evil face and started yelling us the three of us that we should NEVER pass notes like that in his class again. And when he was done my two friends rushed to get their books into their bag and rush out of the war room, but me, I took my time. I deliberately placed my books into my bag one at a time, took time zipping it up and putting the bag over my shoulder long after my friends already left. I started to walk to the door while the T.A. was sill fuming and I said “Have a nice day,” before going out the door. In the next weeks of classes I made a point to raise my hand when he asked a question, and once I even corrected him. Because just because I was passing notes, I knew what I was doing in this elective, and besides, it was spring. I could handle the war room and still enjoy beautiful spring days.

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