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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers speaking her Instagram-length poems “Every Step” and “Brittle”, then reading her poems “Been a World Leader” and “My Kind of Town” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Loving Four” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/11/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “every step” 9/25/18 during the Chicago open mic she guest hosted for Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “every step” 9/25/18 during the Chicago open mic she guest hosted for Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersFebruary 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (PL2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersFebruary 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (PL T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJuly 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poems “Quarrel Over the Constitution”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, and her twitter / Instagram / Tumblr poem “Just Names”, along with the online image for the poem (all of which will appear in her upcoming poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for many holidays and annual events), plus her twitter and instagram poem “every step”, her twitter and instagram haiku “left living”, her haiku “mirror”, and her twitter and instagram bonus line haiku “our differences”, from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “every step”, “knees”, “mirror”, and “keyboard” from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light” during the multi-person intro 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “every step”, “knees”, “mirror”, and “keyboard” from the Down in the Dirt 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection bookThe Flickering Light” during the multi-person intro 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 video w/ Sepia; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “the 2020 flash fiction date book” writing (with some writing from her show “Death Comes in Threes”), “Genesis 28”, “In every car accident, there are actually three crashes”, “knees”, “Fences and Straight Jackets”, “Wrapping up the Harness”, “Elvira Doe”, “Every Step”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, and “Poem About This” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “the 2020 flash fiction date book” writing (with some writing from her show “Death Comes in Threes”), “Genesis 28”, “In every car accident, there are actually three crashes”, “knees”, “Fences and Straight Jackets”, “Wrapping up the Harness”, “Elvira Doe”, “Every Step”, “Death comes in waves of threes”, and “Poem About This” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Every Step

Janet Kuypers
on twitter and instagram, written 8/4/18

I looked at my health app
on my smart phone
and it told me
that every step I took
wasn’t a healthy one


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